So, I had a little bit of time on friday...and had great plans of dusting the floor while the three little kids were napping b/c the two littlest ones kept on trying to eat the hair/dust balls that kept getting stuck to their toes. Anyways, a friend of mine has a friend with a lemon tree...so she brought me a big bag of lemons, so instead of doing something productive I ended up taking artsy pictures of lemons. :) Oh, and I made fresh lemonade which actually tasted really good! 
Here they are...AJ the pirate, Josiah the spy, Matthias the pumpkin, Leighton the deckhand, and Kylie the chinadoll. Okay, so we had quite the cultural experience this weekend... it seems that they have a tradition here to move trick-or-treating to the saturday before halloween if halloween falls on a weekday/school-night. I had talked to a neighbor a while back about halloween and she had forewarned me that our neighborhood usually gets hit pretty hard. We ended up getting four bags of candy (those really big bags with a good mixture of different things)...there is no real way to explain how trick-or-treating went on saturday night...I think it's definitely something that you need to experience to understand. Anyways, we got the kids all ready and after we took the picture of them outside we realized that a few of our neighbors were setting up lawn chairs at the end of their driveways with their candy buckets....thinking that that was a good idea, we set up at the end of our carport. Tom took the kids around first (all five) and I sat with a book and the candy and waited. I got a good number of kids, nothing overwhelming. Trucks and cars were driving by with kids hopping out at the houses. After Tom came back, I ended up taking the kids out. They had learned that people don't knock on doors in the neighborhood. If you are going to hand out candy you sit in your driveway...otherwise the kids will skip your house (no knocking/ringing doorbells???). By the time I had gotten back to our house there was a line of kids from where Tom was sitting (almost under our carport) all the way down past our mailbox. There were seriously at least thirty kids in that line. It was insane. We had gone through our 15 to 20 pounds of candy in about an hour and a half or so. What we found out from a neighbor later is that we are one of a handful of neighborhoods in the whole county (there are a lot of houses in 'the country'), so people literally come from everywhere to the few neighborhoods in town. There's a church in town that does a fall festival every year...I think we'll be going there next year. :)
