My favorite holiday

Its Halloween time again! We started the holiday off early with our camping trip to Montello at the end of September. We had gotten a free camping certificate from some neighbors and it turned out that it was Buffalo Lake's Halloween weekend! It was a chilly weekend for camping but they kept us moving with lots of activities. Site decorating contest, pumpkin carving, makeup lessons, trick or treating and a haunted house! Dad and Holly came over for the afternoon to hang out with us. We brought along a few decorations for our site. I thought I did a pretty good job until seeing some of the sites during trick or treating. Wow, lighted pathways, coffins, fog, and so many decorations I don't even know how they got them there! Sure was a good time!

Saturday October 30th
We enjoyed a fun filled family evening with some of our neighbor friends at the Edgerton Community Center where our neighbor across the street Christy threw a 30th Birthday celebration for her husband Brody. The theme was 80's throwback roller skating party. The community center rents out the gym where they have roller skating every Friday night. Roller skates were provided and they were even allowed to bring in beer, soda and food! Might have something to do with the fact that Brody is a cop in the town! We planned to go with our friends Rich and Kim and their 4 girls. Of course we all dressed up, how could you not with that sort of theme! Aaron and Rich went as Hans a Franz from the 80's Saturday Night Live skit. It was perfect seeing as how Rich is about 6'3"! Kim and I were able to dig up some gray sweatsuits at Goodwill, Aaron was able to find back braces that appeared to mimic a weight belt. Aaron and I put our heads together and were able to take some t-shirts and ace bandages to make some big muscles for him. Kim went as a roller derby girl, I went as a 80's Valley girl along with the rest of the girls, Owen was a punk rocker. I was even able to find one of those studded leather bracelets for him and a wild vest at Goodwill! He sported a small Mohawk and whenever someone said they liked his hair he said, "no, its a Mohawk". He was very proud of it! The important thing is that we all left w/o any broken bones and had a lot of fun! Later that evening we ventured over to an adult party down the block. Quite the costumes for this crowd! At this party we found, the 34th Chilean miner, Brett Farve with no fly jeans, Dog the Bounty Hunter and wife, characters from the Brady Bunch, Richard Simons, Snookie and The Situation! It was quite the party and I am feeling it today ;)
October 31st:
Trick or Treat day! Our tradition has been to join up with our neighbors before hand to have some pizza and hit the streets together. We did that once again this year but maybe at a little slower pace. Grace and the older kids kind of got ahead of us so Aaron, I and my friend Kim got to hang with the little ones! It was a good night, a little cold but not unbearable. Home a little early but nothing wrong with that!