Halloween '09

Hardeman Science Hat Parade '09

Each school year Hardeman Elementary celebrates Halloween by having a Science Hat Parade. Each child is given a science related vocabulary word and instructed to fashion a hat representing that word. This is what we came up with for the word Energy - a ginormous sun - you could see Raistlyn coming down the hall from a distance with her giant spikey sun Mika's word was Adaptation

Jake's was Lakes

Darian's was Heat

Celebrating My Birthday in Fabulous Fall Fashion

My birthday just so happened to fall on a beautiful Friday this year so I pulled the girls out of school a bit early and headed out for some Fall Fun. We took Raistlyn's BFF Mikayla to Build-a-Bear Workshop to celebrate her 9th birthday. They picked out such cute animals - I couldn't believe that Caiden picked the Turkey - he's got such a cute personality!

(Check out Caide's black eye due to a little too much rough-housing with his big sister.)

These are pics from our annual trip to the pumpkin patch in Flower Mound. It's always a blast, though it was dang muddy from all the rain we had been having.

Back to School

Third grade already....whew! Can't believe how much Rai changed over the summer. This one is from the last day of 2nd grade, Rai and her BFF Mika....Then these two little squirts started Sprouts preschool today. You can just see the excitement on their little faces.

This last pictures just melts my heart. How sweet and innocent they look being all lovey with each other. They are great little friends. They sure enjoyed their first day!

Jumpy Things

The grass got a bit overgrown in the backyard which proved to be a great place to catch teensy, green grasshoppers. The kids had a blast chasing them around and playing in the sprinkler. I was surprised that they weren't frightened to hold them, being so jumpy and all. Guess they don't mind the little ones like the ginormous one that about scared us to death in the car the other day. We were just heading out to run errands when Raistlyn spied this gigantic something flying around the car - IT WAS INSIDE! A 4 inch grasshopper...NO KIDDING! Raistlyn & I were both screaming while Caiden was just looking around quizzically because he never got a look at it. I rolled down the passenger side window and the monsterous jumpy thing quickly escaped to freedom. Lucky for Us because I don't know what would have happened had it landed on any of us. Yeah, funny now....not so much then.

4th of July