"SPOOKTOBER" Highlights

I feel like this month has flown by. I love this time of year. I love the changing of the leaves, the crisp, clean air, and the traditions of Chili and hot donuts for Halloween. HOWEVER, I do not, I repeat, DO NOT like scary things. So rather than have a 'Halloween' party, my friend and I decided to have a fall-themed party. I decided that we would carve pumpkins and eat soup in pumpkin soup bowls and have homemade rootbeer. I may have bitten of more than I could chew with that party. I decided that I was going to be super 'domesticated' and make the soups from scratch. I made two different soups: a creamy chicken noodle and homemade creamy tomato bisque(yes, I said bisque! HA!). SO, I spent ALL DAY slaving in the kitchen for one meal. Perhaps deep down inside, I was hoping that one of the guys that showed up to the party would taste the delectable food that I had prepared and drop to his knee to propose right then and there. Needless to say, that did not happen. NOT EVEN CLOSE!! HA HA!! I wish that I had taken pictures of all of my AMAZING food, but I was too busy to do it.
On top of that, I also baked a pumpkin cake with a carmel apple cider sauce to take to our ward's pumpkin-themed munch and mingle. It was so tasty that there was barely any left, DARN IT! I did have one person tell me that I should make their birthday cake... It's just too bad that their birthday isn't until JUNE!
Besides cooking up a storm, I have been going to all of the ward/stake activities. We had a stake Halloween dance on friday the 21st. I had tons of fun with my friends and even ran into my co-worker Aubrey. We had a blast dancing the night away. We topped off the evening with IHOP, where I ordered pumpkin pancakes and since they forgot my order I got like triple the amount of pancakes than I ordered, and they were DELISH!
Last Thursday we had a ward Halloween party where we were entertained with games, dancing, and singing. It was fun!
On Friday my friend Megan convinced me to go with her and a small group to the Haunted Forest. I absolutley HATE scary things and being scared. I refuse to watch scary movies that most people deem as 'classics'. I usually tell all my friends never, ever, ever, ever, ever, will I pay to scare myself!! BUT I went anyway. I called my sister Staesha to ask just how scary it would be... She assured me that I would be fine, and I made sure that there would be no disgusting things (AKA vomit). I went, and I SURVIVED!! And it was kind of funny to watch everyone else run for their lives when the chainsaw man came :) Good times!

Yesterday, for work, I wore the same costume that I wore to all of the other Halloween activities... which was my black dress with my mom's pink witch hat and a pink necklace. One of my co-workers told me that even though she has seen many witches, I was a really cute witch. :) It made my day!
And to end the month right, I went over Grandpa Tuckett's house with my parents to have some chili and donuts. Then I went over to Heather's house to watch the Audrey Hepburn movie Wait Until Dark. It is just the right kind of scary for me. It's suspenseful and only really has one scene that makes me jump. It did, however, make my friend jump so high that she nearly climbed over the couch. BEST. REACTION. EVER!!!

It has been a pretty great month :) Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!