Halloween Weekend

First of all, I LOVE Halloween. I am not into the goblins, ghouls, etc part of it, but I love the dressing up, fall decor, pumpkin carving, hayrides, and trick or treating part of it. Chase was a dragon this year. As I have mentioned before, his favorite horse onthe carousel is the dragon. He will not ride it if he can't sit on that one horse (or dragon). We taught him to growl and also to say Trick or treat, but he would go to a door and say, "Hey, What's Up?" and then trick or treat. This "Hey, What's up" is his new favorite saying. Jason taught him to say it so he thinks it is awesome!

Our weekend started with Zoo Boo Friday night. This is my favorite thing to go to. We got there right at 5:30 so it was not crowded and Chase got to ride the train twice and all of the kiddie rides. He had a blast! Our niece, Sara Beth went with us and we rode the bigger rides. She was a vampire.

Zoo Boo was great this year. Lots of GOOD candy, which Chase thought he had to eat all of, and lots of good activities. Chase loved the singing pumpkins and he walked across the stage in the parade of costumes and told them what a dragon said, "RRRoar" and that he was a nice dragon. It was too cute. We stayed about 2 hours and he was tired. I was thankful for the wagon. I can't wait for Zoo Lights!

Saturday night, our life group at church dressed up to pass out candy for Trunk or Treat. We

were movie characters. We had Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Carribean, Toy Story, and How to Train Your Dragon. Jason and I were called the Citibank people all night. Chase already had the dragon so we tried to pick something to go with him, but next

year, we will just do what we want to do and let him be whatever. We got the costumes online and they were hilarious to say the least!

Next year, I want to be cute and not silly so I will go rent one! I felt so blessed to be able to pass out candy to the kids in the community around our church. We have several apartment complexes near by and our church also is a Boys and Girls Club location. We had a lot of those families in addition to our church families. My hope is that they were blessed by our church Saturday night and will want to come check it out on a Sunday. I know I was blessed! It is amazing how just a small thing can make you feel so good!

Sunday night, we went to our friends, the Rings for awesome homemade pizza and to go Trick or Treating.

I tried a new recipe out and didn't realize the colored marshmallows were fruit flavored so I

had to dig them off...YUK! The dessert was great after that! It tookChase a couple houses to get the the hang of it, but he finally did and it was hilarious! Anna Garris helped a lot by going to the doors with him. We had a great time with the Rings and Chase loved his first trick or treating experience. I am already looking forward to next year! I can't wait to see what costume he will pick. I am sure he will have an opinion about it next year.

On a side note...Our Sunday School class just finished Radical and we are going to read the Bible in a year. I am so pumped about this. I can't remember ever reading it all the way through. I have started it a bunch of times, but never made it completely finished. We are using YouVersion and it keeps up with what you read. I can mark it off on my Droid and read from my Droid so I can do it in bed after Chase is asleep or anywhere. It is so great! We will discuss in class what we read and hold each other accountable for doing it. I hope to learn a lot! I know I will miss a day here and there, but for sure will catch up and keep up.

Jason is starting this Aspiring Administrators Academy tomorrow for SCS. I hope he learns a lot and it helps him with his desire to be an administrator. I am looking so forward to the holidays with Chase this year...not the shopping part, but the watching him part. Gotta get our Elf on the Shelf!