It's Autumn Time (or was, anyway!)

Halloween 2009 Part Two

We had another fun party, this time with the Rich gang. There was yummy food including impressive Spider Bread and the most delicious "Boo" chocolate sheet cake. Of course the pumpkin pizza was a hit and the "smoking witch's brew." Grandpa always tries to convince the little people that it has frog eyes and bat brains and all that good witchy stuff and surprisingly no one believes him!!


The costumes were great but you may need a little help figuring out who is who.....


Grandpa Rich .........(I can't remember, someone from a show I had never heard of!)

Grandma Rich.........a beautiful blond viking

Rachel.......................a fortune teller/spider bread maker!

Clint...........................Conan O'Brien (of the Late Show)

Lesa..........................."Mace" complete with Holiday Oil drink in hand

Tom..........................."Craig"

Justin........................Duane "Dog" Chapman the Bounty Hunter

Adrienne...................usual lame self

Claire.........................Pirate Girl

Avery........................Chicken

Lizzy..........................Zebra

Cole............................Babe Ruth

Macie.........................Cow Girl

This is Lizzy after the party, it was a wild party........

Above: "Dog" Below: "Dog Jr."

And for the finale we had Conan do his "string dance" (is that what it is called Clint? I should watch the show more I guess!!)

No Guts No Glory!

Halloween 2009

We kicked off Halloween with a bang! Britnie and Derek threw their annual party that was filled with yummy food, fun games and great costumes. Here are a few pictures of the spooky group! If you can't tell who Justin is you should watch a great (insert sarcasm) TV show called Dog The Bounty Hunter :) It's worth watching!!

Ryan's is the spookiest costume of all :)

A Day at the Zoo

For Fall Break Justin and I took Friday off and we all went to Hogle Zoo. We could not have picked a better day! The weather was perfect and all the leaves at the zoo were colorful and there are also a ton of baby animals! It was great!! We especially loved Zuri the baby elephant who was so playful and fun to watch. We saw a baby giraffe and baby tigers as well. The giraffe was not playful because it was eating but the tigers acted just like kittens (except they were about 20 times bigger!)

Field Trip at the Fire Station

Macie's preschool class went to the local fire station for their field trip this month. It was very fun and informative. I asked Macie what she learned when we were on our way home and the thing that stuck out the most was "to always wear your seat-belt!" I was thinking she'd say something more like you need to crawl under the smoke or if you can't get out of your bedroom you should stay by a window or any number of things that we haven't talked about at home. I guess I have neglected to emphasize that we should always wear our seat-belts because that's what she got from the whole experience!!

Flag Football!

Cole is participating in his second season of flag football. He likes playing just fine but the real bonuses are that most of his friends are on his team! And you can't forget the treats you get after the games :) At the last game Cole scored a touchdown and I even got it filmed. I have posted it for your viewing enjoyment.....Go Tigers!!!