Happy Halloween!

Halloween Night

Jackson and Jen were at the house to go trick-or-treating, but Jackson decided it would be more fun to hand out the candy to all the other kids. So he helped Aunt Amy and her friends that came over to help hand out the candy. He was a wicked looking dragon.

A couple of the goblins that visited us tonight.

Our resident dragon, AKA Jackson.

Jackson, hangin' with Aunt Amy on Halloween.

Amy and her friends, Holly, Brenda and Jamie who came over to help hand out the candy to the trick-or-treaters. We didn't have as many this year, there was a lot of activities for the kids to do in town this year, so we were still handing candy out at 8:00, usually we are out of candy by 7:00. But we still had a lot of kids coming through the neighborhood.

Orchestra Concert

We finally got to hear the orchestra that Savannah plays in, and August is now a proud member of the strings too. It was wonderful to hear them. And they were amazing for only playing for few short months to be able to play that well. Nice job everyone.

They all got to wear their costumes for the concert. And the band instructor was in several different costumes according to the song that was played, there was a quick constume change. Very cute.
August is on front and center with her viola, she was so excited and I think she did a great job. Can't wait to hear their Christmas concert.

Sorry the pictures are such poor quality. But the lighting in the auditorium and my camera did not get along!

Visiting Nana and Papa

On the most recent trip that Angie and the kids made to Michigan the kids had to have a "car " to get around in. So......

All three of the little ones needed their own "car" so we needed to get three clothes baskets for them to drive! They were having a ball in them. Brenden had to keep up with Sissy and Cousin Jackson.

Riley wanted me to take a picture of her back (I don't know why!), but she hasn't wanted many pictures taken lately so we captured her beautiful back!
Like mother, like daughter! Angie always was happy when we turned her upside down! Sorry Angie and I guess her daughter is the same way. Riley and Mommy having some fun, while Brenden is watching.

Brenden loving on Papa, he was Papa's boy while they were here. Where ever Papa went you could be sure to find Brenden too.

Nana and Brenden having a snuggle time. I am trying to get better at self portraits, guess they are a little better. Love to snuggle those babies.

Some Fun Activities

HOMECOMING

Amy and I at the pep assembly for the Homecoming. We were heading to the gym and ran into her so one of her friends took a picture for us. Ain't we cute! All of the staff got a special T-shirt to wear today. It looked pretty neat with all the blue wave going on in the school today!

Some of our Jr. cheerleaders got to show their stuff for the rest of the elementary.

We are getting in shape!

Don and I go the Y to use the exercise equipment to get our youthful figures back! We didn't get too many pictures today, but will try to add some more later.

Here are some of the machines that we use on a regular basis.

Push it Don!

More pictures to come later.

Fall Festival in Tecumseh

Happy Halloween!We went to the Appleumpkin Festival in Tecumseh today and we found some interesting characters! These are some of the scarecrows that were made and put on display. This was the only group that we found today. But my favorite only has a participant ribbon, so the others must have been terrific!

This is Amy and a pumpkin mermaid, they were all life size figures.

And then there was the Snow Witch and the 7 ghosts!

My favorite, it was done in a lot of detail, and the all American apple pie looked good enough to eat!


I had to check it out and see if it was real pie dough on the pie he was holding, it wasn't but it could have been!
A new friend! It's Recycle Man! He was made of recycled objects.
And some old friends, we ran into Penny and Vince at the festival too.

We ejoyed walking around, but I had no kids with me to get some action shots. Maybe next time.

A Long Day!

SHH!!

It was a long day at school for Little Jackson! He wanted a hotdog to eat and got a few bites off of it, then he fell asleep leaning on the couch. I couldn't get the camera quick enough to catch him on his knees at the couch, but he never lost the hotdog when he went down to the floor and he didn't wake up either!

Some more Field Trip Pics

A couple of the pictures from our field trip with the 3rd graders.

Here is a picture of a log with mushrooms and some shelfmushrooms on the end of it.

In the lab classroom at Stubnitz's learning about the different critters in the woods of Michigan.