A weekend of Halloween

This Halloween we had several events to attended over a couple of days. First was Abby's costume parade on Thursday. She dressed as a cowgirl and was a little darling. Of course I know I put the camera in my bag but it wasn't there when I reached for it. Hmmm. She really enjoyed that. As did Brigham he saw a little Elmo which he loved. Then he spotted a large Banana and was scared to death. This kid really is sensitive.

Then on Saturday we had a Family fall fun night at the park with our church. Which included a trunk or treat where the kids amassed a lot of candy in a short amount of time. At first Brigham didn't like people touching his bucket, and refused the candy. But once understanding set in he was running from trunk to trunk. It was a good time and we all had fun.

Then Halloween night we had dinner with my Dad and Cindy and then trick or treated around there neighbor hood. There were a few houses the kids we weary of because of the decorations. Briggs was pretty much scared of everything and there were a few things that Abby wouldn't go near. Overall, for not really liking Halloween, we had a good time and got good use out of the costumes.

Ready for her costume parade at school

My little cowgirl and cowboy ready for Trunk or Treat

Little Handsome

Ready for the costume parade

One of the scary trunks

Cinderella or shall I say cousin Hannah

Cute Cousins

Me and the Kiddos

Halloween night, ready to get more candy

Trick or Treat

Brigham refused to get candy from the goblin

Abby's preschool class (phone pics the quality is poor)

Trick or Treating in Papa and Nana's neighborhood. They actually got whole candy bars from several houses. We know where to go next year.

First Stop-Shanghai, China



The New York of Asia, apartments.

Shanghai Nights

Seths first stop in China was Shanghai. They visited several international companies and toured some of the cities brighter areas. Such as the skyline river boat tour, ate crazy chinease food, and had incredible views from their 17th floor hotel room.

The View



His Hotel Room

Boat Tour

The view from his boat tour

A lobby of one of the companies he visited

International Ship Yard Model

I thought theses were only in the movies :)

One of the largest deep water sea ports in the World.

<>

 

Their Ride

The sea port in chinease...

Main offices of the sea port where the boat model was

Downtown Shanghai, from below the pearl tower.

Crazy, No? 9 Story Mall



Talk about fish lips!

Fish head! Gross

Daddy's Home

Waiting for Seth at the airport

It was a long 15 days but somehow we survived, well mostly. In all honesty I had prepared myself for the worst and there were a few really bad days, but overall it wasn't too bad. We were able to talk with Seth everyday via Skype (thanks Curt, Natalie, Dan and Lindsay for letting us borrow computers so we could communicate) sometimes even twice a day. It was funny because the kids kept trying to touch Seth through the computer. Needless to say the kids were really ready for dad to be home, as was I.  Seth had a good visit to China and pictures of his adventures are forthcoming. But here are some from the day Seth came home and the gifts that he bought the kids. They were very excited about those.

Watching the luggage come out of the carousel.  He loved it.

Being patient

The kids and I made some signs for his homecoming

A necklace/watch from China, its a lady bug that opens up. It lasted about 28 hours before it was broken

Their new Panda Hat

A hat for Brigham that Abby liked too

Our little China Man

They loved their gifts!

I am not sure what Brigham is thinking but the look is priceless

A video of Brigham and he new found love for the Chinese Language