Festivities

All you holy men and women, pray for us!

Today is the Feast of All Saints, a day to celebrate all of the holy ones in Heaven, even those whose names we don't know. I love this Feast, it's a reminder that sainthood really is attainable, with God's help. We just returned from a beautiful (prayerful! undistracted!) Mass with our awesome new priest, and I'm flying high. The boys are still battling colds, so we left them with John and Sara so as to not infect the rest of the congregation. Thanks guys!

But since there are no photos to share from today, and I know everyone's dying to see some cute costumed kiddos, on to yesterday's fun and feasting.

We celebrated the eve of All Hallows by trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and displaying our pumpkins that were so artfully carved when two of our seminarian friends came to visit this weekend. I've learned one thing: a seminarian will never turn down an opportunity for a meal, even if the fine print involves having to scoop out pumpkin guts.

yummm...

Planning out a dinosaur pumpkin pattern

For about a month before Halloween, Max has been talking about his costume choice- a "Pirate Dinosaur". Leave it  to him to never be predictable! And then it was left to me to come up with how to make said costume. Me, the one who doesn't own a sewing machine. The one who had to go to K-Mart to buy a needle and thread in order to finish the costume. But all things considered, I think it turned out ok! Sadly, you can't see his awesome dino tail with dino spikes in any of the pictures, but I swear to you, it's there! And of course, Lucian did his part looking adorable in his bee costume.

We took off into the neighborhood as soon as the sun went down. My parents had come up and brought us dinner, and they decided to take turns trick-or-treating with us and manning the door back home. They couldn't pass up the chance to see their grandkids in costume!

Being a little under the weather, Max was in a bit of an ambling mood last night. He was in no hurry to move from house to house, taking more interest in the Halloween decorations along the way. Lucian, on the other hand, was a man on a mission. After realizing the result of ringing a doorbell and holding up a pumpkin-shaped bucket, something clicked! We could barely keep up with him, and when his bucket became to heavy to hold, he opted to drag it on the ground rather than let anyone carry it for him.

We covered approximately two blocks in total, leaving us with more candy than we will ever know what to do with! Then Lucian began to slow down to Max's pace, and finally allowed someone to carry him. That's when we knew it was time to head home to warm up with some apple cider and examine our loot. A fun time was had by all. Happy Halloween and a blessed All Saints Day to you!