McBecker Halloween Party

In its heydey, the "Greenlawn Palace" crew used to have some of the best Halloween parties ever, but since the alliance dissolved, there were none to compare. . . .until now!! Well, not quite, since I remember a lot more chaos at those gatherings and I think Jesse and Sarah would want to keep their house looking nice!! Either way, the "McBecker" party was a lot of fun!

Marsha and "Sideshow Bob" (aka Jesse)

Shiver me timbers, matey!

More Halloween!

During the day, Joe and I ventured over to Ft. Meade on Halloween to visit Ken! Joe decided to wear his other costume for this trip (thanks Aunt Ann!). Unfortunately, we were too late to enter the Costume Contest....well, not that there would have been any contest if 'Chicken Joe' had entered the competition!!

Ready to go see Daddy!

I am a happy little chicken!

Trick or Treat!

We decided to decorate our house with spooky decorations for Halloween this year. It was low-tech but this was our first try! We draped the porch with black sheets, put crows in some branches we had saved (from Ken's pruning of the front yard tree), spiderwebs, and ghosts in the trees. Add some scary music in the background and a skeleton with a cape and we were set. Rubi, Lindsay, and Mamama Ruth came over to join us in the fun. We only had about 40 kids come by this year but we all had fun!

The full view of our "Haunted House"

Our little devil shows off his outfit and a picture of the nefarious gentleman who was the inspiration for the costume

Hey, Rubi. . . that costume is a good look for you!

My two boys are devilishly handsome!

Pumpkin picking

We went on our first annual pumpkin picking extravaganza this Sunday, October 21 to Butler's Orchard in Germantown. Uncle Rubi and Lindsay came with us for the event! There were fields and fields of pumpkins to choose from and we came home with quite a few beauties. In fact, we bought so many that we were asked by different people such things like "What are you going to do with all those pumpkins?" and "Are you going to carve them all?" to which we would answer...."We like pumpkins!!! Leave us alone!!"

Look at all our pumpkins!

Joe slept through the First Annual Pumpkin Picking
Extravaganza. Better luck next year!

Mine is bigger than yours!

I found a good one . . . again!

The harvest is loaded into the Jeep!

Autumn feast

I channeled my Martha Stewart side this weekend for dinner at home with Ken's buddy from residency Dan and his wife Julie (parents of 1 year old quads and a 6 year old!). How they managed to get away is a good question, but they eventually made it! Pumpkin spice soup, Harvest moon cocktails, tasty steaks and chocolate pumpkin cake were part of the menu. We were stuffed to the gills by the end of it!

Marsha, Ken, Dan and Julie enjoy an adult dinner (no kids!)
A picture of the feast!

Maryland Homecoming!

Saturday, October 20 was Homecoming at the University of Maryland and even though we couldn't make it to the game, we met up with our friends Amy, Scott and their son Ryan for lunch in College Park! They live in Tennessee and we don't get to see them that often so it was really good to get together! Plus, they had not yet met Joe!

Let's go Terps!

Gotcha!!! Ryan did not want his picture taken and
was playing hide and seek with us!

The Terp Motto: "Get 'em while they are young!"

Displaced Terps from Memphis at our old college hangout,
Ratsie's restaurant

Why did the Terps lose, Mommy? I just don't understand!!

Cheburger Cheburger

Today we had lunch with Jessica at Cheburger Cheburger (a burger place in Olney) which provided ample new photo ops since I had no pictures of Joe with Jessica!

Happy little Joe stared at the fans in the restaurant while Jess and I had lunch!