Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Spooktacular!
So October has come and gone...by fast...really fast! But it was a very spooktacular, I know it's a cheesy word but it fits the mood of the post, month...October was SPOOKTACULAR for the Trotter troops. Busy yes, and we do have much more to post...SWOSU Homecoming which was, let me just say...magical...but that is for another post...so stay tuned in :)I will start this post with photos from our traditional Trotter pumpkin carving extravaganza. The night started with dinner out at Venecios, which might sound Italian but it is actually Tex-Mex...really threw me for a loop when we first rolled in to town...great fajitas though! :) Once the pumpkins were bought and the trash bags for all the pumpkin guts were laid out the party started! Of course I was given the wonderful honor of gutting the pumpkins which is sickly therapeutic to me and I love freaking the kids out with the orange "pumpkin brain slop" on my hands.
Ainsley was only mildly traumatized...before she was diving in like a champ!
Toby was in rare form this year and Cade has caught on to the madness. They were enthralled in their creation...Ainsley and I on the other hand picked the cutest looking goblin in the trace and carve book and went to work...it was also in the front of the book, which meant it was the easiest level of carving. Although in complete disclosure my hands are still feeling the pained effects of the "easiest level of carving" bug a boo we selected. :)
Toby and Cade went straight to the back of the book to the master carving section. Toby was like Yoda pumpkin carver training his Luke Skywalker, Cade, to learn the ways of the master and ultimately let the force be with him in his master carving future! They selected the most awesome witch and did a masterful job!
Pretty much Weatherford around Halloween is the most adorable, most awesome "pleasantville" place to live. I have seen places like this on movies or in Southern Living magazine, but folks I'm here to tell ya if you ever want a destination Halloween W-ford is the place to be! Once we hit the streets it was like crazy town trick or treaters!
I should have known it was crazy when a mother of an early trick or treater to our house yells "You better hurry!" as I jokingly comment on how we have to get ready fast and get going...I smile and just come back inside, finish dinner and get the kids ready to go.
Ummmm yeah, she wasn't kidding! It was awesome! There were trick or treaters everywhere and as we visited with the Mayor and his wife they told us when we reached their house that they had already had close to 300 trick or treaters! I had a friend tell me that her parents had prepared for 500! What?! I'm glad we were out getting candy...I never would have bought enough seeing as in the almost 7 years Toby and I have been married we have never even had a trick or treater come to our house!!!!
It was a memorable Halloween and yes, in a word October as a whole was Spooktacular!
You be the judge....does she look ornery to you? LOL! What a beautiful mess!!
What do you think...does she look like she is where she should be? That smile and those raised eyebrows tell it all! :) Found her on the top of a cabinet in our living room happy as a lark watching Sesame Street...looking fabulous and lovin' life! One of those times I try to "look" mad, but end up turning around because I am dying laughing!!
I kid you not in less than 24 hours I found the little miss with my lipstick digging her little finger down to the bottom of the tube ~ it was new so it involved a lengthy and messy process to get down to the bottom of the tube...but she did it and then beautifully applied that gold lipstick to her right eye...twice...the first time we where in Walmart and I was helping Cade try on shoes, I turn around and in a matter of, I kid you not...minutes the girl is looking like she stepped out of the James Bond movie Goldfinger...then the following morning it was an almost parallel event...I turn around, she finds my purse and we have golden eyed girl in all her glory! Ohhh, I love my baby girl!!!
Belles....YOU'RE THE BEST!!!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Too small Halloween costumes and fairy wings ;) ...just another day in the life!
If you ever want to know just what the exciting life of the Trotter family looks like on a normal day, and you happen to walk by the usually open front door to our house and peek in.......you could quite possibly see Cade running around the house in any number of past Halloween costumes, that are much too small and probably very uncomfortable...none the less he is wearing them with pride running around the house putting out some sort of house fire (figurative of course ;)) or playing a game of "socckey". A game that he and Toby created that combines hockey and soccer..both of which are less than ideal to play in the house. And then of course my precious Ainsley B is usually chasing him around with baby and blanket in hand screaming "buuubbbbaaaa" trying her best to keep up and giving her own rendition of whatever game Cade is bouncing around playing.
...and on this particular day, and in this particular picture I have captured a day very similar to what I just described...the only part that I have left out is that I was in fairy wings chasing Ainsley around the house trying to convince her that they were fun to wear. It was an effort I had started after I realized that she was having nothing to do with tutus or wings and we had just decided on a ladybug look for the priss to wear on Halloween. Without her wearing the tutu I had made and the wings that Mimi had bought she would end up looking like a member of a theater stage crew or an extra dancer in West Side Story wearing a black turtle neck and black leggings....not the look I had anticipated.
As I am campaigning for the ladybug, Cade got in on the action and loves any opportunity to make his sister laugh and of course become the star of the show. So as I am fluttering around like a lunatic, Cade comes speeding in the living room wearing his army costume from 2 years ago, a fireman helmet and dances the most hilarious jig around an already traumatized Ainsley B! All of which is taking place as Disney's greatest hits CD echos the happy sounds of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious....please don't check the spelling on that~I did my best phonics sound out ;))...in the background and Cade and I sing, dance and eventually turn Ainsley's heart over in Joy!
I am amazed at how the simplest seemingly insignificant acts in life can become the most extraordinary thing you can do in a day....soooo again if you are ever wondering what the Trotter troop is up to? We are probably doing the simplest things in life...singing through the trials that we are working through...even as simple as gearing up to wear our Halloween costumes ~ which in the life of a little person can seem like a pretty big, scary mountain to climb...but when you laugh, sing and just give in to simple stuff like wearing costumes that are too small, helmets that don't match, playing games that don't go together and wear fairy wings singing Mary Poppins greatness while you watch your your son recognize his sister's insecurity and desire to encourage her and your baby girl's heart go from fear and reservation to freedom and joy....life seems pretty cool. ;)
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