The Monsters in your Neighborhood

We have had a fun-filled morning today. We have carved pumpkins and baked halloween-y cookies and did our 'trial run' with our costumes for Friday. I am also attempting to roast our pumpkin seeds. Lauren and Tucker are ready for Trick-or-Treating!!

"I'm a witch!!" says Tucker.

The end result...the witch was designed by Tucker, the robot by Lauren. Handcarved by Mom.

Ah, the joys of home baked cookies....ahem...

Are they ready, yet????

And, sorry, but you will have to wait on the costume pics. The official photos will be released after the official tricks have been treated. Stay tuned...

Tailgaiting

We had fun on Saturday tailgating with Aunt Rhonda and Uncle Tom. (Note the fingernails: Lauren totally told me, unprovoked, that she wanted "Red for Alabama"...I guess she really IS a Bama Girl)



Thanks, Aunt Rhonda, for the cute pics and for all the goodies!!

Two Things You Suspected Would Never Happen

Lauren is a) wearing pigtails while b) eating PEPPERONI pizza!!

Whoops...

For the record, I have the (bad?) habit of referring to my kids by multiple nicknames. I have varied their names a million ways from the day they were born. Its cute.

This morning, I was being silly with Tucker and asked him what his name was.

T: "Tucker"
M: "Tucker Who?"
T: (thinking) "Tucker T-Bone."

Wanna Be A Trojan Til the Day I Die...

We had a good weekend in Columbus. We left mid-afternoon Friday and were there in plenty of time for New Hope Homecoming Festivities. It was fun!! Not to mention that the Trojans were victorious over the Kosciusko Whippets....21-0!!!! Apparently, I entered a time warp and refered to myself as 'Audrey Reeves' this morning at work. Go Trojans!!
This was Tucker's first football game. He had a good time, but was ready to leave shortly after halftime.Lauren had such a good time, she somehow ended up in Nanny's closet????

Saturday morning we woke up before the crack of dawn and had a very successful yard sale. It was fun and we made some money and got rid of a lot of junk!!

Later in the day we went to Lake Lowndes to play and spot the fish...when we were getting ready to go to the park, Lauren asked where we were going...I told her "None of your business." (Remember, we had been up since before the crack of dawn...). Sunday she asked if we could go back to "The Business Park!" Too Cute!!

After the park, Lauren and Tucker helped Granddaddy wash Nanny's car.

It was a good weekend. I am still exhausted!!!

His True Identity

Tucker was tres excited to don the Spiderman outfit tonight:


My hero!

I only wish I had gotten a "top-view" picture. His belly in that costume was too cute!!

Comparison/Old Favorite

For those of you who don't know, there is a flower (some sort of lilly?) that magically and randomally sprouts this time of year that SOME refer to as a n#ked lady.
2008:

2004:

2003: