Happy All Saint's Day!

We had our All Saint's celebration on Saturday evening. We began with the vigil Mass, followed by a parade of saints. Here's the parade...

Then we went outside for a pizza picnic...

The leaves were a big hit with all the kids!

When it got dark, the kids made their way through twenty-four stations, each with a saint prayer or quote. They were given candy at each station as well. I manned St. John Bosco's station and Brian took the kids through the stations. It really was a lot of fun!

Halloween is always a topic of discussion in our house. Our decision to allow trick-or-treating is based on the principle that we will teach our kids to be a light in the world, but not be of the world. They can participate in the fun of trick-or-treating as long as they wear holy costumes and don't get into the ghoulish stuff. I hope our kids dressing as saints and angels will be a light in the midst of monsters and ghosts. So I took them around the cul-de-sac (plus a few extra houses down the street) in their saint costumes. Then we came back to watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in front of a fire and a have a couple pieces of candy. Then off to bed so we could get up for Mass this morning. They had so much fun and all went to bed extra happy little kiddos for the second night in a row.

I found these Charlie Brown accessories at Joann's for our pumpkin.