Happy Halloween!

What a great week - we've been looking forward to this week for so long! First of all - we got a few extra bonuses this week. We got our first snow and there was still enough to play in after the storm blew away. Not enough to build a snowman, but definately enough for a snowball fight!

Then for another added bonus, Grandpa and Grandma G. decided to stay for a few extra days because of the storm and winds. That meant extra nights for story time and extra fun just hanging out with them. Here I am reading with Grandpa.
And more books with Grandma.
Then the Halloween fun started. Our first official Halloween week activity was carving pumpkins. Who doesn't love getting all the pumpkin goo out?Daddy's pumpkin was HUGE and there was a lot of goo! And because his pumpkin was a different species than the usual pumpkin, the goo was really weird . . . it was cool though! Then on Thursday morning we got to go to daddy's school and walk in the Halloween parade. Now that was super fun! Daddy dressed up as a dalmatian. Here are Sam and me in our costumes - Sam was a monster and I was a dragon with a crescent moon on my tummy. (Short story - mom picked up my dragon costume a long time ago, and then I came home a few weeks ago and announced that I wanted to be a crescent moon for Halloween this year - so daddy had the idea to combine the two costumes. I loved it!)Here is monster Sam! Could he be any cuter? I don't think so!Here we are in the parade. I got to hold daddy's leash. Here we are at the end of the parade. My legs are tired! One of the teachers daddy works with - Jenny - dressed up as a pioneer and carried her violin. She brought it in and let me see it . . . and then she let me play it. I loved it! I had just watched Elmo that morning and he was thinking about violins. I told mommy and daddy that I wanted to play the violin when I got older - - - and then that very day I got to play one. Later that night I played my toothpaste tube with my toothbrush - my very own "violin". Then on Friday night we went to a Halloween party over at Aunt Lu's and Uncle Randy's. Easton was there to play with. Lots of other people were there too. We had yummy food and lots of fun! Here is our family picture from the party. Daddy changed his costume to be a doctor for the party. (He said something about it being a "cooler" costume . . . as in not as warm in a room with lots of other people . . . or something like that.)Then finally, on Halloween night we got to go trick or treating. It was the best! We went all around the neighborhood. I practiced saying "trick or treat" all day. Here is a picture of our pumpkins. Pretty cool, huh!Here we are after trick or treating . . . these are some pooped boys!And here we are with our trick or treat bags. They were pretty full.
Happy Halloween everyone!

Sam Alert: Hey everyone . . . so has anyone had Croup before? Apparently mommy did and now so do I . . . and so does everyone else in our house as of today. I spent Friday night/Saturday morning at the Emergency Room trying to breathe. Who knew that could be such a difficult thing to do? The doctors and nurses were incredibly nice. Hopefully daddy and Mason don't get quite as sick as me!

I was feeling a little bit better today and decided to help with some housework. This is me helping daddy vacuum.And this is just a cute picture of me!And yet one more cute picture of me. Happy November!