Halloween 2011

I'm so frustrated! For some reason a bunch of the pictures I took of the kids dressed up didn't work (something with the SD card I think). Anyway, I don have even ONE picture of Megan dressed up. :( She was darling as Miss America. Here are the pictures that worked.

2 weeks old

The only good picture I got of Hallie (Cleopatra).

We were so lucky to have Kim and Julie here to go trick-or-treating with the kids.

Sorting their stash after trick-or-treating with the neighbors (always my favorite part as a kid).

Halloween 2010

We decided to paint pumpkins this year just to shake things up a bit.

We had a trunk or treat a few days before Halloween but I forgot to take pictures. :(

Halloween night we went down our street trick-or-treating with some friends.

Meg was a "nice" vampire. Davis' turn to wear the elephant costume (now it has been through each kid). Campbell was Spiderman and Hallie decided to be more creative this year and she and I made a jellyfish costume for her.

October 2009

October was a CRAZY month!!!!!!!! Seriously, too much in one month that's for sure!

We flew my MIL, Kaye in the same day Melissa flew out. A few days later Trevor, Davis and I headed for Boise, ID and then down to Utah while Kaye stayed in Kentucky with Hallie, Meg, and Campbell.

We had a great time hanging out with Holly and Steve and Gary and Marlene... we have missed these families dearly here in Louisville.

I got to spend one afternoon driving around the city (and nearby cities, and towns, and local communities... we got a little lost;0) with Holly and Marlene. They are like an old married couple together fighting over the map and telling each other which way to turn. I was in the back laughing my head off.
Then we headed over to get some "Trailer Park cuisine". This restaurant was seriously awesome. Holly describes it well here and there is even a picture of me there (in case you don't believe that I was really there, wink, wink).
(We didn't take a good camera so sorry about the lack of pictures.)

After a few days in Boise we toured Idaho Falls and then headed down to Utah to say hi to some of our family before we headed back to Kentucky.
Kaye took good care of our kiddos and we were so happy to be with them again.

A few days later we packed our bags and headed for Florida!

We stayed at a great resort 5 miles from Disney World.

It was so comfortable with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a full kitchen, and even a washer/dryer.


We spent one cool afternoon at the beach collecting seashells and just enjoying the wind in our hair and the smell of the salty sea. :)

Campbell didn't love the wet sand on his hands.

Megan collected at least a hundred shells.

Then we were off to Disney World and the Magic Kingdom

The kids were in Heaven. You should have seen Campbell's face when he saw Mickey Mouse for the first time... he was mesmerised.

Unfortunately little Davis Mack was super sick by the end of our 1st Day in Disney World so we spent the next day recovering at the pool and then Trevor took the other kids to the Animal Kingdom without Davis and I. He took a bunch of videos but not many pictures to share of that day.

Kaye flew back to Utah from Florida and we headed up to Gainsville to visit some friends who are doing residency there. Brad and Camille took us to a nature preserve nearby in hopes of spotting some alligators in the wild.

We weren't sure if we'd see any so when we walked up to the pond/swamp and immediately saw this guy I was so excited that we actually got to see one!

I thought that was it but we walked a little farther...

and we saw this:

and then we walked a little farther and there we saw at least 7 more.

and then another

and another

We saw around 20 alligators in all. It was so fun!

We stayed up late that night catching up on the last few years of residency with Brad and Camille. We are so grateful for their friendship and hope to live closer to them someday (no Brad, we are not moving to Florida anytime soon, lol).

We made it home safe and sound after a 8 day vacation we won't soon forget.

Both of the boys were sick by the time we got home and eventually Campbell developed pneumonia, poor kid. He is still recovering from that.

Other news in October... I chopped my hair off... so there you go.

Halloween was so laid back at our house this year because the month was just so busy. I hardly decorated anything and the kids picked costumes from stuff we already had.

Megan was a cowgirl (again), Campbell was an elephant, Davis was a monkey, and Hallie was a cross country runner.:)

Our neighborhood comes alive on Halloween. Everyone is handing out candy in their driveways visiting with everyone and there are kids EVERYWHERE. There is even a pretty darn good "spook alley" one house sets up every year.

It's all seriously SO FUN!

Farewell Crazy October of '09, thanks for the memories!

Baby Darth Vader

Campbell's 1st Halloween.
I recorded Cam so you can hear him wheezing. In order to hear it you have to pause the music at the bottom of the sidebar on the right and you may need to turn up your volume.

Halloween 2007

Happy Halloween Everybody! These are the pumpkins we carved this year, you will notice that there are only four, that's because I was so exhausted after we did everybody elses I was done! It's hard to tell in the picture but the 3rd one over is Campbell's and it has a binky in it's mouth... Trevor and Hallie's cute idea.
Hallie was a cowgirl this year. Yeehaw! She looked so cute with her freckles. Megan was Ariel from the Little Mermaid. She felt soooo pretty! I caught her looking at herself in the mirror several times and just smiling and playing with her long red hair.
This is a pic of the whole family at the trunk or treat last week (yes, I know the picture is crooked, I did not take the picture, just tilt your head slightly to the right ;)).
Trevor was a "babe magnet". This is the only picture we got of Campbell in his Halloween costume (see below). He was a policeman. Halloween night we had dinner with some friends in the neighborhood. It was fun to get together with them. To be honest, Halloween was a bit of a blur to me, I was stressing over Campbell the whole night. He has been sick and yesterday he started wheezing and just seemed miserable.
Campbell's first Halloween, poor kid. We didn't even attempt to dress him up or take him trick or treating. He sounded like he could barely breathe. After a terrible night of pacing the floor with him and almost going into the ER but then talking myself out of it (several times) I took him to the pediatrician today. His bloods oxygen level was lower than it should be so they gave him a breathing treatment and sent me to the hospital to get a chest x-ray. The final diagnosis is bronchitis and an ear infection. They sent us home with antibiotics and a machine to give him 3 breathing treatments a day. He does not like them but hopefully they will help, at least enough that we can get a few more hours of sleep... pretty please.