Sunday, November 02, 2008

Trick-or-treat , Smell my Feet

We had a spook-tacular Halloween with an eerie fog wafting through in patches making for a perfectly, haunting night. We ended up with more candy than we know what to do with, and my two little gremlins were the talk of the neighborhood. Okay, maybe not exactly but they sure were cute and very polite sweet-mongers. We had a great time and believe it or not it was our first Halloween passing out candy at our door. The boys loved that almost just as much. Hope you all had a safe and exciting night. Can you believe it's November? Sheeeesh!


Oh, and here are the big trick-or-treaters. Can you believe I actually got Matthew to wear that? We attended an AWESOME Halloween party and had fun getting to know new friends. Matthew is such a good sport about things like this. We thought it would be pretty humorous seeing as in practically every ward we've ever been in people find us an odd match thinking Matthew to be terribly serious in demeanor and me a bit on the sunny side. He found it pretty difficult to stay in character. Haa-haa! I had a fun time making the costumes, but maybe a little too much time for the few hours we wore them. I kept telling Matthew that he needed to keep a long term perspective here. We are at the beginning of our long life together and which also means the beginning of our very own costume box. Now whenever we need a care bear costume we have one right on hand. Brilliant!

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Pumpkin Patch

On the 17th we took advantage of Matthew's day off and joined some of our friends at a local Pumpkin Patch. We took a new kid in the ward with us so that's the curly haired boy you see in the pics. The little boys loved playing with him. It was a great place to hunt for those perfect pumpkins. We got to go on a boat ride with lots of surprises and a train ride. After we found our pumpkins we decided to do the corn maze. If we found all the check points we got a surprise so of course we could not stop until we had. It was a beautiful day and we all had a wonderful time!