Thursday, November 6, 2008

Halloween



Doesn't Seery make such a cute Snow White?!


Aidan with his preschool teacher

Aidan was so excited to be Buzz Lightyear



Aidan received a lot of treats from his friends at school

This is my favorite picture of the kids

Seery & Aidan with me

Seery & Aidan with their Dad

Seery is ready to trick-treat!

Aidan & Seery trick-or-treating

Mackenzie, Seery, and Bailey

We had a great Halloween last week! Seery had wanted to be Snow White for months. Aidan still likes "Toy Story" and wanted to be Buzz Lightyear. Aidan had a party at his preschool. All the kids paraded through all the other classrooms at the school to show all the kids their costumes. All the preschool teachers dressed up too. They played lots of games and had treats. He left preschool with a bag just filled with treats and little Halloween toys. Both David and I picked him up from school, along with Seery. David used a half day of vacation so he wouldn't miss out on all the Halloween festivities. We went to our church for a Halloween party. We had dinner there and the kids were able to go to different rooms to play games. After that it was time to trick-or-treat. David stayed home to pass out candy. I took Aidan and Seery trick-or-treating with our friends from across the street. It started to rain so we didn't go for too long. We went to all the homes on our street, it's a pretty big street though. Somehow even though all the kids went to the same exact number of homes, Seery ended up with a lot more candy than Aidan. We went to the Beckstead's home across the street to watch the classic movie, "Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin" and eat popcorn. The kids really enjoyed having a late night party with their friends. By about 9 pm Aidan and Seery were exhausted and went straight to bed. And David and I actually had a Friday night together which almost never happens!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Tradition



Every year Gardner Village has "Witches Night Out", an event held on both the Friday and Saturday the weekend before Halloween. It begins at 6 pm and ended at 10 pm this year, it has gone later in the past. You can have your tarot cards or tea leaves read (for fun). There is a dream interpreter. They have a DJ playing music so you can dance outside. Every store store has great sales and giveaways. Sadly, no one out of our group won the raffle this time, which was a first! They have a costume contest. Women go all out for this event, you should see some of the witch costumes and hats! They are spectacular! All the women in my family that can attend go every year together. It has become a tradition in our family. We all dress up as witches and have a girls' night out. I look forward to it. How often to moms, sisters, and sisters-in-law have the opportunity to go out all together? Not often enough. So we treasure the one evening a year we do get out and have fun as women. Even Katie came this year and she enjoyed dancing to the music.