If I would blog more, I wouldn't have to do compilations blogs like this one...Oh well

 Halloween Party 2010
We had so much fun yesterday at Kim's house for the now annual Halloween Party for the Morgan grand-kids and friends. We had so much fun playing games, making spider cookies, cutting out bats, and playing with the kids. Nara was so cute in her Green Lantern costume. Chris picked it out could you tell. I wanted something girly so we added a tutu and hair bow so that she didn't look like a boy. Oh she was so cute!

Sam is so cute as super baby

My best shot of all the kids. You are able to see all of their heads and no one is hiding behind any sets of wings. :)

Jack was so cute and had a good time eating the cookies rather than making the spiders. Next year we might be able to get some legs on before the first munch.Nara was tired afterward and fell asleep within five minutes of getting in the car.

 Gardner VillageNara loves playing with her shoes and loves to take them off and eat them. I'm just glad that we haven't  lost some.

Kazoo Playing
Nara is doing so many new things everyday. One of her recent developments has been the fantastic talent of playing the kazoo. How fun is that! She is so fantastic. She has also been taking a few steps. Already! Can you believe it?! She is so little still. They all have to grow up so fast.

I know this is slightly random, but I hope you enjoy the pictures. That is what it is really about anyway right?:) Till next time...

Two Wet Hens, A Little Rice, and a New Tutu

On Monday, cousin Aimee, the kids, and I went on a walk by the river. It was a beautiful overcast day with rumor of rain,. Little did we know we were in for a downpour. We should have known something was going to happen when we saw a snake cross our path. Yuck. We got a little over half a mile when the sprinkles started to fall. The kids were awesome. Ricky liked the rain and had a blast running in front of us. However, with one thunderbolt, the rain poured down on us. Poor Nara was getting soaked and did not like it one bit. We picked up the pace and ran all the way back to the car. What a good day for a walk. Who knew that it would be that bad. When we got back home I noticed water pouring off of out roof as well as flowing over our gutters. We had so much rain come down. Crazy!  The the joys of the outdoors.

 The other day my sister and her family and my little family all went out for sushi and Sushi Ya (very good place I might add). Nara loved the rice so much. She couldn't get enough. So cute. She also learned how to blow out of a straw at the restaurant. I tried to give her a drink from my straw, which worked for a little while, until she decided to blow it out all over the table...and Melissa. So funny!

I made Nara a Tutu last night. I'm not going to say much about it because I have a blog coming that will have more about it. I just had to include her fitting photos because they are so cute. She is such a cutie.

A Tree Fallen

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.  ~Denise Levert

Today we gave rest to the issue of what to do with the tree at Grandma's house. For many a year we have been wondering, "if a microburst were to fall Grandma's tree, which way would it fall? The street or the house." Well, today I watched as Grandma had her very tall pine tree cut down. 

I watched when the house was built in home movies and I saw what the yard looked like back then. After 50 years, things on the house have changed very little.The only way to see time pass was to look at the cars in the carport ant the plants in the yard and it was fun to see the height of trees and shrubs change through the years in various photos and videos.

No more will we see the pine tree grow though. It was a hazard and stress for Gram and I'm glad that it has been relieved. No more worries of fires or falling. Now the sun pours into the family room window where it was once shadowed. And although it is weird to see the house with an empty corner on the north where the tree once stood, it is for the better and for good. :)  

So here is to the tree that we played under for years and we have watched grow. I could get poetic and say that it has seen us grow through the years, has seen a number of things happen at Grandma's house, and has many stories to tell (If trees could talk that is). But I am not a poet and will leave all the poetry to Jeff.. I will however include a few versus that I found on the subject and leave the photos to speak for themselves. 

Is this sappy enough? I am talking about a pine tree after all. Har Har!

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914