Austin braces and a close call

This my friends is what remains of the cushion that almost burned our house down. We had gone to see a movie and one of the kids had been tossing the pillows around and it ended up landing against our gas fireplace. When we came home the house was entirely filled with smoke and I took the kids away from the house and Justin ran thru it trying to see what was on fire. He found the cushion smouldering... if we had been gone a minute or two longer it would have reached the carpet and that would have been the beginning of the end of our house. We were so blessed that night! Now our house just smells like burnt marshmallows :o)

Here's a mug shot of Austin with his new braces. I'll take a more flattering one later... but he's really happy to be doing something about his teeth.

Halloween

Mandi's pumpkin

Back of Austin's pumpkin

The front of Austin's pumpkin

Cody's pumpkin

Megs pumpkin

Justin's cameo shot.... my favorite part was the sequence (sp?) on the devil horns ,... and the feathery boa trim..... oh yeah, and the teeth just complete the look. :o)

Justin and Megs for Halloween... don't ask me how I got him to dress up.... but he really worked it. We went with this other dad in the neighborhood and his kids... and he kept saying... "The devil made me do it" ... the funniest part was when the two of them (one devil, one John Travolta, both with Billy Bob teeth) started looking up at the sky and one said he saw a shooting star, the other didn't see one.... so they're examining the sky and conversating with their teeth that definitely lowers their IQ. It was pretty funny.

Austin called him the evil red bunny.

Here's the kids at the Halloween carnival for school. Austin let Cody wear his fighter pilot costume (since our Like Skywalker costume is in the neverending abyss called the storage room), so Austin was a soccer player and Megan was Cinderella. Along with them are our good friends and neighbors Aubrey and Parker... whom Megan thinks is the greatest thing since sliced bread