Halloween 2016

Monday morning I was dreading Halloween!  Courtney had piano lessons and soccer practice.  Ethan was supposed to unload insulation with the young men and have his final mountain bike practice.  We had a neighborhood potluck and I was going to be running around getting everyone where they needed to be. Because Ethan was going to be across town unloading insulation, the carpool to mountain biking wasn't going to work. But it all worked out wonderfully!!

Halloween snuck up on us.  I had a cookie order from a friend who always buys my sugar cookies for her son's class party.  I had thought to make and freeze them last week so that was done.  But I had to run errands in the morning which included finding candy and a pumpkin.  All the pumpkins at the grocery stores looked horrible so I asked the produce guy at Harmons if they had any pie pumpkins that were small-ish but were perfectly shaped.  He went in the back and brought me the best pumpkin ever!  I went to the party store and bought some small candy that was on clearance and we were all set.

Ethan wasn't going to get dinner so I decided to run to Jimmy Johns to buy him dinner and put it in his locker so he would have it after school.  I finished that, dropped some invites off to the high school to invite their administration to the State Championships on Saturday, and then ran home to wait for Courtney.  I ran her to piano and then got a text that said "Insulation truck broke down we will unload tomorrow."  I was so happy!

I picked Courtney up from piano and ran her to soccer.  They had a fun practice with their costumes.

Ethan went to hang out with friends until it was time for mountain biking and then the carpool was able to take him there.  They actually just rode to a coach's house and had donuts and goofed off.  But it was a fun ride, Ethan said.

Courtney is a nerd!

While he was gone, Bryan, Courtney and I went to the neighborhood potluck and had a lot of fun with our friends/neighbors.  The kids loved getting together to go trick-or-treating as a group.  Courtney went off with her friends while Bryan and I went home to hand out candy.  I handed out candy while we watched a movie.

Ethan got home, put on his costume and then went to hang out with friends.  I can't remember what he is but he loved it.

They came home tired but they had a lot of fun and my day had been great.  Just by having the insulation truck break down it made life so much easier for me.  Sad, but so true!

Oh, and the Halloween fairy came so Courtney has her 10 pieces of candy and the fairy took the rest.  But not before she left some lip balm and 2 bottles of nail polish.  What a deal!