Where is Christopher???

Can you see him?

Both Christopher and Stephen were a big help getting up all of the leaves that built up in our yard. We all worked hard and had both the back and front yards cleaned up in about 4 hours.

We also took some time to play...Christopher remembered what piles of leaves meant, and Stephen learned real quick. Even Daddy got in a few times!

All told we collected about 38 bags of leaves. Seems impressive, but that's only about a third of our normally yearly total...Just 24 hours after we were out the yard is starting to get covered again.

Halloween

We had a rainy dreary Halloween, but we did manage to have a big enough break in the rain to participate in the Community Halloween Parade and to Trick or Treat. Below are the kids dressed up in their Halloween Costumes.

Christopher wanted to be a firefighter, we got the jacket and backpack from a friend as a hand me down, and mommy purchased the helmet and nozzle. Daddy cut reflective strips for the helmet and mommy put reflective strips on his pants. Christopher wore his snow boots to complete the effect. I thought he looked pretty sharp and liked the way his helmet turned out.

Stephen had two choices for costumes this Halloween. First one was a Dinosaur and the Second was a Race Car Driver's Suit. Stephen of course decided to do his own thing. All he wanted to do for Halloween was go outside and push his lawnmower, so he ended up with a hammer and drill hanging off of his pants and pushing the lawnmower for the parade.

This year Christopher helped mommy and daddy design and carve the pumpkin he got from a school field trip. Both boys colored pumpkins this year for Halloween and we all went out at dusk to go Trick or Treating. The big thing for the night was every house we stopped at Stephen would try to take something from his goodie bag and give it to the person at the door.