Catching Up

I've spent so much time playing

CATCH UP

since I got home from our vacation that I realized I haven't even posted about

HALLOWEEN

and pretty much anything else since October.

With our kids being "older",

Ron and I made the decision last year that we were done...

TRICK-OR-TREATING!

(poor Jacob...he's the last child!)

So instead we just stay at home and pass out candy with our neighbors and relax by a nice warm fire!

(Forgot to take a picture!)

But Katie enjoyed the night with a bunch of friends...

 but by the time they made it to "our" house she was down to Mikayla and Baylee!

She was having a "wardrobe malfunction" and was refusing to let me take her picture earlier when I had good light!

However, trying to get a 16-year old to cooperate...

wasn't any easier.

 Rachel tried to help Christopher "enjoy" the process...

but he wasn't having any of it!

 Just made me realize that once again we had made the right decision to stay home...

my kids are outgrowing Halloween!

There is a little sadness with that statement too.

Just means my kids are getting older...

boy, they grow up fast!

 So glad Rachel could get into the spirit of the day...

she made a perfect nerd pose!

Jacob wouldn't let me take any pictures either so this is all I have for this year!

Rachel also finished her Football Season of Cheer.

She is an amazing cheerleader and improved so much...

they do all kinds of stunting and her back handsprings are so close.

But the BEST thing that came out of cheer season was her

friend Sydney!

We sure love this special girl...

almost as much as we love our Rachel!

(Rachel will also cheer for basketball season...so stay tuned!)

One of the games she got to cheer at was a

VARSITY GAME

in which over 125 little girls got to cheer with them...

including our granddaughter

HAILEE!

 The support group!

 Rachel and Hailee are out there somewhere!

Hailee LOVED being a miniature RACHEL!

We will miss Football season...

and the excitement of being at all the games!

I also got to ENJOY several lunches including this one with

my BEST girls

Jamie and Deanna.

We have been doing these lunches since our oldest were only months old...over 16 years and still going strong!

Sure do LOVE these girls...as if they were my sisters!

We also spent a lunch with two of our favorite people:

Cameron and Chelsea!

Cameron had us all cracking up laughing with his best comment of the day...

"They should combine You-Tube, Twitter and Facebook and call it 'YouTwitFace'.

 Sounds like a great idea to me!

I'm also trying to "spruce" up my house with little to no money...

just because I need a little updating!

So thanks to one of the craftiest girls I know...

I received some cute fabric to make some of these adorable banners:

I started with a "little" one to go with our Packers memorabilia

and liked it so much I decided to make a BIGGER one

for our

magnet "BRAG" board.

 Ron also worked on "framing" out a couple of windows in Jacob's room but it still needs to be painted so will post a picture of that soon.

He also put some wood in place in our backyard for me to hang

Large Round Bulb lights...

for more romantic lighting for these nice, cool evenings we will be enjoying.

I just have to string the lights tomorrow and will post pictures soon!

In the meantime...

my BLOG BOOK came yesterday!

I'm absolutely in love with it!

One of my favorite pages!

It can join our other book...until I make even more!

Sorry for the long post...it was a busy end of October and a first half of November!