----------------HAPPY HALLOWEEN---------------check these out...........

Wyatt has his class Halloween Party tomorrow and we were asked to bring cupcakes. Last year at his Halloween Party, I was really slack and bought the cupcakes. I decided to make up for it this year. Check out these creations. Wyatt and I had so much fun coming up with these ideas and creating them. It took me all day today in the kitchen to finish them, but the look on Wyatt's face when they were done was well worth it.
There is a:

Cauldron with a spirit rising from it:
-cauldron is rice crispy treat molded and dipped in melted chocolate chips.
- Ghost marshmallows
- candy corn flames under the cauldron

Witches hat and broom:- Oreo with small Reese cup on top and then a Hershey kiss on top of that
- broom is a pretzel stick and a shredded wheat cereal cut in half

Cemetery:- Fudge covered graham crackers and pumpkin marshmallow

Vampire Bats:
- Small Reese cup with face done in icing
- wings are half of lg. Reese cups with divots cut out for the wings
- Moon marshmallows on a pretzel stick

**No I didn't think of this all on my own. The Internet is a wonderful thing. I did embellish and change things up a little. But we got our ideas online.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE------HAVE FUN TRICK OR TREATING

I am thankful......

I just came across this and thought I would share it. I can only imagine the pain and trials that special needs children and their parents face. This is really a wonderful analogy. I am thankful for what God has given me and thankful that I have 2 healthy chidren.

"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland."

"A Day at the Farm"

Wyatt had his first field trip of the year today. We went to the big town of Cove City to a family farm. The McCoy Farm or "A Day at the Farm" was so much fun. The kids got to see all kinds of animals, they were even able to feed some of them. Since this was a Dairy Farm or used to be, we heard a lot about milking cows. The kids even got to make butter. It was really cook, they had cream in mason jars and the kids shook the jars as they sang: Shake, Shake, Shake that cream and pass it to your neighbor.
After a few minutes of being shook, the cream seperated and made the best tasting butter you ever had. Then we had a picnic lunch and an ice cream dessert. Well, then we were off, back home. Wyatt really enjoyed his trip to the farm and so did Warren, Mama and myself.

Probably last trip of the year :(

Well, Sunday we went out in the boat for probably our last trip of the year. The boys had a great time. We tried to go fishing, but after a VERY SHORT time and a blow toad later we gave up. We soon discovered that Warren is not ready to be a fisherman and Wyatt got bored with it very quickly. Well here are a few pics from the way back to the dock.




Check out the wind blown/sunscreen look!

Warren's Aly Dart Pics

CHECK OUT ALY DART'S BLOG. SOME OF WARREN'S PICS ARE UP, ON THERE. I MAY BE A LITTLE BIASED, BUT THEY ARE TOO CUTE. HE LOOKS SO GROWN IN THE THIRD ONE. THE LINK TO HER SITE IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF OUR BLOG. SHE REALLY DOES GREAT WORK.