50's Day At Forest Ridge

November 14th was the kids annual school sing-along, it was 50's Day at Forest Ridge. All the grades meet in the gym to dance and sing songs from the 50's. I sewed Allison a Poodle Skirt and Alex wore a white shirt with rolled up blue jeans. They love it every year, even all the teachers get into the action and dance an sing along with the kids. It's real cute.

Alex in his groovy 50's attire. (Not much of a change, sad to say)

Morgan and Allison in their Poodle Skirts.

Trip to Marble Falls

November 1st we headed to Bill and Linda's to take their minivan back. Explanation on why we had the minivan: Bill was coming home from Dallas one evening and had something blew up in his engine, and since his truck is a Diesel, it took 2 weeks to fix, apparently they had to take the entire engine apart and put it back together. Thank goodness they were so generous to let us borrow their van, so we didn't have to spend more money renting a car. While we were there visiting, Allison and I had the opportunity to go into Marble Falls and see some friends of ours, Laurie and her two girls, Anna and Ellie. Allison and Anna are in the same grade and were best friends before we moved. It was so wonderful to see them. We went out to the Strawberry Farm/Pumpkin Patch and looked at all the pumpkins, went on a hayride and did the Texas Maze (a hayfield with city's in Texas mapped out in it, you have to find the city's and get a punch, at the end, after getting all the punches, then you get a free coke). The girls had a blast! After spending the day in Marble Falls, Allison and I headed back to the lake so we could join the family for dinner in Johnson City, the Silver K Cafe, which was not a "Cafe", it is a really really nice restaurant. We had a great time. I think the kids enjoyed watching the goldfish located outside the restaurant more than anything, they still talk about those goldfish.

Anna, Allison and Ellie at the Pumpkin Patch

Ellie, Allison and Anna on the Hayride

The girls getting their punches in the Texas Maze.

The goldfish outside the Silver K Cafe in Johnson City

Halloween 2008

Halloween was fun this year, we carved our pumpkins a couple of days before Halloween so they would not rot, something about the humidity in College Station doesn't allow the pumpkins to stay pretty for long. Allison was a witch this year and Alex was Anakin Skywalker. Alex was hilarious, that's all he talked about was being a Star Wars character and it could only be Anakin, which for some of my blog viewers becomes Darth Vader, we just shake our heads at him sometimes. Allison just loved being a witch, a good witch not a bad one, unless Alex came around then she turned into a bad witch. Don't blame her sometimes.
Halloween falling on a Friday was awesome, that only means one thing, we did not have to worry about what time to be in bed. It was so relaxing not to stress about bedtime. We went trick or treating at Amanda and Kealy Green's house, they currently live in a neighborhood filled with kids, so it was perfect. Amanda fixed swamp creature punch, caramel apples and hamburgers for the kids. We had a blast!

Pumpkin Carving

Very serious about Pumpkin Carving.
Allison drawing her pumpkin face.

Finished products on display.

Halloween

Before we went Trick or Treating
Our Group

Morgan, Allison, Abby and Alex with their caramel apples.

Renaissance Festival - October 28th

Allison's class took a trip to the Renaissance Festival outside of Magnolia. It was an experience to say the least. I really did not like it and it was really expensive. We happen to be there on a special day designated to school children. Well they said it was a "toned" down day, but the people dressed in costume were still very strange. It was an experience, enough said. Allison pretty much felt the same way I did. She did not say much except that she really did not want to go back.

The Jousting

The Big Swing, Allison's favorite thing to do. I agreed, it was awesome. Allison is 3rd from the right.

The elephant ride. Allison is the second one.

Here we are. Covered in powdered sugar.