Trick-or-Trunk rant

Forgive me, but I've always thought that Trick-or-Trunk was pretty lame. Why, you ask? I guess I dont understand the purpose. Is it to be safer? I'm just thinking that most places that have a trick-or-trunk are pretty safe anyway. (I haven't seen too many trick-or-trunks advertised in downtown Decatur.) I guess I'm just an overprotective parent because I will NEVER let my kids go trick-or-treating without me and if they want to pitch a fit about it, I guess they will just stay home. ANYWAY, all my griping aside, THIS makes me want to try trick or trunking. Just imagine how crazy I could go with this. I LOVE IT!!!! I might decorate my van next year and just leave it in my driveway to hand out candy!



(Click on the word THIS in the paragraph above to see more pictures.)

Photo Op Idea

I came across the most wonderful blog (linked from another blog)and I have been getting an overload of great Halloween ideas. I thought this would be perfect for Jack's preschool Halloween party. It just uses one of those cardboard display board from Hobby Lobby (which was 4.99 originally but I used a 40% off coupon)and then painted with acyrlic paint (which I already have in abundance.) The possibilities are endless with this! Think of all the cute scenes that could be done. Anyway, this is the one I saw on the blog.

This is my version (I changed the witched hair):

And this is what it looks like with a couple of little spooks in it:
I am thrilled with how it turned out (and so is my little helper, Jack.) This wasn't hard because the picture is very simplistic. If it were super realistic, I couldn't have done it. Well, I could have done it, but it wouldn't have looked good. For any of you who might not consider yourself crafty, you might be surprised at how easy some of this stuff is! I swear!

Jack-O-Lanterns

This is about as creative as we go with the pumpkins. We spotted the skull shaped pumpkin and had to have it and it turned out great. It was Jack's idea to paint the round one white and make it a ghost.
We tried the whack-a-pumpkin where you pound golf tees into the pumpkin. I would call it a failure. The holes it leaves aren't large enough for the light to shine through and when you thin out the rind, the pumpkin breaks when you pound the tees in. However, it was a fun little experiment I guess.

Finally

I finally made a scrapbook page of one of my own children! And it felt wonderful and I can't wait to do more.

School Picture

Well, it's better than last years, but it still isn't the true Parker. He always does that droopy eye thing in posed pictures. I don't know what that's about. Oh well. I think he is adorable and definitely looks older than a 1st grader. Where did my baby go!? He also brought home his report card yesterday. This is the first time they receive letter grades. I try not to brag on my kids but this may be my last opportunity to say this so.....Parker got all A's. Like I said, I'm not counting on straight A's the rest of his life so I'm going to enjoy it while I can!

While we were down..............

Jack was the leader at preschool. Here he is leading the class in the pledge. I have recorded his version which includes "under God, undercover invisible....."

We picked pumpkins at Buddy's Great Pumpkin Patch. We came home with 28 pumpkins and there were still a lot there that Mamaw and Buddy brought home later. It doesn't look like it, but Stella barrelled right into the muddy, weedy, buggy mess and picked pumpkins with the boys.





Jack said, "Look Mommy! Bunk kids!" CUTE!!!!!!!

The real Great Pumpkin Patch.


Jack's class went to the Decatur Fire Station for a field trip. He really loved it in spite of what it looks like in the picture!


Jack's class went to the Great Pumpkin Patch. Here is Jack and Bella trying to keep warm.

And, Parker took a trip the the dentist for a cleaning.

That pretty much sums it up!

How Cute!!

I love this idea! We have tons (over 30) pumpkins so we are able to try some creative stuff this year. This pumpkin was made by letting a little kid pound golf tees into a hollowed out pumpkin. Just give them a few tees and a rubber mallot. Obviously this could turn into a disaster so I would recommend supervision. I am going to try this with the guys tomorrow. I'll post "real" pictures if it turns out. AND if I can find our photo software to put back onto the computer. Maybe I will also find our printer software and every other thing that is currently missing including a word processing program. :-)
On the WW front, I achieved my Lifetime status tonight. This means that I have kept my goal weight for 6 weeks and I no longer EVER have to pay to register at WW and I only have to pay for a meeting if my weight goes 2 lbs. over my goal. (Which is pretty likely considering my favorite eating holiday is fast approaching THANKSGIVING!!!!)

CRASH!@#&*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the worst case scenario came true for us--our computer crashed. Of course we don't have an external hard drive. (Does anyone really get one until their computer crashes?) Anyway, we lost tons of stuff. I don't even know the magnitude of what is gone because, well, it's gone. I did NOT lose pictures--THANK GOD!!! I do back them up on disks and onto an archival website. And yes, I did cry when I found out it crashed. Then I remembered that in the overall scheme of things, this is pretty small compared to what many folks deal with.
Soooooo, very soon I will have a real post with pictures and update you on our little lives!
Oh, we were able to have a new hard drive installed into our computer so we didn't have to buy a new one or anything. It's just that we don't have ANYTHING on this one so it's like starting over from scratch.