the Schrader 5

The week is over! Wednesday night I went to see the Showdolls. It was totally awesome! Thursday was another depressing loss for Ethan's team! I'm sure we'll have another repeat performance tomorrow morning. The worst part is that we are playing the same team that we played on Thursday! The kids were really down after the game as well. Normally they tend to just brush off their losses, this time not so much. We have a couple strong players on the team, but the weakness of the rest of the team doesn't allow them to do much with their talent.

Today was our "day off." We got some yard work done in the morning and then moved on to cleaning the pool and the pool deck. By the time we got inside it was already noon! After I showered and made the boys some lunch we left for Super Target and Super Wal*Mart. Let me just tell you, not the most thrilling way to spend your day off! The boys were VERY well behaved so that made the whole experience at least tolerable. We came home with all sorts of interesting stuff since the boys were there. The most interesting to me is the candy corn popcorn. I love candy corn and popcorn, but I'm not sure I will like the combination of the two! After putting the groceries away and eating dinner, we headed to the Atlantic Center for the Arts. They had a Halloween Bash. It was sort of artsy, so of course the boys thought it was lame. I thought it was pretty cool myself. They had fiddlers, an artistic pumpkin carver, and story tellers. I will have you know, broken colored glass can do wonders for your Jack-O'-Lantern! I told the boys that they couldn't wear any store bought costumes because we were going to the art center. So, we dug through their dress-up basket and came up with two pirates and a cowboy.

Here we are arriving at the Halloween Bash. This is the same deck that my friend Sam got married on, so I had fond memories of my last visit there.
Here is the pumpkin carver working his magic.
Chef Sophia! I have to tell you the girls are totally hooked up for Halloween thanks to their Nanny! Mike's mom makes them the most amazing costumes every year. You should check out their costumes for this year. In this picture, Soph is wearing her "back-up" costume!

Spooky tree!!!
One of the story tellers at the bash.