Halloween!

"Tikteet" "Tanoo" (trick or treat, thank you)

Alannah's first real trick or treat night! After the first house or two she was trying to take more than one piece!

Little Old Lady complete with powdered hair- even though she accidently left her dress at school. (Little old ladies are always forgetting things)

Ninja Turtle - after nearly having to hide the costume last month so that Bry couldn't sleep in it!

THE AFTERMATH:

the sorting:

telling Papa about the great event:

getting ready for my bath:

My Baby's Birthday!

2005 Halloween

2006 September

2007 Erin and Sky Eye

2008 Kit and Elizabeth

Spirit Day was Erin's birthday this year

Its your birthday - wear a dress!

Its your birthday - make a mess!

That's currently our favorite chant for birthdays. - Right after "Its my birthday- Its my birthday - Have a partae!"

My baby is 8 today! Never have 8 years gone so fast.

From my baby who was afraid to climb on the jungle gym until her brother went first - to my confident school girl who begged to learn cursive - to my worried daughter who missed one spelling word on her challenge test and rewrote it 15 times instead of the 5 required!

How is it possible to love someone so much?

More Fall Fun

What a busy weekend we had! I had class Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday. When I got home on Saturday we got ready to go to the annual Sperry Chicken Party. The Sperry Farm is a huge local chicken and egg processing farm. Rick knows one of the owners through the school board and we are always invited. They usually have a giant pile of shelled corn for kids to play in, live Bluegrass music, and tons of good chicken to eat of course!!

On Sunday, when I left for class, we had a hard frost. I always think of James Taylor's song "frost is on the pumpkins..." Apparently Daddy was reminded of it too and decided to carve one of the pumpkins with the guys. The big pumpkin chosen turned out to be Alannah's. They roasted and snacked on the seeds for the rest of the day. An overall excellent fall weekend.

Prepare for Fall

Chill mornings, hot afternoons

Burnished leaves

Hollaring at tiny helmeted men on Sundays

Roaring old truck

Pumpkin smells wafting out of the oven

Evening fires and glowing embers

It must be fall.

The kids grew a pumpkin patch this year and scratched their names in the "best" ones. They spent some time cleaning and arranging pumpkins on the patio this morning.

Ted

Take a moment this weekend and watch talk or two on Ted.com

So many points of view....perfect for a sunday