Cub scout camp out

This weekend we all (Ellie and I included) went on a cub scout camp out with Logan's cub scout pack. For those of you unfamiliar with cub scouts the pack includes all the dens. The dens are for each grade. Some grades have 2 dens depending on how many scouts there are. Anyway, there were quite a few people there. (The pic above is just a few of the scouts- mostly Bears, which is what Logan is this year.)

We went to Ink's lake state park. Ink's lake is located just south of Lake Buchanan and is much smaller. I had heard good things about it and that it was very beautiful. It really was. It reminded me a lot of Canyon Lake where I grew up, except for all the huge outcroppings of pink rock. To the untrained eye this may appear to be granite (an igneous rock), however most of it is not. It's actually gneiss (pronounced "nice") which is a sedimentary rock. This basically just means that they were formed in entirely different ways. (I was a geology minor).

I must admit going there and seeing all of the beautiful rock formations made me long for the days at UT when we would go on field trips to look at rock outcroppings. It also made me realize just how much I had forgotten about it all. Thank goodness for the naturalist there to guide us on our tour.

They even had a little playground there right across from our camp site. Ellie's recently learned to "pump" herself on the swings. It's awesome. I have to admit that I hated pushing them on the swings and them learning to do it themselves has been fantastic!

For dinner we had BBQ. One of the cub scout's Dad is a BBQ caterer. He has a huge smoker on a trailer and made us quite a feast. It was delicious. We had a campfire around which the kids took turns telling jokes and doing little skits. Then we went back to our campsite and roasted marshmallows.

We had a great time and the weather was awesome. I have but one complaint. Next time I go camping I must have an air mattress or something. I have never been so uncomfortable in my life. I did very little sleeping as my sleeping bag was basically on top of a big rock!! Rookie mistake, I know. We actually got to bed pretty early. We were all asleep at about 8:30. The kids must have been pooped because they just laid right down and fell asleep. Thank goodness. You just don't realize how quiet it is outside and how much you can hear when people are talking in the next tent over. I would do it again. We will probably go again in the spring. Not sure where, but I recommend Ink's Lake to anyone. Even just for the day.

If you need a little pick me up...

Ryan Reynolds. Need I say more?

Luke and Leia

Logan made their costumes. He actually cut a hole in a piece of my fabric to make Ellie's skirt. I'm not sure why he's using a light sabre that he made from a paper towel roll? We have like 3 actual light sabres? I think maybe he wanted a green one. And yes, those are Ellie's tights he's wearing. At least he wanted to be Luke and not Leia!

Happy Halloween

We started the day out at our elementary school's fall fest. It was fun. They asked the kids to dress up if they wanted. I didn't want Ellie to wear her Ariel costume so that it wouldn't get messed up, so she wore her other costume that she got before Mom got her the mermaid one. That worked out well, so she got to wear both. I forgot to take pictures of her before we left the house, so these were all I had. She's a glitter fairy. We sprayed her hair with glitter.

Logan wore part of the costume he wore that night. But no make-up.
We had a great time last night. No matter what, I always feel like we're rushing to get ready. I don't think we took enough pics! We didn't get one all together! We sprayed both the kid's hair and I think they turned out great! I couldn't believe how well Ellie's did! Logan had me paint his face like a skull with a bloody crack in it. Pretty cool!




I was a witch, I guess. No hat though.

Anyway, we headed out and met up with a big group of boys Logan knows. We trick-or-treated with them. Poor Ellie was the only girl. I still had to walk with her all the way up to every door to get candy. I'm hoping that will end soon! A couple of people tried to give me candy! One guy told me I was too old though! Didn't Ellie's hair look good?

It was nice, not too cold. We went all the way around our block which is pretty big. Along the way we saw these people. All the adults dressed up like characters from the Wizard of Oz, all for 1 little Dorothy. Pretty cool, huh?

It was a great day and night. I'm so glad it wasn't a school night! No rushing to get to bed like in years past! They need to change it to where Halloween is always on a Saturday!!

Logan's sick day

Well, Logan was sick again! This time it was a reaction to his flu shot! (he has to get the shot since he has asthma, Ellie got the mist) It really pisses me off that I went to get Logan and Ellie vaccinated and it wound up making him miss school, which was the whole point of getting vaccinated, right?

About 24 hours after his shot he came down with a fever. It wasn't just like 99 and he was fine either. He was curled up on the couch with a blanket and a 101.5, feeling like crap. It really sucks if you ask me. Hopefully, this will prevent him from getting the "regular" flu again this year at least.

Anyway, yesterday was our big Fall Fest at the preschool and I didn't want to miss it, so Stuart stayed home with him. When I got home this is what I found.

Obviously he watched a lot of sponge bob yesterday! Thank goodness he's doing better today. He was really worried that he would miss our elementary school's carnival today and trick-or-treating tonight! I'm going to have to seriously reconsider giving him the shot next year. Or at least time it better, so he's not sick for any events or to miss school.

Cute Halloween pics!

We bought some spider web and spiders. They were originally going to go outside in the trees, but when I got the spiders home I realized that they weren't made for outdoors. They are feathered and have glittery legs! So while the kid's were at school Tuesday, I decorated a little bit!

Of course I had to make 1 a boy and 1 a girl. Notice the little bow? Cute, huh?


Mom came by in the afternoon yesterday and had bought Ellie an Ariel costume. She's wanted one for about 2 years. I know, I'm a mean mom. It's really cute on her though!! Look how it hugs her little tush! Love it! So I guess this will be her Halloween costume. It's OK, we didn't have anything elaborate planned.



I can't believe Halloween is tomorrow!! Aaahhh! That means Thanksgiving is right around the corner!!!!!!!!! That's scarier than anything I'll see on Halloween!

Logan's book report

Logan had to do a book report this week which included a special project. He had to choose between making a crossword puzzle, drawing a new book cover for his book (which I thought he should do, duh?) and making puppets and putting on a puppet show about his book. He chose the last one, puppets! So we made some puppets.

First he tried to just draw them on the socks. It didn't turn out so well. I didn't want to waste more socks, so we just turned them inside out! You can kind of see the marker thru the sock in some places. Ooops. We got out my fabric and made clothes and bought yarn for hair. We tried to make them look as much like the picture as possible. We even made Junie a crown!

Of course we waited until the night before to do it. But they turned out really cute! In fact his teacher liked them so much, she had him take them to the library and put them on display! This class project was actually fun! I do need to start trying to teach him not to procrastinate though. I wonder where he gets that from?