We had a wonderful holiday! Here are some of my favorite photos!
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| Thanksgiving dinner at my house with James’ family |
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| Rilyn and Asher |
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| Uncle Ben with Busta (who ran into a table and busted his head) |
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| Rilyn and her beautiful Aunt Mandy, James’ sister |
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| Thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s house |
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| Asher and his cousin, Caden |
On Halloween night, one of our friends brought a pinata at our annual little get together to eat chili before we trick or treat, (one of these years it will be cold enough outside to enjoy eating it!)
Here is the neighborhood gang this year:
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Asher loved the idea of a pinata, but he chose to only hit it once. It was so cute!
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| One hit, (it was more like a gentle tap), and I’m done! |
Ella…well, she is afraid of pinatas. This stems back to her 2nd birthday party. She just doesn’t like the idea of whacking something. The noise it makes as the bat hits the pinata, and then the surprise as it bursts open with flying candy. And if the pinata is a character she cares about, (like Mickey Mouse), forget about it. She can not stand to see people hitting Mickey! Anyway, so here is Ella at the Halloween party during pinata time.
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| safe and sound behind glass doors |
And here is where her fear started. 🙂
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| What is this thing?!? |
She is crying from all the candy falling from her pinata which wasn’t even a hitting one, it was ‘pull the ribbon’!
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| aunt Jessica comforting her |
Asher loves Toy Story and so I knew this Halloween, he had to be Buzz Lightyear like 90% of the other little boys his age! 🙂 (Speaking of Halloween, I love this woman’s view of why we celebrate, even as Christians. You should check it out!)
This was Asher’s first Halloween where he really ‘got it.’ It was sooooo cute to watch him try to keep up with the other big kids. And his wings…so precious! They kept bonking people and he got stuck in a couple places, but they ‘made’ the costume, so he didn’t have a choice to take them off! 😉 Keeping with our uncompassionate parenting style ;-), here is James making Asher put the costume on. You could say that it took awhile for him to warm up to dressing up!
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| Not even his blankie provided comfort! |
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| I was sure this was the only picture I was going to get with his hood and wings on! |
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| Much happier after going to his friend’s house and playing on the slide! |
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| Seriously, cuteness! He was waiting patiently for a turn at the pinata. Love his hands! |
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| trick or treating! |
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| His bucket got too heavy for him near the end, so he had
to be carried! He loved getting so much candy! |
We visited a ghost town right here in Manor yesterday! It was really fun to let the kids explore, and I think we will make this an annual tradition around Halloween time!
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| ghost town |
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| Will Berry Undertaker… haha |
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| Boo Hill graveyard |
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| jail |
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| This was fun to go in and out of the jail cell! |
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| this boy loved running around |
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| Good job Aggies on the win yesterday! |
We made Asher have his first pumpkin carving experience yesterday. I say ‘made’ because he did NOT want any part of putting his arm in the pumpkin to pull out the pulp! Not to worry, super uncompassionate parents to the rescue! (I think the last picture sums up his experience the best!)
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| Honorary Halloween shirt to wear this week |
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| He loved drawing all over his pumpkin with markers! |
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| lifting the ‘lid’….not too bad, yet. |
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| Whoa! I am NOT putting my arm in there! |
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| Asher trying his best to strong arm daddy! |
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| drool for dramatic effect |
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| Oh the agony! We are such mean parents!! 🙂 |
For the third time now, I’ve volunteered to take pictures at an event (all of them happen to be for Rilyn so far), to help make money for her school or cheer team. (Each parent pays some money and I will fancy up their photo and e-mail it to them!) Last night was Rilyn’s Fall Fest at her elementary school. I took 40 pictures-whew, that’s a lot of editing, but well worth it!
They could come dressed up and Ella wanted to be a bride! She looked really cute because I saw her walking around with the front veil over her face very serious, like she was a real bride. Rilyn chose to wear her old dance recital costume and Asher, well, daddy was just lucky to get all 3 kids by himself to the fall fest. (Not to mention it was pretty important for Asher to wear a baseball shirt to support the Rangers!) 🙂
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It was only a matter of time before Asher got into the Halloween web decorations around our house! I taught the girls how to stretch the cotton to look like webs and they loved it. Surprisingly, it took Asher one week before he discovered how to tear it down and ‘play’ in it. So much fun for a 2 1/2 year old!
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There was lots of activities at the pumpkin patch!
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| Farm animals to look at! (Notice the sign and what Asher
is doing! Oops!) |
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| a corn field maze! This was really fun! |
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| A hay bale maze. Again, notice the sign and then what James is doing! |
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| Rubber duck water races! Levi and Rilyn both won! 😉 |
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| daddy and his kiddos |
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| family shot! |
the paquettes 