Fall Festival and Halloween

This year, we were so happy to have Marcus home for Halloween.  The last few years, we've had to juggle Halloween festivities around the national radiation oncology conference that Marcus has to travel to.  This year they moved the conference to early October, so Daddy got to come to the Halloween Party at our BFF's house, the Fall Festival at church, and Trick-or-Treating on Monday night.  

This was the best year ever for trick-or-treating.  Caleb dressed up as Spiderman and Ethan went to Fall Festival as a pirate and Trick-or-Treating as Superman.  The kids are finally big enough to run up to the houses on their own, so the process went much faster and was much more relaxed for the adults.  We went with several other families from church.  Even with 20+ preschool and elementary aged kids walking the neighborhood together, it was still a lot of fun.  Caleb and Ethan were ecstatic about all the candy they collected.  I think this is the first year that Daddy and I are not going to be able to get away with pilphering what we'd like from their stash.  Everything was studied and organized so thoroughly that I think even a piece or two will be missed.  At least we can still confiscate candy for bad behavior :)

Fall Festival at church was great this year as well.  The church brought in real horses instead of ponies, and this is the first year that we could kind of let Ethan go on the bounce houses without worrying too much that he would get hurt.  Of course, our LifeWalk group was in charge of monitoring the bounce houses, so we spent most of our time there anyway.

The whole family, just before heading out trick-or-treating.

 Caleb and Ethan on a bounce-house slide at Fall Festival.

 Caleb throwing a dart at the balloon-popping booth.

 Lydia was so chill the whole evening in her stroller.  We are so thankful that she is such an easy-going baby!