NBA ALLSTAR

Mason is playing basketball through NYS and he loves it. He's done baseball and soccer and didn't really enjoy those so this time he chose basketball. For being his first time playing he actually does pretty well. His first game he scored 6 points. He was so excited to get the #1 jersey! I think I am the loudest mom on the team screaming through the whole game cheering them on. His team name is the Greendragons.


Getting ready for jump ball, making sure they know who they are supposed to be guarding. That doesn't really mean anything anyway, because they are all over the court in every direction.

Going up for a rebound.

Dribbling down the court.

AZ State Fair

O.k. I know we might be a little white trash or hillbilly, whatever you want to call it. Every year the Rowley brothers make it a point to go to the state fair just to watch the derby car races. Three years ago Larry even put together a derby car and entered the demolition derby. This year we took the kids and watched it. Mady was very confused about the fact that cars were just full on crashing into each other and some of them even starting on fire. She did not like that at all, because to her a car crashing meant bad things. Notice Uncle Jason in the background.

This was the kids favorite derby car, it was all painted like the joker, even the driver was dressed like him.

The highlight of the night was when the kids got to ride on a huge elephant. They are the two in the back.

The one ride we did was the colossal slide, it is huge.

HALLOWEEN

Hard at work cleaning out the pumpkins, mom had to help because they said it was too dirty and gooey.


Mason carved his out all by himself with the little battery powered carving saw. What will it look like?


Of course I carved Mady's pumpkin, she did help a little.

Finished product, the face of a werewolf (can you see it Mason worked long and hard on this), and a big happy face pumpkin!

Can you guess, Madisen was a cowgirl for Halloween. She was supposed to be riding her horse but she ditched that first thing, I could barely keep her hat and boots on.

Mason was a ghostly goul (doesn't he look scary). He didn't think he looked scary enough, every costume that he picked out was so scary with masks and gory stuff, so we settled on this one.

PUMPKIN PATCH

We went to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins for Halloween. The kids got to decorate a little pumpkin, go through the hay maze and go on a hay ride. Then we picked out our pumpkins to take home and carve.





On the hayride!

Mady picked the best pumpkin!

caramel apples

apples before dipping and messy

caramel coating, I did the cheater version where you microwave the caramels, it worked really good!


Finished product, and they didn't even get very messy! Just Mady's face when she tries to sneak tastes of everything before it 's done.

Spooky House!

We love Halloween time! Me and the kids decorated as scary as we could. Mason is so into all the ghory costumes and things but it really scares Mady. Every costume he picks out she says no he can't wear that because she will scream and get scared if he does. This is our front door area, the kids love to put up all the spider webs, even though they are a pain to hang up. This is also our spooky tree. We had to put every halloween ornament on the tree.

Halloween BUNKO

The other night was BUNKO and we were supposed to dress up for Halloween. I went, as my costume says, a ritzy witch! I had the black fingernails and the tattoo on my face. This was a big thing for me because I usually am not one to dress up for anything, but it actually turned out to be really fun. I even won a prize for the last bunko! Maybe my costume was good luck.

The best costumes of all were (can you guess who) Aunt Jemima and her husband. Underneath all that body paint is Dani and Jenyce. They played it up so good with the big bootie and all! They were voted the favorite costume of the night! Congrats.


This is the whole bunko gang.
Batwoman, Superwoman, Jemimas husband, Jemima,Whoopie cushion, cheerleader, disco girl, pregnant nun, Sarah Palin, ritzy witch, doctor girl, renasciance girl, BUNKO dice, statue of liberty! What a fun night!