Dress Rehearsal

Some of the kids were dressing up yesterday, preparing for the big night.

Charlotte was as fancy as ever, and Katharine finally put together all of the elements of her Hermione outfit.

Keira donned her Minny Mouse dress, sans the ears. I think she likes the polka dots and frills of the dress more than the character.

Saturday snapshots

My computer died on me three weeks ago, and I just got the new one up and running.

It had been a while since I snapped a lot of pictures, but I was eager to see how much faster the the new rig was going to perform (awesome, btw). So here are a bunch of random pictures that I took when we were playing out in the front yard earlier.

Last game of the season

I am happy to report that the Tigers won their last game of the season, beating the Cowboys by a score of 8-6. 

Not a good week to be named after a Texas team...

Cars, Cars, Cars

Anita and I came across these beauties in the Whole Foods parking lot today:






















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Pillow Plush

Lennon always sleeps with his lovies under his head.

Painting Pumpkins

Instead of carving pumpkins we opted for paint this year. The kids had a great time.



















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Ghosts

Yesterday we made some ghosts. We used old sheets, wire hangers that the dry cleaning was on, card board, tape, fabric markers, string and ribbon. We had everything around the house. The kids had fun putting faces on their ghosts and hanging them up outside.



















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Team Tiger

Team picture from before the game today.

Go Tigers!

Root Vegetable Candy

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

inspired me tonight to cook. I made my own version of her recipe using beets, carrots, rutabaga, sweet potato and Jonathan apples, with salt, pepper, olive oil, honey and a bit of pumpkin pie spice.

I needed a creative outlet after treating the kids hair for lice all afternoon and evening. Katharine had adult lice, young lice and nits in her long, long hair.

Happy Birthday, Iria

Iria had a cupcake with the kids before heading out with the big girls to celebrate.

The Heard Nature Museum

Yesterday was adventure day 2. We went to the Heard here in McKinney. The animatronic dinosaurs are back and Katharine has been asking for a while to go see them. So we did.
After we walked the 1/2 mile dinosaur trail we visited the handful of wild animals that the Heard has: mostly raccoons and other small animals that people kept as pets and then dumped. Now they have a safe home. Then we went to the butterfly house and from there we hiked the prairie and wetlands trails. We walked around 4 miles and the kids only complained once during the last 5 or 10 minutes. The promise of candy got them going again, they all ended up picking out a snack instead. Needless to say that they were tired.



After the hike and they are still smiling:)








They all needed a snack and drink.














Rosehips





Oops, just noticed that this is in here twice. Oh well,...








A butterfly slowly coming out of the crysalis.

















Kassidy was really scared of the dinosaurs. I ended up having to turn the stroller away from the dinosaurs and pull the canopy done as far as possible.


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