The scariest thing about Halloween..

Here's our Halloween possey- Butterfly, X-Wing pilot, and Luke Skywalker.

Can you tell she's about to sneeze? ;)

To me, the scariest thing about Halloween is that it may not always be this FUN!  In the future I just know I'll look back and miss these days so much.  

I can't imagine a Halloween without hours and hours of careful consideration and preparation of costumes...

Pumpkin carving get-togethers

Spooky decorations

Lots and lots of laughs

The SECOND scariest thing about Halloween, is this --------->

GIANT basket of leftover candy!  Ahh!

At this year's "Trunk or Treat"  Charlie actually won an award for "Best Costume!"  He was so excited, and frankly had been predicting a win all along.  ;0)


 Thanks to Debbie Stone for her awesome costume-making and sewing-instruction skills!  

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One day last week, Annabelle grabbed me by the hand and said in her cute 2 year old voice, "C'mere Mommy! I show you!" She took me to the foyer where I saw her dolls and Charlie's friend "Skelly" situated against the wall like so --->



She says to me, "Dey's naughty. I put time-out."



(GIGGLE and SIGH)

Its Raining Friends!

We have been SO BLESSED the last couple of weeks to have several friends and family come to visit us. Our good friends the Romers came and we went to the Wild Animal Park. The kids got along great! They were paired up pretty cute- almost like we planned it or something! :) :) Getting a chance to spend some time with these guys is SO RARE. It was really really fun.





Later that same day James' brother and his wife came. We went to the MCAS Miramar Air Show. Numerous people had told us how cool it was, and that before we left here we absolutely HAD to check it out.... AND since Shawn had once been in the Air Force, we thought it would be fun. FUN was a total UNDERSTATEMENT!! It was amazing! We spent nearly the entire day there- even though it was HOT and kind of a miserable day. We barely noticed. Our camera is not working, so I grabbed this photo from Kathy's blog.



They stayed for the Conference weekend. We always love it when they come!!



That very same evening our friends, the Brizzees, came to spend a few days with us, and a few days at Disneyland. Our kids became best buddies again- like it had only been a few weeks and not THREE WHOLE YEARS since the last time they'd been together. It was a great great week. We even got to join them at Disney one of the days!



Like I mentioned before, our camera is on the fritz... so my choice of photos is limited to what I could scrounge... AND to what our super old digital camera would produce. NOT so great images, but they'll do. I feel so handicapped without my camera!

I think its always a good idea to end my posts with a few cute pictures of Annabelle!!  :)