Most lovely Christmas.

Thanksgiving weekend, weakend.

Falling for Fall.

Halloweeeen and first Trick-or-Treating.

I was really excited about Halloween this last year, so I spent quite a bit of time making costumes the whole month. Ava wouldn't ever tell me what she wanted to dress up as, so I had to decide what I could make before offering her ideas. We decided on a My Little Pony costume for her, specifically the one that she has (Starsong) minus the wings. Then for Stryder I just thought making him a bear costume would be cute, since we like to call him Stryder-bear and since we already had the ears that my sister Sarah had made for a teddy bear birthday party. Shawn wanted to be Professor Utonium from the Powerpuff Girls and got all his costume stuff together all by himself. He really wanted Ava to dress as a Powerpuff Girl to match him, but I had to talk him out of it since she'd never even seen the show before and also since she was already excited about being a pony. Maybe a family theme next year? And then for myself I made a voodoo doll costume. A few people that saw me thought I was a Raggedy Ann- really? I admit, I did spend a lot more time on my own costume than for the kids, but it was fun. I was excited to dress up since I had missed the previous couple of years out of laziness. Ava had a lot of fun with Trick-or-Treating. She didn't even care about the candy at all, but was mostly excited to go up to other people's porches and knock on their doors. We kept some Runts and Nerds to give the kids for a special Halloween dessert and gave the rest to our neighbors. We loved our Halloween!