A Sapless Thanksgiving Post

I love Thanksgiving. But man, it's hard not to get all sappy when I think about all there is to be thankful for. The boys are dreams, truly! And Troy is just plain dreamy. (he's going to love that I wrote that) So instead of getting teary-eyed and mushy I'm going to post funny pictures of H&E. You're welcome.

Now, bring on the turkey neck! Joke. No one should eat that - for any reason. Seriously, why do they include that in the turkey? While they are funny and extremely entertaining, they are definitely gross.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Blue Man Group

I love hair cut day. I think the boys just look so cute with their hair all cut and gelled and colored. I know I'm completely biased but really, aren't they super cute kids?

In other news - the official race results were posted this week and Troy finished 42nd out of 192 people in his 10k. Isn't that awesome? I think so. He thinks it's just "OK." Whatever. He changed his tune a bit when we saw that I placed like 126th out of 193 people. Yeah - not as awesome. That's cool though. It was still fun.

One last thing - Eli officially got his cast off 100% yesterday. His humerus is healing well with lots of new, strong bone growing over & around the break. Now it's more important that he work on his range of motion instead of protecting the bone. He's doing great and I think he's really happy to be rid of Big Red for good!

Boo!

I feel like we've been celebrating Halloween for weeks now. Oh wait, we have been. I think this has been the longest ever Halloween season. I'm (secretly) glad it's over. Now we can get on to the business of eating candy, which I much prefer over giving candy to strangers ;-)

Here's how the Halloween madness in the Schally household went:

Pumpkin carving - you'll notice that we're in shorts and t-shirts. This should have been our first clue the it was probably too hot for the pumpkins to survive. But, it was a great excuse to make cookies and hang out outside with the boys. Eli's pumpkin is Frankenstein and Henry's is the ghost. I'm sorry to report that within 3 days these pumpkins had collapsed on themselves and were completely moldy. It was kinda sad but mostly disgusting.

The next big event was their good friend Teshe's birthday party. It was a costume party and the kids all had a great time playing scary games, eating creepy food and hanging out in the spooky basement. Here are the boys before the party. Eli is Iron Man 2 and Henry is a skeleton. Eli almost didn't make it to the party - this was the day he got the pins taken out of his arm and he was pretty traumatized by that. But, he pulled it together at the last minute and headed out.

Troy and I were lucky enough to get to dress up again this year for a costume party. Our costume choices are always a hot topic in our house - discussions and brain storming sessions that last for days. I'm not sure how creative we ended up being this year but it was fun nonetheless. Troy went with a tried and true favorite - the ever-annoying mime. And I decided on the wicked step-mother/witch handing out poison apples from Snow White. We knew that our party hostess was going to be Snow White and thought this was be funny.

And last but certainly not least was the big day! The boys spent the night before with Uncle Wade & Aunt Tanya - they carved a new pumpkin and watched a couple of Halloween shows. Just in general had a ton of fun. And on Halloween we had our neighbors over for dinner and then all the kids went out trick-or-treating together. I loved this. This is why we moved. I love that we have families to hang out with, that our kids have friends right next door and up the street. Love it! And the kids had such a great time. They always have fun trick-or-treating but this year was more than that. Once they'd filled their buckets and made it around the neighborhood Troy brought them home (and the other kids headed home too). But when they got home Henry dumped his bucket out and proudly declared that he was going back out for more!! Eli, on the other hand, was done and already in his jammies. I think the dads had fun too - evidenced by the red cups (actually they were pink) carried throughout the neighborhood. I heard though that there needs to be some cup modification for next year. I guess they sloshed around a bit too much in their strollers. It didn't seem to stop them though.

Here are our little monsters in their costumes. Eli is a werewolf - because all Halloween costumes are supposed to be scary so he couldn't wear the Iron Man 2 costume. Plus, this one fit without his cast! And Henry is (again) a skeleton. Both were really good costumes. Henry's actually kinda freaked me out though.

Hope you all had as happy a Halloween as we did.