Our hilly neighborhood is not the best for trick-or-treating, so we walked down to a flatter subdivision to fill our candy bags. Since the weather was so perfect, we probably walked about 2 miles round trip. Ashley was ALL about it: singing, dancing, and running to each house for the first hour or so! She was a Razorback cheerleader, and Nathan (who decided he was getting too old to keep up with her) was Indiana Jones. The satchel made a perfect candy bag, and he filled it up!
Per Nathan's request, we had "Eyeballs on a Stick" (a.k.a. decorated cake balls) instead of an actual birthday cake. They were quite tasty!
We decided that it should have be called "Fort Prick-ens" since the grass was FULL of these nasty sand burrs!
The jellyfish are really bad in the Gulf right now, but the kids made the most of it. A more responsible parent would probably not let their children trap salad plate-sized jellyfish in buckets, but I never claimed to be much of a responsible parent. We escaped with just a few minor brushes with the jellies. 
Oh, yeah...they also caught a few dead crabs. 
Papa and the girls made a pretty cool sandcastle. Nathan and Mikayla were the bravest of the bunch, but they even got Brandon to venture out pretty far with them one time. 
Today was the Kindergarten field trip to the Pumpkin Patch (pronounced "pone-kin" by Ashley). They went to a different place than they went to last year, so there were sadly no pig races. I think they still had a great time. Ash was so tired that she fell asleep on the bus ride back to school!
