a snowy, super, and spooky week

Exactly a week ago we had our first snowfall of the season. October 27. Maybe it's just me, but that seems a little early. It wasn't just a flake here and there--we're talking it snowed for hours. Whatever happened to fall?!

The kids were so excited that they had to get out and play in it once the snow stopped and the sun came out. Will is home from school in the afternoons and his friend, Adam, is off-track, so the two of them went to get Jaycie, and together they had some fun outside.

The snowman has since melted, but they had a good time. Now it's a beautiful fall day outside without a hint of winter, but I'm sure it won't stay away for too long...until then we will enjoy fall while we can.

The next day was Mother's Visiting Day at Ben and Jake's school. I volunteered to take pictures for Jake's kindergarten class--every year each kindergartener gets a scrapbook at the end of the year, and I know it's hard for teachers to take pictures and run the classroom on these special days, so I'm helping out and it's a lot of fun to be involved.

I had to go back and forth between Jake's class and Ben's class, which was a bit crazy, but it was fun to see what both of them were doing. I made it into Ben's science class with his science teacher, Mrs. Liimatta. I missed the beginning of the class, but I got to see Ben helping out with an experiment because he was the class helper for the week. They made these bubbles out of dry ice, thus the mittens Ben was wearing.
Then it was back to Jake's class for a fun Halloween project. Mrs. Z put together all these apple-witches and the kids decorated them. She is so awesome and loves the kids!!

Jake's witch

Halloween day!!

I took the boys up to Lagoon for Frightmares on Saturday afternoon. Daren was in Mexico all week riding dirt bikes with friends, so he wasn't with us. That made it kind of hard to ride the rides at Lagoon, but fortunately we only had an hour or so there. Ben and Jake wanted to ride all the big rides, but Will isn't tall enough yet, so we had to compromise, and they all still had fun. They didn't dare go into any of the haunted houses there though.

We went to Brenda's to drop off something, and the boys changed into their costumes. No, movies aren't an influence in our house at all!!

Brenda and kids

Then it was off to Gma and Gpa Train's house for trick-or-treating, but mostly treating with plenty of donuts and hot chocolate to go around.

After that it was off to Reggie's birthday party, (one of Ben's friends) and then back home to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. It was one crazy day (that started at 6am when the boys got up because they were so excited for Halloween), but it was good. Hope everyone had a great one!

p.s. Daren made it home safe the next night and it's great to all be together again.