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That's what I thought too but then again I don't get a whole lot of the older ones anyway, maybe two or three doorbell rings tops. Basically if someone with a pulse shows up at my doorstep they get something.

My parents made me stop trick or treating at age 11 or so and even now two decades later I wish I would have had a few more years of trick or treating. So no, I don't believe age 12 is too old. Once they hit 16 or so I think it's another story (though I still dish out candy for the older kids that come if I'm still rolling in candy). I was just talking to someone today that hands out packets of tobasco sauce or ketchup to the 16+ year old kids that come to her house.

hahaha- no I wasn't looking for the kegger crowd :) I'm not sure what the rules are now since this was 10-15 years ago... It was the rules at the time that I thought were just plain dumb (no beards for men, no flip flops, no overalls, no boys past a certain room... and then I hear rules now like no leggings under dresses and stuff like that). A lot of those things are fashion faux paus for me anyway but I've never been able to stomach the idea of mixing church and education (ie praying before class). I don't exactly know if that's the norm at church schools now or not. I was just happy to attend a non church school that could care less about whether I was wearing flip flops or not and attend institute at my pleasure. Honestly my fate was ultimately decided because BYU-I wouldn't give me a scholarship and was pretty expensive comparatively. Snow at the time dolled out scholarships like crazy so it made the decision easy. Also take into consideration if you will have to ultimately transfer to a different school for your major, though you probably wouldn't have that problem with a business major. The only school in the state to offer my major was USU and credits from Snow transferred well. My friends in my classes at USU that came from BYU-I had almost all attended an extra year of school just the way the programs worked at the time. Just something to think about.

Granted I have no background in the culinary arts but I like the idea of majoring in business and minoring in the culinary arts. If culinary arts ends up being your true passion, having a business background will be invaluable. For example, I've always been interested in photography, but got looking into it and those who make that their business maybe 10-30% of their time is actually doing photography related work... the rest is running the business. I would guess that would be similar to running a bakery. In the meantime I'd suggest volunteering or trying to find work in that field, or possibly starting a small business yourself. My neighbor has always had interest in owning a bakery- she currently makes birthday cakes, eclaires, pastries on occasion for people but it's not an everyday thing for her. You'll learn rather quickly if you would love it full time. My dad has always counseled me and my siblings not to turn their hobbies into their career's. Maybe some people don't agree with that, but I found that to be valuable advice. I'm no help regarding what schools though. I attended Snow- loved it. Tons of LDS kids and it was a great atmosphere. I've heard great things about BYU-I... just never went to a church school myself (too many rules that would have drove me crazy). But I know many people who loved it there.