This is Adara's birthday present from Grandma Jolley and Great Grandma Barrus. She was sent some money in her birthday cards and was anxious to go get a gift. Thank you grandma's. That was very sweet of you. This is what she picked out. It's the barbie Mariposa. She loves the movie and couldn't pass it up. We haven't had her birthday party yet so sorry there aren't any pic's of that so far. Stay posted.
Halloween is finally here!!! The kids have been so excited to get out and trick or treat, but most of all to wear their costumes. Liam loves Iron Man right now and that was what he had to be for Halloween. Adara picked out a Sleeping Beauty costume, but at the moment insisted on wearing Sponge Bob. And Kael is a little Dragon. He couldn't stand the head so he pushed it off. Still, he was cute.

This is what the kids really wore trick or treating. Adara had to wear her dress everywhere since we bought it. Needless to say, she ripped 2 of the side seams and I couldn't get the fabric to sew together. The material was being difficult. So, on Halloween day it dawned on me that I could glue the darn fabric together an be done with tear. IT WORKED!! So far, it hasn't come apart again. I'm sure it won't last forever, but for now she can continue to wear that costume until it dies. Then maybe we can move onto to something else.

While I was putting all of the Halloween decorations away Adara decided to try on all of the costumes. This is a prince costume that Liam wore two years ago. She looks pretty good in it, but wasn't allowed to wear it trick or treating. We didn't buy the princess dress for nothing... I've just concluded that she likes dressing up. So, I'm not packing the costumes away anymore.....they are going to stay in the closet where the kids can dress up whenever they want. It is fun to watch them act depending on what they are wearing. Kids are so entertaining.

This picture is just plain funny and I had to show it. Kael loves juice and this time I gave him the cherry pomagranite crystal light (very good!). When he was done he found his blankie and curled up to me on the couch to watch cartoons and started sucking his thumb. When he took his thumb out of his mouth I just couldn't stop laughing. It was as red as could be. No, that's not a carrot in his hand. It's his thumb. I anxiously called for Ray to grab the camara because I couldn't pass up a corny moment like this. Kael didn't think it was so funny because he wanted his thumb back.

Okay, I finally took a picture of the front of our 4-plex. Those are our kids in the middle and our front entrance in up the stairs to the left of them. This is one in a line of big white buildings in our housing area. They call this housing area the White Elephants. They are pretty nice and old fashioned. Trick or Treating was easy with how many of these there are in a row....and there are 4 families in each one. We didn't have to go very far to fill our buckets. Whooo-hoo.