Buzz Buzz Buzz

Wether wore costumes more often then clothes during the month of October.  He told me for weeks that he wanted to be Buzz Lightyear.  I borrowed a costume from a friend, which he wore for a couple of days, but in the end he chose to be an astronaut (Buzz Aldrin).  He also buzzed around in his bee costume for a few days.  Any way you look at it, Wetherill loves Halloween! Holden originally wanted to be Woody but changed his mind to Harry Potter like his brother Marcus.  He would say, "I'm Harry Potter, Marcus is Ron Weasley, and you're the girl."  Sometime during the month he decided that he wanted to be Ron Weasley, which wasn't a very exciting costume, but made my focused Holden happy.  Marcus and Holden watched the first 2 Harry Potter movies several times during October.   As usual, we crammed in as many Fall activities as possible.  My mom even remarked, "Wether would live at Cornbelly's if he could."  She visited for a few days before heading down to my cousin's memorial service in Florida.  Mom missed Sandy's wrath in Connecticut, which left my dad without power for almost a week.  She was a big help during this hectic time of year.  Here is what we did:

Friday: Mom arrived the night before.  We went to D.I. during the day and our ward Fall Party at the church that night.  We had a lot of fun dressing Port up as a pirate.

Saturday: Kjell watched the kids in the morning while mom and I shopped, stopped by a few garage sales,  and went out to lunch.  Later in the afternoon we went to 3 Halloween activities in our area, although the best by far was at Riverwoods.  A headless horseman greeted us.  There was a petting zoo, a horse-drawn carriage ride, games, dancing, and several bounce houses.  It was hard to go home!

Sunday:  We went to church and a get-together at a neighbor's house that night.  Mom spent some time with Pam and Rachel. 

Monday: We took the kids to Cornbelly's and carved pumpkins for Family Home Evening when we got home.

Tuesday:  Another trip to D.I., followed by a short program at Wether's preschool. Grandma babysat that evening while Kjell and I played volleyball.

Wednesday:  Wether went to Zach's house to decorate cookies and Port stayed home with Grandma while I went to the Halloween parade at the school and ran Marcus' class party.  First we had a mummy-making contest with toilet paper (Marcus's group won!), followed by 4 different activities run by other moms.  The kids made haunted houses, played bingo, made spiders out of donuts, pretzels, and M&Ms, and listened to Halloween stories.  When Kjell got home from work, we headed out to trick-or-treat and it immediately became clear that we'd have to split up.  Marcus and Holden were running from house to house and Wether and Port just couldn't keep up.  I joined up with the Schauers and Kjell took the older boys on a 2-hour quest for as much candy as possible.  Grandma stayed home and handed out candy.  She left for Florida early the next morning. A fun time was had by all but I was definitely Halloweened-out!