Halloween has come and gone

The candy bucket is half empty and sweet Ella is partaking happily from it every morning: that is she picks her candy for the day! I just love the excitement and giddiness with which she carefully examines and then picks a candy. It's a long process you know: she doesn't just pick a candy. She'll look at it, turn it around, smell the wrapper, look through the bucket a few more times, and will end up picking a completely different candy!!!! How funny is that?



Halloween was fun. I just loved watching Ella get all worked-up about which costume to wear and when [she ended up wearing her witch costume from a couple of years back for the actual trick-or-treat(thanks goodness for mommy who buys a couple of sizes up!!! :-).] At the school parade and the concert she wore this year's pink unicorn costume. After church, we headed to the concert which was great (they had a lot of fun pre-concert crafts and activities for the kids, an instrument petting zoo-Ella was delighted!), then we wandered around downtown in the Arts District and checked out the different bands playing in the street. I loved it, everything was so vibrant and cool!  And the sunny and warm weather (it was in the 80s) topped it all off. How blessed we are. Life is great!