Happy Halloween! A little Early

We will actually be out of town for Halloween so I took the kids Trick or treating at the rec center. They had games, music and the whole staff was dressed up. Ash has a lot of classes there so it was fun for her to see all her friends dressed up. We are going to San Diego for the long weekend. I think I should bring her costume just in case they do something for Halloween at the hotel we are staying at. She loves to wear it, Halloween or not!!

Just Pj's

It is partially my fault I guess, only partially since I was the one who bought the purple skirt. The pink feather boa I have no clue who bought that for her, but she Loves it! It drives Ian crazy when she dresses like this. I think he gets embarrassed. He tells her to Just put on her PJ's and nothing else.

Dress up Queen

I was not joking when I said she scares me sometimes! I told her to get dressed, (we are going to a high school football game)and this is what she tries to come down stairs wearing! It is starting to cool down at night here so this would definitely not work, and um no feather boa is really aloud outside of the home at any time except Halloween. So she is upstairs in her room trying to find something to wear......She is too funny!

The cartwheel......

Ashlyn really, really, really wants to learn how to do a cartwheel. She takes a class at the rec center called tumbling for cheer which is perfect for her! She learns a new cheer every week which she practices over and over and over again. The dilemma is the cartwheel. I have been trying to help her and so I tried to show her I could do one, BIG MISTAKE!! :) (It kinda hurt falling on my head, and then she had to tell everyone the story, her version is much funnier. She saw it, I felt it:) She practices all the time, some are almost there and then others are not even close. I am not really sure if kids her age can do stuff like this anyway. In her class the girls are all about the same age and none of them can do it either??? Ted really surprises me sometimes. I told him she is having a problem with it and tries to help. Come to find out HE CAN DO ONE, not just one but several!! So now it is on, I'm convinced I need a second chance......Yep not a good idea on my hard wood floors! What happened! So Ted and Ash practice in the backyard and at the park where there is a lot of grass. I think I'm still a little in shock he can do a cartwheel:) So I guess we will see if he is a good teacher.

Tooo many emotions

Ashlyn has been such a whiney girl it is driving me nuts! Last night we were at soccer practice and she started crying olny about 10 times. Not a little whine but full out crying, with big aligator tears and runny nose and all for nothing. She was just having an emotional evening. I was really insensitive and couldnt help but laugh, but I thought girls acted like this when they get older and actually have to deal with issues in life. Maybe not? Maybe we are born with the just need to cry gene? Sccer practice was only an hour, that is all I could stand really, and that was it! Not a single tear the rest of the night!

Princess Ashlyn

Ashlyn loves to play dress up. She has a few princess dresses and the plastic princess shoes. This morning she was upstairs playing and I yell up to her to get dressed, she was so proud of herself that she was allready dressed. Yeah! and sometimes scary! She comes down in her Belle dress and the yellow plastic shoes. "Look mom I Match!" which is a huge thing for her:)I love it!!

The Dam and Bugs

They started a bypass route for the dam in 2003 and sould be finished by the end of this year. It has been a long time since we have been there and I was totally surprised to see the new bridge! It is soooooo HIGH up in the air!! I am not sure when it is finished if I will be able to drive on it without wanting to close my eyes. Yeiks!

My kids are bug curious. They are totally terrified if they get too close but really like looking at them and of course they want me to take a ton of pictures. When we were in Arizona yesterday we saw a huge stink bug. Kinda freaked me out:) And we saw BIG red ants. We have big ants here but they are black. Ashlyn is totally freaked out by bugs and she just screams and points then I have to figure out what she is looking at.

We stopped at a gas station that had souvenirs for Arizona. the kids stood in front of this shelf that had scorpion paper weights for quite awhile. Ted had enough time to fill up the truck and come into the store to get us. Then they had to show him everything....Snakes, Scorpions, Cactus. It was like they were star struck. They had boxes that had small cactus in them and Ash made the mistake of touching the plant. She was trying to keep it a secret and only tell Ian but she had a little blood, that's when she freaked out! That Plant Bit Me!! She was convinced it was alive!