Movie Night

Today I bought the kids the movie Casper (one of Pat's old

favorites). After getting cleaned up and into p.j.'s I put the

movie on for them. I made them popcorn & hot chocolate

complete with some special Halloween marshmallows

(thanks to someone who Boo'd us). The kids are enjoying

their fall break. It's been nice spending extra time with them.

Here they are literally stuffing their faces with popcorn!

Balloon Fiesta Time

So it's the Annual Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. Patrick got off
work this morning & asked us if we wanted to go look at some of
the Hot Air Balloons & have breakfast. We quickly got dressed
and headed out. It may have been the special shapes day because
we saw Smokey the Bear, a carriage, a lady bug , a spider &
Darth Vader. Of course I forgot to bring my camera, so I'll share
of photo of the kids last year with some Balloons. After looking at
some balloons we headed to Patrick's favorite place for breakfast
Wecks. We had a delicious breakfast. It was a fun morning.

CRANKY

Tonight we were out front ridding bikes like most evenings.

Griffin crashed and skinned his knee. He acted like he was

in so much pain. I decided we would head in a bit early.

I told him he could take a bath & after I would put on a

band-aid. The whole time he was in the tub he was

crying hysterically. I went in and checked on him. I said

"Griffin it's not that bad of a scrape, you'll be fine." Then

through his tears he cries "yes it is Mom, you can't read my

mind!" It finally dawned on me that he was overly tired.

I had forgotten that he had woken up at like 5:50 this morning.

Since he would not calm down I put him to be by 7:15 & that

poor little Griffin fell right to sleep.

Exotics of the Rain Forest

Today after school I took the boys to our local Library for a show

called "Exotics of the Rain Forest". The boys got the chance to

see and handle all kinds of animals. I only took pictures of them

with the birds they got to handle, but I think they really enjoyed

the snakes! It was fun & educational.

Trevor holding a beautiful bird on his arm.

Here is Griffin with a beautiful bird on his head!

New Clothes

It's great to have an older cousin who is just

11 months older, who shares all her really

cute clothes that no longer fit. Savannah

got a package from her cousin Shelby the

other day. She has really enjoyed hunting

through the box for something new to wear

everyday. She no longer wanted to wear anything

she had in her dresser, so I decided to clean out

all her old clothes & give them away. I still

have not put away all these new clothes.

There is a HUGE box in her room. Add that

to the two big bags full of winter clothes that

Shelby already gave Savannah a few months ago.

This girl is set. She said "I have lots of clothes,

and lots of shoes." She sure does! Thanks so

much Shelby & Aunt Kim! They've been suppling

Savannah with her clothes since she was born.