Happy Halloween!!!

 Visiting "Uncle" Steve

 Township Police Officer handing out candy

 Professional trick-or-treaters in training.  Maya held my hand as little as possible.  "I want to walk, Mommy."

 

Another fun Halloween!!!!!!  My favorite holiday!!!  When I got home from work, I quickly put the Halloween 'lawn decor' back outside that we brought in from the storm.  Then, it was a fight with the girls.... "If you don't eat your dinner, then you can't go trick or treating!!!!"  (I had visions of dinner on Halloween from childhood - chasing my candied carrots down with milk....shiver...of all nights mom!!!  :)   ).  Maya won the dinner eating race including her broccoli; what a champ!  Then, it was off to my co-worker, Steve's house.  The girls had a tasty treat while I downed a nice cold beer.  We returned to our neighborhood.  Mike gave out candy while I walked the girls around.  They were so excited.  3/4 of the way around our court, the girls decided that they were finished.  They were either tired or... wanted to go home and eat their candy.  I am glad that we still have our power after Hurricane Sandy.  We were able to light up our lights and play some Halloween music.  And the coolest part of all was being able to see the moon towards the end of the night!  Good times; good memories.  Happy Halloween!!!

Excited for Halloween!!!

Here are our jack o'lanterns!!!  Cally drew the face/hair of the one on the right, and I cut it out.  It took me FOR-E-VER to complete Cinderella as the blade of my pumpkin cutter totally broke off only a quarter of the way through the first one!!!!

We made it through the storm!

We lucked out last night!  Our lights went out 3-4 times for a few seconds each.  I stayed up until about 3 a.m. because I was nervous about our sump pump.  It worked hard through the night and luckily never had to use the back up battery.  Mike got his 'Gordon Fisherman' on to take Otis for a couple of short walks last night.  Looks like Halloween may still be on for tomorrow night!!!

Chip says "Back off boy!"

Not only is Jake fascinated by Chipper....he is now fascinated by his food and water bowls.  Chip was not too happy to have Jake staring him down while eating.

Happy Halloween !

Aunt Carol's Artwork

Jake's Baptism

Here are some pics after Jake's baptism yesterday, which included a little holy water up the nose.   Ashley is his godmother and Sal's brother Fred is his godfather.  A nice day!