Trunk or Treat at AES

Last year Hope, Dad and I gave out candy at the elementary school trunk or treat day - now this year Hope got to participate - but still had time to take a picture with mom!

Here is our trunk and Daddio

Cheryl, how old is that pumpkin? you guys had that on Legate Drive. we still get it out every year!

Emma and mom

Emma getting more loot~!

we finished right before dismissal time so I just shut the trunk and took off - now me and the girls get to detangle for next year.........

Peace out - say's emma's floating hand in the middle.

Ok, charlie didn't go trick or treating with us - but he still is whipped....

He likes to hang out in the dryer, I can see this as being a bad thing one day...

Kids school pic proofs

Misc last week pics

Mom and George Carlin???

As most of you know there are several words that we do not say in the Shockley Household.... shut up, stupid, dumb, hate..... blah blah blah... well ever since Charlie has joined the family, me of all people have been struggling not to call him a retard! He is not the brightess bulb in the box!

/

case in point - here he is.... talk about Where's Waldo????

Christmas in October???

Well, dad called and said a coworker had a kitten all set to give away

first round of shots and the girls have been asking for a kitten

so here we go -- tentative name is Charlie

and we will see if it's a charlie foxtrot with him and Lilly.

first meeting was not bad, but Lilly has since retired to the back porch

don't worry, we will make sure to shower her with attention as well as the new

kid on the block...

awful cute though!

it may have been poor planing to get the cat at 7pm on a school nite, not sure when/if/how the girls will ever go to sleep tonite.......

Knoxville Zoo...

Had a good birthday weekend ( extended the celebration for a few extra days :)

we went to the zoo for the day

somehow 4 hours past in the blink of an eye

we all had lots of fun!!

Hope practicing her lactation skills...

brushing a goat, jeesh, we have goats right down the street - we drove an 1.5 hrs for that?

brushing a sheep... ditto from above

it's pretty cool, we have a picture of the girls when they were 2 and 4 on the same tree trunk, we thought it was cool when we compared the pictures, the girls... not so much

sitting on the HOT!!! turtle

ok, in the middle of July it will burn your butt, but saturday it was just right

walking with my kiddo

dunno

still, dunno

maybe we shouldn't of fed them

next time we will read the signs, they followed us home.

no, this isn't Hope

this is Hope

gotta love the new camera with the 10X optical zoom, i was no where near this kitty cat

only in a Jeep...

Meerkat manor

black with white stripes or white with black stripes... the world may never know.

butterfly garden - with only Monarch's... Emma explained all about them as she studied them this year and her class raised 2 from chrystalis.....

snoozing in a tree........

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Had an awesome birthday - girls got me a gift card to Target and wonderful cards, homemade of course!!! Dad got me a great card, nice to know I've still got a great ass, it's the card really and at 41 I still appreciate the comment no matter what!

Got lots of cards from the girls at work and church, and of course Ms. Theresa my bestbest buddy from home, aka. Roanoke.

To top the day off was a drive to Pulaski to see B/burg take them on in Volleyball - well the games may not have been the best but Rachel had the girls say a Happy Birthday cheer for me and that just made my day!!! What a great daughter!

Dinner was a little to be desired but we needed to get back home since it was a a school night and we were an hour away... but I hear Saturday Night it's going to be a bit better.

Thanks for my well wishes, my awesome LBD dress from mum, my ring from Cheryl/Big Daddy

Jim
I am so blessed and lucky to have such wonderful friends and an incredible family!!

Love to all............... Katie