Halloween

The kids were Tinkerbell and Peter Pan for Halloween. We went to a Fall Fest at church, and then for Halloween stayed home to pass out candy. Sophie's favorite part of her costume was wearing makeup and Jake loved his hat. They made the perfect pair. Cuties!! Oh, and Sophie was very excited to win a cake in the cake walk at church. She didn't even care that it was a lemon bundt cake or that about 30 other kids won a cake, too.

Krispy Kreme!!

Jake's took his first trip to sugar-coated heaven. Oh, yeah, Krispy Kreme!! We stopped by after church one day. He loved it. Sophie picked out a cute pumpkin donught and Jake, well, he took anything he could get. Nothing like a sugar high on a Sunday! Sophie likes it, but Jake takes after my side of the family. KK has been known to eat a whole box of warm ones before she made it home!!

Race For Education

Sophie completed 12 laps for her school's fundraiser, Race For Education. She might have done a few more, but she was too tempted by the break stands set up for water and orange slices. I think she took a break twice per lap! Thanks to all of you who contributed!

Fall At The Dallas Arboretum

Hummingbirds

It was hard to get good pics with 2 kids and 2 dogs running around!

Hummers- guzzling the gas

Not that kind of hummer! I had seen some hummingbirds a couple of times and finally got a feeder up. It didn't take long for these little guys to find the feeder. I thought it would be fun for the kids to watch. They aren't so interested. I, however, love to watch birds. I miss all the beautiful birds (and trees) we had at our old house. Cardinals, woodpeckers, finches, doves... And once I even had a carrier pigeon visit for a few days. That was cool! He finally "flew the coop" and headed home after his nerves finally couldn't take any more of the friendly cats. So I'm a closet little old lady who likes to birdwatch and talk about the weather. I've even got several field guides for birds. I'm trying to get Sophie interested, and she looks sometimes, but ya know, all she has to say about it is- oh, they're small. And they are! Sometimes I mistake them zooming in for those big dragonflies going about. We can hear their little wings beating as they buzz around and their little beep-beep call. One of them sits in the equally small tree to watch over the feeder, making sure none of the other hummers get too greedy. They do guzzle the sugar water! And they fight over it, too!

They won't be around much longer, but here are some tips if you want your own Hummers: use tap water and plain white refined sugar, one part sugar to 4 parts water. Refill with fresh syrup every couple of days. Don't use red food dye. I bought a cheap feeder at Wal-mart for under $5. That's it! Have fun!

It's the Great Pumpkin, uh.....

We planted a pumpkin seed a while ago but a little too late in the season. Does this look like it will produce a nice, orange pumpkin in about a month? I don't think so. Maybe a Christmas pumpkin. So if you come by in December and there's a pumpkin under the tree- you'll know. It's the Great Christmas Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.