I'm finally putting some pictures up from the beach. Mostly the kids--more pics after the jump.

Last night was a tough game to watch. I have two suggestions for the Heels: start making your free throws and stop taking 3-pointers. An ill-advised 3 is essentially a turnover and we left a lot of points at the line. I don't remember who I was talking to yesterday, but I said if we hold smith to under 30, we'll have a chance to win. Unfortunately I was right.

Silver lining--we still control our own destiny. Win the rest and we still win the ACC, and I would rather win in March than in February.

Just for a pick-me-up, here are some pics of the kids.

I don't know how this didn't get posted before, but here are the kids in their Halloween outfits. Brooklynne was the costume maker once again. I'll put a couple more pics after the break.

No one pushed trucks or balls into his hands. In fact, you could argue that he has had more chances to play with dolls than anything else (because of Halleigh), but the boy just loves trucks. I guess there's something to be said for having a Y chromosome.

Blue Steel? Magnum? Or La Tigre?

Sometimes eating can wear a guy out, especially when you're already plumb tuckered.

First of all, let me apologize for the totally lame effort at posting yesterday. While the bowl schedule is useful to have at my fingertips (without cluttering up my bookmarks with links that will be obsolete in a month), I should not have been so lazy.

Actually, I planned to post a video of the Stella scooter I'm hoping to purchase this year, but I got distracted in my search by other videos of scooter crashes, panda attacks, and people farting. Isn't youtube a fascinating meeting place of all things base and disturbing (and therefore grossly funny)? (Update: more Stella news and even more. Guess what color I want.)

Anyhow, last night, we finally initiated our Christmas shopping. Pop and T had the kids, so we were free to shop for Halleigh, and we got some other gift ideas for the sibs, which made the search a little easier.

We kept running into a problem though: what would we get Beau that Halleigh doesn't already have. I mean, we can get him some clothes, but we kept seeing toys that are already available at home. Blocks? Got some. Shape-sorter? Got it. Bath toys? Got those too. Books? Sooo many. etc. etc. etc. We can always buy new and different varieties, but it's hard to find stuff that isn't really similar to what we already have.

Have other parents of multiple kids run into the same issue?

We never posted Halloween pictures, so here are a few. HJ was a bunny and Beau was her carrot. Kudos to Brooklynne for making both costumes. You can click the images for a view of the full-sized pictures.