Halloween 2011

Well we started the day with school  Since we are no longer allowed it seems in American schools to celebrate Halloween..ridiculous if you ask me- Sophie wore the Halloween clothes we had amassed.

 Then we got ready for the real event..trick or treating.

 

 

Then the rain started.  It was already cold but we didn't need the rain.  

All in all it was fine by 6pm.

And the witch came out.

 

Her Aunt also came wearing her witch outfit.  Though no one got to see it after she arrived as she spent the evening sitting on the porch in her jacket and covered with a down throw..sad right?

 

Jack could not make up his mind..go with the werewolf or the skeleton?

 The skeleton won out. 

It was a great night-. lots of kids came to the house.  We scared most and made some cry.

We ran out of candy which means it was busy.

Now, how do we top it next year? hmmmm

Ridiculous Day....

Today is day two of drug awareness week at Tramway elementary.  

It is ridiculous day.  Wear crazy clothes and crazy hair.

My kids love this day as you can see.

Jack and his multicolored hair and funny shirt:

 

Then Sophie picked out her clothes and we had fun with her hair..

fun times I guess.

After the rain....

After the rain, we got the nice cooler temperatures of autumn and this surprise:

Of course, Jack wanted us to run down the street to find the end.  Fortunately, it left as quick as it showed up.  No running to look for it- thank goodness. :)

Soccer anyone?

Yes this takes up a lot of our time:  SOCCER.

The season is almost over and it couldn't have happened sooner - thank goodness. I am soccer'ed out.

Here are the munchkins doing their best:

 This girl is awesome at soccer.  She is fast and has no fear.  The only thing holding her back this season is a team that is not up to her level.  She gets a bit frustrated with their lack of skills. Oh well, she is awesome.

He is not a lover of soccer.  He is not as fearless as his sister but the boy loves to run.  So, he plays forward now so he can run the length of that field as fast as those long legs will take him.

We will be taking off from soccer in the spring.  Decided fall is enough.  After a long winter with rainy weather all the time and it getting so dark so early, once spring comes they hate to go to practice.  They just want to play outside.  So, this spring we will do just that- PLAY. 

bubble time

Sophie has been trying to learn how to blow a bubble..look what she accomplished today?

 

Way to go girl..I told you just keep trying.

National Night Out 2011

Our little historic district had National Night Out on Tuesday.  It was so hot but it went well.  Kudos to Ashley Jewell for the AWESOME job she did planning and executing it.  Only one thing needs to change- we need to have ours in October like Texas does- it is too dang hot to have this kind of thing in August.

There was a food tent for all.

Of course my daughter who hates hot dogs informed me that she hates our hot dogs that Mr. Paul does them great.

Ashley made things for kids and the theme was Pirates - arrrghhh.

Can't go wrong with this now can you?

Two of my favorite guys just talking..dad and son.

And nothing would happen in this neighborhood without the ever giving couple:

Mike

and his better half- Nancy

Thanks to all those who helped and came out.  Yes it could have been cooler but it was fun all the same..here's to next year - hopefully in October.

till the next get together - tammy

Summers over...for us anyway.

Well we did it. With only 5 weeks of summer vacation due to kids being on a year round school calendar we did our vacations with a week to spare.  

We left for Texas the day after school got out - June 11 for 2 weeks to visit with hubby's family.

His parents live on Lake Belton so the kids had a field day - kinda made it hard to come back to living on land without a lake:( 

We did a bit of this:

 and this:

and got to hang with the cousins:

yeah those Texans are a bit out there but we love them anyway.

I hit lots of stores while shopping with my bestie - Liz.

We hit up Winnie and Tahlulas, Binky LaFayes, Martas shop, Spice in Waco, Bloom-n-Bee, The Fredericksburg trade days, Austin City wide garage sale and more.

I'd love to say I got lots of photos like I promised but it was hotter than a witches patootie and lugging around that camera just didn't happen. Sorry.

After our 3 day drive back from Texas we had 2 days to unpack, repack and then hit the road for the beach trip over the 4th of July..

lots of time for bikinis and boogie boards: 

time for brother and sisterly fun if not love :

time for craziness and just plain old fun:

time for sparklers:

and more:

even those that are too cool to hang with family at the beach never outgrow sparklers:

After the beach we got home and had 10 days till school started.  We had a house to clean after being gone so long, a yard to mow, and unfortunately an infestation of fruit flies to conquer and kill.  We did it all and still managed to have some pool time, just laying around the house doing nothing time and of course school supply shopping.

Today school started up and who would have thought it was merely two weeks ago they were living in bathing suits ?

My new first grader all in pink - her choice- Sophie

And my third grader - funny little man- Jack.

I am back to crafting and will be sharing as I go along..

Only 74 days till my October 1 show..

Glad to be back.