Halloween 2010

Poor little blog, you have been so neglected.  I haven't found time to post pictures here lately.  Lots to catch up from the summer.  But we will start with the present.... Halloween.

This year was the first time that all 3 kids really got into trick-or-treating.  They have enjoyed dressing up in the past and have gone to neighbor's houses.  But this year was the first time that no one fell asleep (Garrett last year), it wasn't sleeting and they weren't scared to be out after dark.  They practically ran from house to house.

Before it got too dark everyone got dressed up and they let me take pictures.

This is one of Garrett "taking flight"...

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Halloween

Going to try and play catch up with the pictures here in the next few days.  Would like to end 2009 caught up, at least through Christmas.  But back to where we last left off.....Halloween.

The next two pictures were taken when we were off to take the kids to the daycare evening Halloween party.  There were lots of fun games, prizes, food and of course candy for everyone.
Little Bear is dressed as a fairy princess, "A" is a genie (kind of like Jasmine) and G-mant is a pirate.  He had the arrrrgghhhh mate down and was ready to tell everyone what he was.
On Halloween night G-man actually fell asleep before we could go trick-or-treating.  He was out around 5:00 pm and did not wake up again until the next morning - around 7am.  Guess we wore him out during our photo session on halloween afternoon.  Thankfully the girls were more than willing to share all of their candy with him.

Here are a few more pictures of the girls on Halloween evening as the sun set - just before we left to go trick-or-treating.

Aren't they just adorable?  I know I am a little prejudiced on this topic, but they are just too cute for words.  Take care for now and watch out for a few more posts in the next few days.

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Halloween

We could not have asked for better weather for halloween. No rain, no snow, just beautiful weather. A very slight chill in the air, but not enough to require the kids to wear their coats.

The kids were VERY excited for the day. From the time they woke up they asked to put on their costumes. Needless to say they jumped for joy when we said it was time to get dressed.

Here are a few pictures that I was able to get of our little goblins!

Fairy Princess

our Count Dracula

Sweet little Butterfly

This was the first year that all of them wanted to actually go from house to house. I think we went to about 6 or 7 of our neighbors. Then the kids sat on the front porch with their Dad and helped with handing out candy. They said "trick or treat" like pros and even remembered to say thank you every now and then.

I will treasure the fun we had and look forward to the many years of fun dress up that we have to come. Hope everyone else had a great halloween!

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Happy Halloween

Well - I hadn't realized that it has been over a month since I posted anything.  Hope you didn't think I fell off the face of the earth.  Goodness it has been a busy 6 weeks!  

After getting back from San Francisco I had to get ready for the twins club garage sale.  It is not your typical garage sale.  We sell everything under the sun for kids and babies.  This sale we had a record 70+ sellers.  It was a busy weekend, but very fun.  After that crazy weekend my Father came to visit for a week and it was my last week as an Applebee's employee.  That brought with it lunches, happy hours and lots of good-byes.  I was a little sad, but with the way things have headed I'm glad I was able to get out and have them pay me to do it.

In the middle of everything I also started working as an independent contractor for a company called BigTent.  I love working for them and have had lots of fun working from home.  It has been an adjustment.  But I'm all settled in and like the fact that I don't have to sit in traffic!  The contract was only supposed to be for 4 weeks.  But we are at the end of week 6 and I will have at least 3 more before I'm done.  I am so thankful for this opportunity and glad that, even though temporary, I was able to find some work.

October has been filled with busy weekends for the family.  We went to the Applefest up in Weston, Missouri, with friends.  We celebrated all of our October birthdays with the family and Avary and I spent this pasted weekend in Omaha seeing family and friends.  

The kids are growing, talking our ears off and Avary is reading more and more everyday.  I'm amazed by them all.  They are excited to dress up tomorrow and have been practicing their "trick or treat" and "thank you".  Hopefully they'll actually say something when they get to our neighbor's houses.  The weather is supposed to be a beautiful 70 degrees tomorrow.  So it should be a fun night.

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