I know I said I would blog here about once a month this past week we did a few special things and I wanted to jot them down before they are gone from my Memory. It is Sunday and we got an extra hour of sleep last night. Of course I was wide awake at 6:00am and it is now 8:30 and I am ready for church so I have a few extra minutes to blog. A rare occasion for me.

The kids asked me 3 weeks ago. “Mom we want to have a costume party.”  We don’t celebrate Halloween, they have never even dressed up in costumes before but I figured it would be fun for them to use their creative brains and come up with Costumes. I told them they had to make their costumes from things we had on hand and that they were in charge of organizing it. I would help them with games and so forth but I wanted them to take action on their ideas. The first date I gave them for the party came and went without them inviting a single sole. I figured they had forgotten about it but this past week they reminded me again and I looked at our schedule and the only day that would work for us to have a party was actually Halloween day.  I figured it was no harm to have the party that day and told the kids to invite their cousins.  You know if the Burbanks come over here then we have a party in itself.  They kids only asked them the night before but that is all they needed and before you knew it our house and the Burbanks were  in whirlwind of preparing costumes. I started thinking I should call around some of our friends and see if they wanted to come as well, most everyone were busy on such a short notice but the Chamberlains worked out their schedule and came.  I was amazed at the creativity of all the kids we had a wide range of visitors, Pirates, Indians, thieves, fairies, princesses, cowboys and more. I took pictures and some day may post them to facebook but don’t hold your breath. I played 4 different games with the kids and they all were just so excited through the entire time. Loralei and Rita helped with the snacks and it was just a fun time by all who were there. I think we will make it a yearly tradition except maybe next year we will have it on a different day.  I am not a fan of Halloween but the day itself does not scare me either.  If you knew the story of Anton Lavae(Sp?), he wrote the Satanic bible and started the Satanic church.  It is a long story but in short a pastor who taught at my DTS in November 1997 had discipled a daughter of Anton’s out the satanic church and Anton kept telling this pastor on Halloween he would get him for this but when the Eve of Halloween 1997 came Anton died of a major heart attack. “Greater is He that is in you then he that is in the World.”  Amen.