Got the kids ready to do some quick snaps out by the house this weekend, patting myself on the back for how low-key we're keeping this holiday, when I swear a hurricane decided to blow in. Apparently that can have an effect on how cooperative your subjects are. Oh well, I think I might need to start doing holiday pictures in the summer by the pool. :-D
Still workin' on a soccer post, but how about the Halloween pictures in the meantime?
Is it just me, or is Halloween turning into another one of those holidays that is really supposed to just be one day but feels like it goes on and ON and on?? At least this year I did NOT eat a million gajillion fun-size Kit Kats. Thank you to the executive that decided that the Kit Kats this year should be orange. They tasted like garbage. That gives me a head start on the holiday battle-to-not-gain-10-pounds-this-year!
Grandma sent her annual Halloween Happy Box. It did make the kids happy. I did enjoy the shortbread cookies. :)
Our church always does a "trunk or treat" (trick or treating in the parking lot at various cars instead of knocking doors) every year, this year a week before Halloween. It was massive and the kids had a blast. I stole a couple of pictures that our Bishop posted on Facebook, since these are the only ones I have this year of rest of the family.
Ryan continued the tradition of a wig-costume and was a leprechaun this year. I did not get my costume inspiration until too late and couldn't find what I wanted, so it'll have to wait til next year.
Josh and his best buddy William. I told the kids that this year I was not buying costumes, they would have to come up with their own from our vast supplies. Josh was also not really inspired until too late, so oh well.
MeeMee and Don came to town for the Halloween weekend. MeeMee made Halloween treats with the kids, including these monster finger/pretzel thingies. They made good soccer game snacks for this momma a few days later. :) (This post sounds like I've been eating junk nonstop for awhile now!)
Don also got this one of my nutty girls.
Since Halloween fell on Sunday this year, a friend from church put together a Saturday night trick-or-treat route for some of us to take our kids. My girls opted to be kitties for that night (they had used other costumes on the church party night). I tried to get a few pictures of them before we left, but they are WIGGLY and this was the best I could do.
Ryan and Josh went with some other friends to the UT game that night instead. Too bad UT is on a roll for stinky games lately, but they had fun anyway!
We had a quick, fun little trip down to see my mom & Don this weekend. We had a great day at the beach on Saturday -- very creature-laden, to my kids' delight -- and then I took the kids to see How to Train a Dragon in 3D, which we all liked. We did some Chili's takeout for dinner, did church on Sunday, then it was time to come home. Don took a picture of our crew after church:
It was a good time. I have been blessed with a great family and especially kids that I love to pieces.
I don't think I ever posted about how we have once again found ourselves with reptiles and amphibians in our domicile.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we were gifted a small turtle by our non-English-speaking cleaning lady, who had figured out that we had a house full of creature-loving kids. We already owned a tree frog. Both of those will ensure that you have to also keep live crickets as pets in order to properly feed the aforementioned creatures. So it seemed like quite a production. We also had a cat and a hamster. Yes, I KNOW.
Anyway, we were gearing up to take our extended vacation to California, so we had to start farming out the pets. One of our friends already had a massive aquarium set up with fish and frogs, and she loved turtles, so we arranged for her to take our turtle and frog. The day before we were going to take the pets to her, my kids found another small turtle in our yard, so she won the jackpot and got TWO turtles and a frog.
Fast forward to about a month ago, when I got a call from this same friend who was now getting ready to move herself. She still had the turtles, but now instead of a tree frog, she had an African clawed frog.
So . . .
Junior and Kimmy are back.
And now we also have Big Bertha.
Big Bertha is kinda creepy-lookin, I think. And sometimes she stares at me while I'm on the computer. But I'm getting used to her. It is fun to watch her eat guppies, so I put up with her. It's totally Animal Kingdom in this house, I tell ya.
Well, we're gonna take off to my old stompin grounds to visit Mee Mee for Mother's Day this weekend, and get in a little beach action while we're at it. See you next week!
Josh is having so much fun taking a unit test for math.
The new view from the webcam (in the schoolroom, which is at the front of the house so I can spy on everybody driving by, just like at the old house!):
Starting next week, Ryan will have two weeks of Christmas vacation, yeah! Course, he'll be bored out of his mind by Monday afternoon, but I think we have enough loose ends at the other house to keep him busy for awhile. ;-)
We got moved into the new house over the weekend. Moving is about as fun as . . . hmm, nevermind. The kids are over the "new" feeling of the house and are ready to proceed with the Christmas fun! They are old enough now that all they need is for the tubs to be brought out -- they'll take care of the rest!
Josh sets up Mom's snow globes:
My Christmas book collection is ready to go!
The tree is upstairs this year, looking out over the entry.
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