Family Pics....

One of the recent family pics we shot out in the yard last month :-) More to follow...

Our Budding Edward Gorey....

Dan is drawing a lot with pen & ink lately. Right now, he's experimenting with the "Batman" motif. I think his drawings are reminiscent of one of my favorite illustrators, Edward Gorey-- another "pen & ink" man! Enjoy!

Let The Carving Begin!

Backlog of Birthdays....

Yes, Folks, it's been birthday mayhem around here!

The birthday kids: Dan, Mike and Brit.


We began with a birthday party for Dan. He invited all his little friends for a Halloween birthday. The kids decorated trick or treat bags and then used them for a halloween treasure hunt (much like an egg hunt with plastic eggs) except we searched for little plastic pumpkins filled with a toy or a goody! It was a big hit! There were about 125 plastic pumpkins hidden all over the yard (we held it to about 2 acres).

Later that night..... after Dan's 5th birthday party.....Mike had all of his church friends over to go to the local haunted house for his 15th birthday. Then they came home and watched Anaconda. We made Mike break up his birthday into two groups because we didn't want to host 22 kids at our house at one time, and he knew that none of his church friends like to play too rough, so he opted to do the more physical stuff with his other friends....

The next weekend Mike had all of his school friends over, who consisted mainly of the first string on the football team. They played a lot of football, some basketball, some X-box, and ran through the cemetery at about 11:00pm. We have no pics to show for Mike's crew. We were too busy giving them their teenage space!


Then, the next weekend, Brit had a slumber party for her 11th birthday. They went to Subway for dinner, decorated t-shirts and watched "Kicking and Screaming" (with Will Ferrell) and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," among other things. Then they stayed up until about 4:00am doing Madlibs and telling stories and had a great time :-)

Halloween was just a footnote to all of this, of course..... :-)