The Four Blevins

This was Hudson's first year to really go trick or treating.  He lasted for 4 or 5 houses and didn't really care anymore, so I took him to the car and let Brian and Gammy finish up with Reed.  Here is our Batman and Nemo (Hudson was supposed to be Robin, but the costume didn't get here in time - I was BUMMED!)

At their first house - Hudson was trying to walk right in...

Hudson is feeling much better and we've had a fun couple of days at our house.  Mimi came over to watch Hudson while I went to the dentist Thursday morning and she brought some paper bags for the boys.  Reed loves any sort of "gift",  so he was super excited to open it...

What were these bags full of, you ask?  Halloween candy. Reed's even included a giant gummy foot with "crunchy candy bones" (yes, the package says that.  Ewwww.)

Hudson was also a fan - you can see his "Oooooooo" face he's making at all the candy...

"Look Mom!"

Reed wanted to tell Mimi thank you... Yes, Mimi, thank you so very much.  A giant pile of candy is just what we needed.  :)

Moving on, next week is Red Ribbon Week at Reed's school and Friday is "School Spirit Day".  He doesn't have any pirate shirts, so I just knew I had to make one!  I think it turned out really cute (sorry the picture is turned).

And lastly, the boys were playing yesterday evening and I don't know how these next few pictures happened, but I wasn't surprised when I saw it. It was funny, though. :)  Yes, it's Brian, our coffee table and the boys hanging on for dear  life.

But these, well, these are my favorites...

Cami had free tickets to the circus on Friday and invited us to go along.  We gladly took her up on it! Reed had been to the circus when he was three or so, but didn't seem so jazzed with it.  This time he really enjoyed it.  I only had my little camera and the flash wouldn't get any of the circus acts down on the floor, so you'll just have to live with pictures of cute kids. Here are some pictures from the night (sadly out of order and I can't move them... grrr)-

Reed and Em holding hands on the way to the car - SO sweet!

What is a circus without cotton candy?

The kids checking out all the animals before the show started...

Reed: "Guess what? I have a girlfriend."

Me:  "You do? What is her name?"

R: "Destiny.  But something weird happened.  She broke up with me."

M: "What?" 

R: "I asked if a marker was hers and she said 'Reed, I'm breaking up with you.' "

M: "Really..."

R: "But now she's my girlfriend again.  Actually I have 3 girlfriends.  Jenna and Maddie are my other ones."

M: "What?"

R: "Well actually there are four... Zoe, too."

M: "Wow, that's a LOT of girlfriends."

R: "Well, I guess I'll have to marry one and then I'll only have 3 girlfriends."  

Wow.  That conversation went downhill fast.

Brian and I made a deal with Reed that if he stayed on target at school every day for 6 weeks, he would get a reward.  I decided to take him to Six Flags - only because we had season passes.  (I asked for season passes from my parents for Christmas this year.  My mom went ahead and bought them because we got to go for the rest of 2009 also.)  So today after church, we headed to Arlington with a stop at Subway to eat (per his request).  The weather was awesome and I let him have total control over what we did.  Reed drove the vintage cars and did awesome!  He giggled the whole time.

Last night, we had an interesting time at the Blevins house.  Reed had a remote control airplane that he has been asking us to put together for a while.  We finally took it out of the box last night and DadDad took some time to put it together.  We took it outside to fly and after the third time of it ramming straight into the ground, Brian decided to throw it upwards to get it going...and it got stuck in a tree.  So DadDad tried to get it out with a broom... which ended up also stuck in the tree.  At this point, we are all laughing so hard, I had to run in and get the camera. (P.S. Small camera flash at dusk = poor pic quality - sorry!)  Next came the lasso - Yep... the lasso also got stuck.  Here's the picture - yellow plane on top, broom in the middle, lasso on the bottom-

Now, what?  I only have one broom left and I kinda liked it, so...  Brian's idea was to get the backhoe.  Yes, the backhoe.  How else do you get a toy plane out of a tree?  So DadDad got in the bucket and Brian lifted him up  to retrieve our items.

Looks safe, right?

I guess he decided to do a little cleaning while he was up there. :)

Just another Sunday night at our house.