With Grandma visiting the Halloween holiday became a week long celebration of fun events. In Tennessee the schools didn't celebrate Halloween, so you can imagine the shock and excitement that Ryley and Kadyn expressed when their current school announced a Halloween party for everyone. Ryley and her fellow classmates were assigned a report to prepare and offer the same day as the parties. This worked out perfectly since each child was to dress up as the individual they chose to do their report on. Ryley picked Sacajawea and did a fabulous job preparing for and presenting her findings. Both girls had great parties that followed and with Grandma here we were able to switch back and forth, dividing and conquering the day perfectly. We spent the remainder of our week at various parks, feeding ducks, and shopping.
Friday evening came and the kiddos got dressed up for our church trunk or treat. This year we had a flower, 2 witches, and mario. They had food, treats, tons of games, and more candy to fill our kids buckets then even they know what to do with. Steven was scheduled to be out of town so this year we opted out of dressing up. At the last minute however he decided to cancel the interview, and while we didn't have a chance to pull together our costume, we were more than happy to just have Dad with us celebrating Halloween 2010. (We had a really great idea though, so tune in next year to see our best costume yet.) It was a great week surrounded by people we love, and really, it doesn't get better than that!
Counting and trading is half the fun.
Anna and Kadyn
Mitchell and Ryley
Being a younger sibling is the best. You get everything twice!
