Halloween Fun

Well Halloween has come and gone here in Oromocto...I'm sad the ghosts have to come down...but we all know that means that very very shortly the Christmas decorations come out!!! If that doesn't bring my spirits up...nothing will!!

The kids had a great Halloween week!! The Saturday before Halloween the Oromocto Mall had a paint your own pumpkin afternoon. Maddy adored that!! She painted and painted and painted until we had to leave her pumpkin at the mall to pick up later due to the abundance of paint!! There was no way that thing was going into the van! From there we headed from to Kent Hardware where they were having a little Halloween party for the kids as well. At Kent there was a coloring contest, pumpkin carving and "Gross Out" stations. This time the kids wore their costumes and decided on Pooh and the Honey Pot. (As most of you are aware I have a little obsession with costumes and the kids have about 40 to choose from!! Gotta love those yard sales!!) Our Halloween weekend was finished up with a party at Maddy's friend's house to carve yet another pumpkin!! The girls had fun and I picked out all the seeds from 6 pumpkins to roast as a treat for Maddy's Halloween party at school.

Monday prior to Halloween brought us the first snow of the year! It was a complete shocker...Sarah's bright and early wake up call that morning at 6:00am started our morning. I went to open the porch door to let Fergus out and saw a good two inches of snow on the deck. AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! Big Suprise...I'm not a lover of winter, so to open my door to two inches of snow in OCTOBER nearly put me over the edge!! Thankfully it all melted by noon and the temp. was back up into the 50's. Good thing the kids had gone crazy playing at the bus stop in the morning! Here's to hoping we don't see snow again for at least a couple of months!! Wishful thinking I know...

Halloween day was exciting for all of us! I got to attend a Halloween party at Maddy's school. Mr. Roy is awesome and I can see why Maddy loves school as much as she does!! I am still utterly amazed at the amount of French Maddy has learned...kids are so sharp!! Then of course we had the big afternoon of counting down the minutes until Trick or Treating. Maddy decided to go as Eeyore and Sarah was a giraffe. Daddy took them around the block while Mommy dressed as Pooh handed out candy! For a neighborhood that isn't completed we sure got a ton of kids!! I gave out 78 McDonald's coupons and 55 bags of chips...and honestly there were only a very few kids that got both. I can only imagine next year when the roads are paved and all the houses are completed and occupied!! It'll be a madhouse!!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween!! I look forward to seeing everyone else's pictures!!