A Winning Weekend

For the first time in a long time, all of our teams won this weekend - the Central High School Bobcats, the Aggies (Whoop!), and the Cowboys. John Curtis felt very proud!

Halloween 2009

My parents made a last minute decision to come see the kids for the night on Friday. It was nice to have them here. On Friday night, the guys went to the football game to watch the Bobcats win while the girls stayed home and made caramel apples.

The next morning we had our traditional ghost toast and eggs.

Tickle time with Bumpaw

Trunk or Treat

I do realize that the last few posts have been of my kids in their costumes and they all look the same, but I had to document it one more time. Taylor worked really hard on them.

However, they weren't the most comfortable costumes.

Unfortunately, the pictures don't do Sophie's justice. She actually has a green light up leaf on the front and blue lights coming out the bottom. You just can't see them in the pictures. It was fun!

Bonham Trunk or Treat

We are about Halloweened out and the real day isn't even here yet. Tonight was trunk or treat at Sophie's school and Eve made her big debut.

Trick or Treating at School

John Curtis's class went trick or treating today. The parents make a big semi circle in the gym and the kids come by in their costumes to trick or treat. Last year it took forever so I decided not to cancel my tutoring classes. Instead Taylor was going to run up there and take pictures of him. We were told his class was last so I told Taylor to get there around 10. Unfortunately, they changed the order at the last minute and his class went first. Taylor missed the whole thing. The disappointing thing to me was that I could have stayed for a few minutes and watched it and still made it to work on time. Oh well. It's hard for me to get used to not being at everything.

Thankfully my sweet friend Roxanne took some pictures of John Curtis for me. As you can see, an unfortunate result of Daddy not being there was that his eyes are on upside down.

A Halloween Storytime

Twice a month John Curtis and I go to story time at the public library. Today the kids got to wear their costumes. It was a good practice run for Halloween and showed us some ways his costume can be improved.

This is John Curtis waiting by the car to take a picture with Connor.

This is John Curtis running away in fear when he saw Connor in his skeleton mask. He wouldn't go near him until he took it off.

As you can see our box is leaning a little causing our little guy to be uneven. We're working on it.

The costume, of course, had to come off since he can't do anything in it except walk. They got to throw leaves in the air with a parachute.

This picture was taken in the dark. They were pretending to be ghosts. Scary!

Looking through his telescope like a pirate.

These drums were super loud. I'm sure all of the library patrons without children appreciated this.

A Joyful Noise!

Pumpkin Day!

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This year we did a more low key Pumpkin Day than we did last year. The costumes still weren't finished so they were priority. Plus, Taylor had a wedding so he left late in the afternoon and was gone all evening. All that to say, we kind of cheated this year and bought a "fake" pumpkin at Hobby Lobby. It was SO much easier. Maybe we'll do a real one on Halloween. Maybe not. Most of what we did had to do with food, so my kids are eating in most of the pictures :)

Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin Sandwiches

Looks good!

Carving the fake pumpkin. No gooey mess!

Helping Mom make pumpkin cupcakes

Pumpkin Pasta dinner. Grammy even sent special Halloween shaped pasta in a care package this year.

Enjoying the pumpkin cupcakes.

Ending the day watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

If you're interested in any of the recipes, click here to go to last year's post.