Halloween, 2011

I love this boy and his brilliant ideas :)

MK saw a gorilla riding a bike as she drove down the road on Halloween. She watched him for a second, and he waved. Forgetting that she's got on her own costume, which makes her look pretty convincing as a regular guy, she did her full-out enthusiastic girlie wave !!! :) :) :)
That must've given the gorilla pause.

The elementary kids were taught some choreography to "Thriller" to perform as a flash mob during the parade, and Mia's dance company's flash mob during lunch at the middle school was a hit.

Mia and friends were "Party Rockers." Only problem was, the acronym for the band who sings, "Every Day I'm Shufflin" stands for a couple of bad words. Thus, the duct tape. But, now that I'm looking at her hemline and her leggings, which could pass for tights...whoa! We missed the boat entirely! Pfffff...

The Jemmett's haunted dark tunnel, hosted by an 9-foot tall stringy-haired skeleton in a black gown wasn't enough to intimidate our lil pirate zombie. Cam jumped out of the car and ran over with Getty and friends, while Cy, who had settled in my backseat looked on in horror, realizing that now that his little brother might show him up in the bravery department, he'd better cowboy up and head on over.

My plan for Elle was for her to be Smurfette, but I don't have a say in such things :)

Senior Fab Five

 This is MK's favorite pic [below]

 Kim

Cara

Kaitlyn

Sara

Rob and I got a text from MK, who was babysitting our kids, at 9:10 p.m. Saturday night while we were at dinner with his family. It read, "Beware there are a lot of people at our house ha...." We rounded the corner and saw both sides of our street lined with cars. About 12:30, the last of them left. Kim said she'd counted 36 people, but that was before another 14 girls showed up. That's our all-time record. They all got cozy with the football team and watched a scary movie in our little front room.
Now Rob wants to finish the basement. Ha!

Getty's Girlfriends

Late one night, these cute girlies came over to serenade Getty, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine..."
Getty was at a friend's house, so Rob recorded it for him.

Awesome. But...
Getty's my sunshine, got it? :)

Mia's breakfast sluff party

Mia's dance company went to the Shakespeare festival, which we opted out of this year (I was shocked and so pleased that Rob and I were able to say "no" to a great opportunity for our kids! So many great opportunities out there, you know :) So, she and some of her fellow dancers decided to sluff their empty dance class together. Mia served french toast, they watched "A Cinderella Story," and then got ready together for school.

 This photo was taken just two seconds before I informed Mia that she would not be wearing boxers to school. Flip!

Next thing I knew, they were all in jeans and out the door. Phew.

Super Cy...

...is what we call Cy's Momma Monday.

I forgot I wanted to blog typical Momma Mondays here and there with each of the kids, for memory's sake. So, last night for Super Cy he was psyched to watch Monday Night Football, Ravens (his favorite team with Dennis Pitta) vs. Jaguars.

Not a great game for the Ravens :( We were all set to score in the last minute-and-a-half to come from behind and win the game... when Jaguars intercepted. Rats.

So, we popped some popcorn and played a couple games of UNO before heading to bed.

MMMmmm, I love this boy.

We're not horsin' around...

In behalf of the girls' soccer team (who were peeking behind the school wall watching the spectacle play out), Kim and Corrie rode a horse around the football field during practice with a balloon bouquet and banner that read, "We're not horsin' around, come to Sadie's with us!" Inside each balloon was the name of a soccer player and the football player she was asking out. 

MK asked Levi, a giant linebacker who has never gone to a dance before. He answered her with this kiddie horsey puzzle. Awww.

For their day date, 28 of them (and eventually 38) headed out to Grandma's for a barbeque.

Then things got messy.

The Girls

After an hour-and-a-half mud fight, they decided to play mud volleyball.

Then it was time to get all proper in their girl scout uniforms for the dance.

They tracked down their boy scouts, danced, and then headed to Alyssa's for pool party/hot tubbing/movie-watching.

That's lil Kenz in-between those two monstrosities :)

Packing in the fun. It's their job.

Mia stalks me as I blog

Like a pack of wolves, the kids close in on me, breathing down my neck with their needs, or their sudden urgency for the computer, or just for the sport of it. THis is why I stay up until 1 a.m. THis is why I am not a morning person. It's all their fault.

Hmmmm. Rarely do I see the backside of my head. I don't think I'd recognize myself if I walked behind myself (try that). I thought my hair was poofier on top (glad it's not) and not so blond.  Just sayin'. 

Lime Green Never Looked So Yummy

Grandma took Elle shopping at Wal-Mart for treats, but when Elle found this little number for $3, she squealed, "Sienna has that dress!"

I don't think the word "no" is in Grandma's vocabulary, thank goodness, so now they're "matchers."

Done posing. Gotcha ;)