Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween. Emily and I did dinner at my parent's house and went trick or treating in their neighborhood. It is always fun to trick or treat in Hillsboro, the same place Nick and I used celebrate Halloween. We knock on the same doors with many of the same faces. This is a definite perk or growing up neighbors and having our parents still in live there. Scarlett of course loved walking up to doors and asking for candy. Have you met this child? She lives, breaths, and screams for candy. It took her days to get all the sugar she ate out of her system. I can not even have it in my house. She will find it and she will eat every last piece in one sitting. She is dangerous. But we love her and she loved Halloween. She is still talking about pumkins and spooky spiders. We tried to talk about Thanksgiving but she is stuck on Halloween. 

Adorable cupcake #1

Every pumpkin is called a "bumpy little pumpkin". It makes me smile every time she says it.

Adorable cupcake #2

pumpkin carving 

I look at this picture and just want to cry, with joy of course. Here is my beautiful family. Ali wanting to eat my earring and Scarlett singing a little song. They mean everything to me. I woke up today with a pit in my stomach. Mitt Romney lost the presidency election yesterday. I knew he would. America is changing and "good ol' fashion values" may be a thing of the past. It breaks my heart to see such a great man lose, he would have done a lot of good for this country. More than that, it would have reaffirmed my belief that Americans value hard work, family, and fear God. Maybe that is also a thing of the past as well. But then I looked at this picture and realized I can not think that. I must hope for a bright future for my children and be willing to always look for the good. This country is my home and it is filled with people that are righteous and willing to fight the good fight.  What peace it brings me to know that I have my family forever and a belief in the true gospel, a gospel that will never fail!