Happy Halloween

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Halloween Gift

A few times each year, Nana (regular) and Poppy send boxes filled with goodies for the girls. It's like mini-Christmas, they LOVE it.

Here they are opening their boxes.

Kate likes it!

Nana & Poppy always know just what they like!

Thank you Nana & Poppy!

Stella!

Here is Stella!

She is a Winx.

She's sort of a Fairy Superhero.

Stella is beautiful

and very into fashion.

She's a regular school girl,

until she has to 'winx' out and

save the world.

Here she is waiting for preschool to start.

Twas Thee Days Before Halloween

Twas three days before Halloween

When in Schultzville they say
The Schultz girls got bored
and wanted to play.

Supermom called some friends
Dad flew to the store
For a few bags of ice
and candy
and more . . .



They came in their costumes,

What a cute bunch,

For a spooky play date

today after lunch.

They hunted for treats

A good witch had misplaced.
Then they whacked a pinata

Sarah aimed for her face.

Kate took a swing.

And the kids whacked some more.

Soon all of the candy fell,

Plunk!

On the floor.

Then there was dancing.

Cha Cha Slide in the grass.

Macerena, then Limbo.
It all went by so fast.

All the kids had big fun
And we invited them back
Then the girls took a bath
And they both hit the sack.

Last year we had 3 different Halloween events, in addition to a party at preschool and trick-or-treating. This year, zippo.

We couldn't let Halloween go by without doing something extra fun. So we made our own fun. The girls made decorations from construction paper. Supermom called some friends (at the last minute) threw some cheetos, pretzls & popcorn in a bowl. Kate and I hit Super Target and Costco for some goodies. Superdad ran out for ice and chilled some juice boxes (and grown up beverages) and Viola - instant fun!!!!!

You Win Kate!

Look what I leanred how to do!!!
Oh yeah, it's video.

In Schultzville we don't talk about our day at the dinner table. We play silly games like 'Who can be quite the longest?' and this is Kate's response to winning . . .

All I can think is:

Hearing Aid: $3,000.00
Listening to my girls giggle: Priceless

Fall Has Finally Come to Arizona

Ahhhhh, fall has come to Arizona.

Our mornings are crisp and we even need jackets and tights.

Kate picked out her own outfit today.

Note the leopard shoes.

One of her favorites.

The sunglasses are also upside down.

That is Kate's signature look.

By the way, I've been informed that

her rock star name is Kate Bo-bate now.

Sarah even needed tights and a sweater.

Doesn't she look sweet?

Maybe someone could explain to me,

how we go from this (above)

to that (below)

in a fraction of a second . . . ?

Superstar!!!

Schnepf Farms

Today Grannie and Grandpa took us to Schnepf Farms. Sarah came to this farm last week with her class and had a great time so we went back with the whole family.

Sarah was our tour guide.

Schnepf is pronounced just as it's spelled.

In Schultzville we pronounce it Schnap!!

extra emphasis on the 'ap!!'

This is one of Sarah's really fun contributions

to the language we use in Schultzville.

We say Schnepf the way she use to sing the

song about the aligator 'schnaping'

the monkey right out of the tree.

Schnap!!

We could not have asked for better weather.
It was in the 80's, sunny and breezy.

We got off to a slow start. There were lots of photo ops when we first arrived and then daddy had to run back to the car for Kate's sunglasses (above, Sarah had given her glasses to Kate.) It was breezy and dusty so we all needed glasses.

While we waited for daddy we took some more pictures.

Then we found the carousel.

Kate likes the animals that go up and down.

Sarah prefers those that do not move!!

This is a hay maze. They had little John Deer trikes for the kids to ride through it. Sarah jumped on and took off, pig tails blowing behind her. When she ran into a traffic jam of empty trikes, she jumped off her bike and hurdled to the front of the line and took off again. What fun!!

Then we watch the pig races.

Here is Sarah doing her pig call.

Next we found the Honey Bees.

That is Jeff and Sarah in the back.

Today, Katie Grace went on her first roller coaster ride.

Grannie escorted her.
That's Kate in the center with her arms in the air.

Here they are after the big ride.

Kate is asking if she can go again.
Gran says they are the 'Wild Girls'

because no one else would ride with them.

Another photo op.

Here's Gramp with the girls.

Grandpa got the girls really cool lollipops.

Sarah enjoyed hers in line for the train.

Here are the boys on the train.

And Kate's other 'first' today.

Her first train ride.

Sarah coming off the big slide.

She came down as a chicken this time.
Note her wings.

And here are dad and Kate.

Poor Kate is too small to ride the swings.

Sarah rode the swings on Thursday with her class.

She HATED it and cried the whole time.

Kate wants to go really, really bad

but you have to be 42 inches to ride.

She's just 36.

Ah, a nice rest at the end of a wonderful but dusty day.




We took home three wonderful pumpkins,

several pounds of dust (in our lungs)

and two very tired little girls.

It was a great day!!