halloween party #1

my nephews had a halloween party at their house on saturday (i know i'm slow to getting to the photo's)
we took some fun pictures

had a parade around the neighborhood

elijah and ashleigh are wall-e and ever (their costumes still need a little work)

ate good food, played some fun games and got awesome prizes. it was fun






this saturday is an adult party for me and mario (yes we're dressing up) you'll have to wait and see pictures of that. i'm excited (mostly to go to a none kid party!)

GOAL!!!

we bought a little camcorder friday. time to show it off, ESPN highlight style. We had plenty of subjects to film, here is just a bit of elijah though. Sorry bout the small window, still learning all the quirks about video editing.

williams family pictures

at my parent's backyard!!! you wonder why we go down there every sunday (and other various times during the week) my kids (and everyone else) loves it down there!!!
thank you mom and dad for having such an awesome yard and letting us play there (and take pictures there too!!!)


oh and thank you williams family (aka my aunt, uncle and cousins). i'm so glad you called me to do your pictures, i think the timing was PERFECT!!!

amanda at explora

explora, a fun place for senior pictures???...







i think so!

afternoon at explora

if you saw my house right now you'd know i wasn't home all day (or i spent all my time on the computer) both are true! it's such a mess, cereal and shoes everywhere. and dinner half made in the kitchen.

have i mentioned before how much i love explora. we took amanda there today to take pictures. we had so much fun, even though the kids got all wet playing outside.







not only are my kids way cute, but i think they're pretty funny too. elijah is so silly lately! he had a lot of fun looking at himself in the mirror and making funny faces and dancing.

sunday.

we carved pumpkins at grandma pat's house. i know already right? we're a little excited for halloween around here.

how awesome are these pumpkin kit things?! they're like light brights. you hammer them in and then put a light in the pumpkin and they light up. there called fright lights at target. i'm so getting some for my kids!!!




and something my mother-in-law saw in a magazine. why cute!!! she also showed me some flowers in gourds. they were so pretty and fallish. i have my pumpkin flowers in front of my door right now!


such a fun weekend, sad that it's already monday! things to do this week...
actually run (i've been so lazy lately, but now that it's cooling off i don't have to run in the morning so i can sleep in and then run later in the afternoon)
i need to call my aunt to make a hair appointment
call the kids doctor to make checkups (and flu shots, yuck!)
and call other various people to confirm photo shoots and stuff. i hate talking on the phone!

ask me how i'm doing on my do to list (maybe that will keep me motivated to actually get them done!)

saturday.

we had a soccer game in the wind. and i think the wind brought the cold because it's chilly!!!

ashleigh had crazy hair, which was even more crazy in the wind.

elijah's back to normal in soccer. hopefully he'll get in a goal scoring mood again. back to normal means he's back to acting silly on the field (and acting!!! as in he pretends to be a slow robot or various other things. i just wonder why he can't be a fast goal scoring robot?!)


sunglasses are in.



ashleigh had the best seat in the game.

and ALL kids enjoy snacks at halftime.

after the game we went to the chili cook off at church for a short while. came home worked on halloween costumes. then mario's mom took me shopping. it was so much fun (i got an awesome new sweat shirt which i love and never want to take off)
then mario and i went out bowling. i beat him!! the first time in 10 years. and he was trying!!!
then we had a banana split from the route 66 diner i wish i would've brought my camera. it was huge!!!