Halloween in Dallas!

Here you are, Caroline, the morning of your Halloween party at school. You decided instead of being a ballerina, you wanted to be Sleeping Beauty. We have an overabundance of dress up dresses, so changing costumes was no big deal! What a FUN party you had with games, crafts and of course, food!! Daddy came and got you early because we had a plane to catch!!! This was your first plane ride and you talked about it for weeks. We made plans back in the Spring to go see the Kennedys in Dallas over Halloween weekend. We were all looking so forward to it! I think you girls were most excited about getting on a plane.

Here you are, watching our plane pull up to the terminal.

Waiting to take off!

Despite a day of sickies (we brought it from Nashville--ugh!), we made some wonderful memories with our sweet friends. They live next to an awesome park that we could walk to with a great playground and a huge lake....you would never know we were in the city!

Halloween night we dressed up and went to their church for a HUGE festival. Here you are, Caitlyn, with Will--our swat team protector!! They had games, jump houses, a petting zoo, a band, and of course, lots of candy.

Caitlyn, you are always drawn to animals and enjoyed the animals in the petting zoo. Caroline, you wanted NO part of it... and were just ready to fill your bucket with candy!

At the end of the night, we sat to listen to the band and had snow cones!!!

Bathtime with Will. Overall, the three of you did well together. Anytime you get three children together, there will be some squabbles. We kept saying we had lots of teaching moments!!! Miss Angela is pregnant and expecting a baby in April. We gave her lots of practice with sibling conflict.

Mr. Nick and Caitlyn made us some amazing chocolate chip cookies on Sunday afternoon--they even made us a bag to bring home!

As always when we are all together we are treated so very special. We are so thankful to have been blessed with such dear friendships that have lasted through the years.

I had to put this picture in. Caitlyn, you and I took a walk on Sunday while sister slept to see the lake one more time. When we got there, this is what we saw....10 or more sailboats enjoying the gorgeous day. We sat there a good while and just watched them and talked. It was a special moment for just the two of us.

We had a later flight and we were all so tired, but with hearts full of blessing!!!!! Thank you, Kennedys for loving us the way you do and for carving out these times for us all to be together.