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Happy Halloween!

Well another Halloween. Each year gets more exciting now that Deacon is getting older. We picked out costumes in September and since then at least once a day Deacon would ask if it was Halloween yet and if he can be a fireman! He also showed it to everyone. So last week both boys had strep and when Deacon's meds were gone it would be Halloween. 

We had a good time carving pumpkins. Zach wanted nothing to do with it and didn't help, Deacon dove right in and got started. We got to carve pumpkins twice once for pumpkins for their daycare and ours for our house. They had scary eyes and mouths :)

The best part of the night was going trick-or-treating at Deacon's teacher Nancy's home and our daycare Renate's home. Then we came home and went trick-or-treating with Aiden and Evan. Deacon collected a lot of candy and has been enjoying a piece every night.

A Halloween Story

Deacon was passing out candy to the trick-or-treaters that came to our home. He would open the door, give one piece of candy and say "you're welcome" to the kids who said "thank you." Deacon told us we were down to 2 pieces of candy so we could refill it. Well, Dustin and I both got distracted and Deacon proceeded to hand out candy. After 2 groups of trick-or-treaters I looked at our dish and there was all different kinds of candy. Then I quickly scanned the house to see that Deacon's pumpkin bucket was empty. Since we had not got more candy Deacon had put ALL of his candy in the bucket and was passing it out to the kids. We quickly took it out and told him that was his candy and refilled our own bucket. But the meaning of Halloween for Deacon was the fun of trick-or-treating... not just the candy.

Deacon has such a tender and sweet heart. I can't wait to see what he becomes when he is older. 

 Our little Fireman and Gnome :)

 Aiden and Deacon

 Evan, Aiden, Deacon and Zach

October

We have had a wonderful October. We had so much fun visiting with my aunt,, uncle and cousins from California. We played lots of cards and drank a lot of wine :) We also got to play more baseball, football and make fun fall crafts. Thank you to all who participated in our Family Tree! Deacon asked everyday if we got more hands in the mail.We got them all back and the winner for the prettiest goes to my Grandma Koivisto with her sparkly ring! Now every night in November we are going to take one hand off the tree and say a special prayer for them. 

 Katie, Nana, Jean, Anna and me

 Auntie Anna and Zachary

 Deacon and my cousin Katie

 Deacon, Joey and Katie

 Auntie Anna sharing her water bottle with Zachary :)

 Deacon, TJ and Joey

 TJ getting a workout!-- the boys just loved him :)

 Our fall wall... Deacon and Zachary made the apples, ghosts, bats and we found our leaves on a walk to the park. Deacon and Zach also painted their pumpkins. This whole project got started because Deacon brought home a leaf from school (the one right to the right of the ghost--left door) and there was no turning back. Each weekend we seemed to add more!

 We love our tree!

 Our fun new game- run around our room with flashlights with the lights out.

 so silly

 So sweet

 The final project- thank you!

getting ready for bed

Football

FOOTBALL

Deacon played football at the YMCA for the past 4 weeks. The first week was a disaster and we almost didn't go again, but Dustin bought some cones for home and he practiced and wanted to go back. By the last week he was able to play and have fun :) Zach and I went to watch the last "game" and snap some pictures.

movie night tonight :)