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! |
Anyone who knows Ella, knows that this girl has lots of expressions! During pumpkin carving last night, she did not disappoint!
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| Ella said that she messed up her pumpkin face that she drew… |
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| …therefore this face ensued. If she doesn’t succeed at something, she breaks down. |
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| this is gross! |
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| Ella’s intense pulp stare |
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| sassy look, complete with finger point |
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| don’t mess with this girl…she has a knife! (yes, we let them carve a little this year!) |
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| sweet ella! |
Ever since Rilyn got gum in her hair a couple months back, and I had to cut a good portion off, (she had layers), I’ve wanted to chop Rilyn’s hair to make it all even! But I couldn’t, because she needed to have ponytails in every weekend for cheerleading. Now that cheerleading is officially over, we went to chop off her hair! Now I love Ella’s hair-very thick and has good body. But Ella wanted her hair just like Rilyn’s, and so Ella got her hair chopped off too!
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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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Today I went along with Ella’s preschool class to the Elgin Christmas Tree farm. We already went once this month, and Ella had to wear a not-so-pretty orange field trip t-shirt so I wasn’t too excited about going, (who wants to take pictures with not cute clothes on?). It was hot, and we didn’t even go to the pumpkin area for pictures! Bummer! I managed to get a few cute pictures of Ella, and I got to spend some one on one time with her, so the day was a success in my book!
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| ella |
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| pondering in front of the corn field maze |
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| I liked this bench |
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| I liked this fence too. 🙂 |
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| duck races by pumping water |
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| hay bale maze |
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| I feel so blessed that I can have these opportunities to go
on special trips with my kids individually! |
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! |
Here is some video footage of our Ella getting her groove on at Rilyn’s Falcon homecoming dance. (About 20 seconds in is where it really starts getting good.) This girl has some moves!
Tonight is the Aggies first Big 12 football game. Of course, here in the Paquette household, that means we need to show our Aggie spirit and dress accordingly! I’ve mentioned before how much I like dressing the kids in Aggie clothes. Here are the girls new season shirts (with bows, socks, and earrings too!)
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| seriously cute Aggie shirt! |
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| who doesn’t love Hello Kitty?! |
And we can’t forget Asher! He has been pretty sick this past week, so he isn’t looking so happy, but mama wants a picture, so here you go!
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| That’s How I Roll |
The girls have lots of Aggie accessories, but Asher gets the shoes. My mom bought him the cutest shoes! They are called Team Squeaks, and whenever he walks, the shoes ‘squeak’. Well, they are cute for a little while, then they can get a little annoying… 🙂
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| You will hear him coming! |
the paquettes 