The Same Every Year

I will forever buy school pictures just so when they come in I can text Jason and ask him if he wants to see his school picture.  

This year's text to him was:

Your 4th grade school picture came out great.

Reed actually looks more like Jason than he ever has

JR didn't even bring home and order form, just these little stickers that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with.  

At least he still looks like me.

First and Last Season

JR's first, only, and absolutely last football season is over.

Some of the Ingersolls did a better job of watching his games than others.

He Found a Ride

Just like I promised, I was nowhere near the Astros World Series parade on Friday afternoon.

There were 1 million crazies who did turn out for it, one of which was JR.

He never could find any of his friends' parents that were going, so he wound up going with our next door neighbor's brother's family.

Oh yes, you read that right.  My next door neighbor...her brother was taking his family, and JR finagled a ride with them...we've never even met these people (nor had JR).  

It was very sweet of them to take a stranger with them to the parade, and JR said it was awesome and totally worth it.

Here he is, enjoying his view from a 2nd story parking garage. 

Just look at all those people! No thank you!!! 

Lights, Camera, Auction

Jason and I went to the elementary school auction on Saturday night.

The best part about it was that I wasn't an auction chair! 

It was a movie theme, and when I asked Jason what he wanted to be he thought of his favorite scene in all of cinematic history:

The dart scene from Old School.  If you haven't seen it, here it is:

And here's my version...Jason wore a baseball cap because I don't have a Will Ferrell wig in my prop closet (I only have an afro.)

(Yes, I made Jason's dart out of a left over party horn I had lying around.)

I had a last minute costume change (like 15 minutes before we walked out the door) and went as Dolly Parton's character Miss Mona in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. 

Miss Mona may or may not have wound up on stage with the DJ for most of the night, but if you know Miss Mona, then you know she probably did. 

Yay Texas, not The Texans

I'm behind on what's been going on, so I'm just going to start with today and work backwards.

We went to The Texans game today.

I'm mad at the The Texans for kneeling during the National Anthem last week so I refused to wear any of their gear.

I wasn't the only one, as most of the stadium was in orange instead of red.  

And the most cheers of the whole game was for The Astros that appeared with the World Series trophy on the sidelines.

My favorite moment was Reed trying to kick a field goal in the Kids Zone.

This clip is so funny I have it regular speed and slow motion.  

Watch how his shoe flies off during his kick!

Houston Strong

 The Astros won the World Series.

JR didn't get to go to the World Series, but I never saw this picture of him until he showed it to me last night...one of his teachers sent it to him. 

Here's JR with just 1 out left to go in the game.

On the other hand, Chloe was cool as a cucumber.

Here's the big win

Like JR, all of Houston has lost their minds.  HISD has cancelled school tomorrow for the parade downtown. (Luckily, we are not in HISD.) 

 JR thinks he's going to the parade; hopefully he has a friend with a nicer mom than me.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm excited for Houston and excited for the Astros, but I'm not about to go get in the middle of all that insaneness.

Halloween

Usually our streets look like Mardi Gras for Halloween.

Thankfully we had 2 things that kept the crowds away this year.

1.  It started raining about 4:00 and never let up

2. The Astros came on at 7:20

As my kids do every year, they changed their Halloween costume at the last minute. This is the reason I didn't even buy them anything until Saturday.

Kyle went as a cat.

Here he is with our next door neighbor in a costume I will never know anything about since I don't have girls. 

Kyle took off with his friends, and at one point they showed back up at the house looking like this.

Their Halloween costumes consisting of a pair of vampire teeth.

Reed wanted a "morph suit" and settled on this alien one.  

He added the wig.

Reed went to Sean's neighborhood to trick or treat. 

Sean, who had been President Trump for the school party, liked Reed's zipper face so much he wanted to do it.

So this is Sean's zipper face.  (I'm glad my kids aren't the only ones who always change their Halloween costumes.)

Even with the rain Reed came in with a good haul of candy.

I'm not even sure what Kyle's candy situation looked like. I think he was too busy running off to the neighborhood girls' houses...the girls were also busy running over here looking for him.

JR was working on Halloween.

He DJed a party and went dressed as Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell from Semi Pro.)

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It kinda cracked me up because in 2012 I dressed JR up as this exact same thing.

Here's what I wrote:

 I figured JR could go as Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell's character in Semi Pro). 

Of course JR has never seen Semi Pro, but he knows Will Ferrell from Elf, so he was all for it. 

5 years later JR has seen Semi Pro many times and absolutely loves it.

I'm pretty proud of myself for knowing him so well.