Fall is coming to an end

I know there won't be to many warm fall days like today. As soon as the girls got home from school we spent the rest of the afternoon outside. We live for these kind of days! I love any pictures of the twins that show their interaction. As soon as I told Payge to come here so I could take her picture, Preslee quickly stepped in front of her so she couldn't move. Such a little stink, lolAs soon as she got Pres out of her way she was on a role. Maycie on her motor scooter. These have been an excellent purchase and well used!!! Don't you luv the boots and jeans?????So Preslee loves to ride her scooter even though it goes much slower than the big girls. I normally don't let the girls go out without their hair being done, but today was an exception. Yup, she's sporting a mullet. Didn't realize it until I looked at this picture, must get haircut:)Brilynn came up with a new "invention" She loved giving the girls rides with her scooter. Kids have it so ruff these days!Goofy little girl...and that hair!!!Where's Preslee???? Hiding because I want to take her picture!
I do love all 4 season's that we have but truely appreciated the days like we had today.

and this is why the girls luv their dad SO MUCHES!!!

Priceless:)

Boo!!!

Well after all said and done...this is what we have left from Halloween!!! Luv this holiday:) Saturday was a full day for us. We started off watching Brilynn play her last soccer game. We came home, got the costumes on and headed for a late lunch at Warren's. They were giving out free kids meals to kids who were in their costumes. Nothing makes halloween better than a FREE kid's meal! Next we headed off to the seat and treat. We decided to ditch the cars so we didn't have to worry about any one getting hurt with cars pulling in By this time it had started raining so we decided to head to the mall. After a LONG hour of trick or treating in slow steady lines, we called it quits and headed over to the girl's piano teacher's house. There they had to play their memorized halloween songs to get a large candy bar of thier choice. They each played their songs without mistakes and were very impressive. Great job Brilynn and Maycie. By this time it had stopped pouring rain and we were able to let the girls do some trick or treating. Preslee and Payge were both a little cold and wanted to be held. When asked if they wanted to get more candy or go to the car, their response, with no hesitation, was...GET MORE CANDY!!! Brilynn and Payge were the first to be done and Maycie and Preslee did about 15 more houses without them. Maycie still wanted to keep going but I made the executive decesion and chose to be finshed at 8:30. Next we were off to the Smith's house for our annual soup dinner. We look forward to this each year. The kids are all tired and high on sugar but we still enjoy our adult conversations. Thanks Mandy for hosting it and for the delicious rootbeer!!! Well until next year...Happy Halloween my friends:)

Halloween is a favorite holiday at the West house. We love celebrating it all month long and we are all sad when it's over. This year I was asked to help in Maycie's kindergarten class. We made witch potion and passed out rotten pumpkin teeth.

Cute trick or treat bucket.Somehow i got roped into going into 3 different classes and telling witch stories, doing magic tricks, and making witch potion. Next year there will be a price tag for that:)My sweet Pres...LOVED being a pirate. She wore the silly patch ALL NIGHT LONG!!! She even stuck her lip out and started to cry when she realized she had lost her little pirate earing while trick or treating. She was also in full character and loved saying, "Arrrrghhhhhh" Luv it:)
3 little girls were happy for halloween...

1 was not:(Atleast we got 1 group picture. Don't we all look so thrilled to be in our costumes????Maycie was embarrased because the neighbor boys were out playing football and she didn't want them to see her, especially the crazy drawings her mom put on her face. Don't these 2 melt your heart. Next time you see them, ask them what a pirate says...they'll gladly tell u!A typical look for Preslee...totally bugged by Payge!Our little vampiress!and our little skeleton witch!

Sorry no pics of John this year. He chose to postone his costume till next year!

Lil' Punkins

This was the first year the twins participated in carving pumpkins. They were interested for the first few minutes but quickly chose to watch a movie instead. Maycie wanted to try to clean out her pumpkin "all by herself" the slime didn't stop her:)John's all business when it comes to carving!!!Brilynn checking out her pumpkin after "I" cleaned it out for her.This was the little extra pumpkin that Payge picked up while we were at the patchPreslee was curios about the inside of the pumpkinsBrilynn insisted on taking the pictures this night since she didn't want to get her hands dirty.
Yup...I'm still immature...somethings never change:)Oh, see babe, you don't need any boys!!! You already have everything you need.Brilynn got the twins ready for bed while we finished carving the pumpkins. Then she made them be her models, as she said.The finished product!!!We decided to try to be a little more "daring" with our pumpkins this year. They turned out much better than expected.
Happy Carving Pumpkins to us!

Yahoooooooo...Payge is all better and oh so cute:)

We are so glad that Payge is back to her normal goofy self. The day after she started her antibiotics her neck started to scab and then the next day the scab started to come off. It was really fast. She does have scars left, but I am sure they will fade away fairly quickly.