Halloween Week

A busy week/weekend leading up to Halloween:

On Tuesday, Crosby had his last flag football practice for the season.  Alexee and I admired the colorful sunset while we waited for him.  On Wednesday afternoon Alexee had an orthodontist appointment to be fitted for a top retainer.  She was actually kind-of excited about this because several of her friends have retainers and she wanted to get it over with now while her friends have them.  She chose a mint green base with green glitter sparkles.  :)  On Friday, Alexee and a classmate (both former spelling bee winners) were invited to walk over to the elementary school to speak on the topic of preparing for the spelling bee and the habit of "beginning with the end in mind'.  Alexee said she was nervous, but I couldn't tell at all!  The girls both did great with their answers.  Afterward I took a picture of the kids with Mrs. S, Alexee's 2nd grade teacher and Crosby's current teacher.  We are so thankful for her!!

Tuesday was also the drama performance for Rhett's speech class.  He was a narrator in the play The Giver, which was very good! His teacher allowed him to do his entire part in an English accent, just for fun.  He has really enjoyed the 6 week speech/drama class, and would like to take it as an elective next year.  Next up is 6 weeks of Spanish.  He earned a $5 Starbucks gift card from the orthodontist's reward program, so we stopped by Starbucks after school one day.   Thursday was the school Halloween social and costume contest.  R was a pizza slice with pepperoni-red paint in his hair.  

Things are finally starting to look like fall here.  We've had nice weather, but warmer than usual for this time of year.  Our rose bush is still blooming like it did in the middle of summer.

Thursday and Friday were half-days for parent teacher conferences.  I bought pumpkins for carving, and we did that Friday afternoon...always a fun fall activity.  

Rhett carved his own this year while Lane and I helped A & C with theirs.  Bogart constantly tried to eat pumpkin seeds, which we did not think he should have.

The kids' finished jack-o-lanterns (L to R:  Crosby's, Alexee's and Rhett's)

We went out to eat at a new restaurant Friday night, then stopped by CVS to buy tea lights for our pumpkins.  They were excited to light them as soon as we got home.

Lane had to work on Halloween evening, but the kids dressed up and we went over to a friend's house for dinner and a fun night of trick-or-treating.  This was our first Halloween here because we've gone back to visit friends in Little Rock the last two years. (2014 and 2015).  

We had a great time with friends!

October, I'm sad to see you go!