What a morning!

Just got back from shopping with my friend Kari. We spent 4 hours at The Bay finding outfits for our modelling night on Saturday---Whew, it was exhausting. Sure glad I don't do this professionally--I think my job is much easier!

Anyway, we'll be modelling at the "holiday girl time gala" at The Bay on Sat. night from 6-9PM. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at The Bay.

Come and watch us fall flat on our faces as we try to walk in our heels!

The kids had a great time trick-or-treating this year. Neither one could barely wait until it was time to go. I thought for sure we'd be out for at least 2 hours, but after maybe 30-40 minutes Avery was finished and Blake maybe lasted for 1 1/2 hours. They still got a good haul although I know that I'll be the one eating most of it. Blake sticks to his aero bars and hamburger gummies and that's all he'll eat. I've just discovered that Avery will actually eat alot more....smarties, kit-kat, fuzzy peaches, skittles, starburst, swedish berries---I'll definately have to monitor her candy intake! And we actually had the most kids we've ever had this year--around 60. We even had to dig into the kids stash for the last few kids as we ran out of our own.

Forgot to mention earlier that we finally made it out to Robertson Valley Farm this year to pick out our pumpkins. Usually I'm too late..by the time I think of it, they've usually closed for the season. We went with Kari and Damon and Danica....We pretty much let them pick out their very own pumpkins with barely any suggestions on our part. I think their favorite part was pulling the pumpkins back to the car. Damon lifted all the pumpkins into the wagon by himself---and believe me---they were heavy! Blake, being the lazy one, got Damon to pull him in the wagon along with the pumpkins. What a goof!

Are you ready??

The pumpkins are carved....



The decorations are up....



The candy is ready to go....


Now all we have to do is wait!

Tomorrow is black and orange day at school, I thought I'd buy Blake a shirt and some iron-on decals at Michaels for something a little different.

Only problem is that I didn't have time to do it before I had to work tonight....

Thank goodness I have a darling husband who does it for me while I work. He's lucky that Blake likes to keep things simple---guess I'll be returning the halloween buttons that he didn't want to use.

Vegas Baby!

Psych!--this is the money we used to fund our trip to Vegas this year. If you remember, I won this on our cruise last year and I've been able to sit on it all this time just waiting to spend it.

We weren't so lucky in Vegas, but we managed to come back with way more money than we expected. We pretty much broke even gambling--it helps when you play this machine and win $1000. Yup, about 5AM on my birthday (my 35th!!) I stumbled to this machine with Dale and said "lets play this one". We got the bonus spin and it landed on 1000X $1.00. We were pretty happy about that!

Vegas is always a blast and I must say this was probably one of the funnest times ever. The weather was gorgeous (over 30 degrees every day), the gambling was good, the gambling was good...can't say I did much of anything else. Shopped a little, ate the best steak in my life at this restaurant and had a great time here celebrating my birthday.

But now it's back to the real world until our next trip there. I really think some of you should join us next time!

Funnest day ever!

First snow falls are the best.

SnowAngels...




Snowball fights...




Snowcastles (at least that's what the kids called it)...



Making sugar cookies with good friends....






Having the kids destroy the snowman you built by pummeling it to death with their feet and then throwing its head out on to the street to watch the cars run over it!



As Blake said tonight before bed.."This was the funnest day ever!"

Oh, Kari I still wish we would have gotten a video of Damon and Blake doing "The Macarena" on the couch and laughing their heads off over it. There's nothing like the genuine gut laugh of a child to make your day.

VICTIM

I have just experienced my first taste of maliciousness that I didn't really know existed in my small little blog world.

I have been a victim of a very hurtful comment in response to a comment that I left on KAGS blog. You can check it out under the comments on this post.

I wasn't even going to acknowledge it as it seems very trivial to what I'm dealing with right now, but things like this don't sit very well with me and until I acknowledge it, I can't rid myself of it.

So, to my friends who follow my blog, please don't think that my comment posted on KAGS blog was meant to be hurtful to anyone. My good friends that know me, know my personality and know that when I comment anything, it is very lighthearted in nature. I don't always leave the "LOL's" or "ha-ha's" because when I comment on my friends blogs, I know they understand me.

So for you "Anonymous" commenter, perhaps you should think twice before you leave such comments. I'm not going to satisfy you with a rude comment back, but I will satisfy you by letting you know that what you commented achieved its ultimate goal---I was hurt, I cried and I question my desire to leave comments on my friends blogs in the future.

However, I will offer you some advice for the next time you comment----- you may want to be a little more mature and leave your name---hiding behind "Anonymous" is very cowardly.
Perhaps you should visit Saucy's blog here and take the "Blog with Integrity" pledge!