Halloween Weekend

We had a fun filled Halloween weekend at my house. If you live on the eastside of Indianapolis and have never been to the Irvington Halloween Festival you are missing a lot of fun. This has been a tradition in my family for many many years. The Festival was Saturday but there are activities going on all week. The kid's favorite is of course the costume contest, and then walking in parade. This year Caleb and Emma went has Herbie, the Love Bug. I'm very happy that they think outside the box for their Halloween costumes. Well I guess this year they thought inside the box (ha ha!). The best part was that they could split in half and walk around someone the way Herbie does in the movie!

We had over 100 trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, we ended up taking candy the Caleb and Emma had collected and giving some of it away when we ran out of candy. I think our big pumpkin drew a few extra kids.

On Sunday we had a surprise birthday party for my Mom and to our surprise, she was really surprised. I figured she knew and was just playing along but we did surprise her. It was a great but busy weekend!

I'm Back!!

No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, I've just been busy with family stuff. We went to visit some friends who live in the Boston area over fall break. Here's a picture of Caleb and Emma in front of "Old Ironsides"

Then of course we were busy with Halloween costumes. Emma was Leia and Caleb was Luke. They were very cute.

I did get to do some scrap booking with a few friends on Friday night, then on Saturday I went to a crop at my old church so between the two days I finished my Disney scrapbook (we went to Disney world in June of 2007). So I feel like I accomplished a lot. I'll post pictures of some of my favorite pages soon.

Emma's Hair

I don't show pictures of the kids a lot, but sometimes something is so cute I just have to share it with the world. This is Emma with her "Princess Leia Hair". that's what she calls it any way. When I was little my mom used to fix my hair like this and we called it "doggy ears" or "doggy buns" I don't remember which--Mom do you?

Anyway she was so cute this morning with her hair fixed and her pearl necklace and her missing teeth that I had to take a picture.

by the way I told her I'd giver her a quarter when she got home if she left her hair alone and they were still in when she got off the bus. We'll see what she does!