Introducing the newest member of our family...

Pinchers!

Here's the proud mama...

Starshine's class studied crayfish this fall, and they could enter a drawing to bring one home, and she won. What do crayfish eat? What kind of home do they need? Beats me - we have a lot to learn. I made it clear that if they ever have a unit on mice, hamsters, rats or any rodent-like creature - FORGET IT!

Starshine has been hounding me for a pet lately, so this should be a good test run. She wasn't ready to pick it up, yet, but she was willing to pet it. Jr. Princess won't get within 4 feet of it.

Pinchers is the best pet I ever had even though I have never had one ;)!

Ahhh, so glad Starshine is learning sarcasm :)

Nature Walk

We definitely had to make the most of this gorgeous fall day, so we headed out for a fun nature walk and geocache find.

Man, I can't believe it is supposed to snow later this week. Ah well, then we can start working on Luge 2.0!

Happy Halloween!

On Sunday the girls were working on a secret project that required me to be banned from the kitchen. Sounds good to me - can someone please bring me a diet coke!

Well, several hours later I was invited back to see a super Halloween-decorated dining room complete with ghost and bat chandelier... black cats on the chairs, and surprise spiders on my seat - eeek!

What fun!

After a spooky dinner it was time for some trick-or-treating! It's a bit of a bummer to have to wear winter coats over the costumes, but I guess it doesn't matter because people trick-or-treat in the dark here anyway.

It was quite the haul!

Happy Halloween!