Halloween

So, the Halloween finally came and can I just say "is it over yet?" :)  If it was one night and is done with, but we've been having Halloween for a few days now because each class at school does their little dress-up party on a different day. So I've been dressing up Kason and Ani into their costumes like 5 times and Kason probably 5-10 times a day. :) I can't complain, they really loved it. We had a very fun get-together at Kjell and Jessica's house with friends from church on Saturday. We had a bon fire, hay ride, some kids wore their costumes and everyone had such a good time. It was a great turn out too and I think we had around 50 people there. It was so nice to just stand by the fire and enjoy some adult conversations while the kids were squealing and running around the huge yard.  Somehow, I enjoyed it too much to take some pictures but I hope to see someone else's pictures online.  And finally, today came and time for the real "trick-or treating".

Anika is discovering more about the Halloween world this year probably because of being in school and has asked me the other day how come we don't have any scary things in front of our house. So I tried to answer as simply as I could saying that God doesn't like scary things and doesn't want us to be scared. So now when she sees scary things in front of someone's house she points it out to me and says "mom, they don't know about God either." :) It just makes me smile.

Now we are finally done but I have to say, it is our first Halloween "way up North" when we didn't have to bundle up and we didn't even need hats or mittens.  That's probably my favorite part about tonight. :)  Our first stop was a church in town that hosted a Harvest festival and the kids had a lot of fun there.  Kason just spent most of his time in the bouncy houses, Anika took her time decorating a big cookie with all kinds of candy and then ate it all, and Kade went around the whole place and played every single game you could play to win candy/trinkets.  After that we went to see Ehren's great aunt Judith at the nursing home and we did some runs in a popular neighborhood.  Finally, we made our way to nana and papa's house and were ready to be done.  Kids' buckets were full, they had a lot of fun and all pretty much crashed a few minutes after we got home.  It may be a different story tomorrow when Kason will be begging for his bucket of candy all day. :)  Well, another Halloween behind us and it was good.  It is a nice family outing for us, especially now that all 3 kids understand what it is about.  Despite a few creepy costumes and decorations we came across, we had a good time.  And Ehren and I are both beyond exhausted. :)  Good night to all!  

At the ECFE last week

Lots of activities to do

my 2 babies having fun with their outfits

kitty, superman and waluigi