2012 Fall Catch-Up

I've been so swamped trying to get my new Scentsy and Velata businesses off the ground, I have regrettably neglected my family's blog.  This is our "journal", so to speak, and although I tend to use my blog too often for my own philosophical thoughts or my soap-box rants, my family IS, in the end, what I want this blog to be all about.  It's what makes me such a lucky gal!

Here's what October looked like for the Taft family:

 Carson and Wyatt were our star baseball players!  

 Evidence that our children do receive a bath, once in a while!

 Ruby rolled around somewhere outside that apparently was a nightclub for slugs, getting seven of the slimy things stuck in her hair.  Having just paid for a trip to the beauty salon a week earlier, she had to settle for a home-done haircut by me.  She looked bad, and she knew it - the next morning she didn't come out of her kennel until 9:30!

Witches Night Out at Gardner Village with Grandma Dixie and Aunt Ashlee!

But first...at stop at the mall for dinner and getting some eyebrows threaded!  

 (Speaking of Klopecks, soon I'll post pictures of our trick or treating adventure, and how we live in our own 'Burbs!  The good DocTuh Klopeck lives in our neighborhood (or at least someone who suspiciously looks an awful lot like him!)

 Ouch!  Threaded hurts a bit!  

Batter up!

Thanks to the Langeland's awesome planning skills, 

a friendly neighborhood game of the all-American sport 

was played at Hogan Park.  Thank you, Gerrards, Glasseys, Bodily's, Carters, and Langelands 

for a super-fun night!  Next time I won't take it so easy on you... ;)

"T" is for TERRIFIC. (Or T-Ball...)

It's been a blast attending the boys' t-ball games. Carson needs a reminder to run to first base after hitting the ball, but what he lacks in speed he more than makes up for in cuteness with that huge helmet on his head! All the younger kids look like they're going to topple over from the weight of it. Wyatt zoomed around all the bases and brought in a point for The Volcanoes when he reached Home Base. It was very exciting!

Carson made it around the bases, but stopped
when he reached Home and had to be reminded to
touch his foot on the plate - all these "technicalities"!!!

Here's Wyatt coming into home!