Halloween Shenanigans. Janis is in the House!

 We had a visitor for Halloween this year, Janis Joplin (aka Karen Workman).  My mom came to visit this week and dressed up to take the girls trick or treating.  It was the first time she has dressed up in decades! 

 

 

Kendall switched from a vampire bride to a baby.  I am not sure she is ever going to grow tired of trick or treating.  However, this year she actually volunteered to run games at the church party.  She just adores child like things, and I adore that she still adores it. 

Sidney transitioned from Hollywood skeleton (pigtails and pink) to spooky skeleton.

 

And then there was Janis.  It was impressive how well my mom pulled this costume off.

I keep telling everyone that we have an awesome neighborhood for trick or treating.  I have never really loved Halloween until we moved here.  There is a whole lot of  'tricking' and Halloween shenanigans, but in good clean form.  There is one house that actually does a tunnel of terror.  The whole family dresses up and gets in on it.  I thought my mom and the girls were never going to come home.

The girls thought they would try and steal my candy before heading out.  I am not nearly as naïve as they might think.  Caught in the act!

Pumpkin Carving with AshLee.

It is that time of the year again - pumpkin carving!  It is so much more fun now that the girls are able to carve their own pumpkins. 

AshLee came to Boise for a few days.  The girls made sure she had a pumpkin to carve.

 

The finished products - Kendall!

Sidney!  I love the pumpkins in the eyes.  One of the eyes sort of broke off and I forgot to set it back in place before the picture.  Oh well, it is still adorable.

Mine. 

Ashlee's.

Here they are in group formation.

 

Kevin and AshLee went to have lunch with Sidney at school one day.  They also talked her into going to Awana with them.  The girls in Kendall's class placed Ashlee's age somewhere between 13 and 20.  She was pretty thrilled about that.

Girls on the Run.

Sidney participated in Girls on the Run this year.  It is such a great program.  The end of season 5K was a night time Halloween 5K.  I was not really thrilled about running a 5K in the evening, but it was an absolute blast.

We saw the Parson's at the race.  They took this lovely picture of us.

Sidney was sporting her 90's themed neon gloves.  I so wish I would have been given a pair.  I do love the 90's.

I am quite certain that Sidney does not believe in pacing herself.  We ran 3 miles worth of fartlek runs.

Action shot.

It was a great time.  Kendall found one of her school friends and they ran the race together.  It takes everything I have not to push these girls to go faster, but I have learned that they are just in it for the fun.  If I get too competitive, they simply lose interest.  I figure if they just have fun, they will stick with it longer!