Happy Halloween!

We got together with some friends for dinner and trick or treating...

The kids had fun...and we have more candy then we need around this house!

Saying Goodbye.

Dale sold his beloved Passat.

Taking off the Packers license plate...

She has been a great car...we will miss her!

PEACE OUT!

Dale also had his Farewell from the 565th AMX Squadron today.

He was the Deputy Director of the B-1's and the B-52 bombers.

Here he is receiving some words of appreciation from Colonel Cato.
And here we have a couple more pictures for the office...not sure how to make them fit on the wall with all the others, we are about out of room.

And...Maddie had a Halloween party at school today, and she got these purple teeth...

She is Daddy's little monster...BOO!

The Lake House.

Earlier this month we spent the weekend with some friends...the Bailey's.

It was such a relaxing weekend, and a great place for the kids.


The first evening we got there, the kids had fun running around the retro 1980's "style" house, and the dad's started the fire for some s'mores.

There was also this swing...Maddie was in heaven!

...and this teepee, you could rent it for $25 extra and camp out in it.

Katee and I told the guys they could sleep out there with the kids if they wanted...they declined.

Maddie looked on as Dale got the sticks ready for the marshmellows.

Sunset off the back deck over looking the lake.

The next afternoon the kids suited up in their life jackets for a little ride out on the canoe.

Maddie was cracking me up with her singing as loud as she could...



The boys just hanging out on the hammock...well Taylor was obviously on the lookout for something to shoot at.

Later on that day we went to check out the Chickasaw National Recreational Area.

It was a lot of fun there. The kids had fun skipping rocks in the streams, and climbing and jumping and running.



They also kept themselves busy playing games...hide and seek was a favorite!

We had a great time!

The count down has begun...

Dale leaves next week...tear...sniff...sigh...

May I take your order...Please?

I've been a little anxious to let Maddie dress up in her Halloween costume...

I love it.

Who knows how much longer I will get away with being able to pick out her costume?

...and of course, I had to take some pictures of her.

Surprise, surprise Taylor wouldn't have anything to do with it, since we were going out in public.


Taylor wouldn't even go on the front porch with his sister...

but he would crunch down on the back patio...he was so afraid of someone seeing him over the fence.

Such a silly kid!

At least I got this one.

Air Force Ball 2009.

I have been meaning to post these pictures my friend Katee took for Dale and I.

(Thank you Katee!)

We haven't been to the Air Force Ball for a really long time, so I thought since Dale is deploying soon, it would be good to have some fun nice pictures of us together...because really how often do we dress up for an event like this? Not often enough!!!

Here are a few of my favorites...

...and every girl needs a great pair of red shoes...and I found mine the day of the ball...SCORE!