i love halloween

i cant write much as steve is watching "final destination" on tv and i can hear everything that is happening. i HATE scary movies as i can't stop thinking about them after they are over and freak myself out for weeks after! just not worth it...i hate feeling dark inside so i dont even go there anymore. i hate seeing people scared and in pain as it eats me up inside. i think the last scary movie i saw was "the ring" in the theatre's in logan back in 2004 and that was just not cool. if you knew what our house looked like, you too would have understood why i wasnt able to sleep soundly for weeks and had to have steve in the room with me! it didnt help that he played on my emotions and about gave me a few heart attacks by jumping out at me and grabbing my legs as i was going up the stairs....ok, just thinking about those times are freaking me out so i will change the subject...

our ward had their halloween party last night and it turned out great! the primary presidency was in charge of making the primary room into a spook alley so i was a little worried. you cant find too many scary halloween decorations (or any decorations for that matter as halloween is an american holiday and not too many germans celebrate it) out here and the stuff i have is more cutetsy then scary that wasnt going to work. luckily, i work with one amazingly talented girl (angie e.) who always has the best ideas for parties and decorations so we were able to pull something together. its amazing what those fake spider webs can do to a room! we covered the windows with dark paper and brought the pumpkins that steve and i carved earlier in the week to make it spooky (but not too scary as we had little kids coming too). angie also thought of doing a "mad scientist's lab" in the other half, as we closed the dividers to make the room into two, and that went well. she brought in a peeled orange for the heart, spaghetti for the brains, tomato sauce for the blood, nasty sausage for the intestines, a glove filled with water and frozen for a hand, and peeled grapes for eye balls. she was able to gross the kids out and even scared some littlier kids to death! it turned out well for not being able to go to a michaels or target for props! celeste and i were in charge of the other half and played the monster mash in the dark and had the kids dance and follow our instructions for crazy poses. im not that creative on the spot, so i recruited steve to help me out as he is real funny with the kids and gets them going with his craziness! it was funny...after that, we had trunk or treating in the parking lot and had a good turn out. brynn was so tired and she refused to take a nap earlier in the day, so i ended up dragging her around to get her candy. she looked super cute in her pirate costume! but wasnt too thrilled with the head sash and hat so we had to chuck that after the first 20 minutes of arriving...steve and i also dressed up but the pictures i took with my camera didnt turn out too good (it was dark and my flash wasnt working too well) but we are going to two more costume parties next week so i will take more later. steve wore eyeliner for the first time and i think he is addicted! jk...but he did look hot in a weird jack sparrow kind of way! hahahaha

i love halloween and dressing up! its really cute to see all the costumes that people wear and passing out candy. obviously im not too cool with the scary part, but i still have a good time.

oh, we had a lot of people ask about how we carved our pumpkins so i thought i'd pass around the info. www.zombiepumpkins.com is an awesome site (but you have to pay a small fee as the creator donates money to a charity) to get great patterns and tips on how to carve your pumpkins. it also has patterns for carving watermelons for parties in the summer that are patriotic and look awesome. i highly recommend this site for great looking pumpkins!

our favorite furniture store in kaiserslautern (european country living) has their anniversary sale going on so we headed to rammstein today to look at some chairs. we bought a nice table and bench there in the summer but waited on buying some chairs as they are pretty pricey. im glad we waited on getting the chairs as we saved a lot by buying them today! plus the dollar is getting a little stronger here so the exchange rate was better. they are delivering our stuff in the beginning of november so im going to need some help kayla on how to feng shui up my house!

well, i better get going and distract myself from this freaky movie i hear in the other room...i still havent finished "the host" by stephenie meyer so i think i'll dive into that.

oh and to my germany friends; dont forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight! im really looking forward to that extra hour of sleep...did i mention that i love to sleep? hahahaha

ps. why are those little candy bars called "fun size"s? whats so fun about that!?!