Jon's first costume attempt was pretty good (above), but once Bree got done with him, he was looking truly fantastic.
Halloween was tons of fun. We spent the day at Becky's, which is always fun, but this time was even better because she had Halloween games for the kids to play. They absolutely loved it! Hallie has been asking to play the "straw" game and Don't Eat Jack ever since.
We got home with just enough time to get the girls hair fixed and go. When we got here Jon was ready and waiting. When Hallie mentioned that he needed to hurry and put on his costume, he told her that he wasn't dressing up this year. Her response -- "That's bowing!" (boring). So, the girls peer-pressured him into dressing up. I think we did a pretty good job for a 5 minute costume.
We went down to Sandy for trunk-or-treating with the Hansen's, then went back to their house for an Anita-style party, and a quick trick or treating around the circle. It was tons of fun to be there with everyone.
On Friday the kids and I played in our leaves. About half of our trees had lost their leaves, and the kids could not wait to make the most of it. Everyone helped get the leaves in the pile; we only have 2 real rakes, so the other kids used whatever they could find -- shovel, broom, hands -- whatever seemed to work.
I was nervous about the kids throwing the leaves around with Sky, but she loved being in the leaves. She even let the other kids bury her in the leaf pile -- face uncovered, of course.
I felt like watching was good enough for me, but the kids were convinced that I should have a turn jumping into the pile. I wasn't going to, but I knew that if Jon were there, he probably would have had a turn, so I decided I could be just as fun as he is. Kids are pretty brave jumping into leaves -- they have no thought for the injury that could come to them. I tell you what, that ground is awfully hard when you throw yourself down onto it, but it was worth it to see the delighted faces of my kids.
