Happy Halloween

Boys... and Valentine's....

Remember when you were a kid and you had to make a Valentine's "Sack" to bring to school, so you could give Valentine's Day cards to all your friends? You glued a couple of heart doylies on it and you were done.  Well, now a days... kids have to make a Valentine's "Box".  The kids are supposed to make it, but have you ever tried wrapping a shoe box? Not so easy for a youngster. 

So, I take Logan to Hobby Lobby yesterday.  I take him down the scrapbooking paper aisle... thinking surely there will be some kind of paper he will like to decorate his box with. Sure enough... he zoned right into the "camo" paper. No pink and red hearts for this box!! ha ha!! Next, he decided he wanted to put army men on top of the box. Not my idea of a Valentine's box, but sometimes you just gotta go with the flow! He found this bag full of army men and equipment. Yes, I put the paper "on" the box, then he put all of the army gear on top.  3-D glue dots (or zots) are a must for this project... they hold ANYTHING on!

And there you have it... "A BOY'S" idea for a Valetine's Box!

It's a ......

BOY!!! 

We went in for our ultrasound yesterday. I took the kids out of school so they could be a part of this special day too! They were very excited about finding out if the baby was a boy or a girl : )  It was so precious to see the baby on the ultrasound screen. It is DEFINITELY a boy! He was just wiggling around the whole time! The kids enjoyed it, although I think Macey was a tad bit sad that it wasn't a girl. Of course it didn't help that Logan and Robert were saying.... "yeah, we are going to rule the house!"

On the way back in from Tulsa, the freezing rain had just started. We are moseying right along Garnett about 20 mph. Then all of a sudden, WHAM! A lady pulling out of Hobby Lobby couldn't stop and ran right into us. We spun around and were facing on coming traffic! SCARY! Everyone was going so slow that no one else hit us! Could have been so much worse! Best thing about it there was a police officer right there who saw the whole thing. The lady was very sweet and apologetic and was worried about the kids in the car. I reassured her we were all fine... we exchanged insurances... and went about our merry way!

That was enough excitement for one day!!

Portrait of "Duke"

I thought this was too cute not to post! Macey was home sick this week with strep throat... she did lots of cartoon watching & lots of crafts : )  Here is a portrait of Duke that she drew. I didn't know she was doing it until she was finished & she brought it to me. My favorite parts are his big droopy jowls & his two bottom teeth sticking out (kind of hard to see on the scanned pic). I took this picture of Duke afterwards so you could see the resemblance. Pretty good for a six year old!