Ashleigh as dancer named Rocki from Shake It Up Chicago, Trenton the Mad Scientist, Dallin the cowboy, and Owen as Indiana Jones.
Pre-rotted pumpkins (see above). Trenton carved his pumpkin completely on his own for the first time this year. 
The loot! They received full size candy bars at a few houses and hotdogs at one nice neighbor's! 
Owen is in love with his "new" skateboard. He has been fascinated with skateboarding ever since a teenage boy moved in across the street who skateboards every day in the street. He had put a skateboard on his Christmas list, but while we were browsing through our favorite thrift shop last week, he found a very loved skateboard marked $.50. That's less than a candy bar, so it came home with us. For days, he told everyone he saw that he had a skateboard and headed outdoors at 8:00 a.m. each morning to start riding it. He loves it! Let's just say, it was the best $.50 I ever spent!
Today was the final day of Trenton's campaign for Student Council President. The campaigning ended with speeches from each of the candidates in front of the 4th, 5th and 6th graders. This is all of the candidates who gave speeches for one of only four officer positions. There were six running for President, but Trenton was the only boy. The teachers advised them to dress up a little, but Trenton was the only male who actually did so. That's probably why he won! Just kidding, but he did get elected as President and we are all very proud of him. Way to go, Trenton! Interestingly, his Vice President is also a boy (he is standing directly in front of Trenton).
We have been dog-sitting our nephew, Eddie this past week and the kids have had a ball with him. Dallin loves throwing his toys for him to chase and Ashleigh loves to take him outside. Owen is his protector and Trenton enjoys taking him on walks around the neighborhood. While we love Eddie, we have decided a dog is not for us!
While outside with Eddie, the kids brought out the sled to play in. Too bad there isn't any snow! Actually, that would be bad because we are not ready for snow at all!
Dallin loved getting pulled around the yard. He is getting so big!!
Trenton has been working hard this week to get elected as this year's Student Council President. He won a spot as his Class Representative last week and decided to go for President. We made five posters that he hung up in the halls and last night we made this t-shirt for him to wear to school today. Unfortunately, he isn't allowed to pass out candy or any other "bribe", so hopefully the t-shirt will get him some publicity. He gives a speech tomorrow in front of the whole school before everyone votes, so we should know the results soon! It has been fun to see Trenton get so excited about a project. Either way, we are very proud of him!
We loved our last segway tour, so we decided to take another! This time we took a tour of Eden Park, a very scenic park in downtown Cincinnati. It was a very cold day, especially when we were moving! Our hands and feet were frozen by the end.
We went on our tour with five other people, all of them riding for the first time, so we were the "pros" in the group.
We know we look adorable in our vests and helmets!
I mentioned we were the "pros" of the group. Well, we were so confident in our segway skills that we both got a little too comfortable and made some crazy mistakes. Nathan flipped his segway sideways when he turned too quickly and I flew out of control down a hill praying that no one got in front of me! I still don't know how I ended up stopping!
The beautiful Ohio River!
We saw some interesting things on our tour. One of which was a working phone booth!! Who knew there were any of those still around!
The next interesting thing was the number of wedding portrait shoots happening in the park that day. We saw several brides freezing to death! It is a very popular place for pictures because it is so beautiful! One brave wedding photographer asked our tour guide if the wedding couple could pose on our segways for a picture. We all agreed to wait a minute so that this could happen. It was very fun to be a part of someone's special day!
Time to head home!
