A Happy Halloween

Our Halloween this year was quite, I don't know if I should say, entertaining, but it was interesting. I spent the afternoon volunteering at Andrew's class. He goes to the charter school here in Spanish Fork and they don't do traditional Halloween activities. All costumes, activities, food, etc. had to deal with what they were learning which was everything Egypt. We played games they played in Egypt, sampled some of the food they ate, etc. It was really fun. After school I went to Provo to pick up Ally, Kelly watched her while I was at the school. We hurried home to get ready for trick or treating. I started making my traditional taco soup and some caramel apply crisp for dessert. Our friends the Cabreros' were going to come over for the traditional Halloween dinner get together. They had to run to their grandma's work to see her for a little bit so I decided to take the kids out before dinner. Jim stayed back so I asked him to take out the apple crisp. The kids and I had a lot of fun walking around the neighborhood. Ally started complaining about her feet and legs so I decided we had enough candy and we headed home. I walked in the door to a burnt smell. I asked Jim if the soup burned and he told me it was worse. I couldn't figure what could be worse. Then I saw it. I accidentally left a burner on and Jim put the apple crisp on the burner. The 9x13 Pyrex dish exploded. Glass and apple crisp went everywhere. Poor Jim had to clean up the mess while the kids and I were out having fun. The bad news was the glass went into the corn bread and we couldn't guarantee it did not go in the soup. We figured it was too big of a risk so we had Halloween pizza this year. We still had a fun traditional dinner with the Cabreros' just with pizza instead of soup. The kids had fun playing together and doing leftover crafts from our preschool Halloween party.