We've been BOO'd!

What, you may ask, is "BOO'd"? It's a super fun Halloween tradition that we do in our neighborhood. We fill up a few bags with some goodies and deliver them to houses. The girls love to do this! We received our "BOO" this afternoon and it was the cutest little bat candle holder filled with Whopper candy! YUM!


Here is the poem you include:

The air is cool, the season fall,
Soon Halloween will come to all.
Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore...
Tricky witches at your door.

The spooks are after things to do,
In fact a spook brought this "Boo" to you!
The excitement comes when friends like you,
Copy this note and make it two.

We'll all have smiles upon our faces,
No one will know who "BOO"ed who's places!
Just two short days to work your spell,
Keep it secret, hide it well.

Please join the fun, the seasons here .
Just spread these "BOO's" and Halloween cheer.

And here is the sign we received to stick on our door:


Here are the bags that we put together to leave on some neighbors front porches.


You "ding dong ditch" and leave the bag. Here is Hannah trying to be as quiet as a mouse...


And here are the girls running like crazy after they rang someones bell (I'm so sorry for the extreme blur!)


It's so much fun and it's a lot of fun to drive around the next day and see if everyone has put their sign on the door! I love Halloween!

Little Miss Independence

Today is the 3rd day that Hannah has taken the school bus home! The school that Hannah attends is 10 miles from our house! (keep in mind there is a school practically RIGHT across the street from us, but we won't go into that!). EP Rayzor is a WONDERFUL school but putting 200 miles a week driving back and forth... NOT so wonderful! My friend, Amy, and I were carpooling this year and just decided that the girls were big enough to take the bus home. Hannah has been begging since last year to ride the bus but I just wasn't ready to put a kindergartener on there. So now Amy and I split the drive to school each week and wait at the bus stop each afternoon.

Here she is, getting off the bus!


She takes a special "bus ride diary" with her everyday (just a cute notebook) and writes in it the whole way home. Like the paint job on the bus? I'm going to see if the parents will pool together and we can get a new paint job.. perhaps something with flames? =}

(It's still a bit sunny and warm here, can you tell?)

Before I know it, she'll be driving, right? Heaven help me!

My Patriotic Girl!

Hannah had an assignment last week to make an American Flag out of things from the house. Here is what she did.... twizzlers for the red strips, cotton balls for the white stripes, blue paint and then marshmallows for the stars. She had a lot of fun doing it! But what impressed me most was when I asked her questions... "How many stars are there on the flag?"..."Why are there 50 stars?"..."How many stripes are on the flag"... "Why are there 13 stripes?"...."What do the colors stand for?"... she knew all the answers!

When we took her flag in to school, we had a chance to see what everyone else had done. It was fun to see all of the different things that people had used! Someone even made their stripes out of red and white Christmas tree garland!

Hannah is loving 1st grade!

Hannah's 1st sleepover...

Last night Hannah had a friend from class come and spend the night. He, yes that's right he, was very well behaved and didn't make hardly any noise. He posed, without complaint, for photos and didn't complain about what he was fed. He is welcome back anytime!

His name is...Corduroy! Here is Hannah, Corduroy and Hannah's puppy (Corduroy's new friend).


They read the book in class and then each child got to take him home for a special sleepover. A journal also came home with him so the kids could record a bit of what they did together. It's so cute to read what the other kids have done! We played a little soccer with him then Hannah had to go to soccer practice. I babysat while she was gone. After that we had dinner, brushed Hannah's teeth and Corduroy's!


Then we tucked them in bed!


This morning he's on his way back to school so he can spend tonight at another classmate's home. Have fun Corduroy! Come back anytime!

Seattle

People always talk about how much it rains in Seattle. Well, let me tell you... the rain in Seattle is NOTHING compared to the rain here! We've been known to get a few inches of rain here in 2 hours. That does NOT happen in Seattle. It's usually a nice, slow drizzle for the whole day. I actually enjoy the overcast days we have here, it makes me miss home!

My parents used to live in Maui and just recently moved back to Seattle with their pups. I don't think those poor little guys are enjoying the weather too much. Here they are getting ready to go on a walk with dad:


You know what they're saying to each other..."Those walks on the soft sand beaches... man, I miss those! Now it's splashing through the puddles in the forest!" And they're off...


They'll survive, I'm sure! I think I need to get my dad a matching yellow rain slicker... don't you? That way they can ALL look like the Gorton's Fisherman! =} See the resemblance..

A Whole New World!!!

OH MY GOODNESS! The Verizon guy has just left and we now have DSL! Can you believe it! No more busy signal when you call our house! I can actually view the hilarious clips that people send me! So long dial-up, hello DSL! I can hardly stand it! I just finished watching some Office clips on You-Tube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Wl-N9iOts) and talking on the phone at the same time! I don't know what to do with myself! (can you hear the choir of angels singing in the background?) Life is good!

A sign that made me look twice...

Can you hear the phone call now...?
"Come on Bobby Ray...if we can get Bubba released, he can get a free t-shirt! Yee doggy!"
This is a sign I saw on the bail bonds shop across from the juvenile detention center... I wonder what the t-shirt says!