Photo Shoot again

I took the kids to Buckhead Creek park to try and get some photos again. They had this fall type display set up. It did not work well being right in front of the baseball field fence but we tried. Kaitlyn and Kyle were completely uncooperative. Here is what I got:

Trick or Treat

Here are my kids trick or treating tonight. Kaitlyn was the girl from Camp Rock and Kyle was a Ninja Turtle.







Kyle really had the hang of this trick or treating thing this year. He was running to try and keep up with Kaitlyn. I kept telling her to wait for him and she said He's too slow. Kyle would say thank you to the person giving him the candy and then run off and say "mommy I said thank you".

costume bowling

Last week the boys on Kyle's bowling team decided we should dress up in our costumes for bowling this week. Here they are all dressed up in their costumes. We had a red power ranger, a ninja turtle, a doctor and 2 Optimus Primes.



I had to take this picture with my cell phone. My little purple camera that I keep in my purse for these kind of occasions officially died. I thought it was just the screen but now it won't even take a picture, ugh!

fall festival

We had our fall festival tonight at church. I took my camera in hopes of getting some good pictures and of course the batteries died. I usually keep back up batteries in my purse but I recently switched purses and I guess I didn't put them in there. No big deal I thought, I always keep my small purple camera in my purse as my back up camera. Well the screen is cracked and you can't see anything on it. It will still take a picture but since there is no viewfinder I have no idea what picture I am taking. Well here are a few of us trunk or treating that I took blindly. Not so bad considering I just held the camera up and snapped.

And this one is pretty good and centered but a little dark. Kyle went through this blow up house and said "hey there are no treats in here".



This one is not half bad.



This one I was trying to get the Luau girls, I am not sure who that is to the right.



I was trying to get Mr. Incredible and Kyle, just needed to lower the camera bit.



Ben dressed up as the Joker. I took this picture from afar and zoomed in so he wouldn't know I taking his picture, he will love me for this. I think it should be his new profile pic. This was before my camera batteries died.

Honor Roll

I am so proud of Kaitlyn I could almost cry. Report cards go home tomorrow but we had open house at her school tonight. Her teacher went ahead and sent the report cards home tonight. Kaitlyn made the Honor Roll!!! She had 1 A (in math) and 3 B's. This is by far the best report card she has ever had. She has always struggled in school and they say 3rd grade is the hardest grade yet but she is doing wonderfully. She really likes her teachers and is finally enjoying going to school again.

Flair

There is an application on Facebook called Flair, where you can send and receive buttons to and from your friends with different sayings, pictures, etc. Then there is a bulletin board on your facebook page to display them. I could browse the flair boards for hours. Now for those of you not cool enough to be on Facebook I thought I would share a few of my favorite that I have sent or have on my board.

Note to self: It is illegal to stab people for being stupid

My redhair gives me super powers

A clean house is a sign of a wasted life

Scrapbookers do it all night long

Best friends: because our parents couldn't handle us as sisters

If Tylenol, duct tape or a band-aid can't fix it, then you have a problem

I see the short bus is missing a passenger

If your wife is playing bunco, get out of the house

Chocolate is the answer no matter what the question is

My taxes helped pay for a $700 billion corporate bailout and all I got was this lousy flair

What is the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about

Successful parenting is finding 80's music on your kid's ipod

I don't know what your problem is but I bet it is hard to pronounce

Cinderella is proof that new shoes can change your life

Scrapbook addict: help I need a 12x12 step program

confused baby shower

Kyle went with me to a baby shower today at church. He said "why are we taking a present to the shower?" I said well that is just what you do. He said "is the baby going to be there?" I said no. He asked when the baby was coming. I said in about a month. Then he wanted to know if Susan had to go the doctor. I said yea, he said and the doctor will take the baby out. I said yes. I was waiting for him to ask how the doctor was going to get the baby out but he didn't ask. He enjoyed the shower and looking at all the gifts. Then he really liked helping Luke load them all in the truck.

Soccer Star

Kyle is becoming quite the little soccer player. He scored 3 goals at his game on Thursday night and 2 goals this morning (of course I have yet to capture one of these in picture). He is really enjoying playing. They took their team pictures this morning. Here is his team for Fall '08.



And here are some other action shots:

Bartlett Festival

Tonight we went to the Bartlett Festival. They have some booths, lots of fair type food, some carnival rides and best of all hot air balloons.



We went to this last year but John had to work so my stepmom went with us. This year John was off so he got to go. Kaitlyn did the bungee jump thing again. She loves this!





We got there about 5:45 (it was supposed to start around 6:00). I wanted to be up in the balloon when it was light outside. Well the balloons didn't start inflating until it was almost dark so my pictures aren't great. We all 4 rode the balloon. Kyle was a little scared this year, even though he rode fine last year.





We saw friends Amy, Scott and Ryan as well as Raymond, Paula, Abby, and Allie there.

Then we went back and rode some more rides.

down the hills

Tonight after Kyle's soccer game (which he scored 3 goals at) the parking lot got really congested. I despise that soccer field parking lot (the one on Bartlett Blvd.) anyway because it does get really congested as you are leaving. So we decided why bother to get in line and waste our $4 gallon gas and we just let the kids play for a minute while we waited. There is a huge hill (that one car just drove right up to avoid the traffic) and they would run to the top and the roll down. They thought it was hilarious, at least until we got home and they realized they were itching from rolling in the grass and probably getting bitten by chiggers.









Then while we waited I tried to play around with the settings on my camera. I am still not sure what to use when or what half of it means but I am planning to take a class n November (hopefully). Here are some of the different shots I got.

Visits with good friends

Abbie's husband Terrill had a business trip to Jackson, TN this week so Abbie and the kids tagged along. We met at Amy's house tonight for dinner and play. It was nice to just sit and relax and talk. Scott grilled burgers and hot dogs and Amy made some sides, we also enjoyed brownies and ice cream. The kids played really nicely together for the most part. You will see here them playing Lacrosse and Simon Says. They also used the tools to work on the swingset.







I actually didn't get any pictures of Noah (he is kinda in the two above but not really) but I got some pretty good pictures of Evan.





And a pretty good one of Abbie, Leah, and Elijah.



But I got a couple of really good photos (or so I think) of Kaitlyn and Kyle (of course I am kinds partial to these).

To all my Butt Cheeks

I received this email the other day from a friend and thought it was one of the funniest I have seen in a while. I hate all those sappy "I love you and you're my friend" emails. This email however explained that sentiment in a way I can appreciate.



Thought for the day...

Friends...

Friends are like butt cheeks.
Crap might separate them,
But they always come back together.

Send this to all your butt cheeks

Kyle's party

Kyle had his birthday party this morning at the Fire Museum of Memphis. We had never been there before but I had seen this on the website. First we played in the museum part. They had a couple of firetrucks, an ambulance, and a simulator type thing.








Then we went to the party room for cake and presents. His cake turned out really good and of course he loved all his gifts.