Happy Halloween 2009

Halloween was a 2 day celebration. On Thursday Sydney had a party at her preschool all morning. They had games and food and trick-or-treating to the classrooms. It was an adventurous day. It started out with games and the kids loved painting their ghosts with marble paint. Then it was off to trick-or-treat. After the 2nd classroom the fire drill went off. It was really loud and scared poor Tyler. We all had to exit outside in the POURING rain and stand until the fire drill was over. Somebody had gone in and grabbed Tyler's coat, but he was wearing a long sleeved shirt and a short sleeved shirt and Sydney had a short sleeved dress on. I convinced her to wear Ty's coat and then when we went back inside she didn't want to take it off because she thought we were going to have to go back outside. After the drill Tyler kept asking to "go home," but we finally got him to enjoy the last of the trick-or-treating. Like I said, an adventure. One thing I love about my kids is that they are usually really nice to each other. Sydney was so excited to have Tyler at her school and enjoy what she enjoys every week. She wanted him to sit by her at circle and watched out for him in the big halls. When Sydney was picked to help during a story, she made sure that "Mickey" could help too. Tyler was very excited to be doing whatever Sydney was. It was a special day to see them love being together.

Luckily Halloween day was less eventful - no fire drills. We did chores in the morning and ran some errands around lunch time. We did run into Snow White at Costco. Sydney loved that and went over to tell her to say hello to Mickey. She even had a Snow White name tag! In the afternoon we all took naps (except Ryan, he had a church meeting - so he got blessings and we got rest :) ) I fixed the kids their favorite dinner, Macaroni and Cheese with peaches on the side. And it was finally time for some trick-or-treating. The kids dressed up as Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Tyler did a great job leaving his Mickey ears on. It was fun to see them so excited to dress up. This year Ryan took them around to the houses and I stayed home and passed out candy. We got a total of 14 trick-or-treaters, including our 2 little mice. So I think I got the easier of the two. The kids loved going with Daddy and came home with way too much candy!! It was a great Halloween.