Halloween

It was a fun holiday!  The first time that the girls have really picked up on trick or treating.  They looked so cute going up to the houses...

We had a fun party with friends.  One family is visiting from Finland, and this was their first Halloween.  Their kids normally are very shy about trying to speak English, but they caught on to "Trick or Treat" extremely quickly. 

And our sweet next-door-neighbor girl, Miss L, who is ten, led all the kids around to get their candy.

There was a slightly frightening experience involving an elderly man with a scary mask and chainsaw (at 5:30?  Come on- save it for the big kids...) but on the whole we were very impressed by how into it our neighborhood was.  Then we came home to have supper and visiting and handing out a lot of candy.  It was a fun night!  And Miss R was an octopus...