Happy Halloween!

Drew and Rachel! Drew was a firefighter and Rachel was a Queen or Medieval Princess.

Oh Yeah! Candy Time!

Score!

Hummmm. Doing well so far!

The Sky was AMAZING on Halloween!

This picture was taken on my street! This is what the sky looked like on Halloween! Amazing! It was eye candy! Oh...and I didn't photoshop this at all...the colors are right out of the camera! We were so lucky.

Where is Tyler?

Rachel and Drew went Tricker Treating with our friends the Vaclaws! They look so cute together!

Ahhhh.

Hummmm. What's in here. Just checking!

Yes! Tyler was around on Halloween...however he had a friend over and was completely off and running. They were baseball players. They went to a little party before Tricker Treating, grabbed some candy and then went with Ricky to a football game. They had a good time and our HS team won! Rachel and Drew helped me pass out candy the rest of the night. EVERYONE comes from far and wide to tricker treat in our neighborhood. It is crazy. There are cars and kids and PEOPLE everywhere. I spent over $50 on candy and was out before 8:00pm. We all had a great time! P.S I LOVE Halloween!

Our Soccer LIFE!

Tyler had a soccer tournament in Little Rock last weekend. We all had fun! Their team played five games total and went on to the final championship game. Unfortunately they took second place, but we will take it. We lost the final game to the same team last year! NEXT year will be our turn to WIN!!!

Side note: After playing five games over the weekend both Rachel and Tyler had games on Monday and then Tyler had yet another game on Tuesday...I was in soccer overdose mode! Love the game...but watching 8 games in 4 days was OVERLOAD! Next year will really be crazy when Drew starts! YIKES!

Tyler was tagged!

Five things you may not know about Tyler:

1. Organized sports Tyler has participated in this year: swimming, soccer, basketball and baseball. He also has a love for golf thanks to his dad and has his own Ping golf clubs-which he stores in his room.
2. Tyler has the BEST sense of direction. He is a great GPS. He just seems to know the right way to go when I am not sure.
3. Tyler can spell his heart out. He only needs to see a word one time and knows how to spell it.
4. Tyler can physically pick me up...need I say more?
5. Tyler is ALWAYS the life of the house. There is an energy field around him. There is NEVER a dull moment when Tyler is around. He always has a lot of ideas. He loves to draw and make things. He has made everything from football helmets to skate board ramps and is a professional fort maker. Whew.

Rachel Made Straight A's Too!

Rachel was in a pretty great spot for taking pictures. It is always hard to keep my longer lenses steady. I would love to pull out a tripod, but then I would really look like a nerd.

Ok...so there is the ribbon. Whooo hoooooo. Doesn't she look thrilled?

One of these kids is not like the others...Rachel goes to a school with a science and math focus. Of course there are more boys than girls. FUN stuff. I wonder if she will like science more than I did growing up? So far so good. They are learning about the human body right now and she tells me interesting things all the time, like there are 206 bones in her body. WOW! My kids are helping me be smart. :)

Quick side note: I was reading this blog to Rachel and asked her which child is not like the others. She said the little boy on the left wearing the black shirt...because he was not wearing a red shirt. I love children!

Straight A's

Today was the first nine week awards assembly. Both Ricky and I made it! Whew. They had the kids standing on bleachers...of course Tyler was at the end, and I wasn't able to get any good pictures without going across the entire room! DANG!

Ricky and Tyler.

Tyler is holding his award ribbon. He was super excited because 4th grade had the last award assembly program and so we were able to check him out of school early. That was the highlight for Tyler. You can see his ribbon a little in the picture. As soon as we got in the car he threw it on the dash. When we were coming inside the house, I told him to get his ribbon. He told me he didn't care about the ribbon! Oh well. What a boy!