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Halloween

My costume supply has built up over the years - they are sooooo cute!

I have everything you need to be a puppy, a cow, Bob the Builder, or a Fireman and plenty of other fun ideas.

My kids really haven't been attracted to the scary, or repulsive.

But,

this year things changed.

It all started with Bubba...

He said, "Mom, I don't want to be Bob the Builder for Halloween."

I said, "Why not? We've got the whole costume it would be great."

He said, "Mom, Bob the Builder is for little kids. If I wear that everyone will laugh at me."

I said, "Okay, what do you want to be?"

He said (with bright eyes and a mischievous smile), "A vampire bat!" "With fangs!" "And with my face painted black."

So, for my first year of scary boys for Halloween this is what I got:

OTG Boy - Skeleton

The Professor - Harry Potter

Bubba - The Vampire Bat

(check out those orange teeth!)

And

Junior - The Jack-O-Lantern

Since he can't talk I got away with cute for him :)

So, candy anyone?

Hopefully, we didn't cause too many nightmares!

Spooky Spiders

Remember last year's October Break project?

I was pregnant and sick and needing to stay off my feet...

but had three busy boys who needed something to do?

I guess we started a new tradition.

I wasn't sick

- but -

you may have heard that the flu is going around, so when OTG Boy had a fever of 102...

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said...

keep those boys at home - don't let that flu bug spread!

I had to find something fun to do?!?

We made spiders!

Even Junior helped - he was a great spider hanging supervisor!

Finding Fall

Here in the Valley of the Sun Fall is different...

After Labor Day I feel the urge to eat soups and chili, wear my boots and put on a jacket...

I'd like to feel that little "nip" in the air and look out my window into a yard full of falling leaves.

Well, frankly that's just not gonna happen, so for October break (after we finished-up with the flu) we headed north searching for Fall.

Bubba didn't know leaves came in any other color but green!

We combined family fun with school research for The Professor - he'll be writing a paper on our findings about some of Arizona's earliest residents.

First we headed to Montezuma's Castle.

Want to know more click here.

Junior loves anything that gets him out of the house - his stroller is his favorite place to be!

Next stop...

First you hike up...

and then go down in...

you're at Montezuma's Well.

Click here if you'd like to read about it.

All those handsome boys!

OTG Boy

The Professor

Bubba

HaHa, Handsome Hubby & Junior

Look!

We found it!

It's officially Fall!