Mills Grands

The kids and I went to Houston this past weekend.  Mom and Dad came also so that they could watch the kids while Amanda and I did photos.  It was a fun weekend, and we got a couple pictures of all the kids together!!  Yay!  

No, Anna didn't smile, but I call it a success that she was actually facing the camera!!  And look at those sweet, smiley boys :)

Happy Halloween!!

The "sit on the front steps" pictures first!!

I think Dex was being a scary shark and also tending to an itch on his leg...

I had these awesome little Minnie Mouse ears that clipped on to her hair like barrettes, but she didn't care for them too much.  I should have just gone with the headband, although I don't know if that would have lasted very long either.  She's still a cutie Minnie Mouse :)  Oh, and these black patent leather shoes she's had for ages that she refused to wear are now her Minnie Mouse shoes, and she even wears them to sleep in.  

This is how it went most of the night... Dex and Cooper running ahead, and Anna trailing along behind.

 Her favorite snake.  We did a lot of walking around the neighborhood looking at the decorations in the weeks leading up to Halloween.  it was gone for a few days and so when they put it back out, she would always run up to it and say "SNAKE!  You're back!" which is exactly what she's doing here. 

Here she is in her "on your mark, get set..." pose.  So very funny!

Book Parade!

The whole family went to watch Dex's book parade on Friday!  It was dress-up day at Anna's daycare, so she was also in costume.  (She's Minnie Mouse - sans ears)

He was.... a DUCK!  His book is "Duck in the Fridge."  (Thanks to Emi for sending the do-it-yourself duck costume info) ;)

Cutest little duck I ever saw!

Painting Pumpkins

We painted our pumpkins!!

Look at Lighting and Mater watching intently.

Anna's painted pumpkin.  She *might* have lost interest after 5 minutes and started playing in the water we were using to clean our brushes.

Dex had quite the biking accident last weekend.  Poor kid.  It wasn't pretty, I'll just say that!  That forehead bump swelled up to the size of a tennis ball, it seemed like!

Mater got a new coat of glitter.  Dex wanted me to take pictures of it, so of course I had to :)

She was looking at Dex off to the side trying to make her laugh.  I think she was waving at him here.

Along with dumping out all of our water, she collected all of our paint brushes.  It didn't matter if we were still using them or not, she NEEDED them!