Happy Halloween!

It's been a VERY busy October. Last weekend my nephew Connor was baptised and I was blessed enough to be asked to be his Godmother! Since Kenn was given the job of entertaining brandon in Church we do not have any pictures. As soon as i get some I will post them though :)

To give an example of brandons "ants in the pants" attitude recently, i took him to church the night before the baptism with my mother... he sat for about 15minutes tops and then had to get up... we went to the back of the church where he called jesus "baby" for a while and tried to touch some candles, so even though it was raining we went outside. He ran around out there for a couple minutes and when i tried to get him back inside he sat in a puddle as protest. That was the end of church for the evening. I'm hoping by christmas he'll be a little better.

Last weekend we also had the pleasure of having dinner with two friends of ours Julia & Andy and they were sweet and gave Brandon a Halloween present. Part of the gift was an orange pumpkin bucket and glow sticks. Kenn apparently taut B that the bucket was for wearing... so this is what we got. He has been walking around with that bucket on his head all week bumping into things (We're so proud). Oh and he's naked in this picture b/c we are starting to teach him how to use an adult cup and most of it ends up on him so we had to strip him.

As for Halloween itself Kenn and I do not usually dress up, but my office does a large halloween party each year. We have a competition between all the departments who can be the most eccentric (that may be the best word). So this year Sales went with the election (we felt that was pretty scary in itself). So we made up 2 voting booths and came up with Ballot's with things like "should dogs be accessories" or "should we fund the no cat left behind" etc etc. And the main part was the "Demicats" VS the "Republicanines". And then our department dressed up like the candidates... ENJOY!
Holden was the Republicanines posterdog...

I was dressed as Obama but i personally get the biggest kick at my coworker Ted(a large black man dressed as Palin)

Although scary to see i digress from Brandon's Halloween. We went out at 6pm around our neighborhood. This is his entourage. (my parents, Aunt Gail, Kenn and I)

He had a great time with his glow sticks and pinwheel. (he would shake them at people). He wouldn't hold his mickey pumpkin pail by the string, but by the ears and then get very excited by the treat the person would put in. He would take it out and look at it and put it back in the pail. He had no idea it was candy but it all delighted him anyway. By the end of the evening (about 7:30) he could say "gick r eat". He had a blast, it was great to see.

Then yesterday Aunt Gail took the three of us to Disney on Ice! It was the first show he's gone too and i was a little nervous about the whole sitting thing i talked about earlier. Aunt Gail spoiled us and got us front row seats which i assumed meant there would be a barrier in front of us... no such luck. He could actually run onto the ice if we allowed him too. So before the show he ran around at this backstage area where they had princess dress's set up with props. he really liked the mice from cinderella & the diamonds that lit up with snow white. Then the show started and he loved it. i think he was a bit nervous at first but then he quickly got into it. They had mickey and all the normal people, then a really neat Cars presentation. they had real cars on the ice! I was really impressed. He would point and say "car". Then they did the little mermaid (which is my personal favorite) and then the Lion King. Brandon loved all the fish and the animals. He really liked the lions and Timon and Pumba best though. (he's never even seen that movie) Gail also got him a really neat light up dragon toy that spins... The 2nd half he was starting to crank out. (this was during his normal naptime) but he watched it well. That part was the new tinkerbell movie... it was ok. But overall was a really really neat experiance. (i'd never been to a disney on ice show). This makes me excited for the Playhouse disney show at the end of the month. (my mom is taking B and i to that for my b-day) And kenn didnt want to go, well now he's sad b/c he really enjoyed how much brandon loved it.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! we're excited about our trip to Az & Ca coming up!