Halloween, Goats, Date Night and Elections

I don't know how other family celebrated Halloween weekend but the Regusci tried to leave no stone unturned. Friday was jumped kicked with delivering Halloween treats to Uncle Trevor and Uncle Jon's office and then also to Daddy at his office. Of course in our family these were very special Halloween treats. A local bakery was/is making cookies with McCain and Palin's picture on them so of course those were the boy's special treats!! They were all very excited.

For our evening activities we dressed the kids up and took them down to our church which does a huge fall festival on Halloween. There the kids get to play carnival games, jump in about 10 different bounce house, decorate cookies, eat pizza, participate in a cake walk, eat Doc Bernstein's ice cream and of course get lots of candy. Sam and Serafina just love to go every year and all there friends from church are there so they just think its the best thing. After the festival we made one trick-or-treat stop at our babysitter, Joanna's, house to say hi. The kids really wanted her to see them in their costumes.

Serafina: Little Bo Peep, Matteo: Sheep, Sam: Spiderman


Carnival Games




Friends
(our camera is officially broken so we are borrowing others for important occasions. Thus we don't know how to use all the functions like the flash! We are hoping our friends have a clean copy of these pictures!)



Joanna; worlds best babysitter!

Since it was Friday night that meant we had one more activity, FOOTBALL. We headed over to AG to watch Mario play football. We also wanted to make sure that Noni and Nono got a chance to see everyone in their costumes. Karlee was supossed to be there too, but also being a teenager she choose to go hangout with her man and some from friends!! What a punk. AG was playing Paso and it was a sad game, we lost. We ended up leaving at the beginning of the 4th quarter because the kids were fried and with score being 0-31 we were pretty sure the game was over. None the less it was a fun game to watch and it was fun seeing the band all dressed up in their costumes. The kids loved showing their costumes to the teenagers! And of course they loved getting a chance to sit and eat candy (until mom said no more).

After a great Halloween night, Saturday came fast and furious! With Matt running the Republican office in SLO this is go time. He has been spending every and any extra time up at the office making phone calls, getting volunteers and walking precincts. Well a few weekends ago I was in a bind childcare wise and need him to take Sam to the office with him. That day he was walking precincts, Sam went along with him. Ever since then Serafina has been begging to go. Well this was the last possible weekend!! Myself, Mrs. Introvert, loaded her and Matteo, Sam stayed home with Nana, and went up to SLO to walk precincts with Daddy. Oh my gosh the child loved it. LOVED IT. She had to have her McCain sticker on. She wanted to knocked or ring the door bell. Then she would stand next to Matt and smile. If they had a telephone book on their porch or mail or a package she would pick it up and hand it to them. I thought we would go to 2 maybe 3 house and she would be done. We did a block and I asked her if she was done. She said "No lets do a couple more house." We did two more. I told her it was time to go. We put her in the car kicking and screaming. As we drove off she was pointing to house saying "We didn't go to that house." In between gaint sobs!! She is the funniest thing in the world. Sunday came around and we gave her the choice to go with me to church or with daddy down to the office. (they were not precinct walking). She choice to go to the office. She spent the morning working up in the office with her McCain sticker on, making phone calls reminding people to vote. (her phones of course didn't work).

Amazingly enough, Matt and I were able to sneak out Saturday night for a couples date with my parents and good friends Summer and Jeff. We had dinner at CPK and then went and saw the movie Fireproof. May I recommend the movie to any and everyone. It was fabulous. A small disclaimer to all the women out there, if you choose to wear make-up, wear water proof mascara! GREAT GREAT Movie.

And finally to round out our Halloween weekend we had to discard the fly infested pumpkins. What better way to that you might ask? Well we decide to load them up in our wagon, wheel them down the driveway and feed them to our goats. The kids just thought this was the just about the greatest Sunday evening project Mom had ever come up with. They probably spent hours down with the goats running with them and mixing them up soups and stews to eat! It was pretty entertaining.

Pulling the pumpkins to the goat cage.

Sam trying to unlatch the cage himself.

Forget the gate just climb over.


Feeding the goats by hand.



Making the goats pumpkin stew! Yummy.

The goats plea to get the kids out.

Sam's last climb at sunset.

Pulling the empty wagon back up the hill.

With that I must end our weekend stories! And don't forget to go vote tomorrow.