Best Pals at the Boo at the Zoo

Tonight Kevin and I took Peyton and Logan to the Boo at the Zoo.  Peyton, the last couple of years, loved this event.   But he enjoyed it much more when he learned that Logan was tagging along.  The boys had a blast!

This Weeks School Work

Zack's Health Report Card

Yesterday I brought Zack to get his yearly shots and checkup.  Because he is almost the ripe age of 8 years, our vet strongly encouraged us to do a blood test to check for kidney and liver disease.  She didn't have to ask twice.  We got our report card today and according to Zack's vet,  our puppy is a little overweight by a pound and cholesterol is slightly up but still in normal range (thanks Peyton)  :)   ...............but overall he is in excellent health.  Yayyy Zack!   Hope you have many, many more years of an excellent health report card. 

A Halloween Play Date

Today Heather, Chloe and Charlotte invited some friends over to their house for a Halloween play date.  It was nice seeing everyone again.  Now that the kids are in school, it is hard to get together.   Peyton's little pal Logan was there, but totally was not in the mood for me and my camera!  :)  So I have to wait until next time I guess!

School Open House

Tonight was open house for the parents at Peyton's school.  We had a chance see the classroom again, talk to the teachers and to see all the artwork from the kids.   They even had a video playing of the kid's doing their art and music activities, which was really nice ....well at first.  Kevin and I thought for a while that they didn't get a shot of Peyton, and soon learned that they took the video the week we were on our camping trip.  Of course!!  But then at the very end of the video, there was a clip of my sweet boy doing his artwork.  Kevin and I laughed because they must of realized that Peyton was not in the video anywhere, so they took a quick shot of him coloring.  Too funny! As we were leaving, the teachers had a nice little artwork for us that the kids did.  Really cute!

Pick-a-Pumpkin Time

This is my favorite time of the year!  I l.o.v.e Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Especially this year.  I am so excited that Peyton is so excited about the upcoming holidays.  And yes, Peyton's Christmas gifts from Santa has already been ordered, shipped and stored away waiting to be wrapped.   I have my Christmas decoration on standby.  I have Santa's cookies plate and mug cleaned and ready to be used.  Can you tell I am excited?  ;0)  And the most exciting part of this holiday season....WE ARE SPENDING THANKSGIVING IN DISNEY WORLD!!  WOW!!  We are going with Nanny, Mike and his nephews, Cullen and Cody.  Of course I will miss my whole family on Thanksgiving, but its Disney World!!  Can't pass up this opportunity.   We told Peyton where are going but he is confused with the whole thing.  The last time he was at Disney World was when he was 10 months old, so he has no memory of it.  I tried explaining to him that it is where Micky Mouse and Minny Mouse lives.  He gets excited when I tell him that but I still do not think he fully understands. 

Today we met up with Becca, Logan, Brenna, Erin, Zoe and Leah to pick out some pumpkins.  My boy did such a great job with his picking.  I love all our pumpkins we picked out together.  The kids was also willing to sit still long enough for pictures.  Amazing!!  And some of the pictures are from Becca.  Thank goodness she took some.  It is nice to be in a picture or two!  Ha!  (Thanks Becca!)  When we got home, we had Daddy get the pumpkins out of the car to put out front.   Looks good! Let the memories begin!

Helping a Friend

My friend Becca asked if we could watch the kiddos so that her and her hubby could have a couple of hours out.  Of course, I said yes.  Every couple needs time away from the kids plus it is always fun to have Logan and Brenna over.  And Peyton, of course, was super excited to have his little buddy over for pizza and video games.  They played every second of the evening while poor little Brenna wasn't  feel her best.   But she was totally happy sitting on Kevin's lap the whole time.  Wanted nothing to do with me but loved Kevin!  Ha!  :) 

A Cars Birthday Party

Today Peyton was invited to Leland and Cullen's 4th Birthday Party.  The twins had a Cars theme and you can guess who was really excited about that!  :)   They had a Cars bouncer and slide which was really huge.  That may be something we will consider for Peyton's birthday....well, if the weather corporates that is!   And Cars cupcakes with Cars rings.  It was funny that while they were singing Happy Birthday, Peyton was eyeing a specific blue cupcake (which he managed to grab) that he wanted.   It was fun to watch!  Ha!

Kevin and I got to meet a lot of Peyton's classmates and their parents.  That was really nice and even connected with a mom, Erin and her little girl Zoe who just moved to New Orleans from Washington D.C.   We all ( Becca, Erin and I) are planning  a pumpkin patch day with all the kids.  That should be nice!