Happy Halloween....

Halloween is SOOO much better when you have kids to spend it with!!! In the afternoon we carved pumpkins with the kids. Audrey and Lisa, Dave and Carter and Jaden and I carved pumpkins together. The kids did a really good job on picking out their own faces for the pumpkins. They turned out really cute!! Jaden and I had the smallest pumpkin to carve. I am all for the smaller pumpkins from now on...it is sooo much easier!!!

























After dinner, we got all the kids in their costumes. Shauna and Doug are out of town this weekend for a wedding Shauna is in, so we took the kids trick-or-treating. Audrey was a witch, Carter was a Ninja Turtle, Jaden was Spiderman, Bradli was a flower and Brady was a lion. They all looked so cute!!! I wore my USC jersey to try and be festive!!!



























My parent's neighborhood doesn't have hardly any kids, so we just went nextdoor and to one other house. Then we headed out to Wagon Wheel to the street where Dave and Lisa are hoping to move to. It was packed with kids and all the houses were decorated!! It was a lot of fun and the kids got tons of candy!!!!





































I was glad that all the kids were here this year. I had forgotten how fun Halloween is!!!! Hopefully we can all be together next year too!!!!

I did feel like something was missing tonight. For the past few years, we would go up to see my cousins and grandparents. We would go to my Aunt's house and have soup and then head out to Sierra Madre to look at the cool pumpkins in this one neighborhood. I think that knowing that my Grandpa wasn't going to be there made it seem not as fun this year. I guess that is how a lot of things are going to feel. I sure miss him!!!