One of our favorite Halloween traditions is making spiders out of Ding Dongs.  With the recent news from Hostess, we might have to be more creative next year.  Here are pictures of everyone's creations.

And, being the awesome parent that I am, carved pumpkins, even though I hate it.  Each of the kids designed their own.

We tried a new tradition this year.  Worm sandwiches and monster mouths for dinner.  The kids LOVED it. We even tried out the monster mouths on ourselves.

Ready for trick or treating!  Yes, I did buy their costumes this year.  I'm not proud of that.  Maybe next year.

Since I haven't blogged for three months, we'll just put a few pictures up and maybe hit some highlights.

I know I posted first day of school pictures already, but I found this one of Tansy on my phone.  This kid loves kindergarten.

 This was a picture of the boys' haircuts.  Also great blackmail.  Mwahhaha.

 Our neighbors moved and decided not to take their basketball hoop so they gave it to us.  Super fun!

 Here's Zack's first day of school picture.  I let him get this shirt to wear for his first day, and he wore it every Tuesday for the first month of school (because that's when it was clean; otherwise he would have worn it every school day).  He loves preschool.

 We started having lunch with the girls at school on Fridays.  We trade off each week who we eat with.  The boys realized that their reusable Subway kids' meal bags make great hats.  They do this almost every week.

 Sydney participated at a booth with her karate teacher on UCM campus a couple of months ago at Get the Red Out, which involves vendors and anyone else who wants to advertise lining the street through campus with a lot of fun stuff to do.  Ben had a lot of homework, so I ended up taking everyone.  While Syd did karate demonstrations, I wandered with the other kids.  These Star Wars characters were wandering around.  As you can see, Tansy loved them.

 This is Sydney using three hula hoops at once.

 At the end of September, we had a yard sale.  It went okay.  We had planned to wait until May, but we didn't know when we were moving, so tried.  The kids thought it was awesome.

 Sydney won first place in the coloring contest for Fire Prevention Week at her school.  This is her picture hanging up at the commissary here on base.