Douglas Gets Glasses

Today was a wonderful day at the Gandara Bug Academy. Douglas got glasses! My children are not ordinary children - Douglas was actually SUPER EXCITED and Lauren and Megan are pouting because they don't have glasses!

Here is Douglas getting fitted:

Looking in the Mirror

Handsome Boy!

I have noticed for awhile that Douglas favors one eye over the other - I was hoping it might correct itself. (We mothers call that denial).

But I could ignore no longer when Douglas said to me: I poked my eye, and it was my good eye too! That meant the problem was noticable to Douglas. So I called the Wal Mart Vision center and off we went. The glasses were here in just 24 hours - record time according to all the clerks at the Vision Center. Now Mommy and Douglas have to add cleaning glasses to our chore chart!

Spur of the Moment Concert!

At our Family Halloween - Spook Tacular, Aunt Anabel (Who is definatey in the running for the Aunt of the year!) told me about how she was taking her girls to the Billy Ray Cyrus concert and how a "special Cyrus" was going to make an appearance... Turns out her friend had 2 extra tickets, and I got to use Ruben's ticket (thanks Coz!) !!! We went to the concert with the hope that the "special Cyrys" was Miley! Everyone, including Anabel and I were excited beyond belief. Esmeralda happens to be my God Daughter and she actually likes Billy Ray (As do I - I'm a country girl at heart!)

Here are the Girls before the concert, acting like Rock Stars!

Now, just seeing the concert is exciting in itself, and the prospect of the "special Cyrus" being none other than Hanna Montana was almost too much to take... but wether the girls realize it or not - the BEST part of this experience was that we were part of the "official" group that got to meet and take a picture with "Bobby Ray"... aka Billy Ray Cyrus!

For the moment you are going to have to trust me, because the photographs were taken by a professional and we have to wait for the marketing department to get them and give them to us - but can I just say... Billy Ray is tall and very handsome in person. I went right over for the picture leaving Anabel and the girls in the dust, lol! I think our little girls were a bit awestruck to see "Hannah's Daddy", but I was all over it!

Here are the 4 girls waiting for the Concert to begin...

We were in a small ballroom at a local casino and there were no bad seats! Another amazing thing that the girls are not quite old enough to appreciate - but I am!!!

Check out this happy lady:

The Concert was AWESOME. Everyone had a great time.

We took some great pictures of Billy Ray:

We waitied patiently for the "special Cyrus" to make an appearance and found out we had made an interesting mistake... Miley was no where to be found... but Braison Cyrus came on stage for the Final song with his Guitar Player Mikey from his band Burning Down Boston. . . They sang "Wild Thing" with Billy Ray - it was Great... but yet another moment the Girls are a bit too young to appreciate. We got a picture of them wth Braison so when he hits it big...

He was very sweet to kneel down to be more at level with the girls!

So there you have it... one day I'm sitting in a chair at a halloween party and the next I'm rocking out with Billy Ray Cyrus!

Halloween with the GBA!

I love Halloween these days... we have been focusing on creating costumes rather than buying them, and this year was another creative year!

Lauren, 7 years old... Miley Cyrus/Hanna Montana

This was a FUN costume to do with the "best of both worlds" options!

She was Miley during the day for our homeschool gathering and Hanna for the trick or treat festivities!

Lauren wore a new pair of jeans (and the only reason they are new is because the girl had the nerve to GROW!) and a "bling" decorated pink top... the jacket was a "dress up" item from Grandma Rosalia... all I bought was a blonde wig and the little microphone headset.

She looks great!

Douglas wanted to be his favorite cartoon network character - Ben 10. We saw a costume in the stores for over $30.00... and I knew I could make it. White t-shirt, black paint, some kakhi pants and wa-la = Ben 10! Douglas never was able to make the omnitrix transform him into an alien - but he keeps trying!

Megan had her heart set on being a witch. Score - A witch is such an easy costume to make - I even have black sheets I could have used... but my little girl wanted NOTHING to do with Mommy making the costume because she had seen one in the store and fell in love... sheet draping I can do - full on costume sewing, not so much --- so I did purchase this witch costume for about $10 at K-Mart..it came with the hat, so score on that one! Megan's daytime look was simple and "clean" - her night time look just added some green face paint for a more "witchy" appearance.

Here are my three cuties all together.

So my creativity does not end with the kids... since before Douglas was born, the buddies have dressed for halloween as well...




Left we have Quackers, the Snow Princess... Center we have Big Baboo the Cave Man (er, Cave Whale??), and on the Right we have Bulloney the Vampire - fangs and all!

I hope you all had a safe happy Halloween!