Not your typical field trip

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Today, Taylor and I got the rare opportunity to tour the Nevada FBI headquarters thanks to my great friend, April, who arranged everything. It was most definitely not your typical field trip. The parents had to pass a background check, sign privacy disclosures, walk through metal detectors, no cameras, etc. However, the most significant difference I found with this field trip versus past field trips was the fact that our kids got to go inside the FBI gun vault to learn about all of their weapons and even got to hold one of their Tommy guns. You would probably have a parade of angry mothers in the front office of the elementary school threatening law suits had this been a regular school field trip.

Thanks, April, for taking the time to set up such a unique and fun field trip for us!

Halloween 2009

The little butterfly who hated her wings and yelled "Gimme a treat!" at every house. She has told everyone that she was Abby Cadaby from Sesame Street. Please no one tell her that she was a butterfly, it makes her really mad. ;)

Sydney is infamous for picking a gruesome costume. She has been wearing her fangs for about a month now and also running as fast as she can around the house to make sure her cape flew behind her. She was so excited for Halloween this year and couldn't be bothered waiting for her sisters while trick or treating. She was usually 2 or 3 houses ahead of the rest of us.

Taylor has always chosen to be some sort of princess every year. Even her bat costume in Kindergarten turned into a bat princess. This year she wanted to be an Egyptian princess so I introduced her to Cleopatra. She played the royalty part well as usual. I think she was mostly excited that her dad let her wear makeup this year.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!