James Van Der Beek isn't letting his ongoing most cancers battle get him down — particularly when it's time to take his youngsters trick-or-treating on Halloween.
“Blissful Halloween!!!!” James' spouse, Kimberly Van Der Beek, wrote through Instagram early on Saturday, November 1, sharing pictures of the household's costumes from the earlier night.
James, 48, regarded dapper because the titular Phantom of the Opera, accomplished with a tuxedo, white bowtie and an identical half-face masks. Kimberly, 43, for her half, dressed as a fox with a spiderweb painted on her neck.
“Phantom and the Fox,” Kimberly wrote through her Instagram Tales, snapping a selfie along with her partner through the Friday, October 31, vacation.
The Van Der Beeks are dad and mom to Olivia, 15, Joshua, 13, Annabel, 11, Emilia, 9, Gwendolyn, 7, and Jeremiah, 4, who wore particular person costumes on Friday. Annabel and Emilia dressed because the Statue of Liberty and a witch, respectively, with Joshua donning a skeleton outfit. Gwendolyn, for her half, rocked out as Rumi from Ok-Pop Demon Hunters and Jeremiah went as an lovable lime-green bear. (Olivia didn't seem within the household snaps.)
After posing for his or her lovable pictures, James and Kimberly took their youngsters to gather all types of sweet from the neighbors' homes.
James Van Der Beek and son Jeremiah. Courtesy of Kimberly Van Der Beek/ Instagram
“A trick-or-treat golf cart?! Don't thoughts if we do,” Kimberly wrote through her Tales, sharing a pic of James within the entrance seat with Jeremiah. “Due to my babe @odetteannable.”
James introduced in fall 2023 that he was identified with stage 3 colorectal most cancers.
“I've been privately coping with this prognosis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the assist of my unimaginable household,” the Dawson's Creek alum instructed Individuals in November 2023, revealing he privately underwent an undisclosed type of remedy. “There's cause for optimism, and I'm feeling good.”
He continued, “This has been a crash course within the mastery of thoughts, physique, and spirit. I believed, ‘That is both going to take me out of the physique, or it's going to show me how one can actually dwell in it.'”
James Van Der Beek and Kimberly Van Der Beek. Courtesy of Kimberly Van Der Beek/ Instagram
As James navigated his prognosis, his father, James William, leapt into motion to assist his son by means of the attempting time.
“The way in which you've got proven up once I've been down and out this yr — with out us having to ask, with out the expectation of even a thanks has been not simply life-saving, however life-affirming,” James wrote in a January Instagram tribute to his dad. “Transferring onto the ranch for once I'm away for remedy. Making lunches, making fires for @vanderkimberly, driving youngsters, even taking good care of the canines and chickens, however it's much more than that. I'm blown away by the way you've been there for me emotionally as I've moved by means of all the pieces most cancers brings up.”
He concluded, “I do know it's exterior your consolation zone, however particularly since Mother died, you've got come by means of for me repeatedly and once more in ways in which I didn't even know the way a lot I wanted. Thanks for being the very best. I'll hold my promise that we gained't ever ask you to alter Jeremiah's diapers.”
