Halloween 2011 - What's the Big Idea?

This is the 1st blog post for November 2011. There will be a couple more - one for Fall school pictures and another for Thanksgiving, but for now here's what's been happening lately...


This is a picture of Leah's 6th Grade band concert at the high school gym. Leah is playing her flute, and is just left of center wearing pink.


This is a new 8x10 shed we assembled in our backyard for lawn machinery etc. Here we have one assembler and 4 gophers. The other assembler is taking the picture.


Here's a photo of our Fall mowing crew doing what they do best.


Getting some exercise on a warm Fall day.


Here's Mookie guarding her new home - she thinks.


Picture of completed shed.


Here's a group photo of the attendees of the Living Hope Wesleyan Church Clubhouse Halloween Party, with their leaders Lorraine and Teri and other friends.


Here's Luigi, Red Toad, and Mario of the Mario Brother's game.


Here's Princess Peach (also from Mario Brother's game)getting ready to go trick-or-treating.


Out trick-or-treating on Halloween night in grandma's neighborhood.


Here's Valley Girl Leah in the haunted garage that's nearby grandma's house.


Here's Alexander (Luigi) hangin' out in the boneyard.


This is one of the displays at Skull Creek, which is a place that really does it up for Halloween. Thousands of people visit there on Halloween night. It has gorilla's, giants, wolfman, and other scary people wandering around. This year they even had a joker with a working chainsaw (at least the noise part). They also had a garage that was a haunted maze.


A costumed group photo with their cousin Samantha, at grandma's house.


One day last week Cheryl dressed the kids up and took some group photo's - here's one of them.


Here's another photo Cheryl took on the same day of the boys wearing their Holt shirts. We got these shirts at the Holt Picnic last month. Holt International is the adoption agency that helped us adopt all of our children.

To read a post about Halloween from last year and previous years, click here.

To read a story I wrote about how we built our family through international adoptions, called "What's the Big Idea," click here.

Thank you for reading! Here are some more recent pictures Cheryl took today - below...