Halloween 2008

Let me start off by saying that it's starting to become a total pain to load pictures on Blogger because they aren't showing up right. All of them can be clicked on to make it bigger, but for the most part you can see the pic good enough to not have to do that. errrrr

Here are our trick-or-treating pictures from last night. Emma and Sara were witches and Anthony was Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th. We picked up his friend Billy and we met up with my friend Ashley at her mom's house in Keller to take the kid's around her neighborhood. It was awesome.

First the fire department had a fire engine going through the neighborhood passing out glow necklaces to the kid's. They have a community park and they had bounce houses, BBQ and drinks for the kid's and a hayride.

My favorite pic of the kid's from last night.

I'm loving this pic of Sara. You can see that she is wearing make-up, which the girl's were so excited about. It was definitely a treat because Aaron doesn't let them have play make-up.

My silly girl!! She will never need more than blush and a little mascara, she is so naturally beautiful! She is wearing lipstick though even though she doesn't need it.

The fire truck passing out the glow necklaces. The pics are a little out of order, but it's a pain to fix it when I have so many pics on here, but I'm sure you don't care.

My scary Jason Voorhees.

Anthony and his friend Billy. You have to click this one.

Ashley was more than happy to wear Emma's hat.

Ashley's brother Travis. What is funny is that when I took the pic she told him "she's totally going to blog that". lol

Luke as a tutle.

These tombstones were funny.... "husband nagged to death" and "mother pecked to death by the PTA"

This house was cool but my camera sucks so I couldn't get a good pic of the huge spiderweb.

Sara's picture was the only hayride picture that actually came in clear. I'm counting down the months (3) until I get a new camera.

Lexi.

All of the kid's at the end of the night. Actually there were a lot more kid's in our group, but this is what was left at 10 pm.

I made the girl's witch hats and I absolutely love them, so I'm sharing. This is Sara's and I made it yesterday before we headed out.

This is Emma's and I actually made this one last year. But I did spray it with gold glitter this year and it made it look so much better! Sara's has the glitter too. Next year I'm just gonna spray everything down with that stuff, it's awesome. lol

Here is a cute Smilebox album of some of the pictures above.

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Cabbage Patch Political Dolls

Anybody want a John McCain or Barack Obama Cabbage Patch doll? Well if you have $1,000 or so on hand, then you can get them here. They also have Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. I seriously love the Sarah Palin doll, she is adorable! I noticed that the McCain and Palin dolls are worth more than the Obama/Biden dolls. Hmmmmmm

Progressive Insurance

We use Progressive for our car insurance and today Aaron called them to make some changes to our policy. He agreed to switch over to paperless so we could have our stuff sent by e-mail instead of regular mail.

Then they told him that since he is going paperless that Progressive will plant a tree in the rain forest for him. I thought that was pretty cool so I wanted to share. I bet other insurance companies do something similar, so check it out!

Halloween Party

We had a Halloween party for the kid's Saturday night. They had a lot of fun and we even made some slime, ewwww. So go check out the pictures!

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Pumpkin Patch 2008

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Flashback Friday Five late again!

I was so busy Friday that I didn't have a chance to do the Flashback Friday Five, so here I am again, on a Sunday, doing it late.

Since I took the kid's to the pumpkin patch yesterday, I thought I would post last years pumpkin patch pictures for the FFF.

We always take the kid's to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch. It's totally free and I like to be able to take picture's of the kid's next to all of the character cut-outs.

This picture was taken 2 years ago at the pumpkin patch. I decided to post it because this year Anthony wore the exact same shirt and he is pretty much posing the same! lol

Samantha

We have a new addition to the Bagby family! Well kind of anyways. She is a little black kitten that I found on our doorstep. She is one of three wild cats that run around our neighborhood. We tried to catch a different cat a couple of weeks ago but we were unsuccessful. And that's too bad because the other cat was orange and I love orange cats.

Anyways, since she is all black and we found her right before Halloween we named her Samantha, like the witch on Bewitched. She is just a little sweetie. She likes to curl up against you, particularily your face, and go to sleep. The kid's are going crazy over her, they just love her. But she will get to stay an outdoor cat. Her and Caleb don't get along at all, so she can't stay inside.

National Cupcake Day

Today is National Cupcake Day. And since I love cupcake's I had to make something to celebrate it! You like my little Halloween display? The fabric and the cookie cutters were already on my kitchen table so I just arranged them to take the pic.

I made spice cake cupcakes with homemade cinnamon cream cheese frosting and of course Halloween sprinkles.

Flashback Friday Five

This week I didn't forget to do the Flashback Friday Five! As you can see I did not do pictures of my kid's like I said I would last week. I went a different route for this week since today is October 17 and tomorrow the 18th.

Tomorrow marks the 22nd year since my dad passed away in a car accident. I was 10 and I was also the last person to see him alive before he headed home and never made it. I don't have a lot of pictures of him. I'm sure my mom does, but I've posted what I've got.

You can click on any of the pictures to make them bigger.

Here we are at Christmas at my Aunt Ruth's house (my fav place in the world).

In this pic my dad is the one in the center holding the teddy bear. His brother Gary is to his right. My paternal great grandparents are sitting on the left and right. The man standing up on the right's name was Larry and I actually visited him and his family in N. Dakota for my 15th birthday.

That was when I learned there were no more male O'Brien's to carry on my family name. That is why my son Anthony's last name is O'Brien, not Bagby. The baby is my dad's little sister.

This picture was taken exactly 3 months before he died.

And I can't remember October 18th without remembering that it is my cousin Suzette's birthday. She is my favorite cousin, my 2nd favorite relative right behind her mom, my Aunt Ruth.

Here she is with her husband Henry (who I love and miss Happy late Birthday to you) and their son's Christopher and Conner.