Fun at the Durango mall, harvest carnival, and football game...whew!

Last night was a fun whirlwind for us! We started by dressing up and going to the Durango mall, where Pax "trick-or-treat"ed for the first time ever. I made him a turtle shell and he wore his green fuzzy pjs, and he was absolutly adorable! If I do say so myself...anyways, we had fun walking all over the mall and seeing everyone. Pax was a bit overwhelmed at first, but warmed up quickly. We even entered him in a little costume contest...Jerome, Katrina, and Violet (Adam's brother and our oldest and youngest nieces) met us there. Pax wasn't too sure about Uncle Yay-Yay, since he was dressed as Sylvester the cat and Pax couldn't see his face, but once he heard his voice he figured it out. He tried to crawl into Violet's stroller to hug her (see the pics-Pax is exactly 1 month older than she is) and she kept looking at me like "is he really doing this?" he loves her...tries to wrestle with her like he does with Adam. The little princess likes him at a distance, mostly. He's a bit too in her face sometimes :) So we trick-or-treated with Hannah Montana for awhile, then headed out to Bayfeild. A good friend of Adam's is the youth pastor at the foursquare church out there, so we went to see them. Their little girl is 2 and calls Pax "sugar" all the time; their little 3 1/2 month old boy was dressed in a robe with a shower cap on and was pulled in a wagon filled with white ballons--he looked just like a little old man in a bubble bath! I wish I'd gotten a picture of him! Pax loved digging for "treasure" and "fishing" for ducks there, but we didn't stay too long. We had to get to the DHS football game! It was cold, and the team was loosing horribly, but we saw some of our students and Pax was pretty impressed with it all. he kept saying "wow! wow! Wow!!" and pointing at everything. All in all, a fun night! AND we went to the court house yesterday, took our ballots home, and spent some time filling them out. We dropped them at the courthouse yesterday evening before all of this, so we've voted! No lines on election day for us. Yay for early voting!!