The things we say before noon...: Happy Halloween

10/28/12
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Wow for some reason this seemed to sneak up on me this year. I was planning in the back of my mind for a month what we were going to do for our annual kids party and what the "family theme" would be this year. Then came the week ahead and I was still hunting for everyone's costumes. Thank God for my mom who helped run to the store in hunt for the perfect green sweats for Asher's Costume. This years theme...Super Hero's! They were so cute. Madalyn was Wonder Woman, Riley was Super Woman, Mason was The Flash and Asher was Super Why from his favorite cartoon. Ross of course insisted on being the villian and we were able to put together a fantastic costume to be The Riddler. Mine however was a little more complicated. Since I'm 5 1/2 months pregnant I barely fit into any costumes. And when they say one size fits all, that does NOT include pregnant people. So I dressed as a queen, the queen of all the Super Hero's and the villian of course.
On October 28th we had our annual Halloween Party for the kids. We painted pumpkins, bobbed for apples, had a family picture area set up, played a pop the ballon game for a prize and who can eat the donut from the string the fastest. We had a blast and after we all ate some soup I had prepared in the crockpot and then the kids watched a movie downstairs.
On Halloween we decided to trick or treat in our neighborhood then headed over to Aunt Katie and Uncle Jared's neighborhood to see our cousins Luke and Leah, or Elmo and Snow White. They were soo soo cute! See the pictures below if you don't believe me. :-)
Now we are just trying to recover from all the sugar and it's been a really rough couple of days, but we are surviving. God has given us an extra sprinkle of patience to handle the meltdowns.