Monday, November 4, 2013

Halloween and A Visit from Grandpa Morse

Our pumpkins this year:  a Star Wars rocket of some sort (Luke), a scary spider (Liam), and Yoda (AJ)
Making, Decorating, and Eating Halloween Cupcakes

Carving Pumpkins

Finn, the football player

Yoda, a Ninja, and Darth

Getting ready for the parade in our neighborhood

Finn and his first Halloween parade.  Did I mention it was quite COLD!?  

The group of neighborhood kids seems to get bigger in size and stature every year

One of my favorite pictures: Huck and Tom.  Huckleberry "Finn" is on the left Tom "Sawyer" on the right.  Our neighbor, Sawyer, was born about a month after Finn and the names are very ironic!

Riley, Luke, Aiden, Liam, Jack, and Carter (left to right)

Grandpa with Liam, Finn, Luke, and Aiden

Liam at the arboretum doing some digging

Luke and AJ in the little house at the arboretum.  The boys could have played here all day.

Aiden "working" with sand at the Arboretum

Aiden and Liam working on their fort

My Dad and I at the Arboretum

Grandpa Morse and the Boys.  Note Finn's glasses from Grandpa!

We had a busy couple of days last week with Halloween and a visit with Grandpa Morse.  We started off with our annual Halloween parade on Thursday night, followed by a potluck and trick or treating in the neighborhood.  Each year, it seems that trick or treating changes a bit.  I can remember the days when we were at the end of our neighborhood parade and we barely made it around our small horseshoe.  This year, however, we were up at the front of the line and had to be reminded to slow down.  Our first Halloween we made it to maybe 4-5 houses because we stopped to eat our candy after the first house.  This year, however, we basically ran from one house to the next in an effort to get as much candy as possible!

On Friday, Grandpa Morse and his friend Ms. Jane arrived for a visit to meet Finn.  The boys loved all the extra attention as usual and even convinced Jane and Grandpa to play several (maybe more than several) games with them.  Jane gave the boys each a gift and one of them was the card game UNO.  I am certain we have played UNO more times than anyone should in the past 72 hours!!  I regret that I don't have a good picture with Jane, but she was so helpful with the boys and they loved playing with her.

On Saturday, we had a picture perfect weather day for November in Minnesota.  It was gorgeous and the temps were cool, but warm enough for all of us to be outside for an extended period of time (even Finn).  We spent the entire day with Grandpa and Jane at the Arboretum.  The boys played so well outside and had a wonderful time.  They built forts, played in the sand, climbed, ran, jumped through the waterfall (yes, despite wearing winter coats), etc...Finn was a trooper and hung in there all day.

It was a great ending to a wonderful month of October and a good start to November!  

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