Happy Halloween

Boy oh boy what some people will do for free food! Yep, Chipotle was giving away free burritos if you came in dressed as a burrito, taco or salad tonight. We saw some funny stuff! Including ourselves! Probably a good thing Lemon Drop had a Halloween party to attend tonight, I do not think she would have gotten out of the car, much less posed with us!

The startled elephant.

The motley crew.

Another shot of the elephant (who was supposed to be a scarecrow but we changed our minds last minute.) who surprisingly kept his "head" on.

Is that not the cutest elephant you have ever seen?

Except maybe for this one that made his debut 4 years ago!

But he slept all night instead.

Look, it is Anakin!

And he makes funny faces.

But he sure is cute.

We ran into Ghetto Rapper 60 Bucks while we were out.

He is one cool dude.

Or something like that.

Hope you all had a great night of Trick or Treating fun, I know we did!

Random October Pics

I took the boys to Houston Zoo's ZooBoo a few weeks ago. That should have been a post all of it's own, but I am just so far behind on everything that this will have to do. We had a great time. It was on a Sunday and we had planned on staying home to "catch up" and rest. Yea, like that happened. Daddy was at work and sister was not home so I thought it would be a perfect day to get some mommy and son time. The weather was great, for a change so off we went. We got there, only to drive around the parking lot and all of the surronding parking lots for quite a while, probably well over an hour before we found one. I felt so bad for Boog, he kept saying, "I guess we are not going to get to go to ZooBoo." Mommy finally won out and we got, according to Sour Apple, "Rock Star" parking. Yay mom, something finally went right. Well, there was that incident with having to wedge "The Beast" into the parking spot. (For those of you who do not know, I drive an Excursion, hence the loving name, "The Beast" so sometimes it is hard to park in close quarters but we did it!)

We got our spot, loaded up the stroller and off we went to find a giant candy corn!

You would have thought that this one would have been a little more excited. I mean afterall, we found a parking spot and got inside!

This one just needs a haircut, in a really bad way!

And this one, well...he is just cute. :)

My 3 little men. I love them.

We got some "tats" before we continued on our way.

Yep, he got one too. Dork! Ha!

My punkins at the punkin patch.

Love the faces they make.

He thought he was hot stuff, standing and playing with the pumpkins.

He picked out his very own pumpkin...

then he tried to eat it. Story of his life, pick up something, eat it.

The older 2 went to work decorating theirs.

Hard at work.

So much concentration.

The final product.

Hard at work.

He loves to draw.

As we went by the meerkats, one of my favorites, we saw this little guy (or gal) hard at work, trying to get into the speaial ZooBoo Halloween treat. He (she) was the life of the party to all of the people who passed by.

Moving on...Boog had a Fall Festival at school and he got to churn some butter, he had no desire to taste his work.

A different kind of churning. The kids were all fascinated with this! Who would have thought.

My one semi posed picture of the boys.

Hard at work stringing beads.

After the festival, we met a few friends at the Methodist Church, they have an indoor play area.

Tutti-Frutti had his way with a gator while we were there. He was too busy for me to get many shots there!

Moving on once again! Last night, Boog had a Trunk or Treat at his school. This is Ghetto Rapper 60 Bucks (Boog named him!) and he ended up taking home the prize for most creative costume! Yay 60 Bucks! We are proud of you!

The tired hatless scarecrow made a visit too!

While we were there, Anakin Skywalker ran into his good friend Indiana Jones. What a pair they were, they fought it out to the death (well, not really) and in the end...

Anakin really showed him who was boss. Look at those cool light saber moves.

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! The look of a win, with a side of chili and cheetos.

Posing by a "trunk" we visited.

And another, he was a little freaked out by a dancing skeleton that you cannot see in the picture. Haha. The things we make our kids do.

This one...well, it should speak for itself...needless to say, they won a prize for Most Themed setup or something like that. Well deserved.

