New Pictures--Halloween, etc.

I haven't been on my blog for AGES, and I really need to do some personal writing. However, I feel like I ought to catch up on pictures first. So hopefully tonight I can post some recent pictures, and then I'd like to come back in another day or two and update my thoughts. (I really do feel like blogging helps keep me grounded, and I REALLY need that right now!)

We got to go to Vala's Pumpkin Patch during the day on Halloween. The girls and I were there for our third time, but Jim had never been there before, and I honestly don't think I took Donovan last year. (If I did, I've blissfully forgotten the event!)

Look at the bunnies, Donovan!

I didn't do it, I swear! You can't prove anything!

Lindsay, Jim, Donovan and Josie in a GIANT rocking chair.

Okay, trick-or-treating pix. Lindsay and Josie were easily talked into being witches, using last year's costumes, plus new hats and brooms and make-up. Donovan was easy--he LOVES Elmo and the costume was right in front of me one day at Target. It was about $16 and that's about as cheap as I can ever find them. Too perfect!

Scary faces!

Donovan doesn't like the "hood" up.

Okay, hood up, as long as I've got candy!

Lindsay, Josie and Donovan--Halloween '08.

Now, the last thing I need to update on, real quick, is camp. Josie's troop (which includes me as one of its four co-leaders--there are 16-ish girls in the troop) went to Camp Catron last weekend. Catron is just outside of Nebraska City--it's a Girl Scout owned location, and they often have sponsored weekends or day-camps there. However, as the troop went (sans Josie and me--we were in Riverside, CA at the time) this summer for a sponsored event and nearly starved to death, we decided to go it "alone" this time. We brought our own food, drinks, snacks, etc. and planned our own activities. We barely had a moment to spare for potty breaks--it was that jam-packed of a weekend. And did we ever eat! Josie loved it so much, she cried off and on for about two hours when we got home--"I miss Camp Catron! When can we go back?" (Not until we raise more money, dear! After we sell cookies in the spring--hint! hint!)

Making "Hobo Meals" for supper.

Eating s'mores.

Troop 159, "crazy pose".

"A circle's round, but has no end, that's how long I'm going to be your friend."

My "sub-group" within the troop. Elisabeth, Brady, Austen & Ciera (and me).

The "sub-group" Josie is in. Aaliyah, Jordyn, Eileen, and Katie (and Josie).

We didn't take any pictures while we were outside--it was super cold. But we did go on two hikes, and on one of those, some of us even got to see a WHITE SQUIRREL!!! It was the neatest thing ever--he had brown hands and feet, face and tail, but his body was completely white! Bizarre! Anyway, Camp Catron was really beautiful and fun, and we'll be sure to go back again soon!