Happy Halloween! And then some...

We have had a busy week or so. It seems like there was something big every day!

• Last Saturday was our chili cook-off.
• Sunday was Grant's five-month birthday.
• Monday and Tuesday was Matthew's conference in Spokane where he presented his research.
• Wednesday was the first day of the regular season for basketball.
• Thursday was Matt's birthday.
• Friday we carved pumpkins.
• Saturday was the stake Trunk-or-Treat.
• Sunday was Halloween.
• Today is the first day of November!
• Whew!

In case you are wondering how it all went...

• I won no prizes for my chicken chili, although it was yummy (I was up against 40 other chilis... no one could even try them all!).
• Grant is five months old and a big, happy, rolling, nearly-scooting boy.
• Matthew did an awesome job at his conference and even got invited to present at a bigger one in a few months.
• We had pizza to celebrate the first day of regular season basketball, and the pizza turned out good, even though our team didn't :(.
• Matt's birthday was a lot of fun! Leah insisted he wanted a black chocolate cake (we made him a delicious French Silk Pie). She also learned how to sing happy birthday with me.
• Our pumpkins turned out cute, I think (see above). Leah found two ladybugs that came in with the pumpkins. For her, they were much more fun than the pumpkins. For me, the roasted pumpkin seeds were delicious. And Leah still likes to tell me that "Daddy's scary, Mommy's a kitty cat, Leah's a ghost, and Grant's happy!" Can you guess whose pumpkin was whose? :)
• The trunk-or-treat turned out great! Leah dressed up as The Cutest Pirate I've Ever Seen. That's what I decided to call her. She has two cute little picture books about pirates that she really likes, so this was fun for her. It was pouring during the trunk-or-treat, but tons of people still came and Leah had lots of fun and lots of candy!
• Halloween itself wasn't all that exciting, since we had already done all the trick-or-treating the day before. But we still had little trick-or-treaters come knock on our door, which was really cute.
• And today, I can't believe it's already November! We still need to flip the calendars though :)
• Whew, again!