Trick or Treat! Get ready to see a lot of Cookie Monster here. We’ve had a busy couple of weeks and I’m behind getting this post put together! Our Little Cookie Monster had quite a fun week and I enjoyed being home from work using some of my time off.  Our week began on Sunday with some shopping to wrap up our renovations. Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong came up to watch Finn for the afternoon so we could have a productive afternoon and Finn could have a nap! It was a beautiful afternoon and they played some outside.

Lily’s 6th birthday was on the 28th. As we normally do, we celebrated with Party hats, toys, and cupcakes though this year I didn’t get many photos. The best part was watching Finn and Lily play several good games of tug-of-war with her new toy. Both Finn and Sammy liked putting the party hats on Cam and Lily, the girls however, didn’t much care to wear them. Mom and dad came down one day too for shopping fun at Easton. Amy and the kiddos, and Debbie and Sammy joined joined us for lunch at North Star Cafe where we were able to site outside on the patio for lunch. Afterwards we did a bit more shopping and Finn went home for a nap. The Bethune’s toughed it out for some shoe shopping, where they were each given a balloon!  Debbie, Sammy, and Finn carved pumpkins too. I was shocked that Finn really didn’t care for the seeds and goo of the inside of the pumpkin, like, really didn’t care for it!  He warmed up to it a slight bit, but enjoyed playing with the “lid” more than anything! The boys wore their costumes one morning too. Sammy loves Lily so much he wanted to dress like her for Halloween!

We had a fun evening of pizza and trick-or-treating with friends in Dublin on Thursday. It was a really nice fall night, perfect for a good walk. Finn filled his pumpkin pretty good! 

However, for the second year in a row, Trick or Treat night in Powell was super cold and rainy.  Boo! We had fun nonetheless. Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong came to see Finn for Trick or Treat and they manned our house while we took Finn out during a break in the weather. He absolutely loved it. He and Kevin would ring the doorbell and then he was really good with the “treat” part of “trick or treat” and then he followed up with a nice “tank too”. We only had 11 trick-or-treaters so between Finn’s amazing haul and our leftovers we have a crazy amount of candy here! Kevin and his dad also spent time putting up some new light fixtures that evening – the best of which is the amazing new light in our family room, yay! Kevin had the biggest smile on his face once it was on. That room has always been so dark and never had an overhead light – it is SO MUCH BETTER now!  Yay for a talented husband, father-in-law, and brother-in-law who figured out how to do it 🙂 And the weekend included a fun night out with friends to celebrate Sarah’s big 40th birthday with dinner, a lovely cake decorated by Laura, and line-dancing complete with lessons! Clearly, Sarah and I I need to find cow-girl hats!