Sweet Baby

 Lillie is growing so fast!  We had fun taking pictures today after church.  She is such a sweet baby.

 Love those baby blue eyes.

Her smiles and laughs are the best!

Halloween Fun

 Here's our crew ready to go trick or treating!

 Jon made his own costume-Gandalf.  We were very impressed.

 Rebecca is a lady in waiting.

 Ethan is a Munchkin (from the card game, not the Wizard of Oz).  He also made his own costume.

 Kirsten is a famous dancer.

 Alyssa is a fairy Cinderella (with a sword).

 "Soup-Man!" aka Superman with a sword.  But don't be deceived by his sweet good looks.  Apparently if you have a sword (according to Keith) then you are a bad guy.  We tried to tell him that good guys can have swords too. . .but he was not to be trifled with.

 Our little pumpkin Lillie.

 Trick or Treat.

 Lillie was out cold before the first trick or treaters made it to our house.

We even made the front page of the newspaper.  How about that?!

 

For Mike's work we made a frosty pumpkin pie.

Mike was the Invisible Man.  That's why you probably can't see him very well in our family picture above.  He was standing between me and Rebecca.  Here he is dressed up and ready to go to work.

 He decorated his office as an old-time radio studio.  Do you like his old radio?  He made it himself. We even have a sponsor--Lux laundry soap, 5 cents a box.

Mike won first place for the costume contest.  The contest included the costume, decorated office and dessert.  Usually he places 2nd or 3rd.  We were glad that he placed 1st this year.  Way to go Mike!

Safari

Alyssa and Mike went on a fun safari for school. 

 There were 350 animals there.

 Elvis the camel came right up to the safari group.

 Lots of variety.

And proof that Mike was there too!

Ridin' in Style

Talk Like a Pirate Day!

September 19th is National Talk Like a Pirate Day.  While it is always fun to talk like a pirate, Krispy Kreme doughnuts added some extra fun by offering a free doughnut to customers that talk like a pirate and a free dozen to customers who dressed up like a pirate.  Fortunately, we had lots of piratey stuff and got ourselves well outfitted.  We got nine dozen (108) free doughnuts.  The kids were really excited to each get their own dozen doughnuts.

 

 Our pirate booty.  Aaargh!!!

 Lots of treasure to be found. . .