Lately

We've had a great past couple of weeks over here at that the Miller house.

C was nominated to represent her class for the Royal Court at her school along with her classmate, Wyatt.

This was the first time C had been put in a competition type setting and we talked all week about how she may not win.  We even worked on her gracious smile and clap for when her name wasn't called.  :)

Unfortunately, she didn't win but she was completely fine with it.  I think she liked dressing up more than anything which was evident later that night when I saw her with her face in her kaboodle applying lip gloss.

We attended a wedding for a close family friend.

U was WILD!  Thankfully it was a very laid back wedding with several other children so they didn't mind him talking throughout the whole ceremony and wrestling with his sister at the reception.

I have no idea how we've made it this far without a single black eye or broken bone. 

We had to make a quick trip to Opry Mills to get U some shoes.  I somehow managed to have a son that requires wide shoes and apparently wide shoes in his size are very hard to find.  We literally had one option to choose from and naturally they cost more than I spend on my own shoes.  Sigh.

How we have to roll these days at malls.

As I was trying to get over how much I just dropped on a pair of shoes my son was going to out grow in 4 months, B tells the kids they can get a Build A Bear.  I swear he is as bad as the kids.  

Since it was U's first Build A Bear, it softened the blow.

We spent an evening playing at the park.

I got to be part of C's Halloween party at school.

It's always a crazy day but I love getting to be there for her parties and to see all her friends.

The Sunday before Halloween, our church hosted a Trunk or Treat.

I have this thing about the kids being a pair for Halloween.  I think it's cute but I'm sure I won't be able to get away with it for long.  C wanted to be a Lalaloopsy doll this year and I knew each doll had a sidekick but I thought they were all girly sidekicks.  Thankfully the doll she picked (Sugar Cookie) had a white mouse as a sidekick.  Whew.  

I didn't get a single picture of the kids walking around getting candy mainly because I was too busy opening each new piece of candy U got.  He thought as soon as someone gave him candy, he must eat it right then and there.  Instead of having a bag full of candy at the end of the night, he had a lot of half eaten pieces of candy.

I did get a picture of them at the end of the night which pretty much sums up everyone's feeling about the evening. 

C's fake smile letting me know she is OVER it and U too busy people watching to pay attention to me.

Halloween night, we went to my parent's neighborhood to trick or treat.  I had a friend stop by my parent's with her kids and we ended up walking around together.

After each house, the girls would say 'where we going next?'  Ha.

We ended our weeks of fun with the funk.

C went down for about a day with some type of nastiness.  She didn't move from this spot all day.  Thankfully, it only lasted a day and no one else got it.

We've laid low lately because the holidays are coming and that means goodbye relaxing weekends.