HAPPY HALLOWEEN

On the tail of Cousin Connor's birthday bash in Abilene, the Le Unit celebrated Halloween in style. Fayte dressed as one of her favorite movie characters, Coraline, and Hudson dressed in a homemade Max costume from "Where The Wild Things Are."

Cousin Connor turns 2

Jumping around with Aunt Vian

A skeleton helps himself to a sippy-cup

A couple of handsome skeletons

Max's Wolf Suit

Coraline

FALL IS HERE

The last week of Summer was celebrated with flu bugs for all! Luckily everyone came out unscathed and the yard looks 100 times better these days as Ba Noi showed off her green thumb when she came up to help the fam through illness.





You know what else is starting to look better? Hudson's halloween costume. This year, Hudson will be donning Max's wolf suit from Where The Wild Things Are. Surprisingly, nobody makes this even with the Spike Jonez film coming out so we're putting it together ourselves. Here it is about halfway done. We're pretty excited and so is he.



Fayte will be Coraline this year. Stay tuned for pix!



With the cooler temperatures and football on TV, Fall also means BBQ in Texas. Since we don't have a smoker, we had to improvise today:



Yep. That's a smoker alright. Thanks to Food Network's Alton Brown, we were able to take his instructions and turn an ordinary cardboard box into a brisket-making machine!



The contraption consisted of an electric griddle, oak chips, a roasting rack, 2 dowels to hold the rack in place and a digital oven thermometer.



Add in a nice dry-rubbed brisket carmelized in Salt Lick BBQ sauce and you've got yourself some heavenly TX BBQ in 8 hours! Shockingly, the makeshift smoker worked like a charm and best of all, its recyclable! We're thinking of making one of these Alton Brown Flower Pot Smokers in the future. Gotta admit its a lot friendlier to the eyes.

HUDSON TURNS ONE

Mini Mac made it over the 1-year hill this weekend and all of his cousins came over to celebrate.


Little man started his big day with some birthday TV time


Fayte wore her finest for the festivities


Couch surfing with Champ


Sharing animal crackers with Champ


Mommy made a special cake for Hudson


Our MVP of the day




Cousin Connor, Hadley and Fayte


Time for presents


A new guitar!


Hookem!


New jeans from Mimi and Papa


Momma's chicken legs


They are so skinny!


Aunt Tania and Aunt Kristi came through with sweet kicks.


Modeling Aunt Kristi's new shoes


It's blurry, but Fayte's "Old-Lady-Bingo-Winner" face is priceless. The kids loved this toy from Aunt Vian.


Ba Noi bought Hudson a brand new house!


Baby EINSTEIN!




Fayte models a new Yankees outfit from Ba Noi


Hudson displays some Longhorn pride via Aunt KJ and Uncle Andrew



Ba Noi, Cousin Connor, Aunt Kristi, Mom and the birthday boy


Uncle Patrick and the puppies


After a big day, Hudson is pooped.

LOOK WHO'S WALKING!

Right before his first birthday, Hudson succumbs to the power of Cocoa Puffs.

LOOK WHO'S WALKING! from Khoa Le on Vimeo.

FAYTE GOES TO SCHOOL!

Today was a HUGE day for the Le Family as Fayte had her first day of school and Hudson decided to finally walk after only teasing us with a few steps here and there the last few weeks. As you can tell from this picture, Fayte wasn't very pleased about waking up to go to class.


Look how excited she is about her first day!


Hudson on the other hand, was thrilled to see his sister off.


Fayte did warm up after she met her teacher and new friends at Grace Academy


And when we came to pick her up, she couldn't wait to tell us about her day. It's going to be a good year.