HALLOWEEN!!!

Suzanne and I went to Ashley's school parade today and saw some of our neighbors dressed to the hilt--so much fun. Karen, Trista, Jessica and Heather looked great!! Heather Mecham was decked out all punk goth. She said it was her alter ego and that she was having a ton of fun. Ooo, alter ego--intriguing. For those of you who know me--or thought you did, I just had to try. So here are the before and afters!

Before--helped out at Ashely's school party;

After--went to the mall and asked the helpful, friendly pierced kids where I could buy faux body jewelry. They were super nice (btw, the answer is: you can just buy the real stuff and pull out the ball). Unfortunately, you can't even see the faux piercings in this photo unless you click on it. And you thought Halloween was all about the kids!

Well okay, here they are.

Grace is Snow White.

Ashley is a devil.

Kourtney is a vampire.

Happy Halloween!!!

Preschool parade

The preschool parade, led my Miss Heidi as Dorothy.

WARNING: Highly Flammable

The girls carved their pumpkins on Monday; they did a great job. As an after thought we added some spray paint I had lying around for special effect. Now their pumpkins look extra cool and are highly flammable. No candles inside for us this year. I was thinking I might string orange lights through the older girls' and through the basket they sit in front of, or else I can just put flashlights or those elecric tea lights in them.

Grace wanted to hold hers. It's a sparkly black kitty, and we just had to poke on the costume. That's my favorite way to carve a pumpkin. Ashley's is the black witch with gold sparkles, and Kourtney's is the pearly white pumpkin face.

A love for all time--KEVIN and MINDY

Kevin and Mindy in 1994--the year they were married.
Kevin and Mindy in 1990.

Kevin and Mindy in 1984/1982.

Kevin and Mindy in 1978.

Kevin and Mindy in their afro stages in 1976.

Kevin and Mindy in 1964.

Kevin and Mindy in 1952.

No new skin off Grace's nose

Holy cow, look at the improvement to Gracie's face after just one week! That's the miracle of Neosporine at work right there :) A doctor in our neighborhood once told me he's encountered two kinds of mothers in his years of practice. Mother 1. Rushes her child to the doctor for every tiny thing. Mother 2. Assumes all is well and believes that a little Neosporine will cure anything.

I must say, I'm a bit jealous of that beautiful baby skin. No way do I heal that quickly. I'm thinking there's definitely something to these human growth hormone treatments.

Anyway, we're just glad she's doing so great. Thanks for all your sweet notes and calls about her.

Just a few bumps and bruises

Poor Gracie fell off the trampoline Saturday evening at her friend's house. She bit the cement in a sad little line up her cute face. So sad. Aside from two slightly scraped knuckles, there's no other injury on her. She took it all on her face!! She's doing great though--she's a good little trooper. She's pretty banged up, but she only injured her skin--which is healing nicely!


As an extra disaster sidenote, I got stung by a bee earlier at Kourtney's soccer game, and the girls shattered our rotating microwave plate all over the kitchen floor, all in less than 24 hours. Not my favorite weekend.

Hair, hair, it's everywhere!!

The girls and I got new haircuts--our neighbor Jeanette did a beautiuful job, and I think everyone is happy with her new hairs. We figure between the four of us we cut off about three feet of hair. Big change!! Here we all are, lookin sassy!