Halloween and fracture!

Halloween came and went very quickly.  The day started off with my work crew dressing up like the Scooby Doo gang.  I've never been to keen on Halloween myself but I chose to go with something easy.  I'm the goul/alien in the back.

As for the kids, well they've been into Frozen for a while now and it just made sense to have Olivia be Elsa and Amelia as Anna and it didn't take too long to convince little Tony to be Olaf.  At first, he told me he wanted to be a Monster - he was into that movie for a while, but he was easily swayed.
I was trying to get out of work early to get home to go out trick or treating, and I ended up getting stuck in traffic, it started rain and I got all upset!  I ended up getting home in the nick of time and it stopped raining.  Melanie did the girls hair - Anna (with two french braids) and Elsa with one french braid down one side.  The looked so cute and were so happy.  I caught up with them just coming out of Grandma's house and moving down the road.  We were out pretty late - went to several houses.  We got plenty of candy, but soon realized that because we weren't home, no one came to our house to disperse candy to - so we had double the amount of candy.  Normally that should sound ok, but not when you're trying to lose weight.  (it's a daily battle). 

It was a chilly evening so they had to wear some clothes underneath the costumes - but it all worked out well. 

Another October happening is that I broke/fractured my pinky finger on my right hand.  It's not a great story, but here goes - little Tony was getting out of the shower and went to throw the always soaked bath mat over the top of the shower door.  Well I was moving around too quickly and ended up jamming my finger in the door jam.  It hurt really bad.  It got swollen and bruised very quickly and looked really ugly the next day - so much so that people at work were insisting I leave to go to the doctor and get an x-ray.  The x-ray showed a fracture and I kept a brace on it for about two weeks.  After that it got to be a burden to wear it so I just stopped.  It's been ok, until I smack it or it gets squeezed to hard.  I did end up going to an orthopedic physician (hand specialist) who said that it could take alot longer to heal and to expect some swelling for another few months.  Here's a picture of how it currently looks. 

notice the swollen knuckle...