Happy Halloween

One of things I love about ACCA is that they celebrate Reformation Day instead of Halloween.  This was an important day in our Christian history, so it's fun to celebrate.  Of course, the kids like it because they get to dress up in time period clothing.  Both girls had "Juliet" type dresses but Mia's had a lot of itchiness to it that we decided that morning wasn't going to work.  Not worth the argument so a Merida dress with Merida's picture covered up worked nicely.

 The girls really wanted to go trick or treating instead of our usual trunk or treating.  We've never thought our neighborhood was great for this though so we made plans to go with some good friends in their neighborhood.  Unfortunately, the mom let me know the night before both kids had been diagnosed with strep throat.  I appreciate the heads up and we quickly decided we wouldn't be going together.  We were able to convince the girls that we would have a little party for us at home.  They would get to go trick or treating at all of our doors, we would watch a movie, etc; it was going to be fun.  They bought into this.  So on Friday afternoon they changed into their costumes.  Mia was supposed to be Elsa but again the costume was a little itchier than expected so she went with Captain America.  Lily was Starsong, one of the My Little Ponies.

 So happy and excited.

 Our spooky face cheeseburgers.  They thought these were pretty fun.

 As we were eating dinner, we noticed our brand new neighbors had their front porch light on meaning they would take trick or treaters.  We decided to go over.  One, we could introduce ourselves and two, the girls would get to actually trick or treat.  This is a very nice older couple, so I'm glad we met.  The girls were so excited after that, so we decided to just walk around our block and see if anyone else had their light on.  About two houses later we ended up catching up with a group of about 6 families who live around our neighbor that have kids Mia's age or younger.  We didn't realize they would be out and about so we joined in with them and ended up having a great time!  The girls got lots of candy which thrilled them.  Just as we got around the block and back to our house, it started to rain, so we decided to call it quits and head back in to watch a movie.  Muppets Most Wanted was selected, the girls settled in with a few pieces of candy, and we had a great time.

This ended up being a great evening of family fun!