Fall Fun

I had so much fun this year getting to pick out two costumes! Avery Lee was a beautiful Monarch butterfly (yes, I'm partial) ... She wasn't real sure what was going on and Jackson really wanted to know why Avery was all of the sudden a butterfly.

Jackson was a firefighter. NOT a fireman. After an informal meeting with his pre-k teacher ... I learned that Jackson had to be moved to another class the day the fighter'men' came to his school. He was terrified before he ever even saw them ... turns out ... a fire'MAN' is the hibachi guy at Japanese restaurants which he is deathly afraid of ... a firefighter is pictured above :)

Yikes, IKE! ... not so happy birthday Lance!

Well we survived IKE. We were without electricity for 5 days and still dont have both phone lines back ... but we had no damage to our house whatsoever!!

I think we were most upset about a dead tree we lost that "our" bald eagle would fly and land on every night ... we haven't seen him since we lost that tree. BUMMER!

Lance and I appreciate everyone's prayers as well as the sweet calls and texts we got checking on us. It all happened on Lance's birthday!

Here's a pic of the kids during our time! :)

I love Jackson's face here. Last Sunday - Daddy was swinging him and Jackson was leaning back a little too far and flipped off backwards off the retaining wall where our swing set is ... needless to say, many tears, ace bandages, and x-rays later - he has his first broken arm and cast. Poor Jackson. When I ask him to try and move it a certain way - he'll do it with the uninjured arm and say "there. I did it."