the rest

It was a GORGEOUS day, and an unbelievable night.  The girls both had SO much fun.  Paige had so much fun, she lost a shoe.....a Stride Rite shoe.  We'll be backtracking tomorrow morning to see if we can find it.

I did find some time to carve pumpkins this morning.

Emily's Kindergarten class.

Watching the parade.  The WHOLE school dresses up and parades to Halloween music played over the loud speaker.  It was awesome.

The littlest witch.  She has her shoes on in this one.

Our favorite house.  They had a robot skeleton that followed the kids around.  Emily wasn't even a little bit scared. 

Hope you all had a great and safe Halloween - and your kids are not climbing the walls from their sugar highs!

witchy woman

a sneak peek. there will be more later.........

sometimes you just gotta jump

With all that is going on all around us - sometimes you just have to jump in a pile of leaves. Good thought Emily.

And sometimes you just have to look cute while sitting in a pile of leaves.

unusually busy

It's not that we lead a boring life or anything - we always have plenty to do - but it's never all in the same week.  As most of you already know, on Monday we moved my Mom into her new apartment.  It was slated to be a cold and snowy - yes, I said the "s" word - day, but it wasn't, and could not have gone smoother.  Thanks to my cousin Sue, Aunt Joan, my husband, my neighbors, Bob and Ginger, and my Uncle Denny for all their help.  My Mom is doing very well in her new place - or so I have heard, I have been to busy to even get over there and help her unpack.

Yesterday, Emily had her regular tap class, but they had to wear their halloween costumes. That took some extra planning on my part, and some extra time to get her ready.  I would have taken pictures, but I wanted the "reveal" of her halloween costume to happen on halloween.

Tonight, we have the Halloween Hoot - a scavenger hunt and carnival - at her school. Tomorrow is Paige's 15 month doctor appointment, and I am helping out in Emily's class in the afternoon.  Friday is of course Halloween - and I am again, helping out in Emily's class, and then it's trick-or-treating at night with our neighborhood friends.  Like I said, a BUSY week.  

So, in case you are wondering why I haven't posted in a while, now you know.

Here are some pictures from the past week:

Last Saturday, Eric and Emily went to a Michigan Veterinary Association "clinic" at the local community college.  She got to bring her doggies and have them looked at by real veterinarians. Fudge and Copper both got bandages on their legs.  She LOVED it.

Emily made this spider hat at school.  She wore it home, and around the house for the rest of the day.  I like the Caesar salad dressing on her lip.

The girls having fun this morning.

We did see some of the white stuff while the girls were eating lunch today - it melted about two seconds after I took this picture.

Paige in her cute polka dot jacket.

Have a great week - check back on Halloween for a costume reveal!

some pumpkin goodness

Went to actually buy some pumpkins today.  Our last outing was just for pictures.  This outing was mainly for pumpkins, and if we got some good pictures, yea for us.  I think we ended up with both, good pumpkins, and good pictures.

  

Emily was cold, and complaining about it, so this was the best one of the two of them - neither one is really smiling, both are talking - this is so them.

   

This is my favorite of the day.

  

And then we came home and played outside for a bit before dinner.

 

Emily and Paige

I don't know if you know this - but I just love these girls.  They have both brought me more joy than I ever knew was possible.  It's just so cool to watch them grow up together.  With each day, they seem to get closer and closer.  It's like they each speak some language that only they understand.  Paige now even says "Emily" - or something kind of like it.  Sisters, siblings, best buds - so cool.

By the way - I just love all these pictures....except I was so mad at myself for not removing that red sticker from Emily's shirt.  Oh well.  I was trying to capture a real moment from them, and if I paused to take off the sticker, it would have passed.  This is real life, right?  Not perfect. And I am good with that.

Ojibwa Road Rally

Last night, Eric and I got to experience our very first Road Rally.  To those of you who don't know what a Road rally is - it's a kind of, sort of scavenger hunt that involves driving around town, solving puzzles, gathering clues and ending up at a final destination.  Does that make sense?  Well, just read on......

We went with our neighbors Bob and Ginger and their friends Susan and Bert.  The six of us started out in the parking lot of Emily's school - Ojibwa Elementary.  We drove our Minivan all over town.  The people who planned this road rally even included a few physical challenges - working together as a team of four while walking on a set of two by fours with ropes, running around our local outdoor mall trying to find out what Victoria's Secret is, and my most favorite: wearing "drunk goggles" while walking a specific path....Eric got to do that one.

The theme was "Getting Lucky", which we thought had something to do with gambling, but no, it was actually a code for Date Night.  Some of the places we went were the car wash (Jon's Soft and Foamy), a gym, a spa, a flower shop, Victoria's Secret, a bar, the movie theater, a pharmacy, a liquor store - that had mirrors on the ceiling, a very seedy motel, and ended up at Bath City Bistro in Mt. Clemens.  The proprietor from the motel - The Flamingo Inn on Groesbeck - was a little upset that all these people kept driving up and asking him where the hot tub was.  By the end we heard that he actually started to chase down the cars.  Oopsie.  Wonder what he was trying to hide??  My stomach actually hurts today from all the laughing that I did.

We were the third team to arrive - right behind the second team - we accidentally allowed them to pass us.  But because the game was based on points, and arrival time was only used in the event of a tie-breaker, we came in sixth.  Had we have known that time wasn't really a factor, we might have spent a little more time making sure our answer sheets were 100 percent correct. Oh well.  Next year. 

And so sorry, no pictures.  I forgot to bring my camera.  Can you believe it???  Just picture Eric driving the minivan like Mario Andretti, and me in the back laughing until my sides hurt.