THrIcK oR ThrEaT!

Tinkerbell and Peter Pan or Captain Hook was what I was going for.  KADEN had another idea.  To Infinity and Beyond! 

What officer?  No candy!

She wouldn't put her candy in her bucket.  She would just take a piece, eat it, finish it and then move onto the next door.

Here's a glimpse of my little Main Street for all of my friends that don't understand where I come from.  No stoplights!  Anywhere!

Logan and Reese

Kaden, Logan and Reese.

Getting ready for the parade to start.

The Landmarks came over and we did Make-Up on the girls!

I finally made the famous DeGroot Family Pumpkin Stew.  It tasted amazing!  We will be making it every Halloween.  Promise!  5 1/2 years of marriage and I finally gave it a try.  Why did I wait this long?  

Is Halloween always the coldest day of the year?  Or is it just my imagination?  My Sweet Home Alabama of a town I live in had a parade down Main Street for all the little ones.  The vendors on Main Street all come out to the curb and hand out candy.  

The parade was also equipped with a costume competition...um...no... REESE didn't win and yes I'm still a little sore from the loss.  I wish I would have snapped a photo of the winner.  You would all agree with me that Tinker Bell is so much cuter than Little Bow Peep that didn't even have a staff!  It made the loss even worse when all the people on Main Street kept asking me if REESE won.  It hurt each time I had to say no and try to keep a smile on my face!  If anything, I feel bad I made REESE wear these wings the size of her entire body and she had to try so hard not to fall over backwards! ...and she still didn't win!

Thanks guys!  I've vented and now I think I'm over it.  Probably not!

ThERe's nO PlaCE LiKe HoMe... ThERe's nO PlaCE LiKe HoMe... Can somebody please find me some red slippers!

The front

The back

First Floor

Second Floor

Can you see the fear in Kaden's eye's

Kaden peeing in a pile of rocks of course...oh...to be a boy!

My dad and Brandaan

Brandaan and Reese...

My dad...

Zack

Zack and Brandaan playing with their toys!

My dad...

I'm sure she thinks she's helping in some way.

Brandaan with his shiny new toy!

I haven't even mentioned our new house yet mostly because I didn't want to jinx it.  Now that it's officially on it's way I can give you all the latest in the process.  My dad is doing all the excavation work and it's almost all done.  He's so nice to do all this work for us.  The road into our property is totally done besides some last grading.  

Our house is nestled right in the trees.  My dad had to take out some of the trees and BRANDAAN and ZACK cut them all into logs.  BRANDAAN came home one day with a shiny new chainsaw and my mouth fell open and followed with lots of laughing.  I'm sure you're all as surprised as me that BRANDAAN could run a chainsaw.  I would think you would have to get some kind of training...not if you're BRANDAAN.  Well, he did cut his pants right open!  Luckily, our friend ZACK was a logger for a long time and was able to show BRANDAAN the ropes.  ZACK had about fifteen trees cut when BRANDAAN finished his third.  If you ask BRANDAAN the reason for that is because BRANDAAN'S trees were so much larger!  Right!  That's totally BRANDAAN!

We should be ready soon for the foundation!

We CaN HaRdLy BeliEVe iT's TrUe...ReEsE tuRNed TwO!

The Birthday Girl and her balloon.

The Birthday Girl...

The girls were all given wings and wands.  Then they got their faces painted by the talented Miken and Matea.  They finished turning them into fa

iries by sprinkling them with pixie dust.  It was very magical!

Thank you to Miken and Matea for all their help!

Fairy Ashlynn...Look at all the pixie dust in her hair!

Fairy Laney

The Schoening's brought a pony and gave all the kids pony rides.  Thank you so much Danny and Amber.  It was definitely the highlight!

The Birthday Girl...

No party is complete without a pinata!  

Logan hits like a girl...

And Ashlynn hits like a boy!  No kidding!

Notice how all the kids backed up when Kaden cocked back his swing!

Finally... she makes her wish!

I posted this picture because I thought it was hilarious she started using her teeth to tear the paper...grrr!

And Yeahhh!  It's Little Mermaid. Her favorite!

Say ChEeSe!!!

I've been struggling to get good pictures of KADEN and REESE together.  They just don't seem to want to cooperate.  They take great pictures separately. I'm taking them again to get pictures taken this Friday.  The photographer suggested to try shooting some indoors so they're not so distracted and we can trap them in a specific area...I'm not sure she knows what she's getting herself into.  I've never been happy with any indoor photos so far, so I'll let you all know how it goes.