The little thumbnail images are too small to see which one of these was

better so now you just have to see both!! ;) Can you tell what we are?? Think Mystery solving as a "INCorporation...Did you guess?? It was a lot of fun, but after 3 parties at various places during Halloween week we were ready to just stay home and do our own thing when the night actually arrived...but that didn't stop pesky trick-or-treaters from coming by...;)

Fall Foliage Frolics

You like my alliteration in the title, don't you...uh huh I knew it!! Anyway one day Kyle and I decided to rake up a big pile of leaves and have some fun..some posed pics and some just fun...betcha can't tell which ones are which....yeah right!! ;)

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Is that Bat Poop??

Once again the pics posted in the opposite order so no I'm not saying Dalin's soccer team is bat poop? It was supposed to be our Halloween oatmeal complete with...yep bat poo (blueberries) and then it was gonna be Dalin and his team. Dalin still has two games left before his season is over but this particular game, conveniently played on Halloween day was quite "spooky" in regard to the tensions that went on between parents and coaches...I mean these kids are 5 and 6 but that didn't stop there from almost being a fist-to-fist fight in the middle of the field, and one if not more players "leaving" the game vowing to not return...no this doesn't happen often Mom...but hopefully the last two games will go better and the adults can act like adults and let the kids just play, right!!

Hairy Pumpkins!!

Well I think I might do one post/pic at a time because Chris's camera settings take "larger" pics than my baby Kodak did...so feel free to scroll through my gallery!! This was Halloween night's dinner....very festive, yes??

What happens when Kyle needs a laugh!!

Just a random cute pic of my little man putting pillows over his head...quite funny when he puts them over his eyes....

Ok Ok I'm Back!! Did You Miss Me??

Well we all know how I feel about posting just words without some pics to show for what I'm rambling on about but in this case I just had to post to say the church Halloween party is OVER!! I couldn't be happier until a month and 1 week from now when the Christmas party is...so I get a LITTLE break and then it's back to the grindstone....of course there's no pics because I had Chris occupied with his camera taking pictures of families at the party in our Halloween photo shoot set-up complete with a spooky park bench, light poles, and cobwebs...it was great and I got rave reviews from the games I had planned and everything. So when we can afford another small point and shoot camera I will go hog wild but until then you'll have to wait 'til Thursday when we found out there's a "Trick or Treat" parade down the main street of our town here so we'll definitely be sure to get our wonderfully creative family costumes in photo and then print when I show you here!! So hold on to your seats just until then!! ;)

An Interesting Encounter...

I don't usually just post to say I'm doing something..because if I'm gonna say something I want to have pics to prove what I'm doing was fun but last night's late night visitor deserves a post on here. It is 10:15 pm and Chris and I had just finished sharpening 12 pencils...with a knife...oh yeah because the Dollar Tree didn't have pencil sharpeners....oh yes we're THAT cheap these days :) Anyway, so the doorbell rings and with a very disapproving look we both turn to the door wondering who on earth could be here at this hour...so I open the door,with Chris directly behind me with a machete..you just never know this late, right?? (Just kidding) and there sounds about a 20 year old guy with no hands (from elbow down) and one prosthetic leg (the other leg was intact and normal) and the first thing he says is "Please don't be scared, and was this a bad time??" Well if you must know, yes 10 o'clock at night is NEVER a good time to start soliciting (no matter the cause) but just for the record I never said that...we said that it was fine and listened to his story about how he and about 40 other "disabled" persons were traveling with a company named "Editor and Chief in Review Inc." and what they were trying to accomplish was getting prosthetic arms for themselves if they could raise enough "points." How do they get these points, you might ask?? Well the age ol' magazine subscription, that's how. Anyway, so we continue to listen while perusing the magazines offered and then he asked if we had any questions...so we ask how much a few of them are and here's where the incredible part started...he retrieved a huge booklet from his back pocket, (reminder:no hands just elbow up) bent down on my concrete porch stairs (which is when I noticed the missing leg) and began to look through his book to find the prices we had asked, and while looking for that asked up if he could send us a survey in the mail from his company asking how he was with us..respectful,rude, etc. We said sure and then he began to WRITE our names,address,etc. (Forgot to mention before that on one arm he had a very malformed little finger, and that he used that and his chin to write all these things) but the amazing thing to me was that his handwriting was SO much better than mine!! Anyway, we invited him in to at least use our table to press on to finish what he was writing...We decided to help him out as much as we could, maybe partly out of pity and partly because they actually had a magazine that I love...so then he continues writing even more things about our order and before he left I just had to ask (big mouth me!!) if this was an accident later in his life or what and he told me he was born like this and that he was 19....probably sensing my disbelief, as I certainly haven't been around that many seriously disabled people, I probably didn't hide my expression very well, he said: "You just gotta keep on keeping on, don't let anything keep you down." Now the point of this whole NOVEL I've written here that probably everybody other than my mom dropped out half a page ago is that we have SO very much to be grateful for and yet SO many of us take for granted our bodies (no matter what shape they come in) and many other things for that matter...so my and your thought for today is to try and have a better attitude on life. We have so many things to be ABLE to take for granted and I sure have a loving Father in Heaven to think for that!! End of Novel!! ;)