May the Force Be With You

What do you get a couple for their wedding that already have everything?  Star Wars pancake molds of course! Kelsey and Kevin bought us these and we used them this morning for pancakes.  Our Stormtrooper started out like this:

"I have a bad feeling about this."

We heeded the words of Yoda: "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Our Darth Vader and Yoda pancakes turned out better.

Do Star Wars pancakes taste better?  We think so!

Veteran's Day Parade and Hockey

 Mason and Brady were in the Richland Veterans' Day parade Saturday morning with their Cub Scout troop. After our breakfast at "The Hut" we drove to Richland to watch them walk through the parade.

Girls with their Meme and Nanna

After the parade, we came home and watched a Roxy Hunter movie that Debbie got them.  Kennedy really likes those movies.  We had a pretty laid back Saturday afternoon.  That evening, Heidi and Tyler invited us to go to the Tri-City Americans game with them.  The boys were earning a cub scout patch for going and we had a great time.

The couple in front of us bought "Chuck a Puck" pucks and asked Kennedy to throw one of theirs for them. I was impressed she got her puck to the ice, it seemed like a long way.

Isabella was excited to see Winger.  At the last hockey game she got to give him a High-5 but last night she settled for a wave.

Friday Banana Pops and Movie Night

While Shane was cooking the taco meat, Kennedy was honing her skills cutting the tomatoes.  Shane is teaching her much better knife technique than I have....phew....I am terrible with knives.

 Belle and I made banana pops for dessert.  She mixed the chocolate and crushed the cereal all on her own.  Kennedy helped us do the dipping.  Cooking is much more fun when you wear your cooking "helmet" (as Isabella calls it).

Friday night movie selection:

We also did root beer floats this week.  Shane just wanted the ice cream and Kennedy wasn't really fond of the ice cream texture once the root beer was poured over it.  I was getting a little worried that if I ever want to make them I would be the only one drinking them (it's not as easy to justify making one for just yourself).  But (much to my relief) I have a stand-by buddy in Isabella....she liked it!

We Need More Monkeys!

 Debbie (Meme) put these balloon bags into the girls' Halloween bags.

Who knew that 7 foot long monkey balloon bags could be so much fun?  The girls were impressed they could touch the ceiling with them. Belle liked hoppin' and jumpin' in between 'em.  They did just about everything possible with them, except smack each other (as suggested on the label).

First Week of Preschool

Isabella has been doing "homework" just like her big sis for awhile now.  She has a 3-ring binder with a zipper pouch for her fun pencils and pens and lots of blank paper. She tells us that she has to practice her spelling words.  She likes stickers and Grandma Rambo sent these for Halloween, which became part of her "homework"last week.

She is really good at writing the letter 'I' but when we help her write her whole name, she always crosses the 'L's' making it look like IsabeHa.  She thinks its so funny!

Shane got her enrolled in pre-school this week.  She had a good first week.  Heidi teaches at her school so she can peek into Isabella's classroom.  Heidi snapped this picture during recess.

Isabella's Award

Trick-or-Treat?

About 4:30 we heard a fire engine outside our door that honked its horn a few times.  Like good nosey neighbors, we went outside to check out the commotion.  The site below sent me into an instant rush of panic.

Are all these people stopping by trick-or-treating?  I did not have enough candy for all these kiddos, considering it was only 4:30 and not even dark yet! To my relief, they turned the corner. 

Turns out it was just a Halloween parade through our neighborhood!  A trick that turned into a treat.  How great is that?  And even better, there were just as many dogs dressed up! Which led me to wonder, what was Daphne for Halloween this year?

Heidi, Tyler, Debbie, and Don came over for trick-or-treating and pizza. The kids were W-O-U-N-D up!  Kennedy's peanut allergy comes in handy when it comes to swiping the Snickers bars out of her bag.  She doesn't mind one bit which works out great for Shane and I!

Belle's "Super Boots" had her blasting house to house for more candy! Those are her favorite boots. She has been practicing the trick or treat song the past few weeks, her version goes a lil something like this: "Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, errbody gimme sumthin."  Kennedy's poor pumpkin face didn't make it a whole week and had to be propped up with toothpicks but I'm happy to say that for Halloween, all pumpkins were slug-free.

Beautiful Gypsy

SuperGirl in her SuperBoots

Between the trunk-or-treat at church and the neighborhood trick or treating, they scored big-time...Belle says "We got much!"