The many days of Halloween!!!

This is a very late post. I thought I needed to get it dome before Thanksgiving and I got more behind. 

Halloween if a busy week for us. We have lots of activities for Liam. We start the week off with our annual Life Group social with our Church families. Then we move on to our playgroup with all the kids and moms. Following playgroup, we have Trunk or Treat! Last but not least is Halloween!! 

Life Group

This year was lots of fun. We had some great chili hot dogs and then lots of dessert and candy. We had some wonderful games for the kids outside to play. Liam was a little young for the games but he enjoyed being outside. 

Liam and Lachlan at the table for dinner

We were getting ready for a group picture and Liam would not give up his chicken nugget!

Best group shot! The husbands hate this every year! 

Liam posing! 

Chris with Liam and Lachlan! 

Big throw!!! 

I just love this picture! 

Play group

Playgroup was great this year! Lauren hosted it so Liam and I did not have far to go! The kids did great until picture time. We had some major melt downs about taking pictures! But all in all it was a great time. 

Best shot! 

Liam lost his pants since it was so hot outside! 

Liam and Isaiah! 

Trunk or Treat

This year Chris and I did a car for trunk or treat! It was very last minute so it was not the greatest but it served it's purpose. We were just happy to help. This was the first year Liam could really enjoy Trunk or treat! He didn't really care about the candy but he really just wanted to put things in his bucket! 

Liam and Daddy! 

Play a game for some candy! 

Waiting inline for candy!

Liam and daddy!

My skeleton!! 

Halloween

Finally Halloween!!! We just went up and down our block with the Gibbins' boys! We also had Cathy's nieces with us. It wan't to hot this year. We thought the younger boys might like to ride in the stroller but after a few houses they wanted out! 

Liam and Lachlan!

All the kids! 

Last shots, since after this the boys got out and were off!! 

Marathon!!!

Chris and I decided to complete a 1/2 marathon. We did the marathon of our friends, Neil and Kathryn. They are adopting and all the proceeds went to their fund. I trained a lot with Lauren and Kristen. We met 2-3 times a week to walk. Chris and Troy were a little less consistent with their training. However, it all worked out. We really didn't know what to expect the morning of but the weather was nice and we were ready! We only had one small hiccup in our plans. Lauren and I lost Kristen..... I guess we didn't lose her since we never found her at the start of the marathon. We waited for 11 minutes after the start in hopes of finding her. Once we started, we kept looking. We did find some other friends, and they informed up that our friend, Kristen was ahead of us. Well that lit a fire for Lauren and I! We were on a mission to catch our friend. At about mile 7 we found her!!! We were so excited. The excitement died off and we were left with more miles to walk. We had heard that if you can walk 9-10 miles the adrenaline with carry you through the rest of the marathon. Those people lied to us. We felt the adrenaline kick in when we saw the finish line and we realized out husbands had moved the cars closer so we did not have to walk to far. It was worth it. The marathon helped foster relationships with Lauren, Kristen and I. I am truly blessed to have these women in my life. Our finish time for the marathon was 3 hours 19 minutes. The boys finished in 2 hours 3 minutes.

Lauren and I walking to find Kristen!!! We were women on a mission! 

We found her! This was about the half way point! 

So close to the finish line! 

We made it!!!! 

Chris running! Yes it rained on us during the marathon!!