Halloween Frights!

I know I titled this "Halloween Frights" but there is really nothing frightening about this post at all. Unless you are terrified of girls that are frighteningly cute then you should be okay:) Arrrghhhh, Ye Matey! 

I handed Elaina a magazine months ago that was full of girly costumes. There were queens, princesses, frillies, fairies.....you name it. There were 2 pages or so of boy costumes. She immediately pointed and said, "I'm a pirate!" and she stuck with her guns. So, pirate she was and boy was she cute! 

We buddied up with our pals to hit the streets. Cheerleader left us in the dust with all the big boys but the Skeleton stuck around like a true pirate friend! (Or it may have been because he was just as slow as pirate :) )

Grant was my sister's go to Halloween costume: A Hobo. I know my mom has a picture of that somewhere because I can see it plain as day in my mind's eye. I'll post it for comparison if I can dig it up :)

What's a Hobo without a Hobo buddy? How much do you want to bet that Grant is smiling for this picture behind that mask?

Cade decided to go as a nerd. I'm a little concerned at how well he pulled this off. I had to get him a butt-cut wig because I don't care what kind of product you choose, you can NOT make his helmet hair do anything ridiculous. It is what it is and it's not moving. 

He geeked out with some of his school friends. Whenever I think of this picture it still makes me giggle. Bobby said that they got a lot of "awwwwww"s from teenage girls walking around. I guess when you've got it, you've got it. Butt cuts or not:)

Then there's Old Granpa Rhett.

After I put that mustache on his upper lip I thought we could have just as easily put him in short red shorts and a Hawaiian button up and gone as Tom Selleck. Pretty sure the funniness would have been lost due to the age gap. But I would have laughed. A lot.

Old Nursing Home Grandpa meets Sunday Morning in the Hampton's Grandpa:

It was another fun Halloween night spent with friends. I feel that it should be noted that only 48 hours after the Halloween festivities, Rhett Morgan hid his candy bag in his closet (obviously unbeknownst to me), overdosed on candy(clearly not following the rule of 1 piece after lunch and 1 after dinner), and vomited (always against the rules here as I can't stand vomit and find it completely intolerable if said vomit is due to stupidity) missing his last baseball game of the season (a real nail biter I was told). After recovering on the couch for about an hour he stood up, rubbed his belly, and said with a click of his tongue, "Well, I'm not sick. Looks like I just made some baaad choices!" I wonder how many times I'll have to hear that line in his lifetime. Lord, help me. No, really. Help me.

Year Seven

This weekend we celebrated seven years of funny living with Rhett! He brings so much joy to my days (the ones that he doesn't argue with me on because those days he makes me pull my hair out! Attorney in the making :) ) He requested a slumber party birthday this year so I told him his invite list would be quite short: 3. 

 

 I had no doubt who the crew would be that invaded the Morgan home. He's kept the same bffs for years now....and I love every.single.one of them. 

Along with "slumber party" the other request was "Grandma's  chocolate cake.....with a rocket on top". Rocket? Where was I suppose to find a cake topper rocket? Leave it to mom to come through. Chocolate cake with rocket: check. 

 I would say that Rhett was in "rare form" for his party if that were true. The fact of the matter is that "rare form" is pretty normal for his everyday living. There was the "it's ma birrrrthdayyyy! It's ma birrrrthdayyy!" singing to himself....

And plenty of goofy faces :)

The candle blowing went off without a hitch. No trick candles or anything this year.

Cake was served and there was lots of "mmmm"ing going on. Rhett made the comment, "Hey Guys....isn't this the best chocolate cake you've ever put in your mouth?!" and everyone agreed:) Along with cake, there was goofiness:

tons of smiles....

and more cake :)

Presents were a hit as usual.....gift card, battleship, and baseball cards and lego men. 

Fun times! The night ended with 4 boys sleeping in Rhett's room, all tucked in sleeping bags and cozy. 

On Rhett's actual birthday day we headed out to dinner at Moe's and to Sweet CeCe's with grandparents and cousins. Rhett opted for a money birthday present so I tricked him with a tissue box of money.

A bunch of small bills taped together and rolled up inside the box makes for a really surprised 7 year old! 

Nothin' like high rollin' when you're just a kid:) 

 Happy Birthday, Rhetters. I pray God grants me many, many more years of laughter on your account. I love you to pieces! 

Conversation Piece: Election 2012

As I was putting the boys to bed last night Cade started this conversation with me:

Cade: I can't stand Obama. 

Me: Why not? 

Cade: It's the whole ObamaCare plan he's put into place. I can't even stand it.

Me: Oh. Well, what's that mean for you?

Cade: It means we used to get 6 chicken nuggets at school. Now only 4. We used to get cookies on Friday for dessert. Now no cookies. And, we used to get stuffed crust pizza and now it's just regular! 

Me: (laughing) Honey, that really doesn't have anything to do with ObamaCare. That's Michelle Obama's healthy America initiative. 

Cade: And you know what else?? 

Me: What? 

Cade: Obama's raised all the taxes!

Me: Really? 

Cade: Yes! And you know what he's doing with all that money?.......Putting a pool in the backyard of the White House! 

