OUR WEEK

WHEW -- Friday night already! This week was a little off-schedule and crazy. Jeff left early Monday morning for a trip and Cameron had 3 days off of school - one for Columbus Day and 2 for parent-teacher conferences. Here are just a few things that we did this week (in addition to our normal activities). :)

On Monday none of the kids had school because of Columbus day so we headed out to the zoo......

One of Cameron's friends, Thomas, went with us.......

Then, one night the park right down the road from us had a "hayrides and hot dogs" night so we headed over there with a neighbor for dinner and fun.....

Cameron on the hayride sitting next to his friend Thomas.

Cameron, Maleah and I cooking our own hot dogs over the campfire. The kids thought it was really fun for about 10 seconds.....then they thought it was too hot.....so I ended up cooking all of them.

Apparently I did ok -- they all ate their dogs.....although they really liked the chips better!

After hot dogs it was time for smores! The fire was still too hot for the kids so I cooked all of the marshmallows.....actually I ate all of the marshmallow also -- the kids didn't like them. They thought the chocolate cookie crackers that went with them were great, though! We were with our neighbors and friends.....Amelia who is 4, her mom Sam and baby Owen who is 20 months old.

We had some extra time at home playing this week also......Maleah and Rena love their dolls and animals! Here's Maleah with a group of them all lined up -- they were playing school at the time. She had just gotten done reading them a story and they were all headed out on a field trip. Maleah was the bus driver!

We also did some painting to get ready for Halloween. Here's Cameron painting his bat mask.

And as long as the mess was already made -- we did some paper painting.....


After painting everyone was filthy...........so the kids all jumped into the jacuzzi tub!

Here are the finished Halloween masks! Mommy the vampire, Rena the cat, Cameron the bat and Maleah the mummy!

And here's how we finished out the week........Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie with popcorn!