Walk & Treat

Christmas Eve Photos

From 2009-12-24

It was HARD to get a satisfactory photo of all four of my goofy offspring! They weren't particularly co-operative and I ended up having to be satisfied with everyone looking at the camera and not making a silly face. Not sure what David was doing with the ornament. lol

I was much happier with the individual photos!

Do you like the shirts? I had given up on the idea of new PJ's for Christmas Eve since we have no money for stuff like that right now. Even though it's a tradition, we were going to have to let it go.....

Then I unpacked the Christmas craft tote and realized I had bought these shirts last year on clearance after Christmas. $2.25 each! Awesome, eh? They all wore PJ pants they already had.

Yeah, I know. We don't even "DO" Santa. LOL Makes it funnier, doncha agree?

James Turns TEN!

Family Camp Photos

Finally here are some photos of Family Camp, along with my captions. I'll try to write out a few thoughts on the week to go along with them soon.



As always, if the slideshow won't load for you OR if you'd like to see bigger versions of the photos, just click on the slideshow and it should take you to the album in picasa where you can view the pictures.

First S'mores of the Season

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

From Campfire June 5, 2009

COOKIE DAY!!!

Cookie Day was Thursday, December 11.

Fall portraits of the kids

Well, these aren't "school pictures" but they are the equivalent. :-)

Trick-or-Treating

I took the kids trick-or-treating tonight. My friend and her son came along with us. It was so nice to have someone to walk with! I persuaded David to trick-or-treat with us. He hadn't planned on it, but the threat of work if he didn't join us made it worth his while.

He made his costume from duct tape and cardboard. In case you're not a Halo fan, he's a Spartan warrior. (It's a video game.) He got a LOT of positive comments on his costume, mostly from young guys in their 20's. That meant a LOT to him, I know. Of course *I* told him it was cool, but I'm his MOM. Anyway, he mostly said it was hot in the helmet. lol

Emily was a nurse again. James was Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars) and Suzy was a princess. I let Suzy and Emily wear makeup. I did Suzy's eyes quite heavily and I was amazed at how HUGE and DARK her eyes looked all night! (I didn't tell her that! lol I don't want her to want to wear makeup every day.)

We walked around town for the full two hours and the kids all got a LOT of candy - mostly really good candy too. I'm going to try to ration it out.

Oh yeah, and this was the warmest Halloween night I can remember!

Church Harvest Party

I didn't get a good pic of James at the church party.

Pictures from a Long Day

Here are the pictures I promised from yesterday's three activities - TV station field trip, Walmart with 6 kids, and raking service project. I posted more pix of the field trip over at Cornerstone too.