Waiting

We are still waiting for our power to come back. This afternoon on our walk,we noticed that three more obstructed streets were cleared of their blocking trees, so at least there's progress!

Our very own Silver Spring road is having some power line issues though.

Preparations

We've got our water, easy prep food for a week, candy (plenty), batteries, flashlights, lanterns, electronics charged, cars filled, laundry done, dishes washed,

and kids cleaned before the power goes out.

The generator is all hooked up and ready to run when the time comes.

School is canceled already for Monday and Tuesday.

We're making bets on how long the power will be out.  I'm guessing 10 days, but I'm hoping for 0.

Here we go Sandy!

Our Halloween

Our Halloween celebrations came early this year, which turned out to be a good thing since the hurricane is going to ruin the real Halloween this year.

First, we watched McKinley at her field hockey game.  Greenwich invited us back for another game since they appreciated the sportsmanship of Wilton.  It was a good skill match up, but Wilton came out on top with a 2-1 victory!  And some of those houses in Greenwich...yowsers!  Nice!



After the game everyone got dressed in the car as we drove to the Wilton town center for their annual "pumpkin parade".  It was really a business to business trick-or-treating.  We lasted for about a half hour before the complaining of tired feet and thirsty throats directed us back to our car.

Scads of kids in town.
Last year there were 1000 kids!

Race car driver



I made the group stop before the car ride home for one more Halloween picture together.



After the town trick-or-treating, Sawyer went to his flag football game (they won!), while I took the other three to the ward Trunk-or-Treat.  McKinley decorated the back of the trunk and won 3rd place for all her hard work.  She had a good time and was very meticulous (must get that from her dad) with how all the candy had to be placed out. 

Sawyer was sad to miss out on the candy, but McKinley gave him some of her 6 pounds of candy.

We are all done with Halloween here.

Next up...hurricane Sandy.

Work Trick-or-Treat

Right after school I took the kids over to Kent's work for their annual trick-or-treat maze.

This year's costumes were:

Hayden---Pokemon trainer

McKinley---Greek Goddess Aphrodite

Josh---race car driver

Sawyer---Pokemon trainer



Josh was not in the mood for a picture.



Cheeser

This is Josh's "picture" face.

He loves to get his picture taken, and already pulls the biggest fake squnchy faces. 

Gas Prices

I will NOT miss the gas prices here.  Ridiculous!!

New England architecture

Another thing I am going to miss about New England is the variety of architecture in homes.  The neighborhoods are not cookie cutter homes.  From cottages to mansions, every house is different.

One of my favorite homes (it's for sale right now) with a wrap around porch and a beautiful blue door.

I love to walk by this adorable blue house with the bright red door.  Doors out here are painted all sorts of different colors and I love it.

A beautiful yellow Americana farmhouse from the 1700's

Across the street from my favorite house with the blue door is a sweet little white house that reminds me of an English cottage.  Here is the converted garage.

and the little gate leading to the front door.  When the hydrangeas are in bloom it is a charming English garden.

This is the Dutch Colonial across the street.  That old nasty house that got torn down used to be blocking it's view.

Then there are massive, classic, homes.  It's guest house has nicer finishes than we do!  Which isn't too hard since you'd only need to have baseboards to really outdo us :)

I love New England houses.