Halloween Photos

We had a great Halloween. We started off visiting Nana (the kids' great-grandma) in the nursing home. My brother, SIL, and niece were there too so we took some pictures and visited the other residents. Then we went to quite a few houses on foot. One guy answered the door "BOOOOO!!!!" and the kids thought that was hilarious - especially Lil Brother. He talked about that for a long time. We then drove to grandpa's house and the kids dug into their loot while we visited and took pictures. It was a really fun time for everyone.

Lil Bro loved having his face painted and loved his costume. So did everyone else. Hollywood did a last minute change up since she was dissatisfied with her fairy costume. She used the costume from last year instead and had me make her "icky". LOL. It turned out really good anyway. MK was a mad scientist...she had a lab coat with fake blood on it and her, along with some glitter hairspray and make up. :)



I think I like Halloween just as much as the kids do.

Gearing up for Halloween

The girls' costumes are planned. Lil Bro tried his on today...and then didn't want to take it off. He's a zebra this year. I'm going to paint stripes on his face when we go trick or treating on Monday.

Lil Brother did not want to have ANYTHING to do with carving pumpkins this year. He sat at the table and watched us while playing a keyboard. It was kind of funny. He just wanted us to do it for him. He said he wanted a happy face. I remember last year he didn't like it either. He'll grow into it I hope. :)

Hollywood carved his for him. This was her idea of happy I guess:

Eeeww. I know. I made her take the dirty guts out of its mouth. This year we had a kitty, a cyclops, and two ghost pumpkins.

I thought it was fitting to carve a cat pumpkin since we are being over-run with them right now. 

Hollywood's stray that showed up here during the summer still has one big kitten from then and 4 new kittens that we'll be finding homes for. We're saving up money to get the stray spayed since it doesn't appear that she's going anywhere. I just wish her big kitten she showed up here with was tame. I don't know if it's a boy or girl, but I can't get near it so it's not like I can get it fixed easily. Here's the mama cat that Hollywood named Natalie.

This is her big kitten from when she showed up here with it this past summer:

And here are a couple of her new kittens:

I got super sick on Thursday night - fever, body aches, sore throat, dizzy, sore neck, headache, upper respiratory stuff. I missed work on Friday...I didn't even shower or get dressed. GROSS. I just slept and took Tylenol. Somehow overnight Friday night things took a turn for the better and by now (Saturday night) I'm feeling pretty good. I had the flu shot on Tuesday so I just wonder if that had anything to do with it. Strange. I'm so glad that I'm feeling better though. I have way too much stuff to do to be sidelined with another illness.



Weekend recap

This weekend flew by as usual. I'm trying to remember what all we did. Friday S~ came over and we just hung out at home with the kids. We all had a nice time. Saturday I cleaned up outside - washed the windows on the front of the house where all the tree frogs have been sticking their tiny feet all summer and pooping giant turds. I got down all the spider webs and a wasp nest, then I mowed the grass - twice. My lawn mower had been out of commission for some time, so I mowed it once higher up and then again low. Looks much better out there now and not like an abandoned/foreclosed home.

Sunday I took the girls shopping for some more school clothes, courtesy of my Aunt Anne. :) She sent the girls gift cards so they were eager to use them. One of them I was able to combine with a 20% off coupon so MK did pretty good there. She got gorgeous 3 tops, some earrings, and some bracelets. Hollywood found 2 more pairs of jeans and 2 tops along with some fun stuff as well. We also enjoyed lunch/supper at my favorite place, Red Lobster. Lil Bro asked for and ate a bunch of fish and broccoli. Yay! Thank you, Aunt Anne!

After we got back from our shopping and dining trip we grabbed a comforter from home that a certain little someone had spilled an entire cup of orange koolaid on and headed for the laundromat. It doesn't fit in my machine.

Not my favorite place to go, but it's clean and it sure smelled good in there.

MK did her homework while we waited. She's such a good student.

It smelled good in there until this one lady showed up. Have you ever smelled meth smoke? Unfortunately I have - on a guy I used to work with. I never knew what the smell he always stunk like was until I took a drug, alcohol and tobacco class. They explained it and I knew right away that was what he smelled like. That lady smelled like it too - really strong. I posted on FB that either she was smoking it in her car with the windows up or was wearing "essence of cat piss" perfume. YUCK.

We got home and had some popcorn, watched some TV, and then I got the kids off to bed. Lil Bro watched Yo Gabba Gabba - he's into that lately. Only he calls it Oh Gabba Gabba. His big treat for the day was a Lightening McQueen Lego kit from the Cars 2 movie. He loves those. I'm sure he'll keep asking until he has the whole Cars 2 Legos collection. He has mater already and some other one. Hollywood helped him put it together at the laundromat. He was so good all day today. He doesn't really enjoy shopping much, but today he was awesome.

Here's his scary "smile" face. LOL He cracks me up so bad. He has such a cute smile...but when you ask him to smile for the camera he does this. Too funny.

Lil Bro has decided he wants to be a zebra for Halloween. Don't ask how that came up, I have no clue.