Halloween/Reformation Day Activities

Hanging around our household this last weekend was an interesting set of personalities:

Spiderman, who realized that it's hard to be a super hero when you have to wear glasses over or under your mask;

Pocahontas -- the red-headed, fair-skinned, freckled Pocahontas;

A tiny leopard baby, who had the disturbing habit of trying to rip off her ears;

And, rarely, a gentle benevolent monk who morphed into something inadvertently terrifying when he pulled up his hood.

And me, as myself.


The night before Halloween/Reformation Day, we took our ragtag crew to the Boo Bash in our town.  If you can ignore the feeling of claustrophobia you might get being crushed by too many people in a small place, you would think it was fun!  The kids got lots of candy, got to bounce in bounce house, slide down a giant slide, and hang out with a bunch of other sugar-crazed kiddos.


The next day (in our secret non-superhero identities), we went to church for an awesome day at church, followed by a Reformation Day Picnic.  Kevin got to participate in feats of strength, and won the one where you had to bend a piece of rebar into a knot.  Woo hoo!  We all ran around and generally exhausted ourselves.


Then we threw the kids' costumes back on and went to my niece's 5th birthday party!  She's exactly 7 months younger than Ry and 6 months older than Zander -- right in between.  She had a very fun, very pink, very girl party! We gorged ourselves on even more candy and cake and cupcakes, and by this time are starting to feel a wee bit fall-down tired.

We crashed our friends Darla and Michael's house for an impromptu trick-or-treat, and then headed home to eat dinner like zombies and then fall into bed.  But we thank God for the blessings of friends, family, costumes, and candy to wear ourselves out on!  It was a fun weekend, and who knows who will visit our house next year?


Sundi