Creepy Hollows

I love this costume, Reese looked super cute in it. She got a ton of compliments, and one kid even said, "Dude, that's a tight costume!" So Reese was the hit of the party I guess.

Can you say Evil? or is it goofy? We have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here.


"Creepy Hollows" at Dick's sporting goods park. The commerce city rec center put this cool little thing on. They had a bunch of fake doors set up all along the stadium and the kids got to knock on the doors and get candy. At the end, you got to go on a hayride with scooby doo and solve a mystery. It was really cute for the kids.

Ryan's company had a summer family picnic up at Heritage Square and the kids got free ride passes. They loved that, but Reese was a little sad because they had some stringent ride specifications and she could not ride a couple things that Elle did. Although, it was a little crazy because they let her ride the fast roller coaster, but not the banana airplanes in kiddieland.

A couple of weeks ago we went up through Fairplay and back around through Breckenridge to look at the aspens. They were beautiful, as always, but I think they would have been better if we would have waited one more week. But we thought they were pretty and the kids had fun hiking around nonetheless.

While Grandma and Grandpa were here the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circus was in town and the kids had a blast going to the circus. It was late school night for Elle, so she was VERY tired the next day at school, but it is all worth it for the circus, right?

So if you are squeamish I am so sorry that you had to see this, but Ryan was so proud of his first hunt find after three years of hunting that I figured I should probably include it on the blog. My dad and Ryan went hunting down in Colorado Springs a couple of weekends ago and Ryan got an antelpoe the first twenty minutes out. So now we have antelope meat in our freezer and it is actually pretty good.

That same night we had Elle's 5th birthday party with lots of fun, friends, food, and gymnastics. The kids had a BLAST, especially in the "pit". They jumped in over and over and over and over, well you get the point.

What the...?



In true "Haas" fashion. You can tell Elle is related to her dad. She looks pretty dang competitive in these pictures.

Okay, so our next big event was Elle's field day at school. For some crazy reason, they changed field day to the beginning of the year, which I think is crazy. I always was so excited for field day at the end of the year as something fun to do, but obviously they didn't ask for my opinion:)

And we had to take a picture of this on our way from Dallas to Houston because you only see something like this in Texas. In case you can't read the sign on the gas station it says, "Bait Sandwiches"

This is one of Ryan's favorite players, Ty Detmer, we just happened to see while we were walking ALL the way to the other side of the stadium in the sweltering heat

Okay, so since I am playing catchup, I will do another post today. So our next event after school started was the BYU/OU football game in Dallas, since we all know what BYU freakazoid my husband is. We flew down and stayed with my mom and dad and Ryan's brother and we all went to the game. It was super fun and, bonus (sorry Richards), the Cougs won!!! We also celebrated Elle's 5th birthday with the fam while we were down there and Elle got to have her first pedicure. It was SOO Cute!

More first day pics

Well since this is kind of a random start, I will start with Elle's first day of kindergarten. It was way back in August, but it is a good place to begin. She loves going to Thimmig and loves her teacher, Mrs. Barnes. I think Reese has finally gotten used to having Elle gone, although the first couple weeks were quite traumatizing. She cried everyday when we dropped Elle off, but I think she realizes now that she gets all the attention when Elle is gone. So it's great for her.