Happy Halloween 2013

Our Jack o Lantern

The master carver with his "helpers"

Cute fairy and frog

The Neighborhood kids - minus the babies that came late

Neighborhood kids at Mrs. Derollo's for hot chocolate

This year the kids had a blast celebrating Halloween!  Dave started the holiday the weekend before with another master pumpkin carving . . . thankfully this year's design was pretty simple since things have been crazy at home lately. :)  As the week went on the kids grew increasingly more excited awaiting the big night where they could trick or treat and get lots of candy. 

So on Thursday after art camp, we rushed home just in time for the annual block party.  After eating pizza the kids raced up and down the street trick or treating and then walked over to the next neighborhood (with daddy of course) where Mrs. Derollo was waiting with full sized candy bars and real homemade hot chocolate.  If you look carefully in the picture above you can see her with all of the kids!  What a great way to end a fun night.  Now if only I can stay out of the loot!!!

2nd Grade Challenge Run

Getting some pre-run instructions

Run!!!

Mrs. Baker's Class Picture

Girls enjoying their popsicles

As second graders, students have to run 10 minutes in the challenge run.  They have been practicing hard and were so excited to see how many laps they could get in this time!  Savannah ran 7.5 laps in 10 minutes, which is pretty good!  As usual, after running they get water and popsicles and then have a big dance party before going back to class.  What a sweet group this is!

A Little This and A Little That ~ Catch Up!

Wow!  I have really neglected the blog lately!  Things have just been crazy with my new job, Fall consignment stuff, and trying to keep up with things around the house too.  Anyway, enough with the excuses, here is a glimpse into our month of September via pictures from my phone.

9/5 ~ 3 Potatoes and a Pickle

When leaving BiLo one day Preston saw this in the parking lot.  He said "uh oh mama, somebody dropped their groceries.  There's 3 potatoes and a pickle."  Clearly we don't eat many raw vegetables in our house!

9/6 ~ The kids and I (and daddy) worked hard on this US puzzle

9/13 ~ Where is Preston??

Okay so this was super doubles week at Harris Teeter.  Preston really wanted to help me push the cart so I let him.  I turned around when he started whining "mom, how much more stuff do we have to get?" and this is what I saw! You can see his little legs, hands and the top of his head. :)

9/13 ~ Preston's first ice cream truck purchase

What a great Friday afternoon treat!  We were playing inside and heard the music from the icecream truck.  Preston decided to purchase his own treat with his money (mommy had no cash) but Savannah decided to save her money. :)

9/15 ~ Baskin Robbins Treats

We decided to go out and enjoy daddy's last birthday coupons.  We all ate more than our share of Baskin Robbins and the kids even wore a lot of it!

9/27 ~ Preston still LOVES his John Deere tractor from PawPaw

And who doesn't love this amazing weather!?!  Our family is certainly enjoying lots of time outside lately.  And it's October already . . .