Halloween at the Pope House

Quinn celebrated his first Halloween in a big way this year...his aunts and uncles were here visiting!  Michelle, Fred, and Brian all made the trek down from Wisconsin to spend the weekend here in Northwest Arkansas with us and we all had a BLAST!  We spent Friday trying to (unsuccessfully I might note) push the boat dock out into the middle of the lake.  They are dredging our lake this winter and we had two options 1) remove our boat dock or 2) float it out into the middle of the lake so it wouldn't be resting on the bottom of the lake when the water levels went down.  Always willing to try anything once, Brad decided it would be fun to try to float it out.  Friday afternoon, equipped with come alongs, homemade anchors, a paddleboat, and some beer, the guys worked at this great engineering feat.  I even got involved paddling the paddle boat in attempts to push the dock into the middle of the lake.  It was arguably one of the hardest workouts I've ever had.  5 hours and a valiant effort later though, the boat dock is back where it began...not in the middle of the lake.  We condoled ourselves with dinner and margaritas at our favorite local Mexican restaurant Las Fajitas and we were all quick to forget the pain of the day =)

Saturday, the boys woke up to don Halloween costumes and go on a mountain bike tour.  Now if you were one of 4 grown men, what would you want to be for Halloween?  If you said a Care Bear you would have fit right in

Brad, Fred, Brian, and Donald (aka...Care Bears)

They even went so far as to give the Care Bear Stare to help their fallen commrades. I'd argue they gave the real Care Bears a run for their money. While Quinn, Michelle, and I opted out of the ride, we were there to welcome them back in and since it was Halloween Weekend, Quinn had to sport his new "I LOVE MUMMY" shirt.

For the actual Halloween day, Quinn started off as a ghost, but quickly donned his pumpkin costume and I must say was the cutest lil' pumpkin ever!  See for yourself!



With his Daddy - his best bud

Our perfect little family!

 

Hope your Halloween was half as SPOOKTACULAR as ours!