Halloween & lizards

The kids sure did get a ton of use out of their costumes this year. It seemed like every week in October they were dressing up. It was fun to send them to school on Friday all costumed up. The entire school paraded through the playground area for all the parents to see. After the parade they performed a choreographed dance to Thriller. It was pretty awesome. All of the teachers were in costume right along with the kids and even got into the dancing.

After the parade and dance I went to Grace and Neil's classrooms to help with their parties. They both got to do some fun games and cookie decorating. Here is Grace's class.

Saturday was pretty low key. It was a beautiful sunny day and we stayed home for the most part. We played outside and got some things done around the house. The kids were so eager to get out for trick or treating that I didn't end up with many pictures. Thankfully, they had been dressed up so many times that I didn't care too much.

We walked around the neighborhoods and the kids each made off with full buckets of candy. The weather was perfect. Warm and dry. We didn't really even need long sleeves. We came home and the kids made graphs of their loot. 

It was such a nice weekend that our "pet" lizards spent lots of time sunning themselves on the rocks. We have tons of these little guys in our front yard. Even though I know they are there, they still scare me to death every time I walk through. I kinda like them though. They are pretty cute. That is until they come in the house. I may have had to relocate one with a dust pan not too long ago.