Our Halloween this year was extra special! The Holton's from Australia came to visit us! Kris stayed with Mark and Debbie when he was in Australia on 3 different campaigns with Harding when he was in college. They are like his Australian Mom and Dad. Their daughter, Alyssa, was a little girl at that time. Now she is in her 20's and came over as well. She actually stayed for a whole month after her family left to tour all over the U.S. with a friend of hers. I am not sure I could have done that in my early 20's all by myself!
Mark and Debbie brought Kris some TimTams which were one of his favorite Australian things. We love them too!
The Holton's have had foster kids for years. They have had Jayden, Lochlan, and Noah since they were very little. They are all brothers and are between 8-11 years old. They were precious boys and we just fell in love with them! The kids all got along great and really enjoyed being with each other. They were in LR for about a week and we hung out with them almost every night.
Noah and Hannah. Mark and Debbie told us that the boys would talk about Hannah and fight over her when they'd go back to their hotel. Ha!
Sweet Lochlan. He reminded me of Lincoln a bit--very engineering minded. All three boys have quite a bit of problems and can be handfuls. However, they were little angels with us! Layton particularly loved Lochlan and still gets excited to see his picture.
We played a lot of Wii.
We took them to McAlister's on Halloween night before trick-or-treating.
Crazy kids!
We took them to PV's Kiddie Karnival. It was so much fun because Halloween is not very big in Australia. The boys had never trick-or-treated before. They were excited to get to dress up. Debbie brought their costumes for them to wear.
Here are our kids. The boys were Ninja Turtles and Hannah was an Indian princess.
Noah was a Ninja Turtle too. Jayden was Harry Potter and Lochlan was Robin Hood.
Hannah with Kenzie and Karly.
Lincoln and Jack.
Debbie, Kris, and Alyssa were cracking up at something. There were a lot of laughs with these guys!
Layton with his friend, Brett.
Caden, Layton, and Gunnar.
What a bunch!!
Trick-or-Treating around our neighborhood.
LOVE that Mark, Debbie, and Alyssa brought costumes too. We laughed and laughed. They were so fun!!!
Checking out their loot.
Kris and Jayden arm wrestling. Jayden has a birth defect with his arm, but he does not let it keep him from doing anything.
On Saturday we took them all to Searcy. They had never been to Harding before but have met many, many people from there through campaigns over the years. So, this was a real treat for them. We scored free tickets to the Homecoming football game thanks to Kris having a connection to the president's secretary.
Harding swing pictures.
That night we took them to the Shrek the Musical that Harding was doing. It was SO good. The guy that played Lord Farquaad was hysterical. He totally made the play.
We had a blast with this family while they were here. I had not seen them in about 10 years. Kris saw them a few years ago. I met them for the first time back in 2004 when we went over there when I was 8 weeks pregnant with Hannah. They are very special people to Kris and I am so glad that we got to hang out with them!!
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