This guy was handing out candy too. Scary...Oh, I should mention, as we drove up and got out, ready to head inside for hotdogs, lemonade and fun, a little (well, maybe not so much) older rather round man, dressed as Raggedy Andy, approached my husband (of all people) and asked if he would mind giving him a hand. We looked a little worried...you know, we tell our children not to talk to people like this (Haha, not really) anyway, the man asked him if he would mind fastening up the back of his Andy suit! Priceless...and to top it off, the man and his wife (dressed up as Raggedy Ann, or course) won prize too. Of course my husband thought he should have gotten some kind of recognition for lending a helping hand, I mean afterall, if it had not been for him, the guy would not have been totally "in character!"

More pics later after our fun night of Trick or Treating!

Happy Halloween everyone! Have a fun and safe night!

Busy, busy, busy...

Wow...I did not die, well at least I do not think I did. We have been super busy lately, though I am not exactly sure what we were busy doing.

I do know that my blogging has been suffering and I apologize to those of you who have been waiting with baited breath for me to post something new and exciting. I hate to overly disappoint, but there is not much that is new or exciting. Well, except that I shot my very first wedding last weekend well, technically it was my second but who is keeping track of that and had a great time doing it! I guess I was a ball of nerves for months for no reason! Wheew!

We finished up soccer season, started basketball season, got report cards, (and yes everyone is still alive!) visited the pre-school petting zoo, went to family night, lived through another school project, daddy and Sour Apple attended the Science Fair meeting, (if we live through this it will be a miracle!) had a birthday party, started handing out links to my photo blog in hopes I will get a few bites, (I have gotten 7 so far!)attended a funeral, attended a birthday party, attended a fall festival and zooboo. (that will be a blog post totally on it's own!)

So, see? I guess we have been a little busy. I am feeling horribly guilty for not doing Weekly Wednesday for a few weeks now. Man, poor neglected baby. It was all about my precious baby and then he turned 1. Poor thing.

Speaking of the baby...he is not technically walking, but he is taking up to 6 steps on his own. Do not worry, I know he is a later walker. My other 2 boys were too. Sour Apple was 13 months before he took steps and Boog was a little over 14 months before he started to take any steps, they were both late crawlers too. Tutti-Frutti was by far the earliest crawler so we were sure he would be up and moving around earlier than the others but then again, why walk when you have Mommy, Daddy and older siblings to carry you? I do not blame him, too much work and for no reason!

In other news, I have tons of pictures to share. I do not know if I will get around to it today, since I am proofing wedding pictures and doing a quick update here at the same time. I guess I can do a random post with nothing but pictures from before I was MIA. Oh, I forgot, we had the pleasure of spending a week with Gingerbread Man (Boog's class pet stuffed panguin) and we did all sorts of fun things while he was here too!

Well, I am off for now. Just wanted to assure all of you dear readers that I am still indeed alive and kicking, just always on the move. Next on the agenda...a laptop! I would get so much more done if I had one of those little gems. I spend a lot of time in the car. sitting. doing nothing. waiting on kids. letting kids sleep. waiting in carpool. waiting for school to start. You know...always waiting. If I had a lovely laptop, I could get a lot of work accomplished while the little people were strapped in snuggly sleeping!

Hopefully it will not be long before I am back with a blogging vengance! Till then...

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

Wow, welcome back! It is not me who has missed posting a Not me! for 2 weeks! Nope, I am on the ball and love Not me! I would never miss an opportunity to participate.

It is not me who has a mischevious 13 (nearly 14) month old baby who refuses to let me on the computer. Nope, my children are calm and well mannered. They can entertain themselves for hours and couldn't care less where I am or what I am doing.

It is not me who shot a wedding this weekend! Nope, I am nowhere near ready for jumping in to something that big!



It is not me who took pictures of my best friend's little girl 3 weeks ago and have not so much as shown her even a hint of a sneak peek at the pictures! Nope, not me. I am on the ball and quick with my proofing. My child allows me endless time on the computer so I finish all of my proofing on the same day! (Excuse me while I roll over laughing here!!!)



I did not think that face was pretty darned cute!

While waiting on them to arrive, I did not take the opportunity to snap some great ones of my boys that I already have proofed too!



