Feelin' Groovy

This week has been Red Ribbon Week at Cody and Jackson's school. It's a special week recognized around the country promoting drug prevention. And each day has had a different theme so the kids can dress up a little bit. For example, Monday was "Take a Stand for a Drug Free Land" and they wore red, white and blue. Tuesday was "Team Up Against Drugs" and they all wore sports team jerseys.

Today was "Peace, Love and Say No to Drugs." I know, it's a little weird. LOL But the boys were SO excited to dress up like hippies. They've been looking forward to it all week! We found these great tie-dye shirts at Walmart for $3, and Jacks picked up an "Insta-Hippy" kit at the Halloween store.

Here's Groovy Jacks...

I think he got rapper and hippie confused. LOL

But here's a peace-lovin' pose!

And Cody! He got a couple of beaded peace-sign necklaces, but he was jealous of Jackson's glasses so he dragged these out of our costume box. They're kinda Elton John-esque, circa Crocodile Rock, right? They totally work.

Peace, baby!

Hope they had a totally groovy day!

A New Twist to our Halloween Decorations

Cody has started recognizing sight words, and so we have been labeling items around the house to add to his repertoire. Well, he took matters into his own hands this week and put up a few labels of his own. :)

State Fair

One of our favorite fall activities in Dallas is hitting the State Fair. We headed over there yesterday afternoon after we picked the boys up from school.

Of course, we stopped to visit with Big Tex.

And we ate a bunch of sinful snacks, like funnel cake and dipped cheesecake.

Then we went over to the car show. Here's Cody with one of the actual Bumblebee cars used in the Transformers movie!

And here is Anthony, driving his dream car. Well, one of them anyway.

I think Luke's favorite part was the cotton candy.

The boys had a great time with all the farm vehicles.

Luke and Daddy!

It was a really fun afternoon, and we're already looking forward to next year!

Autumn at the Arboretum

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that we decided to head over to the Arboretum to check out all their Fall colors and, of course...PUMPKINS!!!

Here's a few shots of Jackson.

Luke posed for a few, too.

He wanted to see over the fence, so he used a pumpkin as a step-stool.

Cody loved posing with his brothers AND Corduroy (see previous post).

We saw these amazing houses made entirely out of pumpkins!

I took about 4 kajillion pics of all 3 of my boys together, and we actually came away with a bunch of good ones! Here are my favorites.

Cody and Luke took a break on this comfy bench.

The boys and I posed on the bridge.

Luke and Daddy (unfortunately, staring into the sun).

Me and my boys.

And here at the end, a few funny ones. Here are the boys holding up the roof of this arbor. Look at those muscles!

And finally, the best outtake of the day. I wanted to use it as our new blog header with the subtitle, "1 out of 3 is normal, and that ain't bad." LOL

Fall is here!

Corduroy

Dear Class,

It was so much fun visiting Cody and his family this weekend. We did a lot of exciting things.

On Saturday morning, we went to a special car show called Cars and Coffee. We saw amazing cars like Ferraris and Lamborghinis. We also checked out this cool orange Lotus.

I even got a chance to work on the engine of this awesome Corvette.

After lunch, we went to Cody's big brother's baseball game. They sure throw the ball far, and they are good at catching!

Then we had a birthday party for Cody's Aunt Tina. We made her a delicious chocolate cake with M&M's on top. I led everyone in singing "Happy Birthday" and we all helped Tina blow out her candles.

On Sunday, we went to the Arboretum. There were about a million pumpkins there!

While we were walking around enjoying all the beautiful Fall plants and flowers, a giant frog tried to eat me! I was pretty scared, but luckily, Cody was there to save me. Whew! What a relief!

Later on, Cody and I almost got lost in a hay maze, and we also saw some houses made all out of pumpkins. It was lots of fun!

Cody and his family took really good care of me and I had a great time with them.

Love,

Corduroy

(Corduroy is Cody's Kindergarten class bear. The students each get a turn to bring him home over the weekend and journal about his adventures. I just transcribed our entry from Corduroy's journal so we could have a record for ourselves.

Cody LOVES bears, of course, so he has had his eye on Corduroy since the first day of school. He was SO excited on Friday when his teacher told him there was a surprise waiting in his backpack. And Cody had so much fun taking Corduroy with him EVERYWHERE this weekend. It's a really fun project.

If you want to take a look at Jackson's weekend with Corduroy from 3 years ago, click HERE. )