Halloween 2013

What an adventure this Halloween was!  The girls have had their costumes picked out and ready in their minds for months.  Will, was a little less decisive.  He contemplated some Minecraft character or not trick-or-treating at all (and instead selling candy... we told him this was NOT a good idea with everyone else giving it away).  Finally we tried the SWAT costume he got for Christmas last year, and somehow, it worked!
With 3 kids ready for the big day... the next thing to do was wait and hope that the weather would hold off.  After several beautiful days, the weather for Halloween was predicted to be in the mid 60s with a steady rainfall increasing to 80% chance by 6pm with possible 50mph wind gusts... yikes!
With pumpkins carved, food in our bellies, and dressed to trick-or-treat, we opened our door to check the weather.  With Daddy stuck in traffic a little longer, mom loaded the kids in the van, and with the door open, the kids jumped out, and ran from house to van for about a block.  Once Daddy was home, we all ventured the light rain and wind and had a ton of fun running from house to house.  Despite the rain, it was rather exhilarating!  We laughed from house to house.  The kids all got tons of compliments and we heard "look, real costumes" from several homes!  It was real cute watching them run to the homes and seeing them have fun.   We spent almost the whole hour and a half out and returned home wet, a little bit cold, but with lots of loot!  With Bapa around to hand out the candy at home and ready with a warm fire for us.... we huddled in the living room to check out the stash!  A fun night indeed!

some of our wet freinds