our family holiday ... (quick overnight trip!)

This was our first "family vacation" since Grady was born ... Phil went to the farm show and the rest of us went visiting! It was short but still fun. We spent some time with Great Grandma, Wendy, Amy and Ella. We stayed with Auntie Marion and Uncle Harvey, but I forgot to take a photo of them.

happy halloween!

As usual it was circus getting ready to go trick or treating .. so I never took any photos. Anyway, the kids had fun getting candy from the neighbors ... although Rhett was ready to go home once he got a lollipop! Samara was a queen, Keithan was Superman, Rhett was a knight, and Grady didn't really dress up, but did have a halloween hat and shirt under his snowsuit! He slept through the trick or treating anyway! The kids quickly got out of their costumes when we got home ... except Grady, so I was able to take his picture.

ps. took me a long time to post these. Grady was almost crawling when I took these and now he goes all over the place!

halloween fun

Samara's class had some fun today - experimenting with milk, food coloring and dish soap (just a tiny drop of dish soap to create each reaction ... in case you try this at home!), making monster cookies and masks. As you can see, she was a queen this year. Last year she was a princess. Not sure what she has in mind for next year ... can't step up that ladder any further!