Halloween

Lord how time can get away from you. Hard to believe that I haven't blogged since just before Halloween, so I've got a bit to catch up on.

For everyone expecting photos of the kids in costume this year, sorry. We didn't do Halloween this year. Normally, we have a church hayride around Cat Spring and trick or treat around town that way. However, this year, one of our friends Karen Krupicka was getting married the same evening of the hayride. We couldn't be both places at the same time, so we saved the expense of costumes this year. Probably won't be able to say that for another couple of years.

But, I couldn't let Halloween go by without having a little bit of fun. We did carve a pumpkin.



Kaylee stayed entertained as long as we were taking out pumpkin "guts"--even though she touched the stuff and quickly decided that part wasn't for her. Once we got to the carving process, Kaylee was off to her tricycle. Kiera stuck it through to the bitter end.

You can tell from the video that she liked her pumpkin.



Later that evening, I decided we'd make some cookies. The girls helped put sugar in the butter, stir a little bit, and then put flour into the mixture. The pay off came after daddy finished mixing everything together.





The girls loved eating the dough, and they also enjoyed the freshly baked cookies. It was quite comical watching Kaylee climb up on her chair and grab another cookie even after daddy said they had enough. The temptation was simply too great!!! The next day, we traveled to College Station for Karen's wedding. Before the wedding, we visited with an old friend of mine (not in the aged sense, but in the since that I've known her from high school) Carrie and her husband Rusty.

They live in the country and next to a family who has a couple of little children. The kids had all sorts of neat toys that they allowed Kiera and Kaylee to play with including a wonderful electric jeep that you could drive around the yard. Kiera had a blast on that one. (Note to anyone even thinking about it--if you buy one of those things for my girls for Christmas or any other time, I'll extract my revenge in a very nasty fashion.)