Just like all the other major holidays this year Halloween looked different than it has in the past. There were no family parties on either side of the family and Addie didn't get to dress up for school this year. We did do our best at still having a great Halloween and it definitely still was. The day before Halloween there was a mass emergency alert that was sent out to all cell phones with the following message:
Emergency Alert State of Utah: COVID-19 is spreading rapidly. Record cases. Almost every county is a high transmission area. Hospitals are nearly overwhelmed. By public health order, masks are required in high transmission areas. Social gatherings are limited to 10 or fewer. Visit coronavirus.utah.gov to see your county's information. Be careful!
As you can see our state is under a high alert. Luckily Danny and I still haven't contacted this virus and we've been lucky. We've also been super careful and have taken precautions ourselves. We don't really go out much and because we've remained healthy we both feel really grateful. Most of Danny's family has now been sick or currently are sick with this virus so we haven't seen them in awhile. Rand's family and Jaina and Jackson are the only other ones who haven't gotten sick on that side. Several members of my own family have also tested positive and all have since recovered. This pregnancy is considered high risk and I'm advised to stay as healthy as possible which I'm gladly doing so.
Alright now back to the Halloween topic. We wanted to keep things as close to normal as possible so we enjoyed a fun Halloween activity with the kids by painting the pumpkins they got from Jaker's pumpkin patch. I personally love when we paint instead of carve especially as the kids are still this young because they're able to participate and be fully involved in how they want their pumpkins to look. It's also less messy which is a win for me. We did get a pumpkin specifically for carving so Danny made sure that got done and the kids like how that turned out.
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| Addie's pumpkin started with a turkey picture before she covered it up. |
After the pumpkins were painted we had our traditional Jack o' Lantern pizza and then we headed out the door. We decided that we still wanted to take the kids Trick or Treating but that we would do it differently this year. A lot of people across the state who still wanted to participate planned on leaving candy bowls on their front porch so we decided that we would do the same and then go trick or treating around the neighborhood only to the houses that had a bowl outside. This way we could limit people contact by not ringing on any doorbells. Also this neighborhood was not crowded at all so that really helped with making sure all groups were socially distanced and spread out. Our favorite house we went to was actually Jackson's family's house. Jackson's dad lives just around the corner from us so we did stop at their house because we heard they had a very unique and fun way to distribute candy while still being six feet apart. The kids thought it was awesome and we like those neighbors as well. We got a lot of compliments on our family costumes by people on the street. Everyone thought Addie was a JigglyPuff (a pink Pokemon) but she was actually a pink kitty. She was planning on being Pikachu up until Halloween night because she had made a mask at school so she really wanted to wear that as her costume. It was completely her idea to wear it with pink pants and a pink shirt and that's how she came up with her pink kitty costume. I've always said that I don't care what they wear on Halloween night as long as we continue our family theme tradition for the family parties even though the in person parties were all cancelled this year.
After trick or treating we came back home where the kids were excited to see their candy haul and then we watched a cute little Halloween show before calling it bedtime. Honestly it was an awesome day. Just as we've been learning for the past seven months you can still have fun and create family memories even during a pandemic.
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