Halloween

Boys and girls of every age,

wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see,

this our town of Halloween...

Once a nerd, now a zombie.  A fierce (ok, so not so scary looking) vampire slayer, and yes, a furry little werewolf.  These were the scary things that lurked around our house for our Halloween carnival and trunk or treat at the church Saturday night.  We all had a blast.  Tyler, maybe had too much fun, and had to sit in the van cause he had the pukies (really though, there is a stomach flu going around and I'm sure that's what he had).  We had a great time and are so excited for next Halloween!

Tonight we are headed out to Grandma's for a spooky meal and a Halloween Classic that Lindsey and I watched as kids: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," (yes, the animated version)!

And poor Kayden!  I didn't get a picture of him.  He dressed up as a Jay Hawk fan.  The Jay Hawk is his school's mascot!  He looked cute!  OOPS, I mean cool.

The Latest Football Movie starring Kayden Halladay (#32)

Kayden has really come alive during football this year.  His team seemed to have a slow start, but once they got it together, WOW!  It is so much fun watching his team play.  They work well together and have really grown as players, thanks to their fabulous coaches, Bromley and Bray. 

Kayden plays slotback most of the time, but he also plays defense.  Right now, they are first place in the league and finals are next week.  Hopefully, they play like we know they can and finish the season off right!

More Fall Photos

Okay, so I caved.  I am not going to put individual pics in the Christmas card, so I thought I would post a few more of the boys, mostly individual ones.  Well, that is what I will do today, anyway!

I love taking pictures and wish I had (or made) more time to do it!  These are a few that I liked.  I love seeing how the boys change over the years.  I can hardly believe that Kayden is almost a teenager, is 5ft 3, and wears a size 9.5 shoe!  Ah!  Jaren is now in grade 5 and is having a good time (whether he realizes it, or not) with his new teacher.  Every day, he comes home and tells me all these things he has learned.  I love it!  Carter is adjusting to greade four and the heavier work load.  I think he would go back to grade 3 if he could - then he could avoid his weekly spelling assignments!  And, now for Tyler.  I truly think he has found a great teacher this year.  You know how sometimes a child and their teacher just click?  Well, I think this may be the year for Tyler.  Thank goodness for that!  He is happy and seems to be doing so much better than last year!  Hooray for Miss N!

Fall Photo Shoot

I love the fall!  For so many reasons.  It smells good, the air is cool, the colours are beautiful, and I get to do a photo shoot with my ever growing boys. 

Each year I think about the location for said photography session and each year, we find a great spot where the mom (me) can take pics, and the boys (as you see here) can explore and have fun.

Now let's just pretend that it is always that easy.  Ah...wouldn't that be nice.  Nope, there is a lot of yelling and scolding and saying stuff like, "chin down, look at the camera, look at me, smile, stop moving, get your finger out of your nose."  This year our poor little neighbour dude wanted to come with us.  I am afraid he saw me at my worst (he has since come back to play, so I guess I didn't scare him that badly).

Anyway, I am probably going to post a couple of the pics, cause I don't want to ruin the Christmas card surprise!  Yikes, did I say Christmas!?! Already!

APPLES, apples and MORE apples!

Look at these yummy things I was able to make out of my MIL's apples!  I made 5 apple pies, (as you can see from the first pic) and these three large bowls of apple sauce.  Some of the sauce I mixed with strawberries and bananas and either froze or made into leather, while the other portion I left plain (and did the same sauce/leather thing.

It was super easy making the apple sauce (the kids loved using the strainer.  In fact I did most of it while they weren't home and saved some cause I knew they would like it) and the cooking apples made my house smell DELICIOUS!

Thanks grama for all those apples!

The King has returned!

I just want to thank everyone for all your care and concern regarding our little king!  Kaiser is now home and doing pretty well.  He can now stand up on his own and even walk a couple of straggly steps.  He is starting to eat better and this morning, he growled when he heard the garbage truck (that is such a Kaiser thing to do).  We hope that soon he will be back to his regular old self - well, maybe less the annoying habits.  Ha!  Seriously though, we are very glad that he is going to be alright!  :)

Hooray!

So I spoke with the vet today and Kaiser is doing a lot better.  Yesterday, he wasn't doing very well and the vet suggested that maybe we could come for a visit.  So, Kayden and I ventured over there on the way to mutual.  Kaiser seemed happy to see us, but didn't really move around.  We sat and petted him for 20 minutes or so and then left.  Do you think it was our visit that was the cause of this sudden improvement?  I would like to think so!  I sure hope that the vet is right - that he will be able to come home Friday!