Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Jaxton was a vampire. We painted is his face white and black with face paint and he had fake vampire teeth. Cooper was a ninja. Kaylee was Queen Elsa from frozen. Dawson was a football player. We went trick-or-treating in the Pioneer Village neighborhood in Leo. Trick-or-treating began at 6 o'clock and right at 6 o'clock it began to snow. It was very ironic. The kids were troopers though and stuck it out in the freezing weather. Jaxton ran from house to house to reach as many houses as he possibly could. He was with his friend Joel from his old school. Cooper was taking his time and made sure to hit every house without skipping any. When the other kids were getting pretty far ahead, we asked if he'd like to skip any houses. Of course he declined that, until Joels mom offered to give him 4 pieces of candy from her bucket at home to make up for the 4 skipped houses ahead. So he held her to that promise :). Kaylee and Dawson went slower with Dad and plugged along through the treacherous conditions. The wind and snow and sleet coming down didn't phase Dawson one bit. He went to each door and got in amongst the bigger kids and would start talking a bunch of gibberish to the homeowner just like all the other kids were talking. He wanted to make sure he was heard. Kaylee afterward exclaimed how her feet were wet, her tights were wet, her hair and face were wet and water was in her eyes. But at the time she didn't complain, but trudged along. Nate said she reminded him of a faithful pioneer walking and walking across the plains. What a sweet bunch of kiddos. Little Nathan had his pumpkin shirt on, but he missed the entire adventure as he snoozed all wrapped up around me all warm and cozy. Nate and I are trying to do without sugar since we know it is not good for us. We did well. We didn't touch the candy. The longer we go without sugar it almost gets a bit easier to do.
After we escaped the snow, we returned home and snuggled up to watch Casper. What a fun Halloween!
