La, La, La, La, La, La....

I, of course, have wanted the kids to match for Halloween every year.

They have been Dorothy and the Lion from Wizard of Oz, Howie Mandel and #3 Case Girl, Cowboy and Cowgirl, Minnie and Mickey Mouse....then last year we had Strawberry Shortcake and....Spiderman? When they were little I just picked their costumes for them...and so they matched. Last year they both requested their costumes...and even though they didn't coordinate....I made my peace and excepted it! I figured coordinating Halloween costume days were proably over!

But LOOK!

It's....

Smurfette!

AND...

Pappa Smurf!

Voila! We are back to coordinating! And it was THEIR idea!

Lawson REALLY wanted to be Smurfette and she talked Hudson into being Papa Smurf....by promosing him that he can be Tony Romo and she will be a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader! Pretty funny to her the dialogue of them coming to these terms. It was back and forth for several days!

They covered some serious ground in their "smurf-mobile!" Check the video clip below. We rigged their jeep to play the "Smurf" theme song...a dance mix version of the Smurf theme song no less! And Rob put in on a loop. So, it played overe and over while we trick or treated! What we do for our kids! They were thrilled!

Love the hats from the side!

At one point, Hudson had his arm around her in the jeep as they drove! So sweet!

These are good times!

A special shout out to Mimi for saving the day and making quick Smurfette dress and rushing it in the mail! The Smurfette costume from the store was AWFUL looking and Lawson had her heart SET on being Smurfette! Thanks, Mom!

The Smurf-Mobile

Let the carving begin...

Here goes our second annual Buie family pumpkin party extravaganza!

Hudson thought we should take scary face pictures to get started!

They are both pretty funny! I like the idea, Hudson!

Then Lawson thought we should hug the pumpkins. Another good idea?!

Now down to business!

Lovin that expressions!

Time to pick out the designs. Hudson picked out a scary face..and Lawson picked out this elaborate ghost silhoutte desgin that about killed her poor determined daddy!

The kids both carved for a second...then turned the project over to Rob and I...and went to playing in the pumpkin goop!

Ta Da! The finished products! (notice the tiny grass blades on the bottom of the ghost one! Rob persavered!)

Later that night...really a cool site in my fireplace for a few nights!

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Hudson's First Football Game

Hudson is playing football for the first time. It's flag football with the YMCA. They have been practicing for the past 2 weeks and today is the big first game!
And guess who is the QB baby! Hudson Buie! The coach ran drills to determine everyone's strengths before assigning positions. Hudson was not the fastest or the strongest...but he was very focused, understood the game, and was a great listner. So, he was assigned to QB. Which Rob and I thought was really cool...but he wants to be a running back so he can score! Grass is always greener, right?! (And yes, his hair DOES look a bit funny in the front...because he decided to impress his friends at the craft table at our community group meeting and cut the front of his hair. This the day after I just took him to Sportsclips and paid for his nice haircut. Sigh.)

Gettin' flagged up!

They have a good coach, who is really committed into whipping them into a good little team! He uses pretty big football terms though with them that crack me up....like "your pursuit angle is all wrong!" Sometimes the kids look at him like "are you talking to me? I'm 4 ya know!"

Here we go! They did pretty well for a first game! And they won! Not much cuter than hearing Hudson call "Down, Set, Hut!"

Way to go, Hud!

Good game Cowboys!

Fall Festival

We decided last minute this afternoon to stop by a neighborhood church's fall festival. It was quite impressive...with free pony rides and all! We should have gone earlier...there were bounce houses and games that we never got to! Hudson was so excited...this was his first time to ride a horse! Here are a few pics from today!

I love this pic! You can tell Hud is ready to bolt if that goat decides to attack!

Check out what Hudson learned to do today!

Pumpkin Patch (kind of)

The last 2 years we have gone out to this really cool and elaborate pumpkin patch in Flower Mound. It has about 100 photo opps, bounce houses, a hayride, concessions, a little train, etc. It's really cute...and it's free. But, its a bit of a jaut to drive there...kinda takes up half a day...and our weekend time goes so fast....

I saw this little pumpkin patch with a bounce house at a nursery close to our house...I mentioned to Rob we could go there this year...instead of the Flower Mound pumpkin patch. And he said "if it is good enough for you, it's good enough for me!" So, that was our plan. Simplify.

Unfortunately, we have had really warm weather on most Saturdays in October. So, we dug out some orange and put it on with our shorts and flip flops and off we went.

We hadn't been there too long before the kids figured out that this wasn't the pumpkin patch they had in mind! But, it sure got "pumpkin patch" checked off my to do list AND we still had a lot of time left in our day! We might have to do the more traditional route next year....or not! We'll see!

The kids decided to drag pumpkins over in front of the bounce house to "decorate" it. I mean what else do you do when your parents take you to a "hay ride-less" pumpkin patch!

We did find a few keepers!