Happy Halloween-y (in January!)

Well we are making progress...

lots has happened in October

and 

it has only taken a total of a week to get

you up to speed!

I can't wait to move to November.

We sent October out in 

Halloween-style.

We found these cuties

at the store!

I was all over this.

Meant I didn't have to make 

cookies

or

icing

and the kids got the joy of 

decorating

and

eating!

Jackson disappeared

before I could snap a picture of 

him with his creations...

A few days later

we headed 

over the river and through the woods 

to grandmother's house!

And that is the truth!

My grandmother lives in the woods.

It is a modern house built about 20 years ago,

so its not the old charming house my mom 

grew up in or anything...

but it is still in the woods!

Down a gravel path.

The hubs and the boys hadn't been out 

there since we had gotten back from 

Texas,

I don't think the hubs had gone out there with us

since well before we left for Texas.

So grandmother enticed us down to her 

neck of the woods

by telling us her church was having a 

fall festival.

So we figured we would give

it a try.

Fall Festival 

in small town

South Carolina...

why not?

We hadn't carved our pumpkins yet,

so we loaded them up

(the ones we had gotten at 

Hillridge Farms on my birthday)

and took them with us 

to do there.

(then of course I had daddy load them

back up and bring back to the house)

My sister and her hubs and daughter showed up too!

We paused for a quick picture of the kids

in front of the decorations 

at the church.

Yes,

again,

this was the best out of about

10 pictures.

They had cute team games

and 

relay games set up for the kids

and 

adults.

One of which was trying to put a frozen shirt on.

Huh?

One of the older ladies there had put a couple of

shirts in the freezer days before

and 

couldn't understand why they weren't freezing.

After we wet the shirts the day before the festival...

they froze.

Then they grabbed a couple of unsuspecting kids

out of the audience...

and had them attempt to put them on.

It was actually really cute to see them struggling to 

pull the shirts apart.

After a fun filled weekend,

we picked up an extra passenger,

Nana,

and deposited her back at her house. 

I honestly can't remember how 

she got down there,

I am guessing she rode down with

my sister and her family...

Then we celebrated Halloween night 

in our neighborhood.  

Rumor had it our neighborhood was

one of the places to be on Halloween night,

in our small city.

The neighborhood newletter went out

a week or so before telling people

to expect upwards of 300-500 

trick or treaters!

WHOA!

Because of this,

less than 25% of our neighbors

were giving out candy!

I was very disappointed,

but at the same time,

not.

Each of my kids only got about 20 pcs

of candy that night!

But it was GONE

that night and we didn't have to worry about it anymore!

We hit the neighborhood streets with

a couple of neighborhood friends.

And a couple of pics of 

my crew.

A couple of irresistible

pictures of the littlest 

member of our family! 

Stopping to pose for a quick pic.

 

Daddy with the princess and the pirate.

Pausing during the trek around 

our neighborhood

for a quick candy break

in a random yard!

Once we got back to the house,

our friends hung out for a bit

and 

daddy had a little

6 on 1 

wrestling match,

just to zap the last bit of energy 

out of all 7 of them!