Saturday, October 4, 2008

All dressed up and.......

As with any good homecoming, the week ends with a dance. In West Burlington, it is a fairly dressy affair.

Cale and his date Courtney


Cale and all of his friends....and yes I agree that some of the girls dresses are WAY to short! Kayla will wear a mou-mou to her homecoming if I have my way!

What a cute pair! Although I think the one of the left is the cutest!

All of the guys.

The trio....these 3 have been friends since they were really little....the girls used to paint Cale's toenails when he was little!!

The Junvenile Delinquent Strikes Again

First a little background story for those of you that don't know...while Adam was back Kayla had her first (and hopefully last) attempt at shoplifting...she attempted to steal a book from Borders that I refused to buy for her....so I jokingly refer to her as my little juvenile delinquent! On top of that, during Homecoming in Monona a few weeks ago, she got very angry at all of the kids toilet papering houses.

So here we are back in WB for Homecoming and I told Kayla on Thursday night that there were kids outside putting toilet paper on Grammy and Grampy's house. Well she wanted to go see them. We got out front and and surprisingly enough she asked the kids if she could help. Since they were all friends of Cale's and knew her, they were more than willing to let her help!

Time for her first attempt at toilet papering a house!


Learning the best way to throw the paper in order to make the biggest mess.

Time to wrap it around the stairs....

More toilet paper...

When they were done they left her a roll to finish up if she wanted..instead she took it inside and put it in the bathroom with the rest of the toilet paper!

As the kids were leaving...

The house the next morning..I have to say that compared to how we did it when I was in High School, this is lame!!! We had houses covered!!!!!!

Here they are playing with the TP...Carter thought it was great to play with.


Posing with Uncle Cale before he heads off for the big game.

So there you have the latest experience of the juvenile delinquent! On a side note, Cale's team played an awesome game and won again..they are still undefeated and ranked 6th in the state!

Uncle Cale's Homecoming Parade and Pep Rally

We headed back to West Burlington this weekend for Uncle Cale's Homecoming. My old HS always has tons of events planned for the weekend.

The 3 kiddos passing the time waiting for the parade to start.


That's uncle Cale in the middle...he's kind of a dork!

Nice hat Cale!!!



Hmmmmm..I don't think he will be winning Dancing with the Stars anytime soon!


There was a raffle for a big toy horse and Kayla had a complete emotional breakdown when she didn't win..she was sobbing and screaming "NOOOOO THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE MY HORSE!!!" I have one word to say about her breakdown...RIDICULOUS!

Fall-Der-All

I'm a little behind on this post...The day Adam left, a small town near Monona had a festival they call Fall-Der-All. It celebrates the fact that the towns namesake, Mr. Froehlich, invented the John Deere Tractor. So as you can imagine my kids loved all of the John Deere tractors in one place!

There's my little farm girl! You can't tell here but she is wearing a denim skirt and flip flops too...farm girl on the top...city girl on the bottom!


Here are the kiddos attempting to drive an old time tractor.

Time for Carter to check out the miniature old-time hay baling model. It actually produces little bales of hay!

They had a little tractor train for the kids to ride in...they loved it!!

Time to check out the old one room school house...we joked that that was where Grammy went to school :)

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Do something good

So there is a website out there called Squidoo...I don't know much about it, but I do know that right now they have a deal going where you visit their website and vote for a charity (from a list of about 50) for them to donate $2 to. It's so simple and you don't have to give them any info about you, don't have to have an account or anything!

Just go to http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-charity-giveaway and select the charity you would like to have money given to. You can only vote once however. I will tell you too that there are some very recognizable charities on there and there are some I have never heard of.

I voted for Soldier's Angels (which by the way has received 28.2% of the votes so far and is getting the most money.

Enjoy doing something good for someone else!!