Halloween it was a busy day and we photographed it all

our first stop was upstairs to see grandma and grandpa
rats I selected the one with Sky not looking.
these are out of order but we picked up 430 taffy apples and bagged and stapled tracks on them all before noon. everyone helped even gray. this was for trunk or treat.

our second stop Alden old folks home.

we started going here when Davids grandma and Elsie were there(many years ago) and every year the kids ask "are we gonna go to the home again this year?" I'll tell you what my kids ask to make old people happy I'm taking them.

Trunk or treat

here is our trunk ready for action

this really was the most fun I think i've ever had on halloween. it was so fun. and I know a lot of people don't do halloween but I love it. When else can you dress up, get to know complete stangers and give their kids candy and in return actually here kids tell you thank you? Leave the scary stuff behind and it's a fun day I think.

I love moments like these because I totally remember doing this as a kid.
shouldn't be a surprise but this was I think his 6th sucker( at 9:30 pm) it seems everytime I turned around he had another one in his mouth.

carving our pumpkins.

skylar,olivia,brixton,tammy(mines a rainbow with a sun and cloud per livs request)david &grayden.

everyones helping get ready for trunker treat

saturday at the corn maze.

Gray loved the hay, his allergies did not.
the maze was super muddy and this is clean compared to other kids.
our band played in the barn, but the hay made for some dusty singing.
I call them the magnets you can't keep them apart.

Hang on I've added a lot of news.

well do I have to say it? we went apple picking. let me say the baskets fill up very Quick when there are four kids filling them. we left with $56. worth of apples. I guess we'll call it a teaching moment for our kids then it will seem all worth it. It was really fun and yummy.

on a side note (no apples included) today Grayden opened a "childproof" jar of pills and took 5 before Sky stopped him. I called poison control no worries, it was his own allergy medicine, they said it would probably make him drowsy, not my boy it'll take more than an overdose to slow him down. But here is the thing we have to figure out how to channel his brain power for good. come on a one year old opening a 3 step bottle what am i in for?

F-U-N at the farm

chicago marathon.

here we are watching the finish
unfortunatly the bunny ears were the best freebe
this is how cold it was my kids (and taylor) are wearing trash bags burr!

This is what the other kids did during the party.

notice how "close" they are to the fire. no burnt marshmallows today. This is gray, livs,gairette and the little hand is saige.

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Brixton and Skylars kids party

it was a capture the flag party out at wendy and al's
about10 games in the light and the dark. hot dogs and smores it was the best party ever. hopefully the Lourias will have us again it was great!
only the Hankins brought extra shoes so everyone else went home in plastic bags. at wendys everytime you use a plastic bag you have to pray for the Penners. so we figure they must have needed a lot of prayers on Saturday!
This is team 2 but we mixed the teams up now and then.

Our Grandma is walking slow.

Here is grandma just back from the DR. ( liv is trying on her costume)
she insisted I add this one

this is his new trick. he's been doing it all day.

The new Rill family van. we are now a two huge car family yeah, except for the car payments and the price of gas!
oops,he started on the white board
but something went wrong.

Up at grandma and grandpas

unfortunatly these ended up out of order. And also unfortunate that I realized I better be taking pictures with gramps and gram because who knows how much longer we will have them.