Halloween weekend

This has been a great weekend! I will be honest in saying that I was very thankful for that extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning. I surely needed it after this fun-filled weekend!

It started after puppet "practice". I say "Practice" because Karalyn and I actually took the girls to a concert on Thursday night. We went to Hope Presbyterian Church to see Francesca Battistelli, Leeland, and Brandon Heath. It was a great experience for the girls and our team as a whole. After that, I joined Daniel and Hannah at David and Brandy Calhoun's house for our regular Thursday night get-together with a bunch of friends. They made Fiesta Chili with Venison, and it was amazing!

We had planned on entering Hannah in a costume contest at Scare on the Square in Collierville Friday night. With the gross weather (very muddy due to rain), we decided to have a few friends over to carve pumpkins. Karalyn and Terry came with their kids (Mitchell, Katryna, William, & Thomas) and John and Angi came with their kids (Trey, Gage, & Katie). Lauri and Ben were suppose to join us with their kids (Lindsey & Gavin), but the little man got sick...

We had such a great time hanging out and carving pumpkins, plus all the kids had fun hanging on "Mr. Dan" and playing with his video games.

Gage and Katie carving pumpkins.

Mitchell and Trey carving pumpkins.

Hannah feeling the guts of a pumpkin.

I don't think she liked it so much!

Dan concentrating very hard on his Transformers pumpkin.

The next morning (Halloween day), I went to walk in Race for the Cure on Team Angi. My friend Angi is a one-year survivor of Breast Cancer. This time last year she was going through treatment, so it was a great day to spend together and celebrate! There were two sections to the race. One was the 1 mile walk and the other was the 5K run. We did the 1 mile walk as a team so Angi's kids could participate.

Team Angi
(I'm on the far left. You might see a future Team Angi member if you look closely at the belly!) Hannah was going to go with, but she was still asleep when it came time to hit the road!

The Burke Family

Team Angi kids
(Trey Burke, Katie Burke, Katryna Vavra, Gage Burke)

After the walk, I went home to chill with Daniel and Hannah for a little bit. Around 3pm, we started getting ready to go to Trunk or Treat at Faith Lutheran Church. This year they had tons of entertainment, it was like a small carnival! I think people were pretty entertained by Hannah's costume...a ballerinasaurous.

Terry and Karalyn admiring the little dinosaur.

Hannah with Lauri and Lindsey (Ariel the Mermaid)

We then went to the Barkers' house. Our friends Kyle and Holly Barker have two adorable twins that are 11 months old. We hung out with them and some of their other friends who had young ones. All the kids were one year or younger (Hannah was the youngest at 10 months), and they got along great! Daniel was again a hit with the kids by lifting them up in the air to get a giggle. We made a caravan with all the kids wagons, but it was great. We made it to 7 houses, which we figured was enough because some kids started falling asleep and the parents already had to much candy to eat!

The Monkeys with matching banana treat-or-treating bags (Eva and Grayden Barker)

Ballerinasaurous with her pink Auburn blanket...War Eagle! (Hannah)

First house

after Trick or Treating, right before we ate

Sunday we went to visit our friends, Jonathan and Trista Dobkins, who became new parents on Tuesday, October 27th, to Jonathan Elijah (JED). We took them some Mama Mia's pizza, which was mainly to distract them so I could get some newborn holding time. He is such a cutie! Very healthy looking at a little over 8 pounds and at the time looks like his dad made over! Hannah delivered her gift to Jonathan Elijah, which was a copy of one of her favorite books, "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed".