1st Halloween

I was more excited than usual for Halloween this year...mostly just excited to dress up Ada. :) We carved a pumpkin, which we haven't done since the year we got married!


Then we got Ada dressed up in her costume, put our pumpkin out on the step, took some pictures, and waited for the trick-or-treaters to show up. I was all excited to answer the door with Ada and see the other kids dressed up. Usually we get about 10 kids that stop. This year - ZERO. I was bummed...and so was Chris because I had only bought one small bag of candy and a huge package of 30 bags of pretzels. (In my defense I like having something non-candy to hand out to the really little kids.) I was given no end of grief over not having a big bowl of leftover candy for him to snack on - so we made up for it the next day by getting several bags of marked-down candy at Target. (And I have to admit he's not the only one that was excited to fill the bowl up with chocolate...)

All dressed up.

And a view of the tail. :)

Sunday was spent doing yardwork; it was finally nice enough (and dry enough!) to clean up the leaves.

Lots of deep blue sky.

Ada helping Mama rake leaves on the garden.