Christmas Lights

We did a 3K nighttime holiday walk through one of our local parks Tuesday. The park was decorated with holiday nights everywhere. It is nice to walk and see the lights slowly instead of driving through the park and we all got some exercise. I posted 2 pictures I took so everyone can enjoy all their hard work. It is hard to believe Christmas is almost here. Where did the time go?

Come to the Table

We had the best time at a letterboxing gathering at Table Rock State Park Saturday. Thanks for dtandfambly and the J Walkers for putting the gathering together. We saw some friends and met some new ones. We were able to put names with faces. Overall, we had a blast.


The leaves appeared to be at their peak. They are gorgeous! The weather was in the high 60s with no rain.

Here is a shot of one of the fabulous trees.

We found lots of letterboxes. Here Jordan and I are stamping in. There were tons of letterboxes at Table Rock. We were unable to find them all but that gives us a great excuse to visit again. We have been letterboxing for almost a year now and we found our 100th letterbox Saturday!

The trees, mountain and reflection off the water were beautiful!
Here is Jordan carrying our letterboxing supplies and Penny is peeping out of the bag. Penny is a webkinz that is traveling around the country letterboxing with different families. She is from NY and she visiting us this month.

Corn Maze

We visited a giant corn maze Sunday. Jordan had earned his ticket to get in from completing a summer reading program at the library. This corn maze had a pirate theme. It was in the shape of a pirate ship at sea. Every group had a flag. If we got lost, we were instructed to wave our flag and someone would help us. Chris asked them how they made this amazing corn maze. They said a GPS and a tractor. It took us about 1 and 1/2 hours to get through the maze. Luckily we never had to wave our flag. The stuffed pig on Chris' shoulder is Hunter's class webkinz, Spoink. He came home with Hunter this weekend. Hunter had to write in Spoink's journal about his adventures this weekend.

A view of a small portion of the maze

Happy Halloween!!

We had a great Halloween. Hunter dressed up as vampire complete with pale white face, black around his eyes, blood dripping from his mouth and black hair. It was strange seeing him with black hair. I'm sure that is how he will look as he gets older. (Just like Chris) Jordan was Ron Weasley from Harry Potter. This was a very easy costume since he already looks like Ron Weasley. All he needed was his robe, wand and a British accent. (which he is very good at doing)



We met up with some of our neighbors who had a hayride so the kids could trick or treat in style. This was great and lots of fun! In this picture is Ellery (a Hippy), Jordan (AKA Ron) and Hunter (who looks like death warmed over). Someone thought Ellery was Cher. She wanted to know who "Sheer" was. It was one of those moments that makes you feel very old.


Later on, Stone joined us which delighted Jordan. Stone was a Jedi Knight. After several houses, Jordan and Stone were happy just eating candy and talking in the back of the car while the other kids tried to hit as many houses as humanly possible. They are so much alike.


One of the houses we went to was completely decked out of Halloween. It was complete with a ghostly graveyard, walk through inflatable house and inflatable hearse with a body that would rise up out of a coffin every few minutes. They even had the inside of their house decorated from ceiling to floor.


I included this picture so you can see Hunter's full costume. He had on a cape but you can not tell from the picture. He is at the door and Jordan is on the far right hand side of the picture trying to catch up with him. (as always, you can click on the picture to make it larger.)

We hope everyone had a fun filled Halloween!

October Sunset

Jordan looked out of the window today and said "Mom, look at the sunset." It was beautiful. We hurried outside to take pictures. Jordan wanted to put the pictures on the blog.

This is the picture Jordan took of the sunset

This is my picture of the sunset

It's Pumpkin Time

Hunter and Jordan are so excited about Halloween. Who can blame them? Free candy is a child's dream come true. They love carving a pumpkin. There was much debate about what to carve. In the end, Jordan picked out one side and Hunter picked out the other. They even had to share their pumpkin.

Hunter and Jordan scooping out the pumpkin guts

Soccer Season Begins

Hunter's soccer team is Crush this year. They had their first game today. Hunter was the goalie. It was a great game and the kids had a lot of fun.


This picture was taken after the game. He was enjoying his drink. Jordan did not want to play soccer this year. He wants to take karate. We are planing on starting karate next month.

Hunter's Birthday Party

Hunter had a sleepover birthday party. 3 boys slept over last night. They played football, watched movies, ate pizza, played board games, and played playstation until about 1 am. I took this picture this morning. As you can see, they are a little tired. Hunter's real birthday is Monday so I'm sure that the party will continue.

My picture was chosen!!!!

I don't know if anyone remembers this picture from February. I took it at the battery in Charleston during the weekend of the wildlife expo. Well, I submitted this photo along with two others to be used for a calender for atlas quest (the letterboxing website). There were about 500 photos submitted and this photo was chosen!! It was chosen for March in the sunset calender edition. Click on the link to see the calender and my picture (of course). Our trail name is Box Hunters. Well, I'm very excited.

1st Day of School

Today is Hunter and Jordan's first day of school. They were both excited about a new school year. Hunter is now a third grader. He knows his teacher from last year so we all hope this will make things easier. Jordan is in 1st grade. This morning he wanted to know if first grade was hard. I told him he was going to learn fun stuff like how to read and math. The boys refer to the first day of school as rule day. I think that is so fitting.

The boys walking to get in the car.