funky burnouts

Lauren burst into the house on Saturday and told me Daddy was doing "funky burn-outs" on his motorcycle. (total tattletale style) So I went outside to see what was going on and Matt said he couldn't believe she told on him for doing "smokey burn-outs" in my drive-way. Here's is Matt's spare time and mostly eBay purchased project with the first coat of paint on it. It still runs...yay.

Princess Lauren and her knight in dull grey armor

Saturday afternoon we went to Abigail's Halloween Party at her house. Lauren was a princess and Tyler was going to be Thomas but he refused to wear his costume the entire time.

Here's Lauren all ready to go.

At the party:

ring toss

yummy food

drawing station

spider craft

tractor pulled hay ride

on the hay ride...it was a beatiful day

hanging out on a real southern front porch, just missing the mint julep and sweet tea

real princess extensions

and finally regarding Abigail's house, here is possibly the coolest appliance I've ever seen....a pot filler right over the stove. How cool is that?! Christmas Idea?

When we got home from Abigail's party we found this thing erected in our neighbor's yard so although we weren't officially invited to Shep's 7th birthday party -of course- we went over anyway.

enjoying the slide before the football kiddos took it over

another cool thing about Mr. Buddy's house: Zip Line

she's Ready

she's Set

and There She Goes
(she really is having fun and did this about 20 times) later there were s'mores at the bonfire

and when I got too cold we went inside and had a disco dance party with Mr. Buddy's party lights.

It was a lot of fun for everyone. Later in the evening I left the kids with Matt and stopped in at another neighbor's 40th birthday party. Lino and Nancy are from Colombia via Miami and 19 relatives and many many friends came to celebrate. I (again) learned to Salsa dance while I was there. I had a great instructor this time who told me perfectly what to do and in words I understood. She said, "pretend you are marching but that one of your knees are broken." I looked like a natural.

Currently Matt is playing poker with his last $40. Hopefully he wins so he can keep some money in his poker fund. He just came up to grab some of the kitchen chairs. He said there's 13 guys in the basement playing tonight...biggest turnout yet. Good thing the bathroom is finished.