Playing with Barbies

We only had a few official Barbies, the rest were different types of dolls. Of course it wasn't limited to Dolls, stuffed animals joined the team as giant animals they could ride, and some of the boys' action figures joined to round out the cast. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that most girls just played dress up with their Barbies. That's very boring.

CATCH!!!

Both Dad and Colleen dived for him. He only tripped at the third or second step from the bottom, but they managed to catch him, and came out with more bruises and bumps then if Chris had just fallen. And we'd all do it again. And have. Because there are a lot of kids in this family, and stairs are tricky when your feet are growing. Heck, Chris caught Oliver when he started to fall down the stairs not too long ago!

It comes in two flavours

I will forever call it Church Juice, I've never tasted it's like elsewhere. Except maybe at another church. The pink flavour is where it's at!

SSHHHH!!! DON'T REMIND US!!

Oh don't get me wrong! I like winter fine enough, and I love fall, but the weather got too cold too fast for a while there, and I started to panic. If it had stayed cool, I think there would've been a lot of depressed people this winter. Fortunately, the weather warmed up, and we relaxed a little. We know what's coming, but in the meantime we can enjoy all these pumpkin flavored things. Or just pumpkin pie....mmmm...pumpkin piiiiie.

Universal Truth

This is also true for Blizzards, Peanut Buster Parfaits (for those not allergic) and Banana Splits. But Slurpee's more then anything.

Unexpected Animatronics of Terror!

For whatever reason, the store was set up so you had to go through the scary section that was lined with their animatronic monsters, in order to get to the safer kid section. There may have been another way around, but at the time I didn't see it. In fact I wasn't looking at much of anything. Why do animatronics always look so mangy? Except for the zombies! They are in full gory detail!
Personally I like the more innocent side of Halloween. I like the spookiness over the jump scare and the Fall celebration over the gore fascination. And, of course, I loved trick-or-treating!

This incident happened a few years ago, Chris is older now and probably wouldn't be as frightened as he was then. Maybe. Seriously, Mangy! 

Uh-Oh.... UH-OH!!

Actually it was on Lucy's third attempt to touch the bear that Daniel decided he was done. Poor little guy had just woken up from a nap.
Also by the time Erin came back upstairs I was laughing too hard. Just the timing of it all!