Happy Halloween!

Today is one of my favorite fall holidays! The leaves are falling and winter is in the air!

We're holding our annual Halloween party and we've got a number of friends coming over for a little goblin food, fun, and festivities!

Will (Cad Bane - Star Wars Clone Wars) and Rhett (Woody - Toy Story) are excited and looking forward to day and night filled with trick-or-treating, fun, and friends!

Happy Halloween......we hope you have a wonderful and safe day!

Sleepover

Ethan, Will's buddy since Kindergarten, is

moving to Colorado. We do not want them to

move but we totally understand! (we have been in

their shoes before) We had to have one last sleepover

before they move away from us. Ethan, Lukas and Will

had such a fun time. Jace was out of town or he would have

joined his friends. The boys had pizza, ghost brownies, carved

pumpkins, roasted pumpkin seeds, made smores and played!

Enjoying each other!

Having fun outside!

Carving pumpkins...the boys drew what they wanted

their pumpkin to look like first. Then started scooping

all the insides out. They did really well cleaning it all out.

We even roasted the seeds from their pumpkins...Lukas' recipe.

Will really did not like all the goo on his hands, but

he got it done...I tried to help each boy get their pumpkin

cleaned out. They had a great time just talking about how

they were going to carve their pumpkin.

Rhett had fun running around, playing basketball

and trying to help the boys.

Ethan took a break and showed us some of his

dancing moves.

I wish you could see their jack~o~lanterns better.

They are really good!

Rhett enjoyed the graham crackers.

Ethan enjoyed the smores!

What a fun time they had!

Happy Wednesday!

Thought I would put a pic of Will and Rhett on

here today. I do not have time to post but hopefully

will get caught up someday. This is a pic from

Gull Meadow Farms. Enjoy your Wednesday!

Breaking News

Usually breaking news is about something that

has happened to Will...but not this time.

This time it is about Rhett.

Yesterday was a sad day for Mama and Rhett.

We said goodbye to paci. When Rhett woke

up, I decided to cut paci and put a Toy Story

band aid on it. That way I could tell Rhett that

paci had a bo bo. (I remember Dana doing this with

Austin's pa...I think.) He did much, much better than

I thought he would. He asked and cried some for paci

but not too much. He slept through the night without it.

Yea, for Rhett! But for Mama that means my baby is growing up!

Here is paci with the band aid. Keep in mind that we still have

foofee....we can't get rid of both at the same time.

This is the last pic I have of Rhett with his paci.

(at the Chicago Marathon)

I have been thinking about doing this for a couple of weeks.

I just needed to have a block of time to work on it. I did not

want to get rid of paci when we had to be in the car for a long time.

We needed paci this past weekend for our trip to Chicago. Our next

road trip will be after Christmas, when we travel back home. I

think we will be good to go by then. (maybe even potty trained too)

This little boy is growing up way too fast!! I have to keep enjoying

my time with him because I know it is going to fly by. He will be

in kindergarten before I know it. We have really enjoyed you, Paci!!

Bye, Bye!

Happy Birthday ~ MawMaw

Happy Birthday ~ MawMaw!

Today is our MawMaw's birthday....we hope

she has a wonderful day. Wish we were with her

to celebrate. We love and miss you soo much!

In September we took at trip with MawMaw to Niagara Falls.

It was so much fun to see the falls, journey to the falls and take

a ride on maid of the mist. I can't wait to share more of our pics.

This is in front of Niagara Falls.

the rail car ride

What fun we had on our journey to Canada!

I will share pics later.

MawMaw, happy birthday and we love you!

Happy Birthday Mimi

Mimi and Pop started their 2 day journey to Michigan today!

Will and Rhett can't wait to see them. Rhett keeps saying

"I see Mimi and Pop!" Maybe they will arrive tomorrow

in enough time to pick Will up from school??

While they are here, we are going to be soo busy!

Saturday ~ Mimi's birthday, Will's soccer game and

travel and explore what we can of Chicago

Sunday ~ the Chicago Marathon and travel back home

Monday ~ Gull Meadow Farms

Tuesday ~ they are back on the road again to Texas

I told you we were going to be busy!

Mimi's birthday is Saturday! We are going to celebrate

Friday night! Happy Birthday Mimi! We love you so much

and are so happy you will be here to celebrate!

This picture was taken in Destin, FL. this summer.

You can see Rhett is so happy to be taking pictures.

We are very happy that Pop is going to be here too.

Can't wait to show him around Chicago!

We love you Pop!

Marathon Celebration ~ Party

Everyone had so much fun with Christa and Bethany

celebrating their upcoming Chicago Marathon Run!

Ashley and I decorated the tables with flowers in

shoe boxes and everything had a red/white theme.

This year the 10~10~10 Chicago logo is in red

and white...so that was some inspiration for us!

mats to wish them luck

another table with the red/white theme

We served homemade lasagna, salad and french bread.

And some yummy gelato for dessert!

Christa and Bethany

Me and Ashley

We had so much fun planning this celebration!

Thanks Ashley!

Friends

Bethany will be moving soon....I sure am going

to miss my friend!

I can't wait for Sunday, 10~10~10! We will be traveling

to Chicago to see both Bethany and Christa run

the Chicago Marathon. Also, Mimi and Pop will be in town

so they will be joining us. Pop has never been to

Chicago so this will be an experience for him.

Did I mention....there are 45,000 runners running the

marathon! (maybe we should not let Pop know that)

Marathon Celebration

Tonight is Bethany and Christa's Marathon Celebration!

Can't wait to celebrate with everyone!

Bethany and Christa will be running the

Chicago Marathon (26.2 miles) on

10~10~10!

This is a picture from their 20mile run!

They are AMAZING!

So proud of you two!