Monday, October 26, 2009

Getting ready

My parents and my siblings recently figured out how to video chat, all at the same time. This picture was taken off my screen 2 hours after working together to get the technical details down...and moments before we signed off from exhaustion! lol
Sophie, the "Girl Musketeer" and Michael the stubborn dalmation who would not wear the adorable ears..

Emily caught this moment in the car one day...so cute.



For extra credit in science, Bret had to create a pumpkin that looked like a famous scientist...do you recognize Stephen Hawking? This totally cracks me up.


Josie and the pussycats will be debuting this week here locally....




The kids are getting ready for Halloween. There are multiple costumes in the works, or finished. Emily is the mastermind for most all of the final products, so, she gets all the credit. Fall has been pretty nice here, and I think we're almost hitting peak color in the neighborhood. We went camping with the boy scouts one wknd, and the older girls just got back from camping with the girl scouts. They had fun and got lots of crafts done. Sophie and Michael and I went to the neigborhood halloween party while the others were gone, and she had a blast playing games; Michael had a blast dancing in the middle of the "cake walk" circle. He got lots of attention and loved it. Another performer is born... I am struggling with a transmission in my car that is failing day by day, but at least I'm not on the side of the road yet!