At Claire's Thanksgiving feast she showed me their thankful wall. This was her spot. I was a proud Mama!

Girl Scout Investature

Gwen had her first ceremony for Girl Scouts. They said the Girl Scout Promise which lasted a total of about 10secs! It was the best ceremony of my life. Then we had cake that they made. The wearing of the vest was quite an ordeal , as you can imagine, but she decided she would live with it and I compromised by letting her wear her favorite outfit under it. Have you ever seen such a hip girl scout?

November

Kirby went on a mission trip to Mexico. He helped repair spring box wells for a community. The trip was with Living Water International ( very cool organization).
He was welcomed home with a banner, balloons and a cake. We felt like he had been gone a month! One night while folding clothes, Claire ran in a snatched one of Kirby's tees. I then found her in her room crying in it. " I smell Daddy!"

That's Right, that's GRASS you see my children sitting on! We are now the proud owners of a backyard which is sticker free!

These are just cool pics I happened upon. Gwen could win a world record in hullahooping and I had to take the one of Race and Claire cuz they were just plain precious.

costumes

This is one of the times I am so grateful for living in a small community. We have an annual Truck or Treat at the school and then an annual party with our friends where all the kids where glow sticks around their necks and we bombard a couple of streets with about 30 trick or treaters at a time.



Claire would have won a costume contest but there was none. She was the hit of her school, since the girl who always acts like a dog, got to actually look like one for a day! Gwen was the only Hannah Montana believe it or not and Race started out a football player but wouldn't wear the costume because it itched. So we made him a baseball player and he still had no idea why we were putting face paint on him. The only person who really appreciated my Kirby costume was Gwen. I thought it was pretty good. We ended the day scrubbing Paint off Claire for an hour and some very tired parents. This morning I have had 3 cups of coffee and am enjoying lounging around while the kids play outside and ask for candy every 3 minutes.

what we've been doing lately

Pumpkin Carving was always something my Mom did with us, so I did the honors of cleaning the guts, but Kirb did the art work.
A week ago the girls were in a beach wedding. Here's Kirby, Race and I, pics of the girls to come.


October always brings in the fog so here's a cool shot of how it looks every morning here on the island.