joyful moments: Happy Halloween 2010!

Halloween was super fun this year!

Saturday morning we *attempted* family pics. (don't get your hopes up for a family picture on our Christmas card...)

When we got home, two of the neighbor kids came to get Zac to play. That's something I'll really miss about living here. There is a group of 2nd grade boys who are really sweet good kids, and they always include Zac! They play in the field behind our apartment (I call it our backyard) and it's so cute. Football, baseball, tag, etc. We don't have any boys for ZZ to play with on our street at our house, so we will really miss that. Anyways, so he played for hours with them, which is so so so fun for him!

Then I took him to a birthday party - a costume party! He loved it. Most of the kids from his class were there, and he had a blast playing with everyone. The parents had pretty much cleared the house of furniture, and set up Halloween "fall festival" games all over the house. It was pretty cool. And I got to dish with some of the classroom moms who volunteer regularly. From what I heard, this teacher is as crummy as I thought. :( But at least I know the moms who are able to volunteer at centers and they like my baby boy. :)

Then Saturday night, we met up at a friend's house for the Ranger game. It's actually an old fraternity brother of Brian's, and they also are in our Sunday School class. Zac got to hang with two of his great friends, SG got to sleep, and Brian and I got to chill out with our good friends. Good for everyone!

Even though we didn't get home until 10:30pm (SO LATE for ZZ!!), he was up at the crack of dawn the next morning. Actually, he was up well before the crack of dawn. He's such a morning person.

Thanks to him, we made it to church early. Also, thanks to Selah Grace, who didn't surprise us with poopy-painting her crib like she did last week when we got her up for church. Silly girl.

Sunday afternoon, Brian helped set up the fall festival at church and the rest of us took a loooooong nap. :)

Then it was HALLOWEEN TIME!!!!!! Yahoooooo!!!!!

We went to the church fall festival first. I love our church! And the fall festival they hold every year is second to NONE! There are thousands of people at this festival and it's the best one around.

We met up with some friends and Zac was THRILLED to see them!!
(he is Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, by the way...)

And we saw another sweet friend who goes waaaaaay back with Zachariah! :)

Zac ditched everyone to hang with the high school football players at their sports booth.

He loved these "race cars."

After the Fall Festival, we ended up hooking up with some friends to go Trick-or-Treating in their neighborhood. Zac's mask lasted for about 2 houses before I was stuck holding it and his light saber.

For the first 30 minutes, he literally RAN to every house. SO. EXCITED.

Brian and Selah Grace - they spent most of the weekend together so SG could nap. Halloween just wasn't her thing this year. She's a sleeper and we like to make sure she gets good sleep. Unfortunately (or fortunately!) she won't sleep anywhere but her crib. So, we only picked this one night for her to stay up. She's a Texas Tech Cheerleader. :)

And after Brian spilled his drink on her, she certainly smelled like a Red Raider - haha!!