There were over 300 people there - it was wild and crazy. Anna played games with her friends Brooklyn and Kayla.
Aunt Laurie helped Anna go through the haunted house. You should really ask her about it if you want a good laugh. It involved crawling through the legs of some small classroom tables. Anna hooked up with her friend Morgan (Hilary's Morgan) and went around to all the cars with her. Grandma Ann and Cyndi arrived that night on the plane. I told Anna that they would come late on an airplane and she wouldn't see them until she woke up in the morning. She told me that as soon as she woke up she was going to sneak into their room and climb into bed with them. She was true to her word. She even found Aunt Laurie. This is how I found them all when I woke up.
Doesn't it remind you of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Also that morning Camille woke up with the flu and we quarantined her to the toy room where she was sleeping. She didn't emerge until they went home on Sunday, so it wasn't so great for Camille, but we kept partying without her.We started the day with Anna's Halloween party at preschool.
She was so excited to show off her school to Grandma Ann, Laurie and Aunt Cyndi.
We spent the afternoon baking like crazy. 
We made Halloween sugar cookies. Sprinkles were Anna's specialty (can you identify the cookies she got to sprinkle? There is a bat under that pile of black sugar:).
Grandma Ann had a recipe for a Jack o' Lantern cake. The M&M's were Anna's specialty.
That night we had tickets for Disney on Ice.
Anna loved every minute of it. She was begging for a toy from one of the million vendors. I patiently explained that we already bought a program that came with a very fun hat, and we weren't buying anything else. Who shows up with a spinning/flashing Tinkerbell toy? Daddy of course. He was the hero. It spun so fast she was a little afraid of hitting herself (so was I).
When Tinkerbell skated out she jumped out of her chair and screamed "I love you Tinkerbell!" with all her 4 year old heart like she was at a Beatles concert. The show really was amazing.On Halloween morning we went out to the pumpkin patch for our third and final trip of the season. We thought it might be crowded, but it was empty. The wind was blowing like crazy, and most of the pumpkins were long past their prime, but we hit all the highlights.Anna enjoyed showing her Grandma and Aunts and Uncles around.
Aunt Laurie and Uncle Todd came with us as well, and we left David to hand out candy (Camille was still confined to her sick room). She lasted the longest she ever has trick or treating. She filled half her pumpkin.
She was very tired when she got home. It was a great Halloween weekend. Thanks for coming everyone!
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