Fall Fun

Um, they didn't list the amount of yard work needed in the fall as part of the real estate listing for this place.  Apparently there is an advantage to not having a yard like all of our neighbors but we wouldn't know about that.  The amount of leaves in our side yard is insane and Matt has the callouses on his hands from the leaf blower to prove it.  To be fair, he's raked a time or two as well.  And the worst part of all this?  Our town is supposed to come by and pick up all the leaf piles pushed to the edge of the street and they haven't so our neighbor conveniently parks his lovely minivan in front of our yard instead of his own which already has leaf piles.  You better believe we'll get a jump start on raking next year so we can make sure to have the first piles and therefore less parking in front of our yard.  So there!  But the leaves are fun.  That is if you don't mind bugs and slugs!

 

The Look

We didn't think our little sassy girl had enough sass so we've been teaching her the look.  The look is a eyebrows furrowed and pouty lips.  Watch out boys! This little girl has the eyebrows down but the pouty lips turns into a cute little smirk.  Here she is practicing at the mall with her pink ice cream with rainbow sprinkles:

Here's the same look from about a year ago...and I think she did it a little better then:

And not a great pic but here is one from today:

Halloween 2012

Candy, candy, candy!  Ay, yi, yi.  Truth = a cute face in a costume is still cute while grabbing handfuls of candy.  I think that I could probably save 50% of the candy collected this year to hand out next year and L and A wouldn't even notice.  I have to say, I have the cutest black cat and grey mouse out there.  After we did a nice little block tour, we came back to the house to hand out candy - which the kids loved doing.  I could tell that there was a little concern on Luke's face about the quickly disappearing candy from the bowl so I kept reminding him he had an entire army's worth of candy in his bag.

Some highlights from this Halloween:

• Adrienne dragging her heavy candy bag but refusing to let anyone help her
• Adrienne's obsession with having every color of glow stick in her hands
• Luke's crying because Adrienne had all of the glow sticks
• Luke's makeup artistry of drawing dripping blood from my vampire teeth