Shelly's Blog

It's Halloween night and we have had a really busy Halloween day. The kids had their Halloween party at school, then the Halloween Festival in the evening. I worked the 3rd grade booth and Jessica worked the 6th grade booth. None of us won any of the raffle ticket prizes. :( ........BUT WE HAD A REALLY GREAT TIME ANYWAY!! Jess - The Pirate Jess - the Pirate and Ashley - the Blueberry Girl Alyssa's Class Party Alyssa and Friends Alyssa and Mrs. Velez Alyssa at the Halloween Festival

Look Mom......Pumpkin Brains! Might be a future surgeon?? Jessica imitating her jack-o-lantern Alyssa showing off her art work It's Sunday and we're still recovering from the busy-ness of the weekend. I took the girls to the store to pick out their pumpkins. We haven't decorated for Halloween this year so I promised them that they could still carve their traditional annual Halloween pumpkins. Both wanted to get the biggest they could find and I think they actually did! Jess and Alyssa carved their pumpkins with no help from me, which I think is a first for us.......they did great jobs! Alyssa has a field trip to the Texas Ren Fest on Tuesday and Jess is kind of bummed because she doesn't get to go this year. I think we'll plan on going sometime in November. The school's Halloween Festival will be on Friday from 5-9 and we will be attending that, too. I made Alyssa her appointment at Texas Children's for her renal ultrasound on Monday November 3rd. I'll b