A few new pics

We went to the Annual Colorado River Crossing Balloon Launch. This is one of the neat pics I liked and one of our family also.

Eve got the Principal's award for the first Trimester. YEAH! (She also had a good grades award.)

Samantha showing off her good grades and perfect attendance award. Eve and Riley also got the attendance award, we didn't miss a single day that trimester, amazing. Riley refused to let me take a picture though, so... just the girls.

That belly is growing! Okay, this is me at the beginning of November, so that was about 26 weeks along, 14 to go!

Newest Experiment with Bear

This is the newest bear I have attempted to experiment with... Flight Suit Bear.

I like how he is "wearing" boots and a flight suit. All the fabric is part of the original pieces, not removable. I enjoy creating something new once and a while and I am glad that I was asked to attempt this one.

Halloween

This year's Halloween was fun throughout the week.

On Monday, we carved the Jack-O-Lanterns. I hollowed them out. Pumpkin causes the skin on your arms to tighten and dry out! My arm wasn't the same for 24 hours.

On Wednesday we went as a family to the Trunk or Treat at the church. Roland was a King, I his Queen. Eve was Nancy Drew, Samantha was World's #1 Mom, Riley a Black Knight, and Tucker was Optimus Prime (Transformer).

Friday, we enjoyed a spooky dinner complete with Toasted Brains (chicken and cheese toasted on french bread), lizard hearts and legs (pomogranate seeds and celery sticks), dragon scales (salad leaves), and witches fingers and blood (baked potato sticks with ketchup). For dessert, we enjoyed fish egg soup (tapioca pudding with a drop of green food color). It was supposed to be a clean out the fridge day and I do think I did that creatively.

The children had a lot of fun playing in the yard with some friends and passing out candy to the few trick or treaters we got. It was NOT a typical Halloween night in housing, usually the kids come in droves, they must have been at various other places that night though... it was slow.

Living in the heat of the southwest desert, our pumpkins barely lasted the week as they were rotting. We have had hot mid to upper 90's for weeks and I believe that the pumpkins were just too ripe this year. At least it was fun and they functioned for our celebrating.

Have a great week!