Nathan Comes Home AND Halloween

Nate finally came home - only for a week, but we were so excited to get to hang out with him and spend time with him before he headed back to Florida.  He left on his birthday, Halloween, so we celebrated his birthday a few days early.

We went to the Carnival at Pacana Park, where the kids had fun riding rides, playing games, and having shaved ices.

We spent time together as a family carving pumpkins.  This was the first time we did this since living in Arizona.  While the weather is great in the winter, it's not so great for pumpkins.  Within about a week, they were all rotted, black and sunken in.  We had to throw them out before Halloween night.  But, at least we had fun carving them, right?

Lesson Learned - Carve your pumpkin on Halloween Day!

Nate's friend, Jesse, came up for the weekend and they along with Rachel went to a Halloween party.  They dressed up so cute:  Rachel as a caveman; Nate as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man; Jesse as a gay cop.  Pretty funny!  Nate had a few friends come over for cake and ice cream.  They played Dance Central on the Kinect - that's always fun to watch, especially those that can't dance.

For Halloween, Marshel dressed up as a Ninja and Kellee was Spider Girl.  We had fun going around our neighborhood.  A lot of our neighbors were out so we met a lot of people.  One house had a really great scary set up in their garage - Kellee was not impressed at all and couldn't wait to get away from that house.  The rest of us loved it and thought it was so fun.