Happy Halloween

What a day!  The kids have been looking forward to trick or treating this entire week.  The hours were full and fun the entire day.  So wonderful to have an extra hour to recover this sunday morning, everyone was moving prettty slow.
  We were up early Saturday, checking on the weather and the Tulsa Run was on the schedule.  As usual fall weather blew in and it was freezing and raining all friday and friday evening.  It was misty but thankfully had warmed up a bit.  We loaded up and headed to downtown to join the masses for the run this year.  Brayden ran the 5km with his friend Hudson and I ran the 15Km.  The strangest feeling was leaving the two boys at the start with about 1000 people, the best was seeing them run by with huge grins on their faces.  I was doing some last minute explaining before leaving them and I got the comment "I got this" as they melted into the crowd...and they did!  The rain cleared, the clouds stayed and the morning was perfect for running.  I managed the course-hills played with my brain much of the way but tackled them all to reach the finish line,  My conclusion is that I would much rather chase a ball for exercise then run seemingly endlessly for exercise.  But it was nice to still be able to accomplish it this year.

 Ready to run...just before we left them.

 Brayden is still complaining about sore legs today.

 All finished!

 Before the race.

Hudson's mom missed out on this group shot-all up and ready to run and cheer...a fun way to start out the day.

 This was my cheering section-the best!

The best is seeing them along the course.

 At the finish...no longer very fun.   My time this year for the 15km was 1hr and 26min.  Brayden did the 5km in 28min.

The winners of the 15km...44min??!?!!

After some soccer games-Andrea was good to go after her hernia repair and she was ready to score.  So fun seeing her play.  Both Becca and James played.  We are so close to the end of the season-crazy that this was the first game the kids played when the fields were muddy-it has just been the best fall to be outdoors.

 Who is concerned with sugar???  It was a sweet day from the morning donuts to afternoon cupcakes to evening chocolate.


Finally it was time to get home, throw on costumes....literately, and try to catch up with our neighbors to do a little trick or treating around our home.  It is always fun going with a group, just hard to coordinate times.

 Andrea was off to a friends house for the evening.  Always hard to find a balance between fall parties and trick or treating.  I have to say the kids still prefer dressing up and hitting the houses for candy!  But Andrea had a great time carving pumpkins with her friend and the kids made sure she got plenty of candy.

 Our neighborhood group of kids.

We ended the evening meeting up with a couple more kids and their parents-all walking our old neighborhood trick or treating.  Seems kind of crazy but actually kind of relaxing-probably because the kids are happy, the weather was prefect and the company was great.

 The evening group ready to head out.