Logan’s school had an annual Halloween event on Friday and we all looked forward to it.  Logan also received a T-shirt for the event that he enjoyed wearing throughout the day.  I tried to get home from work as early as I could, and made it right after Stuart picked up the boys.  We walked over to the school and the event was in full swing.  We looked around all the offerings, then the boys wanted to have dinner first.  We bought some pizza for the boys and hotdogs from food truck for ourselves.  After we ate, we spent more time looking around.  We checked out the book sale, and we got only one book.  We watched the karaoke for a little bit, then Connor got startled by a troop of Star Wars characters entering the area.  Their costumes were awesome and they walked around the entire evening to take pictures with families.  Connor preferred looking at the three professionally dressed princesses who also strolled around.  The boys wanted to decorate pumpkins so we headed over to the patch.  They had fun dressing up the pumpkins with stickers that we ended up spending quite a long time there under the tent.  Logan finished up first so he walked around with Stuart while Connor continued quietly working on his pumpkin until he was happy with it. 

     After we put the pumpkins aside, Connor and I went to try the “cake walk”.  He ran into one of his classmates and they both giggled waiting for the game to start.  When the music ended, my letter was called!  I jumped and cheered, and Connor was very excited with me.  We went over to the prize table and chose a chocolate mousse cake as our reward.  Logan and Stuart witnessed our big win too.  Later, Logan convinced me to stand in line at a coin toss stand as he wanted a stuffed animal.  Logan was so excited while he waited and even called out which stuffed animal he would like to get, so I had to prepare him that he might not actually win the big prizes.  When it was Logan’s turn, he made some good tosses, but unfortunately he missed the cups; however he was not too sad.  Then it was Connor’s turn and one of his coins made a cup.  He immediately asked for the bear that Logan wanted; I asked him the reason he picked that one and his reply was “Because Logan wants it”.  He ran over to hand it to Logan and Logan was ecstatic.  What a nice brother Connor is!

   We walked around the playground some more.  Connor was drawn to the kids singing karaoke.  He almost wanted to join in to dance but he made it up to the far corner of the stage only.  Logan was checking out the sign up sheets for “teacher time”, and he was interested to have a movie and snacks with his teacher, so we let him buy a slot.  By then, it was close to 8pm; we gathered all of our winnings and pumpkins and about to walk home.  Then we remembered the remaining tickets that we had, so we used them up to buy little Halloween toys at the toy table.  We all were big winners at this school event and we had a great time.