This year's Halloween started out great! My friends Sara and AJ ran in a half marathon in Greenville early that morning and AJ, Sara, and all the Greenville girls met up for lunch at Brickstreet Cafe after their run. Sara lives in Columbia and AJ lives in Atlanta and I don't get to see either of them very often. Actually, we were saying that even though the rest of us (me, Jennifer, Angela and Kristin) only live about 15 minutes apart we do a terrible job of planning get-togethers. We've committed again that we MUST do better about scheduling a dinner once every couple months.
We enjoyed a nice lunch and lots of laughs. I love my Clemson friends so much and I'm so thankful for their friendship. It was definitely a great start to the day!
Our church usually has a fall festival on Halloween night, so our girls have never really gotten in on the trick-or-treating, but this year we switched some things up and instead of doing a fall festival at the church, the church decided to take the ministry event to our neighborhoods so that we could reach out and love on as many people as possible. The event (called Light up the Night) was definitely a success. We had host homes in different neighborhoods loaded with candy, hot chocolate, info on our church and gospel tracts. A couple of different families were at each host home. Our friends Chase and Jacinta came to our house to hang out with us that night and help us love on our neighbors. Jacinta is pregnant with their first and she is due 5 weeks before me. It's fun to have pregnant buddies that you go though the pregnancy with!
We were super laid back about the costumes this year and just pulled some things out of the dress up bin for Emily and Hannah. Claire was a Strawberry, like Hannah had been when she was her age, and loved her costume. She didn't complain one time about having the little hood up. Emily was Doc McStuffins and Hannah was Elsa. The were a smidge excited about the candy, trick-or-treating, Mr. Chase and Ms. Jacinta coming over, the pizza they were about to eat....all of it really!
Emily looks older to me in this picture. After Bert dropped her off at school this morning he sent me a text that said "Emily just told the girl (5th grader) helping her get out of the car, 'You look very pretty today.'" So proud of her and how thoughtful she is.
Jacinta and I took a loop around the neighborhood with the girls and let them do some trick-or-treating. I pushed Claire in the stroller and Jacinta held both of the big girls' hands. Sometimes we would walk up to the door with them and sometimes we would stand in the street and just watch as Emily and Hannah ran up to the door. When Hannah and Emily would walk up to the door by themselves one of them would ring the door bell and then Hannah would turn around and look at us with the biggest grin on her face and give us a thumbs up. Little cutie!!
About once a week when I pick Hannah up from school (she only goes two mornings a week) the teacher helping her to get in the car says something to me about her smiling all the time and how beautiful it is. The teacher that helped her in the car this morning asked me if she woke up with that beautiful smile on her face?! Her smile lights up her whole face and makes others smile. I definitely don't want to give the impression that this 3 year old (who can be stubborn!) is literally smiling all the time because that's just not the case, BUT she does smile often and it is a blessing.
This cutie was laid back and just enjoyed the ride. She managed to get lots of candy too.
After we got back from trick-or treating we let the kids play in the front yard for awhile before we headed in. Sweet Claire kept falling down in the grass and couldn't get back up by herself. She would just lay there and grunt or fuss until someone came over to help her up. I guess the big ole strawberry outfit just made it too hard to even attempt the getting up process for a 22 month old. The adults may or may not have had a few chuckles when she got stranded before one of us went to help her up. It was cute!:)
It was a super fun Halloween! Excited that next year we'll have another little baby dressed up as a cow, just like all three of her sisters did on their first Halloween!
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