More Halloween Pictures!

Halloween

I know you'll never believe that I have pictures from Halloween already, but here's a preview of what's to come. The boys had a great time trick-or-treating! We took one trip around the block just going on one side of the street with the intention of going back around on the other side. However, Adam announced that he wanted to go home before we went around the second time, and we couldn't talk him into going farther. I think he just wanted to head home to look at his booty...as soon as we got in, he started organizing his treats. He and Andrew also taste tested a few items. Dan and I were laughing, because we remembered trying to race around to houses to collect as much candy as we could. We'd even go home and drop off candy so we could start fresh again. I'm sure he'll grasp that concept soon. Not to say that he didn't have a great time...he was running around and really got the idea of saying, "Trick-or-Treat" at each house and saying, "Thank You"...although the last one was often said as he was turning away to head to the next house. Before we left, he was singing, "Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat", so I was waiting for him to say that at one of the houses. Andrew also had a good time...he rode in the wagon and then Dan took him up to each of the houses for candy. He tried to eat several pieces of candy through the wrapper, and had great fun waving and saying, "Bye" to people. I think he was ready to keep going when Adam wanted to go home!

Final Camping Trip

Well, I'm sure no one is even looking at my blog anymore since it's been over a month since I last updated. I'm sure you think we've disappeared off the face of the earth...but we're still here. Adam is still loving preschool! Every morning, he wakes up and asks if he's going to preschool that day. One day a couple of weeks ago, Andrew was sick and for some reason Adam thought that was the reason he wasn't going to preschool (it wasn't...it just wasn't his day to go). Anyway, he kept asking every couple of minutes if Andrew was better yet :-). My mom, sister, and nephew Aaron came to visit us also for about a week. I'm sure I'll never get around to posting pictures from that, so I'll have to add the link to Sandra's blog so you can see what she posted about it.

Anyway, the weekend after they left (the first weekend of October), we went camping for the last time this year. For the last 2 years, we've gone to a campground about an hour from us for the Halloween festivities. However, we left it to the last minute this year to book our site, since it looked like it was going to rain all weekend, so the campground was full. I had to call several places to find an open spot, and we ended up trying a campground that was only about a half hour away. We were rather leery to camp so close to the city, but it ended up being really nice. We may switch and go there again next year. The weather was also beautiful (actually very warm for October...high 80's and no rain). We were laughing that we needed to use the air conditioning on the camper more in October than June, July, and August combined.

It was a wonderful trip...the boys decorated pumpkins, they went in the lake (in their clothes, since we forgot swimsuits...who thought you could swim in October???), Andrew went on a wagon ride (Adam was too busy swimming), they competed in a costume contest (where Andrew won 2nd in his age category), and they went trick-or-treating. They also had a site decorating contest, so we enjoyed walking around and looking at everyone's sites (we're too busy chasing after our boys to decorate!!). Here are some pictures from that weekend...