A little Cinderella

It was my favorite time of year- Marine Corps Birthday Time!  Dan's Unit's Birthday Ball was early this year, the first Friday of October.  There are over 200, I think, that are put on Between Oct 1 and Nov 30, so it is a little crazy!   Dan is part of MCIPAC, so that's the Ball we attended.  This year, Marian said yes, she was interested in coming too.  So she did.  And she said it was more interesting and fun than she expected.

Callie was our official photographer.

It was hard to tell when she was taking pictures, or even if she was taking pictures!

So some of them were a surprise.  Actually, looking at the 25 pictures was kind of a surprise.

And the fact that these are the best ones.... well, you get what you pay for!

Marian, enjoying her shrimp cocktail.

My place setting

And you know I stayed for the cake!  It was unexciting, but tasty.  And it was Birthday Cake!

Dan, in a co-workers shot at the end, as we were trying to run away.

Happy Halloween

 This Halloween Callie offered to go out candy collecting with Rylee and her friends.  This was met with approval on several levels, as the girls didn't want a parent with them and the parents didn't want a pack of 9 and 10 year old girls roaming the neighborhood gobbling candy and shrilly giggling.

Callie with the samurai sword.

Rylee as my cute little kitten.

 Sweet sisters.

The pack of wild girls. 

 Delaney went out with her friend Rebekah. Delaney is Miss Universe. Get it?!  I thought she was pretty clever.

Much candy was collected......

...And sorted.....

.....and devoured.

Some awesomeness

Marian had her last Cross Country Meet.  The weather was glorious, the course was nice.

And she was amazing.  She PRed every meet she was in and this was her best yet.  Her time was 24:12. So yeah, she was freaking awesome! 

And she was invited to go to Far East in Misawa as one of the 4 girls selected to attend.

I went to lunch with some friends.  We listened to the recommendation of another friend who is kind of a foodie.  I am NOT a foodie.  I do not particularly enjoy tiny establishments that only have 5 items on the menu and they are all weird.  This is my carrot pumpkin soup and ham, blue cheese, fig sandwich. Both did happen to be quite tasty, but nothing else on the menu was remotely appealing. 

 This is Levi.  He is protecting his bone so no one will take it.  He was napping when I stealthily went to snap the photo, but he was worried I might be after his bone and opened his eyes. 

We had a big box.  And Rylee made me laugh so hard with it. 

I finally had one of those mom moments.  You know, when you thought you had until Halloween night to finish creating a pair of dragon wings and then right at bedtime your kid corrects you that no, she needs them for school in the morning!  Aaack!!  I cut the bone of the wings out of heavy poster board and stitched felt around it for the wings. We managed to get them painted before going to bed. Except that the girls used 90% of the purple paint on one side and I had to figure out how to make the last 10% cover the entire other wing.  Good times.....

In the morning I was working madly to finish them and to get a harness on them.  Apparently Rylee did not realize they would be so big and as I finished them up she confessed that she did not, in fact, want to wear them to school.  Sigh. 

Callie is a nut.  She has a mouthful of food and wanted this selfie.  This is the only photo documentation of her playing in the Pep Band at the Kubasaki Homecoming game.   But she did march in the Homecoming Parade and she did play her trumpet fabulously and she had a marvelous time. She is pretty awesome!

Happenings at the house

Delaney took two t-shirts with different issues and combined them to make this shirt.  She's so clever! 

The girls had waaaayyy too much fun taking photos with a funny filter.  The hysterical giggles were unrelenting. 

We ended up dog-sitting this cutie for a couple days.  She was sweet, but I was unaware that when her owner said she was potty trained, what she meant was that she put pee pads down on her carpet on the dogs favorite places to pee. My carpet was not covered, and I was not pleased. 

More fun with filters. 

Why a bunny filter?  

I'm behind on my baby blankets.  People keep having babies and I'm not prepared!

Pre Halloween

Delaney learned to make hair scrunchies.

So she made 10 Halloween ones for her friends.  They were cute! 

Marian and Callie went to the Church Dance.  Callie is a Greaser from "The Outsiders" and Marian is Katniss Everdeen from "The Hunger Games". 

 And Rylee got dressed up for her schools Fall Festival event. She's the cutest cat!