Happy Halloween and Fighting Off Winter

Last Sunday we went to Falls Park to get out of the house and there was very little water moving through the dam

The kids loved exploring

Saw lots of ducks

I enjoyed spending time with this bunch (and no we don't segregate the kids by gender, it just comes naturally)

That evening we had a Halloween themed dinner complete with spooky punch

Then we carved pumpkins

All the kids carved their own pumpkins (with little bits of help here and there)

Henry didn't want any help

Look at that concentration

They turned out pretty good

They dressed up our entryway

On Halloween we did a trick or treat at my office and Henry was so happy to get a big bag of Sour Patch Kids

Trick or treating that evening went well. We had rain off and on and there weren't as many people handing out candy as usual but the kids still got enough

Henry and Nixon stayed out the latest

Nixon won a drawing contest at school and his prize was this bobble head

We got our first snow fall on Thursday. It wasn't much though.

Look at those letter "h" that Henry is making

They also learned about "7" at preschool

We got more snow on Friday to the point where it covered all the grass and was even starting to stick on the road. There was also a lot of rain that day. Friday night and Saturday morning there was a huge windstorm of Southern Alberta proportions so we woke up to the snow being gone and in its place...pine needles, leaves, and fallen trees. Luckily we didn't have any fallen trees at our house but we did have A LOT of pine needles. The whole family worked together and got them all raked up.

Fourteen bags in total

Mason and I had a date at Sonic, ate in the truck, then went to the dump with all of our pine needles.

Henry and I were twins for church today.

Have a great week