This years candy stash......

Chris and Laurie are sleeping over at friends this year so I don't have pictures of them or their stash from trick or treating - in fact Chris is at a party so isn't going trick or treating at all....but here are the pictures of the younger three! When we got home we sorted out all the gum and got rid of that (not allowed in this house) and then threw everything into one big box. Chips and juice boxes are for school. Candy is shared out amongst them and LIMITED for a few days and then I put some away in the freezer for decorating cookies/ gingerbread houses and the rest gets put in the garbage. Some gets sent to the UK......some is used for family movie nights/ games nights.

What do you do with yours? With 5 children we tend to get a lot - Laurence will be out for hours and will come home with a crazy amount :( they get carried away. We didn't stay out long tonight - not as long as last year.

Ok I'm sleepy now finally...Lloyd is watching Ghostbusters with Sam who is still awake amazingly....weird because he didn't have much candy at all - we didn't let him have hardly any because it was evening - Sam doesn't do well with candy so we limit it after a certain time - he can have some in the morning! But still, he's excited because of the fun of the day :) He's enjoying the movie too :) I remember going to see this movie - the teachers were on strike and my WHOLE class packed the cinema out and the staff at the cinema kept coming to tell us off and it was so much fun! OMG I remember it like it was yesterday :) I remember planning that in French class.......in the language lab!!! Louise????? Do you remember that????

Goodnight everyone - I hope you had a wonderful Halloween 2008!!!!!! Didn't it come around again so fast?????

Trick or Treating at the Mall 2008!!!!

And Lloyd dressed up as a.....Funeral Director ;)

Hahahahahaha ;)

Lloyd bought this coat several weeks ago...I think they saw him coming....actually it doesn't look too bad in these pictures but looks can be deceiving lol! Most of the time I think it just looks out of place and he looks like a funeral director - so maybe thats why he looks ok out on Halloween at the mall hahahahahaha!!! I think he looks gorgeous in his suits....its just the coat I don't like....but he likes it and thats what matters....he wears it t work and downtown.....and I tease him about it if he wears it around me.....I just tell him he should be walking in front of a hearse..... ;)

Edwards relative??????

This guy was outside a store at the mall tonight and I thought it was a cute way to get people to give blood so I snapped a picture ;)

Happy Halloween :)

Gggggrrrr

I have made and thrown away 14 Edward Cullen ATC's....I finally have two to send off - today is the last day to send them. I am not happy with them but they will have to do. I can't be bothered to make any more - I am moving on!

Is it any wonder my Daughter has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is a perfectionist?????????? ;) Ha!!!

Why did the chicken cross the road?

*original author unknown -

SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

My Little Dirtbike Rider...

Sams Halloween costume 2008......

Apple Bobbing

On Wednesday Abigails friend came back after school and we had lots of Halloween treats and did crafts and games. One of the games was 'apple bobbing. The children took it in turns to bob for apples (in a clean bowl of water for all you germaphobes lol) .

After supper we then took Abigail and her friend into town to a party at the library called the 'Monster Bash'. I bought the tickets for this in August!!!! I remember when I bought them, that the party seemed so far away - I can't believe how fast it arrived!! They had so much fun, made a lollipop ghost, had three stories, played with a parachute, got treat bags, made spiders........fun fun fun!!

Our squirrel.......getting cheekier ;)

Our little squirrel friend is getting braver - the workmen keep having to chase it out of their trucks now and it spends its days on the porch getting the bird nuts and seeds :)

Very cute!!!! :)

(EDITED TO ADD) I don't know how anyone can be TORN as to their feelings towards these CUTE little critters lol....they're so smart and sweet and funny and cheeky....

Ok just HAD to add this after reading a certain something froma certain someone HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Wednesdays sunset.....

If only.....

Grayson watching our squirrel through the window......he would LOVE to catch it......YUM :) but there is no way I'd let him :)

We enjoyed watching the squirrel munching the bird nuts and seeds on the porch though!

Sams Megatron!

Sam built this Megatron Transformer all by himself out of his bricks a couple of days ago and I was soooooo impressed that I just HAD to take a picture :) He has been building Transformers for a while now - he makes Bumblebee and Megatron and says they are him and Daddy and he plays with them for ages.........