Halloween

Halloween in our neighborhood is CRAZY!! There are literally thousands of Trick or Treaters. We gave out 2000+ tattoos. That's right over 2000. Our neighborhood gets so inundated with people that they set up a special neighborhood trick or treating the week before that Jordan, Adam and Sydney participated in. It was very low key and no chance that they would get lost in the crowds on Halloween.

Sydney (Belle), Jordan (Witch), Adam (PowerRanger)

 Carving our VERY EXPENSIVE pumpkins.

... More Carving

 The Finished Products!

 Handing out Candy (tattoos for us)

 The Masses

Our friend Teena Jelsma came by to say 'Hi' and we recruited her to help pass out goodies for a few minutes. Thank you Teena, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Little India

Jordan and I went with a bunch of our girly friends for food and fun in Little India.

Thanks to the Webbs, Stevens and Sorensons

Jordan showing off her Henna

The Monkey Park

We enjoy the playing at the Woodlands Water Front Park or as we call it- The Monkey Park. We had a fun outing with the Coombs Family. They live on our street and have been so welcoming.

Derek and Brianne

 Ethan and Adam

 Marissa and Brianne

 Sydney and her best buddy Megan. These 2 two year olds love to play with each other.

Work Party

Christopher conveniently scheduled his work party for a weekend when he was going to be gone. And then signed us up to be in charge of face painting. Okay to be fair, this is my simplified version of the whole story, not really an accurate interpretation of what happened. None the less, we went to the work party without him. We recruited a few friends to help paint faces and it turned out to be pretty fun.

Ethan



Jordan

Adam

Did I mention that the friends we got to help paint were cute girls? I think that helped the overall attitude- well Preston's attitude.

Adam couldn't wait to try to break a balloon on Preston's head. He begged and begged until Preston agreed.

Preston was a good sport about the whole thing, although he did chase after Adam after the balloon exploded on his head.

 I was the biggest casualty. The water hit the ground causing mud to splash all over my white shirt. :(

Another really fun activity was to paint our own kites. Christopher and I found a really cool shop that came and ran this awesome activity. The boy on the left hand side in the green shirt is Ethan.