Halloween

Halloween was a little bit crazy this year because of Superstorm Sandy. We didn't get hit very hard here (we thought it would be a lot worse) but the weather was still freezing and very windy. Sunday night is when the storm hit the East hard. We thought we'd have a foot of snow, but instead we only woke up to 1/2 inch or an inch. Lincoln was SO excited about the snow. He wanted to play in it soooo bad, but I didn't take him out. Why, you ask? Because I know him. It was still really windy outside and if he would have hated the snow this once because of the wind, he wouldn't have wanted to play in the snow for the rest of the winter. And considering that it's technically not even winter for another 2 months, I didn't want to risk that. I do feel bad that I didn't take my kid out to play in the first snow of the year, but oh, well. We actually went out that night with Derick and when we were getting in the car, Lincoln ran over to the snow and started to eat some. Silly kid. I am excited, though, for a good snow to take him out to play. And that's coming from someone who hates the snow.

Anyway, there were also some activities in town the Saturday before Halloween (day before the storm hit) that we didn't even really get to do because it was raining. So we waited to see how the next few days would be...

On Tuesday, we had our ward party. We had to wait until that afternoon to even see if it would be held because of the crazy wind and cold. It was a high of 30-something that day! Thankfully we had it. It was supposed to be a trunk-or-treat, but we set up in all of the rooms inside the building instead. Lincoln was so excited! He loved going around to get all of his treats, playing games, and being with all of his little friends. He loves all of the kids his age. And there are a lot of them in our ward.

I have to say that Lincoln was the cutest train engineer EVER!

Forget bouncing the balls...getting up close and throwing them in works better!

On Halloween, Derick really wanted to take Lincoln trick-or-treating, even if just for a couple of houses, in the freezing cold. Some of our friends, the Daleys and the Parkinsons, came over and did it with us (of course I forgot to take pictures of Lincoln with their kids). We went to a neighborhood near our house (our house is on a country road...not a trick-or-treating road) and did one street. The kids made out pretty well for just one street, I must say. We picked the perfect costume for Lincoln this year...it was completely adaptable to the cold weather. He wore a coat under his overalls, a beanie under his hat, and when his nose started to drip from the cold, he had a hankie around his neck to use! Ha ha!

Here is one house where we let Lincoln go up by himself. I think he rang the doorbell like 10 times before the people came to the door...it was super embarrassing.