October 2005

October was a pretty busy month. The weather got a little cooler, the days a little shorter. Man, the year is practically over.


October 1, 2005

The Comet's third game of the season. Here Tyree's playing goalie.


Coach Mary and Sarah.


After the game.


October 2, 2005

Grift was still in Louisiana helping with the hurricane cleanup, so I took the kids to Busch Garden again. They started putting all the Halloween stuff out, so there were tons of pirate skeletons all over the park.


Sarah and Tyree took pictures with an Anheuser Busch clydesdale horse. Sarah didn't want to be this close to it, but Tyree didn't mind at all.


The kids went on almost all the kiddie rides. This was a cute little dragon water ride.


There were so many workers in Halloween attire throughout the park. This one lady's job was to sit on a bench in the dark just being creepy.


October 6, 2005

4th fall soccer game. Sarah gets to be goalie.


Candice, Sarah, and Brianna goofing around.


Basically, this is what Tyree was up to most of this game.


The kids running through the parent tunnel after the game.


October 13, 2005

Grift is now back from Louisiana and here he is in his unit's flag football game.


October 15, 2005

This was picture day for the soccer teams on Fort Lee. We didn't want to spend 30 to 50 dollars on a package that may or may not turn our great, so I just stood behind the photographer and took our own pictures. Here are the 4-6 year old Fort Lee Comets.


Tyree Kekai.


Sarah Malina. Look closely. She doesn't know that she's giving the bird, but she certainly was.


5th fall soccer game. Tyree kicking the ball.


The kids would sometimes start kicking the ball in the wrong direction, so they had to be reminded often. In the picture they were just asked which way they have to kick the ball.


On that same afternoon, the kids went to another neighbor's birthday party. This is Junior and his birthday cake.


October 20, 2005

6th Soccer game. Sarah throws the ball in.


Orange wedge break at half time.


October 22, 2005

7th Soccer game. See, Tyree's getting ready to pounce on the ball by biting his nails.


Sarah has just kicked the ball in this one.


after the soccer game we went to Busch Gardens for the last time of this year. We really made use of out passes. This is Tyree, Mommy and Sarah before we entered the Ireland section of the park.


The kids in a boat ride.


Tyree on a dragon ride.


Sarah on the bumper cars.


The whole family.


October 26, 2005

Sarah had her very first Kindergarten field trip. They went to Watkins Farm to pick pumicing from the pumpkin patch. I drove out there too, along with about 20 to 30 other parents. Here is her class on the hay bales.


This farmer told the kids stories and sang songs with them.


We were on a hay ride and passed by this hay catepillar in the middle of all these pumpkins.


After the hay ride we were dropped off at the entrance of a corn field maze.


Then the maze led us to this pumpkin patch, where all the children got to pick their very own pumpkin. Here's Sarah with her pumpkin.


We loaded up our pumpkins and then had our lunch on the grass.


Finally, all of the kids played in the playground until it was time for them to get back on the bus. Sarah had a great time. In fact, so did I. I can't say that I've been to a single pumpkin patch back home in Hawaii.


October 27, 2005

Tyree's Preschool had an parent and child art day, so Grift and I went and made Halloween crafts with him. This is Tyree and the spider that he made.


Mommy and Tyree made Jack-O-Lantern baskets.


Tyree and Daddy work on making more art.


October 28, 2005

Sarah's Kindergarten class had a Halloween play about pulling a pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch. They all did a great job, and afterwards they had all kinds of activities.


Here's the kids singing us songs. Sarah's in the pink pants, she was one of the pumpkins.


They got to decorate their own cup cakes.


Tyree got to join in the fun too. I had to pick him up early from pre-school because I wouldn't have been back on base in time after the play. His school does that $1.00 for every minute you're late thing, so he came with me. He didn't mind, he had so much fun.


They played a pumpkin bingo game.


There was a "put the eye balls in the jack-o-lantern relay game outside."


Tyree playing "pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern"


One of the moms read to them while they waited for their turn on one of the stations.


After the party, Mrs. Davis sent the kids home with a book as their Halloween treat.


This was Mrs. Davis' s class bulletin board display for October.


Here was Sarah's spot. I guess she's scared of 16 legged spiders.


October 29, 2005

Their 8th Soccer game. Sarah's goalie again and she's throwing the ball in.


You know, I probably yelled out "Tyree! Where's the ball!?" about 20 times a game. He clearly has the attention span of a four year old.


Going through the parent tunnel again.


October 31, 2005
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I took the kids to Dana's so they could get ready for Halloween with Hayden and Kyli. Here's the kids before we left the house to trick-or-treat.


We were out and we came upon our other neighbor Nadia, the witch.


This skeleton warrior is one of our neighbors. He had his whole yard decorated to the max with Halloween garb.


I can't believe how cool this shot came out. Our neighbor had these great (and expensive, more than $100 a piece) light sabers, so he and Tyree battled a little bit.


The Fairy and Darth Vader in our front yard.