Belated Halloween

I haven't had my computer for a while, so I am going to do a few posts to catch up. We spent Halloween trying to close on our house, which actually did happen that day, but not soon enough for us to really do anything else. Abby stayed with some new friends in our new town of Holly Springs, North Carolina, for most of that day and went Trick-or-Treating with them that night. I don't have any pictures of that, but I do have some pictures of her cutting Jack-o-Lanterns with her Grandpa and Uncle Simeon, which I will post at the end. Yes, she is only in her underpants, in case you were wondering. 

I guess this is a good place to tell a little bit about moving in. It was a little hectic, but all in all I think it worked out very well. We were supposed to close on our house on October 30th, but there were some technical difficulties, so we rescheduled for the morning of the 31st. Fortunately, we found some wonderful people in our new ward that helped us out with the pets and with Abby. If you remember, Halloween was on a Friday, so if we didn't close that day we couldn't move in until Monday. Well, the closing did finally happen on Friday, but not until 4:45, the latest it could have possibly been done. So we did in fact get the key that night, but we had to reschedule the delivery of our household goods until Monday because the closing was so late. But it didn't really matter that we didn't have any of our stuff, because, due to my negligence, we didn't have electricity until Monday either. You can tell we were so on top of things. We saw it as an adventure though, and we were prepared to camp out in our house through the weekend. The friends who watched the pets already had company staying at their house, but they let us use their air mattress. Our next door neighbors had been checking up on us when we saw them, and when they found out that we didn't have electricity, they invited us to stay with them that weekend. It was wonderful to get to know them; they are terrific people. We would not have been able to get to know them so well if this wouldn't have happened. And they have continued to help us; always checking on us, feeding us, and watching the kids. Their boys are 7 and 9, but they like to play with Abby anyway, and she is always asking to go over to their house. They have been a great blessing to us and have helped us feel more at home here. We were also able to spend time with the other family who watched the pets, since we didn't have any stuff, we didn't have anything else to do but make friends! So there was a little bit of stress initially, but it turned out to be a very nice, relaxing weekend. So here are Halloween pictures to go along with that Halloween weekend story.