Here's Halloween Clan...
THING ONE & THING TWO and their friend Kate was Dr. Seuss
No question.....who this is?!
ELISE inspired me this summer (and taught me!) so sew... Anders and Dane were "SUPER A and SUPER D" . Uncle Lee said "is he Alvin from the chipmunks?!"
The D
October has come and gone and so did the pumpkins. But we made it...our annual trek to the pumpkin patch. I had my kids this day and also Katherine and Lucy...Anders woke up with an "upset tummy" this day but seemed like he was going to be ok? Not so much!! We were in the middle of pumpkin land when Anders THREW UP between pumpkin lanes!! At bedtime he said to his dad "I threw up at the pumpkin patch today. Yep and mom put a pumpkin on it. that means someone is going to buy a pumpkin with throw up on it dad....that's not good!" 
It really seems like a sick joke? We are in the worst drought EVER....no exaggeration. Estimated 66 million trees will die...just in Houston. People's foundations are cracking.....crops gone, lakes dried up! We've seen the carnage already. Two weeks ago we had an entire day of rain. It felt like we could all breath for one day. Not enough to rescue anything but enough to say.....we've seen rain!! That one day of rain hatched the "flood water mosquitoes" that have been lying doormat in coastal dry tidal areas. They said it was just the right combination of the way the tide came in and the rains came that hatched the worst epidemic of mosquitoes here EVER!! One mosquito catch that normally catches about 200 mosquitoes/day...this week caught 15,000 mosquitoes in ONE DAY!!!!!!! It feels like a cruel cruel joke to have DROUGHT and MOSQUITOES!!!!!!!!!!! Say it isn't so!!
A gaggle of kids.....had a good time playing in the backyard at Anders "airplane party" on Friday night. This is the group after the water balloons!!
Anders' good friend and special guest to his party...Col. Pat Forrester (astronaut)
Painting planes...
Anders has taken a keen interest in airplanes. He and Gunnar had an argument the other day while Gunnar was watching the Aggie football game. Anders said "let's watch this movie about the astronauts walking on the moon" It was a library rental.... Gunnar replied "this is still the first quarter Anders!" Anders said quickly..."but this is real Gunnar. Science is real life and that is fake" Gunnar responded with confidence.... "that is why you will be a scientist someday and I will be a professional Football player"
Lee...Tanyi (behind man in white hat), Joey & Chris. I took this picture across the field where Jill, Colette and I sat squished on a bleacher near the much smaller Baylor crowd and a very large Aggie student crowd.
Midnight Yell Practice....these bleachers were completely full just a few minutes later
Joey and Tanyi at the Aggie game Saturday...... Aggies vs. Baylor
I can with no hesitation say that it seems like last week we took Audra up to school for her very first day of kindergarten....that we left her, in what seemed like an enormous building with large children and hurried grown ups. She was precious then..... and
She is precious now. This was her 5th grade school picture day. I took her picture at home and could hardly wrap my mind around the fact that it's her last year in elementary. We're already experiencing life changing. The homework is by far more intense and girl drama is ramping up. But Audra is still Audra..... just a tiny taller (not much) and a little smarter:)
The joy of friendship. Over the last couple of years we've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know our friends the Forresters. They go to our church, Pat and I have taught some classes together and they are in our Thursday Bible Study. Their two boys are grown and our children have loved getting to know them. Anders in particular has taken a deep fondness for Mr. Forrester. He enjoys spending time with him and building ships and this last weekend he took him to Ellington field where lots of NASA test flight make their home. Mr. Forrester happens to be an astronaut having gone to space many times... This was their latest adventure!
Future Pilot?