We are not starting to feel crummy around our house either. We sleep well, wake up rested and are all in a great mood! HA!

Yesterday, I did not take the 3 boys to the zoo for ZooBoo while Daddy was at work. Nope, are you kidding me? Me, take them by myself. Never...just have not (really) put them on the computer yet. Still kinda freaking out over the mass number of wedding shots I just uploaded. Sigh.

Have a great Monday! Hop on over to MckMama's, she is giving out prizes today!

These things change?

My precious Boog is so funny...

Boog: "Mommy? What are you looking at pictures of?"

Mommy: "Me when I was in school."

Boog: "Oh, who was your mommy when you were a kid?"

Mommy: "Gee Gee"

Boog: "Still? When you was a kid she was your mom?"

Mommy: "Yep"

Boog: "Oh. Who was Daddy's mom when he was a kid?"

Mommy: "Grandma"

Boog: "Oh"

Some things just never change...

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

Well, this has not been a week from, well...you know where! Nope, it has been fantastic.

Last week, my sweet 13 month old baby did not start waking up all hours of the night again. Nope, my baby sleeps all night like he should.

Yesterday, my precious 4 year old did not wake up before Daddy's alarm clock and start howling and screaming at 5:20am that he did not want Daddy to go to work. He did not wake up his mommy and baby brother at that lovely time of the morning either. Nope, my kids have fantastic sleeping habits and never wake up when daddy leaves, muchless scream like a wild banchee because they do not want him to ever leave the house without them! They do not care that daddy leaves for work and it gone all day, they hardly miss him at all!

Saturday, I did not meet up with a friend so that I could get some pictures of her precious almost 3 year old daughter. Nope, I would never do that. Since we did not do that, I did not get some great shots of my boys while we were there waiting...of course they (really) are not proofed and ready for show. I have not been so busy since then that I have barely had any time to work on them. Nope, I am free all of the time and never have anything at all to do! The weather on Saturday morning was not abolutely perfect for the non-existant pictures either!

I absolutely did not find out last night that my dear oldest son had 2 more major projects due today and tomorrow. We were already working on one. Nope, he is organized and always comes home on the day something is assigned and we get started on it immediately. That would never happen at our house. Good thing too because that might have meant that daddy had to go to the store at bedtime to pick up something we needed for one of the projects. Since none of that happened, I did not nearly do away with said 12 year old boy. Nope, loving mother here...never even think of doing harm to an absent minded child. If I had one of those of course.

We do not still have to finish (well I mean start one of) two of the three projects today when the child gets home from school. Nope, remember...we are organized and together, the projects have been done for weeks!

Last night, right before climbing into bed, I did not find out that our carpooling schedule for the week had changed. Meaning I would be the one taking the kids to school. I did not panic and attempt to start getting everything ready since I thought I would have more time to prepare myself and the two little ones in the morning after the big kids were off to school. I am always completely prepared the night before on a school night, I always have everything out so all we have to do is get dressed and ready. I never do anything last minute so I am never stressed out while trying to get out the door on time.

I did not have one child working on the project that was due this morning. I did not leave my poor baby in the highchair by his older brother to munch on whatever he could find to give him while I took a shower and got ready. Nope, I am more attentive than that. I always spend every moment of everyday trying to please my children. I would never leave them cooped up in a highchair in the care of an older sibling just so I could get a shower and get ready for my mom's group meeting today. I do not go to mom's group meetings, remember I spend every moment of everyday with my kids!

None of that was happening, we were not late and everything was going smoothly, and Tutti-Frutti did not get into the dog's water dish as we were running walking slowly out the door for school.

Oh, did I mention that I did not have to go to the bank yesterday to cancel my debit card because of some bogus internet charges? Nope, we did not have 5 bogus charges on our statement totaling over $350! We are careful who we give our card number to and never have any sort of problem with them!

Yea, my week has been a doozie! And I am not dreading doing it all over again! Yay! I love Monday's! Now go on over to Mckmama's and see what everone else has not been up to!

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to the most amazing husband ever. I love you baby! Looking forward to many more in years to come.