A fun evening here in Ashcreek! Lots of trick or treaters. They were lined up at one point. Everyone had a great time. Some photos from tonight!
Danielle handing out a ton of candy 
Joey handing out lots of candy tonight…
Tommy (my sister Dione’s husband) looking cool
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The front entrance
So we went to Kentucky Lake today to look at a house. This is the view :) UMMMM :) This is from the BOTTOM of the hill. The house sets on top of a hill…behind me in these photos. Probably about 100′ up higher. :) I liked it!
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Spent most of today driving around looking for hills and views. :) Found a few interesting places. I have no idea what we will eventually do but I am keeping my options open.
Tomorrow is Halloween! So we are trying to move our decorations up from the basement where we had our party on Sunday and into the foyer and the porch area. We will fix everything up tomorrow. Trick or Treaters will start arrive after 4 and then it will become REALLLLLLY busy after about 7 or so.
Lucy down in Florida! Ready for Halloween.
This is our candy tub!
LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF CANDY!!!!
Moving everything upstairs into the foyer…and the porch.
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I put together a slideshow of the game. You can view it here:
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Wellllll we had a great family get-together! The family arrived around 1 p.m. The kids had fun…playing games and running around the house. Dylan stayed over on Saturday night with some of his friends so they were WIDE awake (uh huh). Dylan had his ballgame on Saturday (I will have to post those photos in a bit…still going through them). We had BBQ and Hot Dogs…seems to be the family favorite. Not sure by choice or not! Easiest to fix I suppose! Everyone knows I am the big chef around here.
About half of us dressed up for the party. My "blast" was an astronaut - perhaps I should have said "blast off" :) The weather was GREAT. A bit of a chill in the air but nothing you wouldn’t expect in late October. We even had a frost overnight! 34 degrees here at my house. That was the coldest temperature so far this season. :) Now if we could just bring in some snow! I don’t know how I manage to fit the weather into all of my posts. Habit I suppose!
Anyway here are a bunch of photos from our get-together.
Astronaut Beau ready for liftoff. Our STAR scientist has been working on the shuttle problems.
Astronaut Beau with Uncle Roger
"THE LION KING" errrr QUEEN I should say
Mother and Mariah
Tyler and his friend Tyler - I am not sure which is which!
Someone is having a good time with the cookies
No pictures please.
Mother and Julie
Ahhh yes the court jester - every party needs one
That would be my dad and Lori
Tyler and Tyler
Mother…Mariah…and Mariah’s little fairy friend
Me and my mom
Joey
I think I make a nice astronaut…I might have to call NASA
Lori and Daddy
Danielle and Daisy at the end of the evening. I think SOMEONE is tired!
The kids busting the pinata
Tommy and Dione
Dylan ready to blast off into space (looks like he might already be there)
Uncle George
Mariah and her fairy
Or is she a butterfly? This could go either way
The crew of the next shuttle launch
Tony has been working out
Beau and Danny…Jala in the background (Mariah’s friend)
Astronaut Danny Kohn
Itsy Bitsy Spider Crawled Down the Waterspout…
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I put together a conference room for the Shadow Angel Foundation. I think it looks pretty good. Not sure where this rooms ends up being permanently. For now it is in the dining room - which we don’t use. lol We have a separate area in the kitchen that we eat in.
Shadow Angel Foundation Conference Room
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Been busy with homework the last couple of days. Complicated classes this semester. :) I think I have said that already though!
We went today and picked out costumes for the party on Sunday. Should be fun. All the family is supposed to be here. So that alone will make it fun. I won’t say what I am going to be but I will give a hint - it will be a BLAST! :) lol
Looks like a nice weekend ahead…coolish - but nice. I guess we will dry out for a few days. The long term pattern looks dry and cool. Perhaps some frost will arrive soon. It is becoming that time of the year!
We will be going to see Dylan play football tomorrow. He is in the tournaments. Hopefully they will win! If so then there will be another game next weekend.
Nothing else to report on the home front!
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The rain just keeps on falling! We have picked up 6.12" of rain here in Lone Oak over the past eight days. Incredible totals. This is the most rain we have received all year. The severe drought has received a big hit. More rain is expected tonight and tomorrow morning. I am hoping we can pick up another 1/2" of rain.
I have homework today. The class is moving along. Just a few more weeks and we will be finished with this semester! I am will be thankful when that time arrives. These are some of the tougher classes we have had. So far so good though.
Dylan has a big football game on Saturday. The game is near St Louis. Then my families Halloween Party is on Sunday. Should be fun! The weather looks cool.
David is in China…all is well there. I don’t think he is impressed with the region he is in. Sounds like the pollution is horrible. So I don’t think I am missing anything there. I think I will hang around here and enjoy the rain!
No snow chases in the near future. Winter appears to be slow in coming. The only real snow to report is out in the Rockies.
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I had a few days of rest after all of the severe weather. I think it takes a day or two to catch up on sleep after something like that. Hopefully we will have some nice weather in the days to come. Nice meaning RAIN! Looks like plenty of rain is heading out way. I am hopeful that we will see at least another inch or so. We could use about 8 - 12 inches. Not all at once of course. :) One or two inches per week would be nice.
Had a nice lunch with Caesar and Sue last Wednesday. Sort of in between all ths severe weather. Sue brought me a nice book on weather (water, ice, and fog) photography. Some great photos. The photographer in the book is Tony Sweet. Great photographs.
Trying to catch up on homework. A few down days after mid-terms. Looks like 2 more quarters ahead. If I can make it through that then we will have a winter break! Hopefully by then it will be SNOWING. No snow chases planned right now. Just not much going on. There has been some snow out west. Looks like it will still be awhile before we can expect that to move into the Eastern United States. Will keep watching!
Talked with Kristy on the phone over the weekend. She is doing okay down in Florida. Sounds like Lucy is on a diet of some sort. I shall await some before and after pictures before commenting. :) A puppies life is so hard.
The Red Cross is having a banquet tonight. It is the 90th anniversary of the Paducah Chapter. I will take some photos.
Okay back to homework….
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They are still updating this map. I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes above 800. So far though there have been around eight hundred reports of severe weather from this historic October outbreak. Unreal.
Blue is wind damage, green is hail, and red would be tornadoes.
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