Halloween Trick or Treaters

Catherine and Max's costume dreams came true this year. Catherine wanted to be a Paduan Jedi (see Star Wars reference here).

Max wanted to be Wall-e. We missed the mass-produced costumes by at least one Halloween season, so we ended up having to make it ourselves. It ended up turning out great!

Catherine made it six houses and said: "I'm done. I want to go home now." She got whammed with a fever. Max went along with Kyle for another couple of blocks. He took home more than enough candy for both kids.

Halloween Preview

Happy Halloween from the Jensens

My Aunt Lola invites the city folks to her house the weekend before Halloween to see all the kiddies in costume and enjoy some homemade fudge and popcorn. There were three generations: thirteen distant cousins, ages five months young right on up to fourteen years old; the parents and the older adults (grandparents to the youngest group).

This year's gathering was particularly special because Aunt Lola has been battling cancer. Fortunately, Aunt Lola was in good spirits and good energy for the entire evening. I savored each and every delicious morsel of her homemade fudge. And I'm pretty sure she put a little extra love in it just in case...