Outside of a few Trip Report posts, I’ve been pretty absent from cyber world. Just thought I’d catch ya up and wish you a Happy Halloween all at once! This October:

We modestly decorated our Crooked Little House. Festive, but not over the top.

We hosted our small group each Tuesday, and prepared the snack this past Tuesday with a Halloween theme.

{The pumpkin faces were made with black electrical tape; an idea I stole from my All You magazine subscription. To eat: Halloween funfetti cupcakes and an orange Cheetos/Cheezit mix. Halloween is all about being a kid again, right?}

We carved pumpkins…

played a little dress up…and this cool kid got dedicated! We spent time with our very best friends and baked spooky haunted house brownies. Yum!To top it all off, we had a wonderful Halloween night right here at home!

That’s right. Call us party poopers {to us, our party was hoppin‘!}, but we skipped the dressing up and trick-or-treating and opted for a family fun night in our Crooked Little House.

We started out with pizza, then we built a fire. We put on our “dress up” jams and snacked on cupcakes, candy, and roasted marshmallows. Cole went to bed at his usual 7:30 bedtime, but Jack got to stay up an extra hour to pass out candy to costume-clad trick-or-treaters and watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. He was totally stoked when a same-sized Spiderman gave him a high five. It was truly a great evening. I am thanking my big God for my fun family tonight. We are truly blessed.

Hope you had an equally fantastic evening! Happy Halloween!

With love, Malorie