According to Cade he and his school buddies have been sharing information "learned" during this election season. The misinformation really had me giggling. I'll be sure to put "decreased nugget consumption, nixing of Friday cookie, and a veto of stuffed crust pizza" to the list of reasons I'll be voting Republican:)

A Visit With My Papaw

I'm ashamed to say that it's been years since I've seen my Papaw. I try to call him every couple months but it seems that getting everyone free and loaded up to make the 4.5 hour drive for a visit just doesn't happen. We planned this trip months in advance. I got a quick picture of him with all my kiddos.

I know my dad must miss being able to see his dad whenever he'd like. I know I'd hate living far away from my dad! 

 My sister made the trip with us. It's always nice to have your sister around when you know you're going to have to endure eating at the Golden Corral. That's one of Papaw's favorite eating places so for this occasion I sacrificed my nutrition:)

It was good to see that Papaw's sense of humor was intact. He had us laughing with his silly comments! 

I hate that I don't get to spend more time with my Pap. I wish time and circumstance made it easier but it doesn't. I'm glad we found the time to slow down a bit and drive up. If it were only for one hug it was worth it :)

Fall Family Pics

I spent so much time in the fall taking pictures for other people's families so I decided I finally needed to take my own out for a quick little shoot. My intent was to get a family shot all together but as I quickly ran out the door I grabbed my old, broken tripod. Why is that still sitting with all my camera gear? I have no idea. So, here are the few I got in between grunts and groans from the fellas. 

My princessa.

I think I'm teaching Cade well! He snapped both of the pictures of Bobby and me and did a great job! 

This picture makes me smile inside:)

I didn't get as many photos as I would have liked but my brain could hardly stand all of the complaining. Boys are not good photo subjects for the most part. I hope Elaina understands that she's my only hope for practice!!

Rascal Flatts

As most of my five readers know, concert date nights are my absolute FAVORITE! Bobby and I had heard that Rascal Flatts was touring with Little Big Town (whom I LOVE!) but we were going to turn it down because we had just been to my bestie Carrie Underwood's show. But, my man who loves me so had a little downtime at work and happened upon an amazing deal for tickets....and really good ones at that. Who could turn it down??

We called up our great friends Mike and Amanda and arranged a long overdue double date night. I never fail to laugh until my sides hurt with these two so I was really looking forward to it and as usual, I was still laughing the next morning at Mike and his antics:)

The concert started out with the Eli Young Band and I took this opportunity to use the "panorama" setting on my iphone. While it worked fairly well I was still aggravated that I didn't have my real camera with me. I'm taking it in next concert. It seems that the whole "no professional cameras" debacle that Barney Fife put me through with Keith Urban was just a fluke since there were plenty of nice cameras floating around at the last two concerts. Anyway, I think I knew  one or two songs from Eli. They were good.  

Up next was LBT. I'm really glad they've won some awards this year because they are totally deserving. I sang along with several of their songs and I'm sure Amanda was feeling a bit self conscious because my voice is somewhat superior to hers. Some folks have it. And I'm one of them. in my dreams.  

 

 This two sang a duet together that, let me tell ya, had the chemistry a'flowin'. We all agreed there was most definitely a little somethin' somethin' going on between these two and we were certain that their prospective others were probably NOT happy about the fact that they were traveling to and fro together all year touring. The funny thing is that they are both married. To each other. Ha! Good thing they have some chemistry! 

 LBT didn't disappoint. I'll be back to see them again. With my good camera.

 Bring on the Flatts! This is the second time that Bobby and I have been to see Rascal Flatts. While I feel that all the Rascals are great singers, Joe Don, despite his name, has for the most part been my favorite. That being said, I will be the first one to openly admit that Joe needs to cool it with the sleeveless shirts. Or, he needs to do some curls and get a spray tan. His guitar skills make  up for most of that but, hey, I'm just here to keep it real and give advice to famous people that obviously don't need any help from a stay at home mom nobody. 

 Ol' Gary LeVox about got a beat down when he walked to our edge of the stage shortly after this picture and gave Amanda a straight up point out. If Bobby hadn't been there to hold Mike back.........

 They had a little portion of the concert where you could yell out what you wanted them to sing. It was pretty fun but I really didn't have anything to yell out because for some strange reason I could not recall a single song that Rascal Flatts sings......and here I was, 3 rows back from the stage at their concert. I tell you, I've lost most of the capacity of my brain since having kids. I think the thing I'm best at at this point in my life is cutting construction paper. 

 Despite the fact that I couldn't remember the names of any songs, I DID remember the words to Life is a Highway (mostly because it was in the movie Cars) and I sang it like I was a contestant on The Voice. The one contestant that no one turns their chair around for. 

 Did I mention that going to this concert made the four of us bonafide stars? We're totally on the hit tv series "Nashville". The director was there filming concert scenes and for several takes we had to scream like crazy and act like we were at a concert (which wasn't hard to do since we were, in fact, at a concert). Most people were the standard concert hands, you know, heart hands,  longhorns, l love yous.....not us. We were just doing a single pinkie. Yep. One.single.pinkie. So when you're watching the show and you see a pinkie in the crowd, it's me. And Mike. And Bobby and Amanda. It's hard being famous so no autographs please.

Last concert date night of 2012 in the books. One of the best ones yet with two of our favorite people!!