Halloween

We had an amazing first Halloween in our new house. Isaac was at the perfect age--it was all novel and AWESOME to him! He was pretty wide-eyed all day.

I explained the whole deal to him about a week before and then each time we asked him what he was going to do on Halloween, we got different answers: "I'm going to get candy from Mr. Bill!" (that's our neighbor) or "I'm going to get M-a-M's from Grandpa Tim!" or something similarly specific.

Isaac was technically High King Peter from The Chronicles of Narnia and Anders was Aslan, but Isaac doesn't know that story, so he just knew he was a "knight in shining armor." His costume was courtesy of Miss Bethy. Her boys wore it back when they came to our Halloween party as the Renaissance family--so cute.

Miss Bethy's family joined us and my parents, Zach's parents, and my grandparents were also in town for Anders's dedication at church the next day. It was quite a party. After trick-or-treating down the street and back, we all sat down to an awesome dinner provided mostly by Granini and then had a fire in the front yard from which we passed out candy to the far too old and under-costumed trick-or-treaters.

can you even stand how cute they are!?

Spike, Thor, and their honorary sister and brothers, Miss Bethy's kids

Mom and Dad are smiling because they know what's coming.
Spike's smile will come later.

First stop, Mr. Bill and Miss Mimi's house next door.

Counting the spoils

Little knight

catching up

perfect s'mores weather

a few minutes pre-bedtime

Isaac stayed up late running around the front yard yelling, "Surrender the booty!" which my charming father taught him to say. A bunch of neighbors stopped by to chat by the fire, and Frank (the self-proclaimed neighborhood historian) even stayed for a drink...or three. We love our neighborhood and were so glad to be able to spend this fun holiday with friends and family.