Archive for October, 2011

October 30, 2011 – We enjoyed a nice breakfast at IHOP and then ran errands; Z haircut, Old Navy, Children’s Place, Stride Rite, ect… Then we came home and Z and his Dad worked on the final pumpkin. Z decided to also carve a potato and make it look like the pumpkin was eating the potato. [...]

October 29, 2011 – Z and I ran a few errands, one being picking out pumpkins, and then came home to carve pumpkins. We had fun watching him clean out the pumpkin! YUCKY! Z had so much fun and did such a good job carving his! Later in the afternoon, we went to a birthday party [...]

Deer out there!

Posted: October 31, 2011 in Around the House

Ok, we live on a greenbelt and always have deer out back. We feed them our stale bread and tortillas so they always come around to see what we left for them. We get to enjoy them everyday but never think to take pictures. So we finally decided to take pictures this time. The deer come around [...]

October 27, 2011 – The entire 2nd grade made individual pumpkin pies. Each class had a couple parents help the kids make their pies. W and I helped the kids in our class. We had everything in an assembly line and the kids had a great time making their pies. The cafeteria staff cooked all the [...]

October 22, 2011 – Our school does a carnival every year for a big PTA fundraiser. This was my first year not to volunteer to help out so we actually got to enjoy the day without any stress. We had a garage sale early in the morning but finished up before noon because Z wanted [...]

Boys are silly!

Posted: October 31, 2011 in Friends, School

October 11, 2011 – E came home with Z after school and they had the best time playing!  

October 10, 2011 –  Z was out of school this day so we decided to go to the Exotic Zoo with our friends, the G family. We packed our lunch and hit the road early in the morning so we could get to the zoo before the animals had too much to eat. When we go [...]

October 7, 2011 – The entire 2nd grade class went on their field trip to the Austin Nature Center downtown. Each class wore different colored tie-dyed shirts so it would be easy to identify each class. Our class was bright orange. Each kid in our class designed their own shirt and Z designed mine as [...]

Scouts Pack Meeting – Red Cross

Posted: October 31, 2011 in Cub Scouts

October 6, 2011 – We attended our cub scout pack meeting as usual but this time we were thrilled to present the Red Cross with the check for all the money the boys raised to help the fire victims. They raised $3126.50!! All the boys we participated took a picture with the Red Cross representative. [...]