The Scary, the Spooky....and Downright Cooky!!



I just LOVE Halloween!!! It's not hard to tell from our pictures what we dressed up as, so I'll leave that for you to see. I decided not to spend any money (or time sewing) on my costume this year, and opted for pulling out an old classic. My Highschool cheerleading Uniform. Yeah, I know - SCARY!!! After 3 weeks of kicking my own butt at the gym, I could actually get it zipped up, and we were in business for doing some serious Trick-or-Treating!

Instead of doing the traditional door-to-door routine, we decided to join the Riverside Baptist Church at the Fair Grounds for their annual Halloween bash. We had attended last year, and it was lots of fun! We only spent just longer than an hour in the Sunflower Building, and had our plastic Jack-o-Lanterns full of candy by 8:30pm. The boys played carnival games, ran a blow-up obstacle course, and won WAY too many cupcakes at the cakewalk. We didn't even have to cover our costumes with coats! We stayed nice and warm the entire time.
After our little night of fun was over, I felt a tinge of sadness (as with most holidays) at the thought of Halloween being over. But I hit the clearance aisle at Walmart the week after and scored cheap stuff for next year. So until then, no more dressing up. :(

Well - the boys can always use theirs for playing, but I'm not so sure people would be quite so accepting if I decided to follow their lead.

Another Great Sports Season Comes to a Close...

Treyton's first season of Flag Football finally came to a close last week. The practice schedule proved to make our lives a little more hectic than usual, and the game schedule didn't help either! But all-in-all, we had a good time watching him learn to play.

Trey Gets Branded!!

Trey attended his first Cub Scout Pack Meeting

on Tuesday, October 21.

One of the orders of business was to induct the new members into the pack. The scout master "Branded" him on the bum with a Bobcat stamp (and baby powder)!

Treyton received his Bobcat last month, and is advancing through the ranks on his way to becoming a Wolf!

Leave it to Brettsky...

The other day at Trey's football practice, Brett found a big tattoo on the field. He was excited, and I figured I would eventually see it turn up on an arm or leg or belly sometime during the coming week.

The night before school picture day, he came down the hall and exclaimed, "Mom! Look what I did all by myself!" There was the "lovely" tattoo of a skull with roses for eyes plastered right across his cute little face.

I figured that since I wasn't planning on buyin the pictures anyway, and nothing had been said by the school about class pictures being taken, I would let him keep his beloved prize on his cheek. I got a call from his teacher at about 10:00am the next day wondering , "about the tattoo on Brett's face.....did I WANT that on in the picture?"

Come to find out, the reason no class pictures were being taken is because the school had deviated from it's usual practice of publishing only class pictures in the yearbook, and decided to publish individual school pictures of each child. !!!

I've decided the whole thing is quite comical, especially because little Brettsky is the LAST kid you'd think of wearing a huge skull tattoo! I'm interested to see how his pictures turn out....and wonder what the kids will say in years to come about Brett and his tattoo in the yearbook!

A visit from G-ma and G-pa

Gramma and Grampa Despain got to come out to Kansas for Treyton's 8th Birthday.

Thank Heaven For Grandparents!!!!

Things we did with Grampa and Gramma this week:

laughed

went for walks

caught bugs

played ball

told jokes

fixed our trampoline

stayed up late

made yummy treats

hiked

picniced

took them to church with us

roasted hotdogs and marshmallows

drew pictures

got nice big hugs

took them to see our school

popped poppers (fire crackers)

got Poison Ivey

What a week! Thankyou Mom and Dad.......hope you've recovered!!

Trey's Baptism

Treyton was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on September 20, 2008.

All his little friends were there to watch, and were so excited! They have all been friends since they were in diapers (actually, Trey was the only one of them born when we moved here). His bud, Carsen, gave him a journal, and he's been writing in it every night.

Treyton was so excited to open his new scriptures and case. And was especially excited that they had his name printed right on the covers! He set about reading his new Bible because he's already been reading the Book of Mormon, and thinks he should be just as far in the Bible! He also received a book about baptism a few weeks ago from his Grandma Stewart. He's been reading a little every night on hiss own accord! Adam and I didn't put him up to all this! His Grandpa Stewart sent him a letter and card, and a book to record info. about his baptism experience.

Trey and his Daddy have always shared a very close and special bond. It was neat that he could perform the baptism and confirmation.

It was such a special day. Trey was so happy on Saturday night, and excited to stand up in church to be sustained as a new member of the church on Sunday. He's such a cute boy! We are so happy he's ours!

Farewell to Summer....

It's so sad to see summer end! But it's so great to see the kids off to school in the morning! This summer was SO fun! Although it was much different than we had planned (what with our trip out to Utah and all), we wouldn't take back any of it!

The boys got good and toasted in the sun, despite mom's constant spraying with the sunscreen bottle. They just hate that! Thank heavens for an alternative to the old fashioned rubbing....it's much easier to chase them down, then spray them as they run away.

Treyton officially learned to swim this summer, and was so glad he could go off the diving board and swim to the side. Aunt Wendy's pool is a good proving ground for that sort of thing! Brett can "swim like a frog", as Trey describes it. He can swim all over, but not with his head above the water. Cameron (he should have come with "no fear, no tear" stamped on his back) doesn't care if he can swim or not. He just jumps in. I had to save him - no literally - save him from drowning twice this summer.

Speaking of swimming.....We miss the Olympics already! The closing ceremonies were just tonight, but it's so sad!! The boys really got into watching Michael Phelps race, and even enjoyed the gymnastics. Hopefully, they won't try too many things they saw....

"I....am Michael Phelps..."

Treyton joined a local Cub Scout troop a few weeks ago, and has his first Den Meeting this Tuesday! I'm so excited for him to start into scouting! I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know it will be fun! The troop is a community one, but our Primary President is one of the Den Mothers, so they meet in our ward building. Very handy! If he attended only through our ward, he would be the only boy. I'm glad he gets to be part of a large group with lots of support.

Cameron starts Pre-K tomorrow at the

Trinity United Methodist Church.

He's so excited!! He's been waiting to go to preschool forever.

He'll go from 12-3:30pm Monday-Thursday.


(Trinity United Methodist Church)

Little Brettsky LOVES Kindergarten!!! He has a cute little teacher, and is so excited to learn how to read! He loves laying out his clothes for the next day every night along with Trey, and getting up at 6:30am. Breakfast is not his favorite, but I usually stuff a few forkfulls of pancakes or whatever in his mouth between his questions of...whatever! His favorite part of the whole day is riding the bus because, he says, "It has NO seatbelts!"

So between the gym, Cam's preschool in Hutch, the boys' school in Buhler, scouts, practices, and etc....

It brings to mind an old bumper sticker my mom used to have:

"If a mother's place is in the home..why am I always in the car?"