Halloween

Long gone are the days of my boys dressing up like super heroes or movie characters. This year the boys wanted "scary" costumes, including Mel.


I didn't dress up. How could I compete with those costumes? Mel thought it was pretty funny to scare the older trick-or-treaters. I had to keep reminding him not to scare the little ones. We ran into one little girl a couple times throughout the neighborhood and every time she saw Mel she said, "It's just a man in a scary mask. It's just a man in a scary mask."

A little history and Halloween

Yesterday we went to the National Infantry Museum in Columbus. The museum is really interesting and well done and I'm not a history buff. The kids enjoyed the exhibits as well. Jacob even got to try the army simulator and shot a M16 rifle. He hit 3 of 20 targets.


Last night the boys trick or treated in the new neighborhood. Jacob dressed up as a ghost and Kyle was a knight. He was suppose to be a Super Lizard, but had a costume change right before we left. What a treat to walk outside in just a sweatshirt on Halloween. And then it started to rain. The kids still had fun and they moved a little quicker between the houses.

Today we drove up to Warm Springs, the hometown of Franklin Roosevelt. We saw the house Roosevelt and his family lived in, had lunch, stopped in a few shops along mainstreet, had ice cream and fudge and then headed home. It was a great Sunday afternoon and a pretty drive there and back.


Here are a few photos from our drive through Tennessee last Saturday. The mountains and the colors of the trees were really beautiful.