Trick or Treat!

Our first Halloween in Winnipeg was a huge success! The weather was mild, for Winnipeg, so we told everyone that we brought Nova Scotia weather with us! We all got dressed up into our costumes right after supper and the boys were really excited to get going.

The Culligan's all decked out and ready for Trick or Treating! I was "Miss Diagnosed", Ben was Buzz Lightyear, Chris a "scary" monster, Sam was Eeyore, and Aidan was Darth Vader.

Aidan and Chris went out some more after I brought Sam and Ben home. Apparently, while Aidan was going door-to-door, people were commenting that he was out with his dad. His reply was, "Who that guy, I don't know who he is, he just started following me!" To which he got a few puzzled looks! Great sense of humour!! That's my boy!!

Sam's New Duds

Here is Sam in his new duds. These were hanging on our door yesterday, dropped off by my good friend Kim's mom. Kim is in Germany and sent this outfit for Sam - thank you so much Kim!! You can't go wrong with Thomas! He's adorable! Although Chris says he needs a haircut, but I don't want to loose those beautiful curls!!!

Halloween Cookies

What would Halloween be like if we didn't have some scary cookies to decorate and eat! My mom always made cookies on special holidays and I have fond memories eating them. The recipe is the same, but the decorators were not. I turned the kids loose with ziplock bags full of colored icing. Of course I didn't have any red, so we didn't get any orange pumpkins.

Aidan and Ben so very proud of their creations. Actually you don't see any of Ben's cookies because he ate them as soon as he was done decorating them! They both did a really good job though and even Chris got in on some decoratiing.

Show me your scary face!!!!

Halloween Howl October 24, 2008

Haloween was brought to the local YMCA for frightful fun for families. The kids, and some adults, dressed up. They had the giant 3-story play structure all decorated and lit with glow sticks. The gym was set up in stations. They had candy on the rock climbing wall, a glow-stick ring toss, put your hand in the pumpkin and guess what you are touching, pumpkin carving, costume realy, TP a mummy, and the pirate ship bouncer. The kids had so much fun, and it was really well run. When the kids left they got a really nice treat bag.

Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear and little Woody!

See what happens when you turn kids loose with a bunch of TP!!!

Fall Leaves

Fall has arrived in Manitoba. I sure do miss the trees and all of the colors of the trees in Nova Scotia. There aren't any Red Maples, and not many trees at all for that matter, so there isn't much red in the fall landscape. However, the sky seems to be endless, you can see for miles and miles. Very different than Nova Scotia. We are enjoying Winnipeg so far. We'll let you know how great it is after a winter here!!

We have a really nice big tree out front that has some small leaves on it. The kids were excited to rake up the leaves in a big pile so they could jump in them.

This is the best picture I could get of the 3 boys!! The youngest is the challenge! Sam just wanted to crawl around the yard!

Aidan's turn with the rake!

Now it's Ben's turn! "This rake is too heavy!!" But he had to get every single leaf in the pile!


Aidan had fun throwing the leaves in the air! Sam laughed and Ben was mad because the leaves went down his jacket!

Aidan