Halloween

Hi Everyone and welcome to our post-halloween blog. For all our Australian friends, it is true, just like the movies, kids go door to door and are given candy. Loads, heaps, and tonnes of candy. Check out the photos, our kids did very well on the candy front, and I think it will be a treasured memory for a very long time to come. Nyah, while apprehensive to begin, quickly understood the concept and started running between houses and dragging Raoul up to the door to get her lolly. Very cute and VERY sticky. Elijah dressed up as Indiana Jones, Caleb as Spiderman, and Nyah as a butterfly. We went with another family from Kuipers Crescent, our boys have been regularly playing with them, so lots of fun. Afterwards we had pancakes back at the house with Darlene and Terry, who I'm starting to suspect just hang out with us to laugh at (or I'm hoping with;-) us. They confirmed that the massive pile of candy was indeed alot by Canadian standards. So sugar coma ahead, we let the kids knock themselves out and eat as much as they wanted for one night, that night is over so it is back to being rationed, killjoys that we are. We also really enjoyed pumpkin carving for the first time. Some we saw out were amazing and intricate. For ours, we stuck to a stencil pattern, but had a lot of (slightly freezing) fun.