Green Lantern

It is homecoming week in Sanford this week. Party on!! The school does a parade for homecoming and this year the theme was Super Heros. The whole school participates in the parade, but I think once you hit junior high, it kind of isn't cool to be in the parade and I think a lot of kids ditch. Anyway, the first grade dressed up as the Green Lantern.

Fall finally hit Colorado this year and today the high for the day was 53. Right before the parade started it started raining and got really windy, not ideal parade conditions. Needless to say the parade was cut short, but was still fun. Hey, who doesn't love a parade. Here is McCray shivering, don't ask me wear his jacket is.
This is before McCray realized it was cold. He makes an awesome Green Lantern.

Mrs. Forester and Mrs. Cindy were awesome and carried this sign in the blustery wind and rain. What some students won't do for their students, amazing!!

Picking the Pumpkins

The grandkids go and help grandma Pixie pick the pumpkins from her garden. This year there were pumpkins o' plenty. It was really fun to have Chera and Marshall this year and McCray has already picked out the perfect one to carve.

Here are all the pumpkins. We wanted to get all the grandkids, but Marshall was done taking pictures.
Maggie was able to carry the little ones with some help from Chera and her dog Maci.

Cahl helped too. Looks like Maci liked to help everyone!!

Marshall supervised the whole operation. He was really cute, from the other side of the pumpkins, you could barely see him. I love his facial expressions!! The pumpkins got pretty big this year.

Here is McCray and all his muscles!! He carried the big ones. He said the best part of picking pumpkins is cutting them off the vine with a knife, go figure!! Can't wait to see them all carved!!

Labor Day Camping

Every year we go camping with the Larsen side for Labor Day weekend. One day everyone takes a four-wheeler ride and goes fishing. I have yet to go because I have either stayed behind with a napping baby or pregnant. I don't know why, but when I am prego, I get super motion sick and riding the four wheeler makes me super sick. So, anyway, here are the pics from this year's fishing. Maggie and I stayed behind and took a much needed nap and awesome hike/walk.

Everyone gearing up for the rain.

The Boys.

Gotta love my handsome fisher men. McCray caught 3 fish and threw them back. He said that they were too little to eat and would be nuttin' but bones!

Visits from mice

In the 5 years that we have lived here, we have NEVER has a mouse in our house. I DO NOT do mice, I hate them. Sometimes I have had nightmares about them crawling on me while I am sleeping. But for some reason or another, they decided to visit us this summer, AWESOME!! We seriously killed like 20 mice, no joke. All in traps and yes, I did have to clean some of them up! We finally figured out that they were coming in through our dryer vent and have taken care of it and in like 3 weeks, no mice!!(knock on wood) This mouse I found in our dryer. I first saw dried blood on the drum of our dryer and thought, Oh great, how did I miss chocolate in the pocket, then I pulled out the rest and found this little guy,

yes, he is dead, still clinging to McCray's pajama pant legs. I dried him in the dryer, that's what they get, don't mess with me!!

First Day of First Grade

The first day of school for McCray was August 22nd. Don't get mad because this is like 8 weeks later, but better late than never. Yes, I did cry and yes Logan did make fun of me. I did cry the first day of Kindergarten, and I did cry the first day of First grade. It just makes me sad to have him gone for 8 hours 4 days a week. He is just growing so fast, I can't believe it. McCray is so smart and loves school, I am so proud of him and all that he has done in school. Parent teacher conferences are super short and easy because of the great boy that he is!! Awesome job Bubba!!

Just for fun, I thought I would post this and to show how much he has grown! Here is the first day of Kindergarten showing off his big Kindergarten muscles!!

First day of First Grade.