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Friday, October 31, 2008

Trick or Treat....

What a treat for us today, Daddy got home a little early!!!
Don't you just love how Landon grins these days?

One robot, one rock star, a princess and....
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one very sweet and tired dalmatian!

We went to a carnival with Ella Rose and her family for a while tonight. It was fun but boy was it crowded!!! I think the girls had a blast. The older kids had a good time but they were chomping at the bit to go trick or treating. We worked it out so everyone got to do both. We did the carnival for a while and then came back and hit a couple (7 or 8) houses in our neighborhood. Now we have WAY to much candy!! Casey was so funny. She kept saying that she wanted to go trick or treating--not that she had any idea what it was but if the big kids want to do it then she must to. Well when we left Ella Rose to go home and trick or treat, Casey started crying that she wanted to go back to Halloween. Well I'm off to scope out the candy--if I don't get one of the good pieces tonight, then they will disappear!!!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Okay,

I thought I could force the post to go in the order I want them but alas, I can't. Don't miss the post about carving the pumpkins and how much fun that was for everyone.

So what do you think?

Here are our pumpkin creations!!! And to think there was so much gagging going on yesterday!!!

Landon would really rather get down and play!! I think Casey is probably the proudest of all but Shelby runs a close race!

Casey's pumpkin.

Shelby's RABBIT pumpkin. Please not the lovely white ears!!

Drew's pumpkin.

Pumpkin Fun

Not!!!!!
Drew and Shelby always want to carve pumpkins at Halloween but usually I find another way to decorate that suits them. Well this year they were not going to be persuaded to change---they wanted to carve those pumpkins!!! It's not that I don't want them to have fun and carving a pumpkin makes a great parallel to the transformation God makes in our life when we ask Him to take over our life. That being said, I REALLY don't like cleaning out the pumpkin guts. So this year, I told them that I would cut the tops open and after THEY cleaned out the guts, I would cut out the faces on their pumpkins. Sounded like a plan and they were ready to go. Shelby (you'll love this) went and got medical gloves for them to wear!!! I know you're laughing already!!! All I can say is by the way they acted, I think they might have gotten sick if they had actually TOUCHED "that stuff!"
What do you think? Will they want to do this again?

Poor Drew, the gloves almost didn't fit him!

At this point, Shelby has on a double layer of gloves!!

Landon enjoyed playing with Drew's pumpkin lid while Casey had fun riding her zebra. She really wanted to carve her pumpkin and I think she would have had NO problem cleaning it out!!

However, she choose a small, bumpy pumpkin that I didn't want to try and carve so we glued a face on it.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Just because...

Casey with her "popcorn ball" that she got from Nate's party. Upon opening it she said, "Dis wooks wike a ball!"

Don't you just love this? It's one of my favorite pictures!!!

Okay, doesn't this just make you smile.

My Social Child...

Just in case I thought Shelby was my social child......enter Casey and a neighbor her own age!!!

Meet Ella Rose. She is our neighbor and just a little older than Casey. These girls are great together---most of the time (as long as everyone gets a nap!!) I think they were dancing in this picture.

Here they are planning a dance. It turns out that I get to play the music and they dance as Cinderella and Dorothy (who didn't want her photo taken).

They also love building with Legos. Casey mentioned the other day that she likes play-doh also. We do that at Ella Rose's house--outside!!

Then there is painting. We love to paint!! Shelby is great. She will paint and play Legos with them and they think that's great.
Now everyday, both girls start the day by asking when the other can play!!!