Matthew's First Haircut

Before: You can sort of see the scraggly hair in the back.
The clippers didn't scare him a bit! I think he is thrilled to look like a big boy!
My sweet Angel Boy!

Trick or Treating

We were so busy getting ready for our trip that I forgot to post a picture from trick or treating! They all loved it! Matthew had it backwards though. He kept trying to put his treat from one house into the treat bowl of the next house. For some reason he didn't get much candy. T Jay and Summer also fell victim to candy theft! I put a good portion of their candy into our bowl to re-give away! I know it's terrible, but they (and me) are such candy fiends that it's best if it's not around too long! I wonder how many more Halloweens I will get away with this?

T Jay & Summer-isms

I was sitting at the computer yesterday morning and overheard this conversation between TJay and Summer:
Summer: "I need to ask Santa if I can have a tiny baby girl."
T Jay: " You mean a baby doll?"
Summer: "no a tiny baby like this one." (I assume that she pointed to Matthew because he was right there.)
T Jay: "Oh, baby's come out of Mommy's tummies, and she doesn't have a baby in her tummy. After we move and get settled, then she can have a baby in her tummy.
Summer: "This baby is out." (Matthew) "and when it comes out, it will cry."
*As I was telling Jess this story, T Jay was standing there listening and clarified, "No, when the baby girl comes out you'll cry Mom, cause it's gonna hurt."

*What are they going to do if there isn't another girl in our cards?!! I love my little peeks into their thoughts, although, I am not sure where they get all of their information!!!

We're back!

We are back from Austin! What a trip! A couple of people joked that we should eat and go to the bathroom before we come, and boy were they right!!! When we arrived, Jess was given a packet of info that was about 9 inches thick and directions to read it. Saturday began at 7am and we spent the day in orientation and company information meetings learning what each company is all about. We finished at 8 pm and headed for our room for some additional studying. Saturday was more of the same. We worked from 7am until about 8:30, followed by more study and interview prep. Monday was the first interviewing day. Jess was scheduled for nine 45 minute interviews. I helped keep him organized and where he was supposed to be. Tuesday he had six interviews and they went well, too. He had a results meeting and 12 of the 15 companies wanted to further pursue him (fly him out to the company and interview again). Five companies that really interest Jess are: FPL Energy in Juno beach, FL, CCS Fundraising in NYC, Shell Oil Co in San Fransisco, ExxonMobil in Houston and General Mills in Minneapolis. He will spend the next few weeks following up with these companies and hopefully we will have job offers and be able to choose what we are going to do by the end of the month.

We're off!

Jess and I are off to Austin, TX for his career conference in the morning! We have two days of workshops and more training, and then Monday and Tuesday Jess has 11 interviews ! It will be exciting to narrow the possibilities for our post military life! Wish us luck! When we get back (Wednesday) I'll tell you all about it!!

Pumpkin Carving

Summer thought the seeds were sticky. She loved drawing the face on it to show where we would carve.
T Jay was not a fan of touching the seeds. He kept calling the stringy part webs.
Matthew "got" to watch from his highchair! He wanted to carve the pumpkins so badly!
The finished product and a scary face from my monsters! They were so excited about them. We took them into the bathroom and lit a candle in them so we could see the faces. They thought it was so cool. When Jess got home, T Jay grabbed his pumpkin and headed to the bathroom to show daddy. He dropped the pumpkin in the hall and the face broke out and it cracked around the bottom. Jess' solution, duck tape! (to which T Jay asked if it smelled like ducks) Jess taped the broken side up and they carved a new face on the other side!!!
T Jay's new jack-o-lantern! You can kind of see the duct tape through the eyes! That solved the problem and T Jay was all smiles with his new pumpkin!

Summer the hair stylist!

Summer "fixed" her own hair today! She disappeared into her room for a good 20 minutes of the bad kind of silence when I went to find her. She was meticulously putting clippies in her hair! She is very proud of her work!
View from the back, so you can get the full effect!
It's even better from the side! That is my little princess. Speaking of which, when you ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, She says, "A princess."