The chitlins

We had pictures scheduled for this Sunday. After seeing the weather report for the weekend, I dragged the kids out for a panicked session of our own. From the looks of things, this may have been the last fine day for quite awhile. After alot of cursed coaxing, these were what I managed to get.

Happy #10

We got Thomas and Sam home from Cali just in time to celebrate Sammy's B-day today.


By 10 o'clock he had already been out to shoot this and named it Sammy Jr.

Coffee and chocolate donuts for breakfast. Again.

Suzie: "Birthdays are the best time of year. Birthdays and Christmas."

Daddy: "Suzie has the best birthday. She gets all her presents at once." (suzie's b-day is the 22nd of Dec.)

Sam: to Suzie: "Well, I have an American birthday."

Suzie to Sam: "Yeah, well I have a Jesus birthday."

I guess Jesus trumps America any day. Even on your birthday. Happy Birthday anyway Sam.

pics

So we finally got some pictures taken. Thanks to Shelley's camera and Carrie's groovy yard! These seemed to be the best of the bunch.

Eight

Happy Number Eight Suzie!

The baby turns eight today. This is the first time Suzie's b-day has fallen on a school day so we had to rush through things a bit this morning. Suz didn't seem to mind.

Yes, she is wearing different pajamas here. She was actually ready for school. Her Christmas party at school involves wearing pajamas all day so she still gets to spend her B-day in her jammies.

If you're keeping score...

We had our first casualty of the season a couple of days ago. Suzie landed on a piece of ice at her friends house and did a faceplant on the sidewalk. No permanent damage but you wouldn't believe it by looking. The poor baby has been home from school being spoiled and waiting for the swelling to go down. She didn't want pictures at first but then decided Grandma and Grandpa should see. Of course, the first thing Mom said after that was "and we should scrapbook it!" So, if you're keeping track, ICE-1 and SUZIE-0.

The first day

And of course, the requisite scraped knee.

Day number 2

Halloween

Party and Trick or Treating at Aunt Shelley's. Her neighborhood nets a better chocolate to crappy candy ratio. Turner declared it an even better Halloween than last year. High praise indeed!

Obviously, Tim and I went as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Thomas abandoned his costume in favor of the contents of Uncle Todd's bag o' wigs

The Motley Crew, in all their Halloween finery.

Grandma

Today is Grandma Mamie's Birthday. I had more to say but it will have to wait for another time. Everytime I try to write, I just start to cry. I put up a few of my favorite pictures from her last couple of visits here. Man, I sure do miss that crazy old woman.

Back to the grind

We managed to make it through the first few days of school intact. These pics are from the first day. You should find it pretty easy to figure out what grade everyone is starting. We're getting ourselves back into the daily grind but at 6:00 in the morning, none of us are happy about it. Turner is enjoying Jr. High but the true test will be what she has to say about it by Christmas. We're crossing our fingers. Thomas is still working out the kinks of being in a big new school on top of figuring out the world of being in a GT class. Alot of his classmates went to that school last year, so the learning curve is a little steeper for him but as long as he gets his lunch, he'll get the hang of it. For the first time Sam is dealing with a teacher that none of his siblings had before him. She is new to our little school last year and isn't quite as easy to charm as his last teachers. I guess not charming his way into and out of things is what Sam gets to figure out this year. Since Suzie's teacher has had everyone else in the family for 2nd grade, she thinks she has it down already. Of course it helps that she is a busy little bee just like her sister and would rather die than do something the wrong way but you know...

Happy Birthday Boys

We have been having technical difficulties here at the Hunt residence. It took me until today to upload birthday photos of Thomas-and his birthday was on Monday. So, since today is Tim's birthday, I decided to put up one of him too and the boys will just have to share this one.

Officially Eleven!

My new favorite picture of Tim. Technically still 36 here. I guess we'll have to take another one of his totally different 37 year old face.

Can you guess what Thomas picked for his birthday breakfast?

Sammy turns nine.

Just wanted to share a few pics from Sam's ninth birthday.

I took this picture right after Sam finished opening his presents. From the looks of it, he got a few things he was happy with.

Sam chose a movie for his fun birthday activity. This picture was taken outside of the theater before we met Aunt Shelley, Uncle Todd and Courtney inside. Three guesses as to which movie we saw.

Turner and Thomas were still in Cali for Sam's birthday. He insisted on waiting for them to get home before we blew out the candles on his Transformer Optimus Prime cake so, we made it for the 24th of July BBQ and he got to stretch his B-Day out for a week.