Halloween 2010

This year's halloween was a lot like the Christmas season -- long and drawn out. We celebrated several different times with different activities, starting with Foundation Riding Academy's first annual Halloween Horse Show. I had 17 riders show, followed by games on horseback, and then a costume parade. Sweet P. dressed as "Hippie Halloween" and won Judge's Favorite, and Barry went as a "unicorn with a fairy rider." He won best All-Around. I was busy running the show so unfortunately I didn't get any real pictures.

Like her two cousins, Lilah choose this year to be a kitty-cat. This is her getting ready to go to "school" (daycare) a few days before Halloween:



We attended two different pumpkin patches this year and carved our pumpkins as a family:

Lilah did not like the "goo" (pumpkin innards), so this is how she spent the carving time:

We had a nice dinner at my sister's house the night before Halloween and then attended a "Harvest Party" at the school she works at. Lilah rocked the potato-sack races, and enjoyed the inflatable bounce house:

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On Halloween, Nana and Paco came over. Nana took me on a legendary Costco run (my hopefully annual-only stock up on house supplies and food) and then we were joined by the Willis family for dinner at our house.

Then it was onto trick or treating with Nana amd even Addie's grandma in tow too!

Addie and Lilah:

Vancouverites definately like to go overboard for any and all holidays. This is a house in our neighborhood:

It was much more impressive in person. We took Lilah just so she could see it all! :)

After everyone had gone home and Lilah was to bed, Nick and I did our yearly tradition of watching a scary movie. It's the one time of year where we'll watch one!

I'm glad Halloween is done and over with now. It seems now that we have Lilah (and the other kids at Foundation Riding Academy) that our lives get busy celebrating the holidays. Now it's onto Thanksgiving, and then my favorite -- CHRISTMAS!!