sugar rush

it's every kid's favorite night of the year.  and this year halloween didn't disappoint.  well, i could have done without the freezing temps and the wind, but the little people running around with buckets full of candy didn't seem to care!

my crew went as peyton manning (wes has developed a love of all things denver broncos as of late.  he still claims to love the cowboys as well, but i think his daddy's heart may be breaking a little.  ha!), quidditch-playing harry potter (william loves harry potter, and i have just started reading the first one tonight so i can keep up.  did i spell quidditch correctly?), and a lost pizza baseball player!!

we had supper at church before hitting the trail to trick or treat.  we met up with hermione (girl in harry potter?  i'll have to let you know once i read the book!!) and studious harry!

then we braved the cold for the candy!!  studious harry, elvis, and a blue "inja" turtle joined in the fun!

once we were home, reed hoarded all the whoppers.

wes made claims on the 3 musketeers!

and our porch was decorated with a simple jack-o-lantern this year.  last year we got all fancy, but this year wes wanted a smiling face with one tooth!  i think daddy was happy with the choice this year since he's the one in charge of the carving!

it was a happy halloween, but now i have to figure out what to do with all the candy around here.  anybody taking donations???

holley farms

a few weeks ago, i visited the pumpkin patch for the 482nd time in my life.  but this year, wes and reed went together, so i only had to go to one pumpkin patch.  can i get a high five?!?  this particular farm is my favorite one, so it was fun.  it's a real farm.  you cut your pumpkin off the vine.  it's not tossed out there in the field for you to pick up and peel the wal-mart sticker off of before carving.  true story.  they have fun slides, and mazes.  and they have really good food.  i do love some mexican cornbread, and when they grind their own cornmeal to fix their mexcian cornbread....well....you just can't get much better than that!

we had everything from 4 year olds to first graders on this trip.  since the classes were divided up between activities, wes (and his class) was kind enough to let reed pretend to be a first grader with them so i could get pictures of the two of them.  he was a great big brother on this trip!

the pumpkin patch field trips stop after the first grade.  i don't know what i'm going to do once reed makes it to second grade!  i might have to drive to fulton anyway just for old times sake and to get a pumpkin.  if nothing else, that mexican cornbread will make the trip worthwhile!  :)

50th day of school

reed's class celebrated the 50th day of school about two weeks ago.  they were all decked out and ready to roll.

they played "oldie" games at school that morning.  his favorite was playing jacks!

then we went to johnnie's drive in before heading to the bowling alley.  it was my first johnnie's experience and my first time to taste a dough burger.  i wasn't impressed, but for the price i could probably talk my kids into loving it!!  ha.  but i'll just stick with a milkshake if i find myself back there again!

the bowling was a little chaotic, but we survived.  no toes or fingers were smashed, and i only had to retrieve two balls that stopped halfway down the lane!  success.

mississippi state is the number one team in the nation.

i just had to type that sentence out.  it's never happened before, and it may never happen again in my lifetime.  (hey, i'm a state fan.  i've learned to be realistic!)  but, but....this week, we are at the top of the heap.  i know everybody else across the nation thinks that all of the bulldog fans are crazy.  however, they just don't understand!  we have been at the very, very bottom of the football pile.  we have walked out of davis wade while dragging our cowbells behind us after losing to maine.  yes, the bears of maine.  did you even know that maine had a football team?  it was not one of our finer moments.  but saturday, after winning the previous weekend on the biggest day in the history of football in mississippi, we beat the #2 auburn tigers.  and now we are #1.  every storm runs out of rain, and it's sunny in starkville, people!!!

as a side note, reed had added a new decoration to the kitchen wall for inspiration.  i may frame it.

college gameday rolled into town (for the first time ever), so we made sure to get to town early.  it was packed!!  i don't know how that little piece of earth held that many people.  it was chaotic.  it was loud.  and, it was perfect!!  i had a picture of us at game day, but it disappeared off of my phone somehow.

anticipation built as we waited out the few hours before the game!

we made it to the front row for the dawg walk before the game.  we got high fives from dak...

and josh robinson...

 and then the real fun began!!

it was the biggest crowd in history...almost 63,000 people....and they all looked as surprised as william when we went up 21-0 in the first quarter!!

it had to be the longest football game in the history of ever.  i don't know how cbs managed to drag it out like they did, but they did.  it ended up raining for a little bit, and we all got wet.  but, when you win the biggest game ever in school history, a little wet doesn't matter a bit!!  the crowd was crazy, and i happened to be with the happiest birthday boy in the world at that moment!

nobody wanted to leave the stadium!

we have watched the replay 4 times, wes can tell you each play of the entire game in the order that they happened, and the game has been played out numerous times in our front yard since saturday!

and, even siri knows who the best team is if you ask!

it's a little surreal.  we've been on the cover of sports illustrated for two weeks in a row.  espn talks about us.  it's on the front page every day.  you can't get on the internet without seeing a new article.  other schools want our coach.

little, ol' mississippi state has showed up at the party.  we might be a little late, and it may not be for long, but we sure are enjoying it while it lasts!  go dawgs!!!