As we do every year, we went to our trunk or treat on Halloween night. This year we stayed warm by going as campers. It's the best 'stay warm' costume we have come up with yet and I'm pretty sure we will be doing it again next year as well! Lily was an 80's rollerskater. Crystal and Roscoe went as unicorns. And Jay was a fortnite character. After the trunk or treat we went to my parents for Halloween dinner and cousin time!
We put up our garage haunted house again for the neighborhood trick or treat event this year! We bought a couple more things for it and it gets better every year! I have video of it but no pictures. Oops. We always have tons of fun and hope we keep having the neighborhood event every year! The kids love going around together, and we love visiting with the neighbors for a while! Cousins even joined us this year! So fun!
Lily had a lot of demands for her 12th birthday this year. First she wanted to pick out her decor so we went to Walmart and she chose a shark theme. The 3 pack of pink table cloths we bought were actually in about 12 pieces! There was definitely a factory defect in them. The cutter at the factory was working double time. The girls made the best of it though and got creative while taping the table cloth together. They used the rest of the scraps and braided it into Lily's hair like Rapunzel. I'm glad she had such a good attitude about it. Lily wanted Boston Creme cake and an ice cream cake. So we did chocolate and boston cream with family on Sunday and then ice cream cake with just us on her actual birthday on Tuesday. We had a lot of cake. On her birthday on Tuesday she chose to go to Fuji's for dinner!
Lily has 2 friends in the neighborhood whose birthdays are the same week as hers. This year they decided they wanted to do a combined birthday party for all three of them. They did it at her friends' house and honestly I wasn't actually invited. Haha. As a result I have no pictures of it. They dressed up in costumes and watched a movie and just had fun together. I guess they forgot to put costumes on the invite so the birthday girls were the only ones in costumes. I did get a picture of her after she got home so at least I got that!
It's still a little unclear on whether it was really Max's birthday or if we just all wanted another reason to have ice cream cake, but either way we celebrated Max on Sunday. I also included a random picture Crystal took of Roscoe just so he wouldn't feel left out. Also Kensie learned that Grandma is the best spotter.
Jay had his school carnival this week. He had tons of fun. The girls had fun but they are getting a little too old to enjoy it the way they used to. It was a sad moment for mom to recognize. I just want them to stay little! The food was outside and it was cold and expensive, so we went to Reed's Dairy for dinner instead. We needed milk anyway so it was a win win.
