Halloween Day!

It was pretty cool this year because Dr Cohen went out of town the last week in October. So Dr Levine (his new associate whom we all love! and I worked a couple of days but I was OFF on Halloween this year. FUN!

So we started the morning with some ghostly pancakes. I bought a shake and pour bottle of pancakes (lazy? whatever... i add my own stuff and they taste better than my homemade ones... which, admittedly, doesnt take much) and added a little pumpkin spice, vanilla extract and some mini chocolate chips. HINT: the chocolate chips just sunk to the bottom of the bottle :-( So next time i do this i will wait until i'm ready to pour and will just sprinkle them in as I pour. Anyhoo, this was all freehand, so they looked more like feet :-)

Till I added the chocolate chips for eyes and a mouth, anyways! HA! Cute, right?! Thanks, pintrest!

So I was feeling creative and decided to freehand a momma and baby pumpkin. Rhyan LOVED it!

Ronni had bought Rhyan this cute halloween shirt an I wanted a pic of her in it, but this is all I could get...

For lunch, Tracy had loaned to me some halloween-ish cookie cutters that I put to use. We enjoyed cat and bat pb&j sandwiches, chips and grapes :-) It's hard to tell in the pic, but they were pretty cute!

Then, that evening we hit the streets! We were on the prowl for some CANDY!!! Because Mama and Daddy need it to keep up with these babies ;-). We headed to Mama's and Mommie's houses first...

We tried to get a good pic of Mommie with the kids but Mack wasnt really having it! He wanted down!

When we first got there, Mommie was dressed up as a witch. Rhyan did NOT like it. She wouldnt have anything to do with her until she took her costume off! Then, she was fine!

When we got back home, we were on the go! Rhyan was GREAT about saying "trick or treat" and "Thank you!" this year. She seemed to REALLY have fun and wanted to go to every door in the neighborhood. When we first started off we stayed on our little street... lots of neighbors were out and Jeff chatted while Rhyan and I went door-to-door and Mackey walked around a bit.

But around the time that we headed up to go off our street, Tracy, Kevin, Elijah, Lydia, Lindy, Jon and Luke came rolling up! YAY! We always love their halloween visit! :-) So we finished out the neighborhood with Mack in a stroller and the rest of the kids walking. I really enjoyed it!! Lydia is SUCH a little mommy to my babies and she took right up with Rhyan and of course Rhyan was stuck right by Lydias side.

When we got back to our street, it was TIME to be done for Mack. I think it was after 8pm and he's normally in bed at 7pm (then, anyways). So Rhyan continued on with Tracy and the kids and we came on back to put a tired little boy to bed...

I love this years pic! Elijah was wearing a scary mask but my kids were scared of him so he took it off for the pic (which was sweet... but then, he's a really sweet kid!)

We had a GREAT day and I had a lot of fun being home with the kids. These kinds of days make me REALLY wish I were a stay at home mom... (and there are plenty of others that make me REALLY glad that I work 3 days a week! HA!)

Camera Dump

SERIOUSLY working on getting into 2013 on my blog! hehe...

Love seeing BOTH my babies work puzzles quietly at the table. This is a favorite pastime for Rhyan, more rare for the Mack-Man!

He loves this phone and this particular day he pulled it around ALL day. Even insisted on taking it with us when we left the house for an errand!

Rhyan is kind of obsessed with my phone. We've had to lay out some serious guidelines about her being required to ask mommy to play with my phone BEFORE touching it. But back when she did this, I didnt even know it till i found the pics later :-) Sneaky little girl...

The world through her eyes...

Mack, wearing Rhyans shoes. Hey, he can appreciate nice shoes, too! ;-)

Hmmmm... Rhyan is CLEARLY an artist and I'm just not artsy enough to decipher her brillance

OH, back when i went to visit Emily, I got a ticket on the way home. Well, I was going 15 over the speed limit which qualifies me for an additional state ticket of $200. When I found that out I almost cried. So I decided to write a letter asking them to drop the speed on my ticket... and they DID! Hallelujah!

New post below.....

Oak Hill Fall Festival

Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year. And our church had its fall festival the Sunday before. We had taken part in the Dacula Festival the day before (Saturday) which was kind of a bust so we left and went to Shlaine's church (our old church) and took part in their festival where the kids ate chili and played on their playground, etc... but somehow i didnt get any pics?! :-( So on we move to our church festival...

When you first arrive at our church festival, they always take pictures to give you when they come visit (if you're a visitor) and share more about the church. Well, we may not need a visit from the visitation team, but we DO appreciate the scenery and thought we'd catch our own pic! Yes, i should crop. But i didnt. Hello, people. I'm just trying to catch up at this point! HA!

Rhyan had actually woken up with a random fever but didnt seem to have any symptoms. So we had kept her home from church that morning so as not to "share". But the festival was all outside and she was feeling much better and fever free so we went. And then the wind started blowing and we were so COLD! :-( And i felt bad for taking her, but she had a blast! So we just stayed a little while and let her play some games while Mack played and it was all good...

Mack and our youth pastor, Kyle (who looks like a youth himself!!!)

Mack kept wanting us to help him up this ladder and signed "please" over and over :-) Cute!

Btw, we didnt let Rhyan wear her dress b/c it was too cold and we wanted her WARM.

Here's my baby playing putt-putt for the first time! She did AWESOME!

We told her to try to throw the hoop around the post, so she walked up to it and tossed it. 

SUCCESS! Ha! We'll take it how we can get it :-)

So proud of herself!

And in this game you're supposed to toss the ball into the can... so again, she walked up to it :-)

Toss the ball into the boot?

Too hard! Dropping it is easier :-) After all, you've got to ensure that you get CANDY!

We had a great time with our babies! We ALWAYS love outdoor fun, although we enjoy it more when its warm :-) Not to be picky or anything! haha...

Dacula Halloween Festival

Dacula decided to do a Halloween Festival this year... I know... EEEEEK!

We invited Mommie to come along and was so glad she felt up for it! It started off cool but the night ended up down right chilly! We headed on up to Dacula around 5pm... Mommie and our little Rapunzel... pan and all! (she walked around saying "I will use this!")

Farmer Jeff and our little Tiger... ROAR! :-) Side note: for a few weeks leading up to Halloween, we kept asking Mack "What does a tiger say?" and he would say "QUACK QUACK!". LOL. A quacking tiger. Luckily, the week OF halloween he suddenly started roaring :-)

So pretty much the most exciting part of the night was the outhouse race. There were a few groups/restaurants who competed. It was all one at a time and a timed event. There was someone in the outhouse holding toilet paper, 2 people pushing and someone on the outside pulling the toilet paper. Thing is, if the toilet paper broke they had to stop and get it started again. That part was annoying!

So, since we were pretty bored and hungry, we blew that popscicle stand and headed to my aunt Shlaine's church (which happens to be our OLD church... where we went as teens and got married!) for their festival and trunk or treat. They had free chili. And they had me at "free" :-) More on that later!