Halloween Party Pictures Galore

Photo Gallery of the 4th Annual Mezger Halloween Potluck

It was fun, not too terribly hot or freezing cold (after dark), tiring and SO worth it. I LOVED seeing all the costumes & the bouncy house was great for the kid craziness. Thanks to all who came and I will pretty much let the pictures speak for themselves this year.

Woody Bailey & Woody Lion Pre-Party

The Castle Bounce House this Year

Luke as Mr. Potato Head. He was going to be Bullseye, but it was going to be too expensive to make & plus I lost my costume making gusto. I saw this in Target one day and decided to just go with it, so a Mrs. Potato Head will be a future Halloween costume sometime.

Jessie the very pregnant cowgirl

Family Picture

 

Nana with our 2 kiddos

Nana with B

The McCartys

The Ousleys.

 Just a quick note on their costumes- they were luna moths in honor of their daughter Luna.

Jessie & her cavewoman friend (with awesome eyebrows might I add)

The Readings

B & Abby (the angry eyebrows were due to mommy interrupting her fun)

The Hamms

The Gardners

Just a quick note that although you can't see it, Linus (aka Keith) used his real blankie from when he was a kid to complete the costume

A very cool dessert brought by the Dugans (no family picture)

Kyle, Luke, & Joel

The Fosheas

Katie hanging with Blake

The Other Mezgers, the McDaniels, & the Jayakumars

Mel, Ali, Katie, & Christal

The Murrays

Pausing very briefly from the bounce house fun (this face says enough already mom!)

Everyone who stuck around until it was trick or treating time

My boys

I took the big kids (Owen, Bailey, Emmy, & Bella) for the race pace (emphasis on RACE) trick-or-treating.

Here's a better picture of the 4 big kids. This was by far Bailey's favorite part and we might have some sore arms tomorrow from carrying around such a full container of candy.

Kyle & Becca

Blake dragging his bag

Judy & Bella

By the end, Blake and Boone were just along for the ride

3 very tired mamas

Nana time back at the house (snacks and a book)

Happy Halloween!

Sneak Peek

I had my 36 week appt yesterday and got one last sneak peek at Blair. Since we are near the end and there isn't alot of room, none of the sonogram pictures turned out worth posting, so I am sharing these that were taken earlier in the pregnancy. Anyways, the good news is that she is head down! Bailey waited until 38 weeks and Blake until 37 weeks to go into that position, so I am very thankful for that! The other good news is that I am already 2 cm dilated!!! One month or less to go until we get to meet her!

The Adventures of Captain De-Clutter and the Curious Kid

Starring:

Melissa as Captain De-Clutter,

Blake as the Curious Kid, and

Bailey as the Explorer Kid

 

If you read my first adventures, then you know the outcome of this tale, but it always helps to have a little humor on hard days and kids are only little little once, so here we go...

Captain De-Clutter wakes up and has a great outlook on the day. Despite the fact she left a full box of cereal within Curious Kid's reach during breakfast, which he dumps out, she is excited about getting stuff done while Explorer Kid is at preschool. After a nice long walk, project number one is to clean up the kitchen area. This means picking up after breakfast and her mid-morning snack, unloading a very full dishwasher and hopefully sweeping and mopping the kitchen floors that still have what Blue hasn't eaten of the cereal left on them. While unloading the dishwasher and Captian De-Clutter's back is turned, Curious Kid wants to know what that brown stuff is that Captain De-Clutter was putting on her apples and that brown drink in her cup, so his curious hands (with lighting speed might I add) reached into both. YUMMY! And really, who's to say that tea can't be used as hair gel or nutella as lip gloss. 

After Captain De-Clutter cleans his face, calms the hair, and removes the fun, Curious Kid decides to move the chair over to our kitchen desk area for his next act. He has seen Explorer Kid picking out stickers to put on her chore chart and since Captain De-Clutter hasn't let him have a part in it, he's curious about it and again with lighting speed and impeccable timing he dumps out all the stickers. Now Captain De-Clutter was a former teacher and has ALOT of stickers and Curious Kid can't believe how much fun this is. What was Captain De-Clutter doing? Still unloading the dishwasher. 

Captain De-Clutter is now getting serious about finishing up the kitchen clean up and locks Curious Kid in there with her. Curious Kid can't believe his eyes. There are so many things to be curious about- emptying the pantry snack drawers and either throwing the snacks on the ground or in the trash can, then it's off to cleaning out the tupperware cabinet, followed by dumping over the very full and should have been taken out trash. Curious Kid thinks it's weird that Captain De-Clutter doesn't seem to care, but it doesn't matter because it's so much fun. In reality, Captain De-Clutter decided to take a phone call, left the kitchen unguarded and then had a hard time getting off the phone. After accessing the damage, Captain De-Clutter decides to use the same trick that worked with Explorer Kid and heads outside with the water hose and she will save her efforts for the house until later. She doesn't take a picture of the kitchen because she loves that Curious Kid is curious, but doesn't also want to cry and really she knows that the victory may have been momentarily won by Curious Kid, but she will win the war.

Until next time, because unfortunately, there will be a next time...

*This particular day was two weeks ago, but there have been too many similar days lately that I wanted to remember this stage of Curious Kid*

Big Boy Haircut

There won't be much Blake will beat his sister to, but getting a real haircut was one of them. I was trying to keep Blake awake today until Bailey got home from preschool and made a split second decision to go get him a haircut. I had been thinking for awhile that if I could watch them cut his hair I would do a better job at home of maintaining it. No pictures were taken in the actual hair salon as he needed mommy to hold him while the strange lady cut and snipped his hair and was ready to go as soon as she was done, so I snagged daddy as soon as we got home to take a pic.

The Hill Country Camping Society's First 2011-2012 Campout

The families of the Hill Country Camping Society "roughed it" out at Pace Bend for our first campout of the 2011-2012 school year. By roughing it, I mean car camping at it's easiest & where we were close enough to Austin that Ali, Maggie, and I headed back sometime around 10 pm to get a real night's sleep. Bailey was so excited that she had made her pile of things to bring by 8:00 that morning and the "When do we leave to go camping?" began. I understand her excitement as it was a day and a half of exploring, playing, hiking, biking, getting dirty, pretending and really just having freedom without alot of rules. Who needs technology when there's that much to do??? I love it because even when I was on duty watching Blake, I was sitting around visiting with good friends, which always makes it seem like less work. The only sad part was that due to the burn ban we could not have a campfire and unroasted marshmallows just aren't the same as roasted ones smothered in chocolate with a graham cracker. I tried to take pictures myself this time instead of always bumming off of Ali and here's what I caught. I will let you guess the color of the bath water for the kids & Blue...

Elgin Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday, we headed out to the Elgin Pumpkin Patch for some morning fun with friends. We loaded all these kids and mamas into 2 cars, in part thanks to the minivan (it does have it's advantages). Highlights would be seeing & feeding the animals, the hayride, the kids having room to run around, and spending time with friends. I am also loving the "faller" weather, although I would certainly take it cooler. But, here's what you really came for, the pictures!