A Little Trick or Treating and Fall Family Frenzy

Helen, Will and I started out the Halloween weekend with a trip to a local nursing home on Thursday night to do some trick or treating. They enjoyed visiting the residents in the re-hab center as well as the assisted living wing of NHC. This was Will's first time to trick or treat and he learned what to do very quickly! Since he hasn't had a whole lot of candy in his two years, he didn't know what he was getting~except when they offered him suckers because he IS familiar with those and he loves them! Helen dressed as Princess Jasmine and Will wore Helen's hand-me-down Bugs Bunny costume with the flopped down ear! Sweet! 

On Friday night, our church held our annual Fall Family Frenzy. Over 5,000 people attended! It is such a great event! Here are my three kiddos in their costumes. Helen didn't want to be the princess again, she wanted to be a rock star! We just winged it and came up with this costume at the last minute. Will, once again was Bugs Bunny and Beckett decided to be Brian McCann from the Atlanta Braves. I LOVE cheap and easy costumes!

 Helen ran into her pretty in pink cowgirl friend Sophie so they posed for a pic!

Not only do they have games, inflatables, rock climbing walls and live animals to pet, but families sign up to decorate their trunks and just hand out candy. This was one of our favorites....a Volkswagon Bug that is decorated to look like a big mouth!

Beckett found his buddy Matt at the beginning of the evening and we didn't see him much for the rest of the night. They had a great time! I got a little worried when I bumped in to him at one point and he didn't have his bag of candy. I asked him where it was and he replied, "Well, I'm just eating each piece as I get it, so I didn't think I needed to carry the bag anymore." I gave him a little reminder about his final football game the next morning and how it wouldn't be fun to miss it because he was sick from eating too much candy, so I think he backed off! Next time I saw him, he was eating a hot dog! At least it wasn't candy!

This is Will with his buddy Colby Grace. She is so sweet with Will and he loves her so much! She will soon have a little brother from Ethiopia and we are so excited for her family! Will kept taking candy out of his pumpkin bucket and giving it to Colby!

 Helen with our hippy friend Emma! They had fun walking around together for a while!

Here is Will with Anna. Isn't she adorable? I think this is their first picture together. (and of course, Will isn't smiling) He really does have a great smile, he just likes to stare you down when you are trying to get him to smile! Anyway, Anna has been home from ET with her sweet mom Julie for about 10 months and we love getting to see them each week at church!

 I think Will was trying to tell Anna about the tractor that was pulling the hayride!

 And I'll end our Halloween post with a picture of Bugs riding on his daddy's shoulders!

Still have lots of catching up to do, but thought I'd go ahead and post our most recent pictures first!