Halloween and Kansas

Halloween this year was so fun, and so busy. I am on the activities committee at church so I helped plan the Halloween party for the ward. I also had my party in my classroom, which was so fun! Those parties were both on Friday. Then Melanie and I planned a party at her house on Saturday. Dave and I dressed up like mummies. We had so much fun getting ready. We got lots of trick-or-treaters while we were getting ready. We scared a lot of little kids with our costumes! We were pretty frightening.

Kansas City Marathon Weekend

Dave and I went to Kansas City with Marissa and Brad Schenk, Melanie and Matt Jacobsen, and Heather and Dave Yates. Melanie and Heather ran the ½ marathon and the rest of us just hung out. :) We got there on Friday night. We went to dinner and hung out at the pool and hot tub that night.
The next day we went to the Farmer’s market, which was so fun! I love farmer’s markets. Then we all went to the big outdoor mall and shopped for a bit there. Afterwards we went to lunch at Oklahoma Joe’s. My favorite BBQ restaurant ever, it is delicious! That night we hung out at the hotel watching football and sitting in the hot tub.
Sunday we went to visit Independence with Marissa and Brad. There is an LDS visitor’s center there that we went through. It was pretty cool. They taught us about the early church members who lived there. They went through so many struggles, and worked so hard. We also went through the Community of Christ’s Temple. It is very unique. It is shaped like a seashell. It was interesting to see it. They have a museum in the temple that had tons of old paintings of Joseph Smith and his family. They also had old journals and manuscripts from the early church. They even had the original door off of the Liberty Jail.