Halloween

Sean went trick or treating with his buddy Nicholas this year. Sean was an Air Force Jet Pilot and Nick was one of the dragons from How To Train Your Dragon.

The boys did great this year going up to doors without being scared. The funniest one was when they (including Nick's twin siblings) bravely went up to a house, not realizing they passed someone dressed up in a chair. Once they were passed the person they said "Boo!" and the look on Sean's face was priceless. He was scared and tried to make a b-line off the porch, but he was the first one up there so he was blocked in my Nick and the twins. Fortunately he got over the fear quickly when he realized it was just a person dressed up.

Halloween Candy Idea...

If you're like me you don't let your kiddos have all that candy that got on Halloween. Here are some ideas from Parenting magazine on what to do with it:
http://www.parenting.com/new/blogs/show-and-tell/25-things-do-all-halloween-candy?cid=enews110210

Never Forget To Send Another Card...

Okay I'm not big on sending out cards for birthdays and such. Frankly they've gotten to be very expensive and just end up in the trash. However, for those that love sending snail mail to brighten someones day, I saw this in a magazine... jackcards.com. You create a calendar with the important dates and select corresponding cards. They will send the card stamped, addressed and ready to go right to you, so all you have to do is sign it (and/or put your little note on it) and mail it... pretty cool http://www.jackcards.com/

Lego Station

In a never ending effort to find a better way to keep the house clean and organized, I FINALLY created a Lego Station for Sean. YES - he has that many Legos. The picture only shows the loose Legos that aren't part of a set. The sets are put together and on his shelves in his room. Maybe one day he'll be one of those Lego Engineers that builds the massive Lego sculptures :)

I LOVE Ikea's Trofast Series (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/series/19030?pageNumber=0). There are a ton of combinations. This took me 20-30 minutes to build and it was only $73 for all the bins and the shelf unit... not bad!! I may use this furniture series to make Sean an Art Station next.

Texas State Fair 2010

Our annual trip to the state fair was Friday. We actually did really well this time. We always go expecting to blow a bunch of money, because it's just EXPENSIVE. We've never taken Sean in late in the day so we could be there at night when everything is lit up, so we decided to do that this year. We ate WAY to much bad food. However, we did pretty good this year on how much we spent. Our membership to the Science & Nature museum paid off, because they sent us a voucher for (2) free adult and up to (4) free children tickets. That saved us $40, we just paid the $15 for parking... that was a deal!!

The best money spent... Sean wanted his face painted, so we did splurge and let him do it since it was better than the cheesy face painting on his cheek of some unrecognizable animal (LOL). The is was well worth it just for the pictures and of coarse the reactions Sean was eating up from the grown ups pretending they were scared of him.