October Festivities

Blogging apologies to Alli, Ethan, and Amanda, as I have been a major slacker lately on keeping them up to date on their neices and nephews. Here's a run down of the last few weeks. Kaidence helped make some yummy Koolaid popcorn for her pre-school class. She had so much fun at her halloween party and won some neat prizes.

Kaidence and Chase had plenty of opportunities to dress up this past week in their Halloween Costumes. Kaidence chose to be a fairy (her favorite part was the wig I let her wear). She misses her long hair. We borrowed a tiger costume for Chase (so he didn't really have a choice, but didn't seem to care either way). Out of necessity, Sophia made a great little kitty cat, minus the ears---she just didn't want them on for very long.

We attended our first "Trunk or Treat" as a family this year. I think Sophia had the biggest smile on her face the whole time. She was even more thrilled when someone handed her a sucker. Kaidence and Chase made off like bandits in just under 10 minutes with buckets brimming with candy.

It was a cool, crisp evening, but this tiger stayed pretty warm.

Here's our happy clan.

It was the first year we carved pumpkins and I really enjoyed watching the kids go to town cleaning out their pumpkins. It was so fun to get all messy and smell that "pumpkin smell". They did a great job. Kaidence enjoyed making a mess, however; Chase couldn't wait to wash off. With the help of a handy pumpkin carving kit, Jonathan masterfully

completed the design that Kaidence chose for her pumpkin. I let Chase choose from a few simple patterns and was amazed with the result.

Kind-a creepy but cool with a candle burning behind it.

Much to Kaidence and Chase's disappointment, we only had

2 trick-or-treaters come to our house.

Happy Halloween 2009! We hope you had a good one too!