All About the Argyles

Happy Halloween everyone!!! Quote for the day: Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. — Judith Olney Every year my grandfather's independent living center sponsors a really fun Halloween party. It is so much fun and the residents that live there love to see the kids. They all buy tons of candy and then sit in chairs/wheelchairs in the dining room and pass it out to the trick or treaters. They put together an awesome haunted house, and provide hotdogs,punch, and cookies for atleast 100 kids. This year they had a phenomenal balloon artist. He was the best one I have ever seen! Check out this spider he made for Reagan! They also have a costume contest: Tanner was Nacho Libre and Brady was Ramses (thankyou to the amazingly talented Sarah!!!) Kiki and Reagan went as farmers to Zeus's cow. We made "utters" and he wore a cowbell. They carried milk buckets and wore overalls and John Deere hats. The farmers ...

What are the odds of a wasp flying into the open window of a moving car and stinging an innocent person on the eyelid? I would like to know because that is just what happened to our poor Kiki last Monday night. Here is the proof. If I didn't see it for myself I would not have believed it.

Thanks Natalie. I was having a crummy morning. This made me smile. Then I realized how much worse it will be if we get a Democrat in the oval office! I'm not smiling anymore. :O(

We celebrated Fall by going to Cooper's annual Fall Festival and it was AMAZING! Pretty much everything was free. We were there for 2 hours and didn't even do everything we wanted too. It was so much fun!, All the kids got a caricature drawing. Here is Tanner's One of many bounce houses. Reagan wins at the cake/cookie walk! Pin the patch on the pirate Jensen models the face painting with "I love twilight" on her cheek, have I mentioned that she is twilight obsessed? pony rides for the little kids a petting zoo pumpkin decorating Tanner models his "goatee" and tasted sushi for the first time. He liked it! It was a great way to celebrate the arrival of Fall for All!!!! I will try to post about it ahead of time next year so that you guys can go too! It is totally open to the community (you don't have to be a cooper fitness member) and free. A gauranteed good time for the fam!!!

On Friday our friends, the Bassis, came over and we all went to the big Prosper game against Celina. Here is Alexis with their cute little baby girl Susie. Isn't she adorable? The rivalry between Prosper vs. Celina is a little like TEXAS -OU weekend in our small town. Everybody everywhere in the entire town is wearing their green in anticipation of the big night. Here are Brent and Tanner all decked out in their Prosper Eagle-wear. Celina has beat us for the last 25 years. But that streak is over! The final score was 33-7, PROSPER EAGLES! There's nothing like Texas High School Football!!!!!

I finished this in two days. She is a really gifted writer. The prose were beautiful. Although her situation seems tragic early on - her husband is killed and leaves her a single mother of four young children- she triumphs over hardship, finds out what she is really made of, and then decides to use her strength to help others as a Chaplain to search and rescue missions in Maine. Good Read.