high art, candy lust & lottie sue catches like a girl

This past weekend was BUSY. But fun. Lucky for you we are photo-taking fools and we have lots to share with you. It will be like you were there. Or here I guess.

Oh yeah, if you live in Knox Vegas and get the News Sentinel be sure to check out A4 next Monday (I think, it could be the Monday after that). They are running my Matt and Lottie Sue photo (look to your right) in their "Reader's Eye" feature. Once it goes up online I will post a link, but once again I'M FAMOUS!

Anywho...Tommy was featured as an artist in the Maryville Art Walk on Friday. It was a big honor and also a big hit. His show was held at Boyd Thomas (go shop there, I bought an awesome sweater that I wore all weekend) and there was a great turnout. It was pretty awesome to see his paintings in such a venue, we have one of his paintings and he used it in the show - some fella wanted to buy it but we said NO WAY! He also created a new and very special painting...see below.

two lottie sue mowrers, there is a rip in the space/time continuum

kristina and megan pose with lottie sue
(who couldn't bother to put her phone away for this shot)

the ar-teest

check out the painting of kristina there, purty

and let's not forget megan on the wall!

matt, sam (aka, dipsey) and tommy talk about the finer points of art

here is a better shot of lottie's portrait

matt took this and i thought megan's face was funny so i'm posting it

megan, amanda, christina and moi

Saturday was a busy day, we did a little shoe shopping (everyone scored but me, I have Big Foot feet...sigh) and then it was Halloween time. It was a rainy day but Lottie Sue got a few houses in before we quit. She was quite pleased with a handful of items.

lottie sue was a flapper and rowdy was a pumpkin pirate
(the non-pillaging kind)

kisses for baby brother

Here she is after we got home, drenched. At the beginning of the trick or treating, Lottie would get her candy then walk into the neighbor's house. She wasn't quite getting it, but after a few houses she was down with it. The rain really put a damper (pun intended) on the evening, we had only a handful of trick or treaters and we usually have a ton - PLUS some of the neighbors turned their garages into haunted houses for the kids and the rain just poo poo'd on it. Anywho, here she is with her candy.

nom nom nom

And here she is going ballistic on Bebin (Kevin) for getting too close to it - she DID NOT want to share.

GO AWAY BEBIN

The Vols stomped South Carolina Saturday night, but their outfits were almost as exciting - go black and orange!

how fun, i loved it

Then yesterday was church, YUMMY lunch followed by a lazy afternoon.

Side note: If you like meatloaf you HAVE to make Martha Stewart's All-American Meatloaf - it is the bomb. And you don't have to use veal in it if you don't want to, adding pork is enough to push it over into the awesome category. I think we first had this with Megan but it soon fell into our fall/winter meal rotation. Trust me on this, make it.

We took a lot of photos while watching football, see?

rowdy was upset by how peyton was playing

here i think he was trying to look up a cheerleader's skirt (the shame)

lottie sue was busy doing flips and laughing

rowdy the composer

Before dinner we went outside to play - Lottie Sue loves to run, climb and go down slides.

here she is running

and climbing

and sliding - WHEE (high on life)

She also likes to play ball, but she totally catches like a girl.

it would help if her eyes were open

Have a great week, over and out!

PS: New York Magazine wrote an article about Knoxville, I learned a thing or five. I need to get out more.

don't be scared, happy birthday to becce & the obligatory pumpkin patch trip

boo - wahhh ha haaaaa

Do you like our pumpkins? I think they are pretty neat, Rowdy has the little one there with Lottie Sue having the next biggest and then Matt's is on the left and mine is on the right. We let Lottie Sue draw her face and then Matt carved it exactly - not bad for a two-year old. We did have to say "draw a circle HERE" in order to have it resemble a face but that is acceptable.

Oh yes, and I must say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Becce - whee! She is recovering from a nasty gallbladder attack/gallbladder removal but will still enjoy the day. We love you!!!

why yes. yes, they are.

Matt is responsible for the image above, he made it for Becce's 25th birthday (I think). It never gets old...

I'll post the carving selection of photos below, but first let me share with you photos from our pumpkin patch trip. I started going to pumpkin patches once I had kids. It is simply what you do. It sure is fun though. Lottie Sue, of course, loves it and then so of course WE love it. Good, family fun. The weather was perfect and this particular patch was right down the street, it made it easy for us since we have a newborn.

Check out our trip!

punkins punkins everywhere

lottie sue checking out the gourds

she finds the perfect "baby punkin" for baby brother

lottie sue outside the punkin shack express,
she thought it was the bees knees

lottie sue in the midst of a pumpkin gathering

here i am with a weird look on my face holding rowdy

lottie sue and her daddy

oh my, lookee what we found in the pumpkin patch - rowdy mowrer!

lottie sue had to touch every pumpkin there

matt and the kids

matt and rowdy

lottie sue flashing that million dollah smile

Matt, Rowdy and Lottie then go investigate the other produce available...

lottie sue looked in every single basket

We concluded the trip with everyone picking out their very own pumpkin. Lottie Sue found this most exciting.

"i wahn dis one"

lottie sue helps matt find the perfect one

seriously, look at her - she is about to explode

Here we are carving the pumpkins - it was FUN. We have about 1,000 pumpkin seeds that I am going to dress and bake this evening. YUM. Eating pumpkin seeds takes me back...

mr. pumpkin gets knifed

lottie sue draws her face with the help of matt/daddy

she then knifes her own pumpkin with a butter knife
(this was a staged photo - no emails, please)

we let her scoop out the insides - she LOVED
doing this and did a very good job BTW

sticky fun

voila, lottie sue's punkin is finished and ready for halloween

Well, there you have it. It's all Halloween all the time over here in Mowrerland. Lottie Sue likes to run around yelling "Hap Halloween" and we like it, too.