Trick-or-Treat

I'm not a big Halloween fan. I prefer "fall" to Halloween. However, I don't see the harm in letting little kids dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating. However, out here in the sticks, that's kind of hard to do! In the 16 years that Tracy & I have been married, we've had a grand total of TWO trick-or-treaters! We usually just go to a couple of fall festivals, but since Luke's costume didn't arrive in time for the fall festival, we decided to attempt trick-or-treating. I talked to about a half a dozen people in the community and asked if we could come trick-or-treating. Turns out, they were as excited as we were! We had a ball, and it was just the right number of houses to visit before getting totally worn out!

From the time the costume catalogs started arriving, Luke wanted to be Super Why from the PBS Kids show. Well, Mama here let time get away, and we almost didn't get a Super Why costume. I finally found one, but it cost me way too much in shipping! Learned my lesson on that one! Matthew had said he didn't want a costume, but when it came time to actually leave that night, he decided he'd put on his Mario costume from last year. The pants were way too short, but I let him wear it anyway!

Demonstrating how his cape flies! He loved that cape!

Checking out the cape again!

Catching Up

Hello friends! Are you still there? I really hope my half a dozen readers use Google Reader, and will see that I've posted something new; otherwise, I'm sure you all have given up on me, given that it's been about 6 weeks since my last post! We've had lots of things going on since school started. I just haven't been able to manage my time as well this school year, for some reason. Anyway, here I am. In going through some of my pictures, I've found several things from the last few months that I haven't shared here on the blog, so this post is going to be a photo dump!

Remember how we went to FBLA national conference in Orlando in July? Well, I forgot to tell you about one of the highlights of the trip. Our board of directors (of which I am a member) took the national board of directors and national staff to dinner one night. And guess where we went? A private room at The California Grill on the top floor of Disney's Contemporary Hotel! With a private balcony to watch the fireworks from the Magic Kingdom. We felt like we were something else!

We also went to Gatorland while we were there. Honestly, I thought it would be pretty cheesy, but it was actually pretty fun. They had gone in April while we were at state conference, and I was tied up in meetings. They wanted to go back this trip. My boys think it's better than Disney World! This albino alligator was pretty cool!

I'll leave you with a few miscellaneous photos.....be back soon, I hope!

Luke breaking it down on the dance floor at a wedding this summer.

Notice, also, that he's barefoot!

Yes, I wore this dress to everything this summer....along with my new Sorrelli. It took me a while to get "into" Sorrelli, and even longer to actually break down and purchase some, but they do have some really pretty jewelry! (I have no idea why this is showing up as a link.) It's really popular here, and I can see where it could get addictive!

Nothing like summertime with chocolate ice cream at the pool!

Just put them in the pool and wash them off!

I made this for my classroom by cutting the letters with a Cricut.

It's incredibly difficult to find things to put on the walls of a high school classroom!