Happy Halloween!!

Mario & Luigi
The Super Mario Brothers
These costumes were a HIT!!
Almost every house we went to, the boys were told how great they looked. We even had a teenage girl take a picture of them, she loved it so much! Guess I did well this year!

Blogger Q's?

Hopefully, someone who reads this, and blogs as well can help me. I'm technologically challenged...

1. I'm looking at my blog, without being logged in, and see these "tool" symbols on the right side of my blog. They are by my profile, friends and family etc... Why is this?
2. I know I haven't been updating my blog much lately, but I have friends that have an "updated last" option on their blogs, by my link. It shows that it has been 2 weeks since I've updated my blog. This is incorrect!! Don't think I've ever gone that long. I think this keeps them from checking out my blog, and I'm not sure why it's not updating. I know it is keeping other blogs current, but why not mine?

I guess if you can help, let me know!

~Jacque~

Happy 5th Birthday Jackson!

(One day late!) =(

Worst Aunt E.V.E.R!!!

Happy belated birthday to my nephew Jack! I certainly thought of Jack yesterday, but I've had such a busy (and emotional) week, I just forgot to blog! Hope your day was fabulous!!

(Joanna's 2nd youngest)

Weekend With Erin II

****Sorry about the HUGE pictures, that probably take all of your screen. Didn't realize I had "large" selected, then I didn't have the patience to redo it all****

As my hectic October wound up, Riley and Reece stayed with Erin again. Having Riley for the weekend was so much fun, this time she wanted Reece too. Brave girl! Here is Trenton helping Riley get ready for his game.
But first, it was team picture day.

So, Reece stayed busy at the playground.

Usually, Riley is defense, but this day he was the center.

Poor Trenton. I'm sure these boys wore him out!!!

This is what Reece does best. He's ALWAYS upside down, or on his head.

Riley, Reece and Charlie.

More yummy cupcakes!!

This was probably Trenton's favorite part. We took over our Mario Kart, and he and Riley played a lot!! Reece had fun becoming best friends with Charlie!
Thanks again Erin!! My boys love you, and LOVE spending time with you!!

You really helped my chaotic October go much smoother than anticipated. I'm glad it's over!!

Decorative Shovel

This is my latest, prized possession!

I know it's a little premature, but my sister ordered these awesome Christmas decorations for the shop at Prairie Pines this year. I can't wait for Halloween to be over, so I can get it out on my porch!! =D

Any 'Hawk fans out there, this item will go fast, so let me know if your porch needs one too!!

Painting Pumpkins

Since the boy's "Pumpkin Patch" outing was squashed by a couple of sick boys, I grabbed some pie pumpkins from Wichita, before I came back home on Sunday. Got some paint, and TA-DA!!!

While Reece was just putting color all over, Riley wanted to make "scary, Halloween" pictures.

We got Boo.

Riley was purposely trying to get in the background here.

I asked if this red and blue picture was a Jayhawk. Nope, it's a witch flying on a broom. My bad!

Silly face.

Reece was excited that his pumpkin had pink paint on it, and he created the pink, without using pink. Good times!

Sick and Sicker!

Not too much to blog about these days. I went to Wichita this weekend, and left the boys here with Jake. They had a boys weekend. Too bad the weekend was filled with 2 sick, little boys. Last Tuesday, Riley came home with a very mild fever. It went away immediately, but due to the 24 hour rule, I kept him home on Wednesday. It was a half day, and no school on Thursday or Friday, for conferences. He was not sick at all on Wednesday. In fact, he was bouncing off the walls, which isn't Riley's style at all. Maybe he has a weird, allergic reaction to Tylenol, and it makes him hyper?!? Well, come Wednesday night, he had a mild fever again, and again, it went away immediately. Thursday was the same thing...hyper Riley. We bummed around, went to Riley's conference, and after dinner, Riley had a football game. Riley did great, even got a flag, but afterwards he had more than a mild fever. It went away, again. Friday, he was normal, again. Jake was even contemplating taking the boys to "Late Night in the Allen Fieldhouse." I was his voice of reason. Riley's fever only wanted to come out at night, and it would be terrible to have him in a loud, crowded, and rowdy environment if a fever was going to make an appearance again. It didn't. Instead, Jake was woken up on Saturday by Reece. Reece told Jake that Riley was crying. Riley had an even higher fever and his head hurt. It's not normal for Riley to cry when he is sick, but he must have been that miserable. Jake took him to the doctor and he had a slightly red throat and ear. Doctor said to wait for the fever to last 10 days before giving him an antibiotic. He had a mild fever the rest of the day, and it seemed to wrap up Sunday morning.

Enter, Reece.

Sunday morning, Reece started off with a high fever. He was close to lethargic most of the day, unless the fever broke temporarily, he got a burst of energy. Today, he woke up to a little vomit. Yay! Fever has since subsided, he has a little cough, and he has been playing. He probably picked something up from the Doctor's office. We'll see. Doctor doesn't want him to come in, unless his fever doesn't go away at all, which it has... for now.

Poor Jake, had 3 days off. He had a vision of fun with the boys. Lawrence, pumpkin patch, football games, park...blah, blah, blah, and the poor guy spent his time off with sick and sicker. Maybe next time, Baby... I was really looking forward to having some pictures from their fun weekend to blog about.