The kids enjoyed Halloween thoroughly this year. Halloween has evolved quite a bit since I was a young lad. It seems like Halloween is now a week long event. Our church always has a trunk or treat on the Wednesday before Halloween. Many of the local churches and schools host “Fall Festivals” the week before and the week of Halloween. We went to a couple of those events and the kids had tons of candy and it wasn’t even Halloween yet. Our street is very Trick or Treater friendly so the kids got to go out one more time on the actual Holiday. Here are few pictures.

Here's a picture of all the Henriksen Grandkids.  It's not a great picture because of a fog machine that had just gone off and the fact that there are 15 sugar filled kids trying to sit still for 30 seconds. 

Koby is our third child that has worn the Lion costume. It was a bit tight, but he wouldn’t wear any of the other costumes.  Koby probably enjoyed Halloween the most this year.  He just started this new bad habit of waking up at the crack of dawn.  He likes to roam around the house and play with toys or mess around in his brother’s closet.  He’s really quite too and we usually don’t wake up until he makes a loud noise.  One night around 3am I heard some noise downstairs and I went down and he had gotten on the kitchen counter and was eating Halloween candy.

 I'll be glad when the candy is gone.  However, we have been using the candy as an incentive for the boys the help us clean up or do some chores.  One day Jennie had the boys help clean up the living room and Seth got to choose 2 pieces of candy for helping and as he was eating one piece of candy and unwrapping the other he said, “Oh man, I like cavities.”

Seth, Beau and Owen on a Tractor Hay Ride.