Early Halloween

I just love Saturdays. Today, we stayed in bed until about 8:30- that's good considering Parker was awake at 7am. He got in bed with us and snuggled with us and watched cartoons. We got dressed and then the four of us headed into The Farmhouse Family Restaurant in Lapeer. It is this restaurant that looks just like a farmhouse. It has old machinery outside, and the inside is divided into rooms, and there is a little store with country-ish items. I would definitely compare it to a Bob Evans. We had never been there before, but had heard that it had really good breakfast. It definitely lived up to it's reputation. It was really good!!! I got their "Southern Omlette" and Brad got some huge meal with everything you could possibly think of. Halle got the Mickey Mouse hotcakes! Parker ate a little (actually, a lot) off of everyone's plates. This afternoon, downtown Lapeer was having a special Halloween day for kids. The kids got dressed in their costumes and went "trick-or-treating" to all the downtown stores. There were a ton of people there!!! It was really cold out, but Halle wanted to go to every single store that was participating. If a store was participating, they had a huge pumpkin in their window. So, she was on the look-out for pumpkins (so was I-hey, I like candy just as much as kids do). 1 1/2 hours later, we mwere heading home with buckets filled with candy. Parker was extremely exhausted, so he took a nap once we got home. Brad and I actually both fell asleep on the couch and Halle made a cake with Mom D. It was a very relaxing afternoon.

Parker was a MI football playerHalle was a MI cheerleader. We recycled her Upward uniform and "glitzed" it up Halle doing cheerleading moves
This evening, we had dinner with the Massers. They are some old friends from the church we used to attend when we lived in Michigan before. They have a little boy, Riley, who is about 4 months older than Parker. They are a sweet couple and we had a nice time catching up with them. I made Apple Dumplings (I got the recipe from my friend Betsy's blog) for dessert. Everyone liked them. I will proably make another batch of them soon!!

When we got home, Mom and Dad had just rented Leatherheads and were starting to watch it, so we put the kids to bed and watched it with them. It was a cute, funny movie.