Happy Halloween

Well, we didn't take Melodie out for trick or treating this year...we figured she was a bit small yet. :) I did, however, dress her up as a polar bear and carted her around with me around town. When we were at Target I saw all the other "little's" dressed up too. :) (I thought Melodie was the cutest of course! :) )

Halloween

We had fun this Halloween with the girls - since the weather was so good we made it through a lot of our neighborhood. Raleigh was a "Fairy Princess that Can Turn Into Anything" and Sydney was Tinkerbelle (just like Yellow the Elephant). Sydney took her Charm (wand) with her and would wave it at people at say, "bibbity bobbity boo" and then tell them what she turned them into. She turned people into cats, dogs, tigers and pumpkins. It was really funny. She did see a little boy dressed up as Nemo and kept yelling, "HI NEMO - HI NEMO - HEY NEMO...HI." The little boy did not respond so that made us laugh too.

Raleigh drew the design for Sydney's pumpkin and James carved it - I thought he did pretty well!

Seriously?

We got up for school today and what was falling from the sky? SNOW! Seriously? I thought we moved away from all this! My mom called yesterday to tell me it snowed in Michigan and at least we missed that! I guess the joke is on us.

Other updates - soccer is coming to an end, the kids all played great this season. Dugan lost his first tooth by wiggling it out (he had 4 pulled in the summer). Brendan made the school's honor roll and Daphne read her first book! Here are some pictures of things and we'll post more after Halloween.

MY BAD

I was giving a road test today for a second time to Josephina, a little Phillipeano lady, and we came to the part where I ask the question; "If you have to drive off the side of the road and hit something, what would be the safest thing to hit?" The correct answer is to hit something soft, which she answered properly. Then, for some inexplicitable reason, with no obvious lead in, I remarked that sometimes I ask people if they have a choice to hit a big elephant or a cute little puppy, what would be the best choice? "Sir, (sniff sniff), I would hit (sniff sniff), the cute - little - poo pee." Tears started to flow out of her eyes while she continued; "My cute little poo pee (sob sob), was hit by a car." Of course I felt instantly awful, and told her; "I'm sorry. It was wrong for me joke like that." "Sir, my Cambodian lady friend gave me that poo pee and said, 'You don't have a daughter. THIS will be your daughter.' " And now really crying she choked out the words; "And she was my (sob sob) cute - little - daughter." Then I heard the rest of her sad dog story, includng "The neighbor dog bite my poo pee on the leg. I call police." Eventually she calmed down, ended up passing the test, and grabbed both of my hands with hers to thank me. "I have big fight with husband this morning. Thank you." "Glad we made it back in one piece" I thought to my guilty self.

We Just Saw Him Again!

This time the girls brought their American Flags - President Bush waived to us again - he passed right by our house - what fun!! My friend Jessi and her boys were parked in a lot by their preschool and they got tours of the bomb squad truck and pictures with the sniffer dogs (we should have gone there!)

President Bush Just Waived at Us!

President Bush flew into G.R. this morning and we figured out that his route must be going right by our house and James' office so Raleigh, Sydney and I went to the office for lunch and then we went outside and saw the motorcade go right by. We saw President Bush in his car and he waived at us. We were probably 20 feet from his car. There were a ton of police and the helicopter flew right over us. After he went by, all of the police cleared out really quickly and then we looked out of James' office window and saw 5 police cars at the coffee shop. They must be waiting there until he drives past later this afternoon - I might try to catch it on the way back - they should go right by our house. Missy - you should have taken today off for our motorcade viewing - the last president we saw wasn't waiving!

Quote by Dugan as he's touring my apartment yesterday...

"Purple Soap! Man, this place just has everthing."

Christmas

We drew names on Sunday afternoon for Christmas gifts. Here is who everyone has...

Name - Buying a present for...
Dave - Ryan
Ceci - James
Carrie - Dave
James - Ben
Ben - Becky
Janet - Ceci
Missy - Carrie
Becky - Missy
Ryan - Janet