Happy Halloween!!

So our neighborhood Halloween festivities were in our cul-de-sac this year, and it was fabulous!! Ansley was a flower and we made Austin a Thomas the Tank Engine costume. He was SUPER excited about the costume until he put it on, I think it was just a little hard to wear...........nevertheless here are some pictures of our night!!


Seriously Mom, did you really dress me up as a flower in a pot?

Austin in his homemade Thomas costume (side view)

Front view; one of the only times he was really excited about wearing it; I think it was awkward to wear so he only wore it for about half of the time. He trick-or-treated in just a warm coat :(

I don't know how this happened, but Austin asked Ansley for a hug, and she complied; I was just too close to catch it on film, but Grandma B's face in the background should give you a huge indication of how happy we were to see the hug!!!

The first shot of the neighborhood "crew"

Ansley is in the upper left hand part of the picture being held by our next door neighbor's daughter - Austin HATES big group pictures - look at that face!

The second picture of the whole group, this one includes parents and kids, but this was the sight in our cul-de-sac for most of the afternoon & night!!

When it came time to trick-or-treat Ansley got bundled up and Eric puller her in the wagon while Austin & Uncle Bunny went in Austin's play train.

Ansley is kicked back enjoying the "ride."

Austin's first solo trip to a front door; he did not quite "get" the whole say trick-or-treat thing, often when they opened the door he just stuck his hand in their candy bucket without saying anything and then turned around and left ............ OR he would sort through their candy to find the Whoppers, as that is what Eric had instructed him to do. Eric LOVES Whoppers and I think they are awful, so we never buy them, so Eric got Austin to help him indulge!

Thomas (Uncle Bunny) talking to our neighbor "James."

All in all, it was SO much fun, we suffered through rain for most of the afternoon and night, so all of these pictures are taken through a rain soaked lens ... and it was pretty cold ... but no one got too sick from eating candy! Happy Halloween!!

Snuggling

Hanging out with Dad; it's cold here so they piled on the blankets

DAD!! We caught you sleeping!!

Stolen!

One of my favorite "pun" Halloween costume ideas has been stolen! I have, on occasion, dressed up as an "illegal alien" for Halloween with and inmate costume and an alien mask; I think it is hilarious! Well.....Target has stolen my idea and now in an effort to be PC they are taking the costume off their shelves.........serves them right for stealing my good idea ;)

Still Wet; Still Flooding

You will have to work with me on my photo taking abilities; I am not a budding paparazzi ;)
This is our back yard "creek" after getting 4 inches of rain in 12 hours..........

This is it post-flood; nice "beaver" dam for us to clean up

Obviously my photo-taking abilities do not do this much rain justice, but to put it into words, this creek usually "flows" in a ran storm, and this month it has "run" with a vengeance!

Telecommunications Error!!

We have had internet issues since the "floods"

We went to the zoo and rode the train ;)

Ansley is pulling up our grass; I'm not happy about it but she is ;)

Austin posing as a meerkat

Wet

We are alive & fine ... but a little wet. With all of the floods in Atlanta, we only had some minor leaks in our basement that a little cement patch fixed ;) Should have seen me and the shop vac and 2 kids vacuuming up about a 1/2 inch of water in our basement....they thought it was puddle jumping time ;) They are minor leaks, but when you get 12 inches of rain in 24 hours, you get some leaks. At our house, we estimate that we had 24+ inches of rain in the 5 days of the storm.

We have no phone, internet, or cable, but otherwise we are fine and should be back in the technology world soon. My campus is closed due to no running water in our county so I have had the week off ;)

Hope the rest of you are dry!

Blueberries

Austin LOVES to help us cook, tonight we made blueberry muffins.........look at those teeth!! He looks like a prime candidate for a visit to the dentist for some major cavities ;)

He is so proud of himself

This picture does not do his fingers justice; they were so dirty!!

Hope you all had a happy grandparents day!!