Halloween 2009

Not sure if it's me or not, but Halloween seems to carry less and less of a thrill for the kids.  For me growing up it was exciting because:

• I actually got candy, which was pretty rare
• I got my costume the beginning of the month and could play around in it
• I could actually wear it to school
• The school parties were actually called "Halloween parties" instead of "Harvest parties"
• It was warm enough to wear my costume outside on halloween
• The streets were FILLED with kids trick or treating, and I actually had to stand in line at most doors

Nowadays, the kids still get excited, but it's not quite the same.  Candy is readily available, costumes are "marketing" elements of movies, toys, games they see all the time, the whole school "harvest party" concept, and we only had 6 door bell rings all night.  So, the point of all this is that the costumes were a little "lite" on the creative part this year. 
Michael went as a "zombie scream" with chainsaw, Rachel and Megan were both black cats, and Mommy went as a cowgirl.

Family Halloween pictures

Time again for our family Halloween picture.  We tried to look more like zombies this year, instead of ghosts from last year, but we ended up looking like zombie ghosts, or at least I did (that's what the tilted head is supposed to be - zombie like).

Our actual family picture turned out nice also.

Michael turns 9!

October is always a fun month. Back to back birthdays with Rachel, then Michael, followed up by Halloween. It does get one behind with trying to keep upto date with posting pictures, etc.

Michaels birthday was on the 18th (Sunday) and we were going to have his party on the 17th, however that was a 3 day weekend in Minnesota, so of the 5 friends he invited, all but one was out of town, so we ended up moving it to the 24th. So the 17th turned out to be a fun family party where we went "laser bowling". This is quite a bit different than the bowling allies I went to as a youth - Video monitors playing music videos, the lights are off, lasers everywhere, mini line dance lessons going on in the lanes... The kids really enjoyed it.

The next week I (Daddy) took Michael and the boys to Grand Slam for laser tag, mini golf, fun zone, batting cages, bumper cars, and the "money sucking" arcade. Michael had lots of fun. Below is the laser tag picture (a little spiced up).

Batting helmuts look so cute on tiny heads...

Michael at home with us singing happy birthday to him.