Bumped Up

Allie hurt her ear on Halloween night. We're still really not sure how it happened but the best we can figure out is that the kids were playing around the porch swing and she got hit. It immediately swelled up and turned every nasty color in the book. The next morning the swelling was down but it was unbelievable how nasty it looked. I've never ever seen anyone with a bruised ear before but she really scored one. We are almost a week later and it is just now improving...still very noticeable bruising and about 5 different colors but slowly improving. First time for everything!

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Pumpkin Carving

We carved our pumpkin the night before Halloween. We would usually do more than one but with as busy as things have been this year I just grabbed a pumpkin when I was at Walmart and we only did one this year.

Lucas insisted that he wanted to draw the face on it and had been drawing and practicing on paper all afternoon so we just that he had something fabulous planned....we were in for a surprise! He started drawing...he drew and drew and drew.

Then we got our big shock of the night.

We had to ask him to be sure...."Luke..what's up with the mouth and nose?" Okay well let's just stay it didn't stay quite like that. Daddy fixed it up alittle...even after carving you can still see the original though so Lucas' contribution stayed put.

Allie was obsessed with the pumpkin once the top came off of it. She kept looking down inside and was amazed at what she was seeing. Not to mention that she was convinced she could pick it up!!!!

Halloween

We only got in about an hour of trick or treating this year before getting soaked! It rained all day long Saturday until about 2 hours before it got dark...when we started out it was dry and the skies were clear but it didn't stay that way for long. We got through about 7 houses before it started sprinkling but kept on because it wasn't anything major....YET. I had left the umbrella at the house since it wasn't raining and the skies looked clear and that was my big mistake! As we got further away the sprinkling became alittle heavier house by house. We got to the end of the street when it started pouring down rain. We walked about 1/2 a mile back home in the downpour and got soaking wet. By the time we got back home everyone and everything was drenched...as we emptied the kids buckets there was about 1/2 inch of water in each one...made for alot of the candy getting thrown out. Interesting Halloween was had by all here in the South. The kids had fun though..they were alittle disappointed that they didn't get more candy but in the end we parents thought they had enough....good side is we won't have candy around our house for another month...my waistline is thankful for that.

                                                                         Allie the ladybug :)

Caleb;our little golfer.

Jacob;ninja turtle

Lucas;I don't know that he has a name but he was the scary dude from Scream

Allie and her Daddy

This is a local house near us that went all out decorating for Halloween. He's apparently a lawyer around town and I have never seen anything like this before. He has a full size plane in his front yard and a hearse with a real coffin. Crazy stuff if you ask me!!!!! He had even more than this but I didn't want to get too gory here...some of it was really creepy!

Also in case you haven't noticed I got a new look. I won a blog makeover from Kelly over at Two kids a Minivan and Alot of Love and I just love it! She was awesome to work with and made sure I was completely happy with everything. I never even saw the stuff before she started...I just gave her an idea of colors and off she went. You did a fabulous job Kelly! Thank you so much!!!!!!! If any of you are in the market for a blog makeover contact her and see what she can do for you...she rocks!

Friday Photo Flashback

Alicia has started this meme on Fridays called Friday Photo Flashback. It's for those of us that have pictures from the pre digital camera days. I love to look back through old photos so this is so much fun for me.

This week Alicia went back and shared a picture from Halloween so I figured why not..I'd do the same since tomorrows the day.

This is a picture of Jacob's second Halloween. Since Lucas and Jacob were both born in Oct their first Halloween they couldn't do much other than lay there. I have pictures but I can't find them right now..either that or I'm just not looking very hard :) Jacob was a giraffe and Lucas was a red power ranger.

This is a picture from about 4 years ago. Jacob was Superman and Lucas was Darth Vader. This was during the Star Wars stage that my mom got him started on. He was all about it at that point. I love how Jacob is looking up at him :)

So head over to Alicia's and join in the fun so we can see your flashback also.

LLLLOOOONNNNGGGG Week

I got up this morning and said Thank Goodness it's Friday....it took a few minutes for it to hit me that it's only Thursday. :( What a week it's been....maybe it's because I never really got a weekend last weekend since David was sick the entire time. Whatever the reason I'm ready for Friday!!!!

Caleb is definitely going through the "terrible twos" stage right now. Most of the time he's well behaved and easy to handle but during the day when it's just he,Allie and I the terrible two stage shines through. Somedays I want to scream.

Allie has decided that she can pitch a tantrum when she doesn't get what she wants and when she gets upset boy there is no stopping her. I'll admit I'm ready for this stage to pass with both of them and get my regular happy kids back all the time!

Jacob has pajama day today...he's excited about that and then tomorrow is 50's day at school. I need ideas since I wasn't alive or even thought of in the 50's. What does a little boy in the 50's wear? I am clueless!!!!!!

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