The kids...

Corbin on Joe's lap, Taylor, Lizzy, Abby, Haley, Samantha, Rachel, and Zachary on Kathy's lap

My brother came out to visit and it has been a blast to have all of our kids get together and play. These are the ones that were together this night....

Lesson learned........

This is my sister Kathy's hand after receiving a steam burn, mine is not even close to what her's looks like. Kathy and I were trying to help mom carry a roaster full of ham out to the car. It still had steam in it and as my husband is calling us dumb and dumber lifted it off the counter and the steam proceeded to attack.......it was all we could do to get the roaster back on the countertop.....needless to say we spent 3 hours with our hands in cups of ice water and Chris went to Kirksville for ointment........Andrea called stating she had numbing ointment...thanks Andrea it was a BIG help....needless to say Kathy and I learned our lesson.....you would think that at 38 and 36 we would not do stupid stuff like this.......live and learn! Oh and both of us use our hands for our jobs, she is a women's nurse practicioner and I transcribe!

Halloween 2009

The crew........ah what fun we had!

Samantha the witch, Rachel the retro chick, and Haley the princess

Chris as Hannah Montana or Bucky Covington from American Idol.....sexy......NOT

My princess!

My grown up retro chick!

The yearly trick or treat family gathering was fun as always.......Julia and her kids and Kathy and her kids came to go trick or treating....Kathy was in charge of all of the make-up and I had the glitter can.....we put the kids in the wagon behind the 4-wheeler and off we went....the kids had fun, but they were worn out and well worth it..........Happy Halloween!