hey guys...tomorrow's a full moon.

fall festival

wooooo! i am a bit behind...
so here are pictures from the fall festival at the church :)

intense cotton candy negotiations:

games and prizes:

a bouncy version of twister?

this is sass right here...

picture it

rainy day+worn out kids+a bag of candy corn=a very long ride home.

love ya jules

mr blisters is not my friend

this year, our church held it's own crop walk, rather than everyone heading downtown. we met at the ball fields and had some lunch. i was totally pumped that mr blisters was there. i had wanted to get my picture at church this morning, but that pesky choir thing got in the way.

we signed in and turned in our donations and then lilli froze. she saw mr blisters and freaked. she had to sit with ms elinor while kaely, elise, and i did the photo op game.

so then we had a spot of lunch and lined up for the group photo. lilli was doing really well, until mr. blisters joined in. i held her for the photo and, i thought, long enough for us to walk away from the friendly mascot. he joined the walk. so, for the first half mile, lilli piggy-backed and updated me, loudly, on the location of "the shoe". poor little girl...

and who am i to fuss, really...there are plenty of women who have to walk long distances and carry their children every day. i only did it for a short time and then got to go home to my comfortable house.
elise "caught" a snail. she was quite proud of herself and disgruntled with me that i wouldn't let her keep it. kaely took a picture for her and then she puti t back in the "forest".
it was about 3 miles of walking and we raised about $3000. not bad i think...

yippee!

who doesn't like flowers? :)



i kinda like this whole being spoiled and honored thing.

not cool

it's just not as funny when it's your door...

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Nature in my van! Gah...the things I do to make my teachers happy :)

today julie and i went "grocery shopping" for her frogs. we stopped at the bait shop that has the juiciest crickets in town. i refused to stand near the open cricket corral. the lady behind the counter gave me a look and said "you don't like crickets?" and i said "no" and did the wiggly heebee jeebee dance (because i could not help myself). she gave me such a disgusted look. sorry...i can't help being a city girl! we also got some minnows (because the snails or pond scum or whatever is lonely). the cricket queen called them crappies. i resisted the urge to thank her for the "crappie" little fish.

i really don't like the scratching noise of crickets in a paper bag...aaahhhh. heebee jeebees