About Time: Halloween

I suppose I had better get Halloween blogged about before Thanksgiving comes around. 

Halloween actually started the weekend before Halloween day with a ward trunk-or-treat party.

This year, we were graced with the presence of Napoleon Dynamite, Buzz Light Year, the Green Power Ranger and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.

Aubrey's friend dressed up like Belatrix - so they had a witch stand-off.

Trunk-or-treat is about to begin.

One big Indian (Brother Johnson) in desperate need of a dental plan:

Hungry for bacon anyone?  (Brother Cederberg)

 60's chick, Sister Bell:

Diggn' in:

Contest Winners of the night:  Pirate Clan Picanco Family

Rigdon with his friend, Johnny.

Hot cocoa and donuts were served afterwards:

HALLOWEEN NIGHT:

For the actual day of Halloween, Aubrey went over to her friend's house for a Harry Potter Nerd Party.  They are both too old to be trick-or-treating now, so they came up with their own plans.   She had a great time.

As for the rest of our kids, we got together with my nieces and nephews and decided to raid the neighborhood together.   Two of our boys changed costumes this time: Ronin went as a police officer and Connor was Harry Potter.

Connor's friend, McCade, joined us too.

Jed and my brother, Cory.

There was a beautiful sunset that night:

Kids made a haul that night.  The older kids ran around knocking doors for about three-four hours.  Whew!  Candy high all around.

11-11-11 - Thank You Soldier!

Just a quick shout out to all those soldiers out there who have served our country - THANK YOU!!!!  You have done and are doing what most of us will never do ourselves.  I have an increased and deeper appreciation for you and your families that sacrifice so much. 

To commemorate this day, here's a slideshow of Jed and his platoon's deployment pictures taken throughout this last year in Baghdad, Iraq:

116th B Troop - Iraq, 2010-2011 - slideshow dvd


“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States.”
Ronald Reagan

Happy Birthday Marine Corps!

Happy birthday to a brotherhood that never ends when their military service does. This saying will always hold true: Once a Marine, always a Marine.  Marines live by this.  This day probably means more to Jed than his own birthday. You can guarantee that today thousands of birthday wishes are being shared between our nation's Devil Dogs.  They are a special breed.



Every year, Jed's celebrates this day by watching this 1957 movie:
The D.I (Drill Instructor)

Jed with one of his drill instructors:

Don't forget to thank a veteran tomorrow on Veteran's Day!!!!!!   Oorah!!