Happy Halloween...almost

The family had a fun time at the school parties this afternoon...perhaps, nobody as much fun as my husband.

Landen, with his teacher, Mrs. Boehm. She was a purple Sharpie marker. The whole 2nd grade team of teachers dressed up as the rainbow of Sharpie markers. My cowboy. I think he makes a pretty handsome one, myself.

Lily the cowgirl, with her teacher, Mrs. Cash, the scarecrow.

This is the mad rush for the pinata candy, minus Lily. Keep reading for the story. Sorry for the disorderly blog...but I don't have time to correct it before work!

Don't they look mean? Love the teary eyes, Lil.

The moustache was cute on Lil’, except the snotty nose kind of prevented it from hanging on.

In Lily’s class, there was a black cat piñata. Every.single.kid whacked that thing multiple times. I asked a dad what it was made of. He said, “I don’t know, but I’d like to have a bumper made of that stuff!” Finally, a daddy busted the thing open and all the kids went nuts…except…Lily. She cried. I laughed and said, “Cowgirls don’t cry”. Mrs. Cash found her a piece of candy. Seriously. This picture is actually before she cried. I sometimes still have a hard time, wrapping my head around how to upload these pictures to put them in chronological order.

So, it was great fun...looking forward to tomorrow night, trick-or-treating and spending time with family and friends!

Pumpkin distributing

Once we got home, we had to distribute the pumpkins. I think Lily looks like the great pumpkin snatcher in this picture.
Lily's favorite.

Just look at the brotherly/sisterly love.

Lawson's fave.

More love of the sibs.

Man, the amount of love was just overwhelming.

Seriously, o-v-e-r-w-h-e-l-m-i-n-g.

Guess whose idea this was...

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch

Ahhhhhh, good times with friends at the pumpkin patch. We decided rather than driving 30 minutes to get to one, then fighting a crowd, we would drive out to the country, near Rantoul. We probably saw 20-30 people total, including the 9 of us. It was glorious. Little Lawson and Miss Addison were not on their A-picture-taking game, but I managed to sneak a few. They were having some pretty good times in the bounce house while we waited on the tractor to take us to the pumpkin patch.
All the kids thought this sling shot was pretty sweet. You aimed it at a Christmas tree...hehe, only in Franklin county.

Here's the crew. It was the best picture I got of all five kids. I thought it was pretty good, all five kidlets considered.

I could just eat those cheeks.

Lil, with her best fake smile, er, I mean, with her pumpkin.

Lawson, policing the pumpkins...advising us on which one belonged to whom.

Landen picked out a great carving pumpkin.

Again, could eat the cheeks.

The two wee ones were discussing the finer points of the pumpkins.

Landen and Emma always seem to gravitate to each other. Hmmmmmm. :)

And Emma always gravitates to Jimmy. Heh, who am I kiddin', she demands to be next to Jimmy, or else...and I don't think anybody wants to experience Emma's "or else"! :)

We had a great, great time.

Oh dear, my boys

This is what I found the boys doing the other night. Yes, they are popping flour-filled balloons. What, you don't keep such a thing in your garage? Well, we just happened to have two trashbags full...don't ask! Doesn't he look incredibly innocent?

Hmmmm, not so innocent. :)

And, it certainly wasn't enough to just pop them. No, we had to make sure we got large amounts of flour on the head...really ground down into the scalp. Yeah, don't ask how long it took to get the caked flour out of Lawson's hair.

Lily's response to the boys' shenanigans.

Don't even think about calling Lawson a baby, and telling him he's not capable of doing everything his older sibs are capable of doing. He'll not rest until he's proven you wrong!

Landen, of course, needed a turn of getting a plenty o' flour on his head.

It just cracks me up, seeing him from a distance...little Lawson, the friendly ghost, if you will.

And, he looks pretty fun, close up, too.

I don't remember if the clean up was Landen's idea, or Daddy's. They tend to think alike. Either way, it was quick and easy. If only the cleanup of the bodies would have been so easy. :)

Boston Segway Tour

Yeah, I know...nice helmets. We may have looked a tad silly, but man, it was fun!!! We toured several downtown Boston sites, via segway! We saw Paul Revere's birth place, the North Church where they lit the laterns with the "one by land, two by sea" code. We saw the harbor, Charlestown, the Italian section of town - a bunch of old Italian guys were playing cards on the street corner - it was so cute! It was just such a neat experience, which I highly recommend, no matter what city you may visit. We are now segway certified (yeah, I feel your envy) and can rent segways to go on our own excursions. I encouraged Jimmy to purchase one as his main mode of transport to and from work.

Jimmy by the harbor.

Christi by the harbor - Boston Logan Airport is in the background, and we tried really hard to get an airplane during takeoff in the dinstance. I can't tell if we got it or not. But we did capture the beautiful, fall, Boston day.