Watching the Game

Halloween Sneak Peak

Our town had a little early trick or treat celebration today. The kids were excited to get into their costumes and get some candy.  They are very excited about tomorrow night. We are heading to a neighbors for some pizza and then off to collect as much candy as possible :-)  Will try to get some pictures tomorrow, too. (Hannah - Princess; Abby - Southern Belle; Griff - Fireman)

Oh, and we had lots of fun carving pumpkins this year.  Abby's is the one closest to the house with the strange scar on the top of the head; Hannah's is the one with the circle eyes and frown (she wanted a sad pumpkin....have not idea why) and Griff's is the traditional pumpkin with the triangle eyes and nose.  Mike's is the small one with the Harry Potter scar :-)  We had some cool webbing and spiders hanging from our door, windows and rock outside our house, but the tornado-like winds we had the other day torn it all off.  I didn't have the energy to put it all back up again.

In the Spirit

We are getting into the Halloween spirit around here, especially with the hanging black bat Grandma and Grandpa Meiers gave us during their visit.  I think Halloween is going to be a blast this year!

Whew.....sitting down for a breather

It's been busy around here....been feeling a bit like this....running around out of control.....

I really don't mind. The running around from here to there and everywhere is much better than being trapped inside the house with 6 month old twins in February.  I'll take this any day.  With all the time we've been spending in the car, we've found some fun short cuts to and from various places, so it's a bit of an adventure while we are out and about, too :-)  Our typical week is karate 2 -3 times after school, faith formation one night a week and girl scouts or some other function one other day after school. Busy, but fun busy.  And, I've figured out the dinner predicament: the slow cooker and a bit of meal planning goes a long way.  We haven't had fast food in two weeks.

With Abby being busy, and the twins being in school a couple days a week, I haven't had much opportunity to take many pictures.  Below are some that I've taken over the last couple of weeks. None of Abby because she is never around :-) Will try to get some this weekend. Would love to get a family one since the trees are so pretty...we'll see if we can get it done!

(they usually wear helmets, I swear. just ask anyone in the neighborhood. or abby. she hates them.  i wanted them off for the pictures...they were on them as soon as the camera was away :-)