Happy Halloween 2009!

Halloween night was a great time again this year---we ventured over to Deanna and Jodi's neighborhood in Mansfield for trick or treating and Andrew's annual Halloween camp out. The camp out ended up inside because of some rather frigid temperatures(at least in my terms)...it got down to like 50 degrees or so, maybe even 49!!
The kids camped in tents in the garage, so they had a great night. The adventure through the neighborhood proved fruitful...this was evident by Landrie's labored and hunched little walk as the evening went on.

This first pic is toward the end when I made her get into the wagon---as you can see I had an angry gnome on my hands!!

A little earlier the Landrie gnome was much happier:)

Here come the children after getting more candy...

Yes, the pictures are way out of order...this was just prior to heading out...we got all five kids on the couch for a group photo. Jenna, Kylie, Ian, Andrew and Landrie.

That way to my garden said the little girl gnome...no, not really...she was pointing at this giant spider that would drop down on or near your head when it heard a loud noise nearby. Landrie would say, "Spider scares me!"

It was a much cooler Halloween than last year, but a great night for trick or treating. It was a nice night to spend with some scary friends! :)

Jenna, the new Student Council Historian

The last two weeks or so of campaigning at school have paid off. On Tuesday, Jenna was elected to the Sallye Moore Elementary School Student Council as the historian. She beat out 11 other candidates for the job...

Jenna decided she wanted to run for Student Council at school...and since third graders can only run for historian or treasurer, she decided that being historian would be great. She had to prepare campaign posters and a speech. She had great ideas, but of course, Katie and I helped her touch them up. Katie and Jenna came up with her slogan--"Jenna for Historian, All in favor, say, e-I-sel". She came up with her main points to her speech, and I helped her to polish it up, and then she practiced. I was pretty impressed because she had it memorized in like 30 minutes?! Yeah, she doesn't get that from me...and thank goodness she doesn't get my nerves or anxiety either!

Here is Jenna, waiting to speak---I think maybe there are a few nerves?!

So, Tuesday afternoon, just before the election, all of the candidates presented their speeches to the 3rd-5th graders. I was more nervous than her, I know that. Here is the speech, from the most excited little 3rd grader in this house!

Congratulations Jenna, mommy and I are very proud of you!! Love you...