Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!!!

I took Emily to a pumpkin patch to get pictures for Halloween. I didn't think the scarecrows would scare her because she sees them in our neighborhood and talks about them . . . but when I walked away to take a picture of her she freaked out:

So the rest of the pictures are really close because Emily had to make sure she was close enough to me to touch me. We spent about 30 minutes walking around trying to get her to be o.k. with me not holding her. Then we moved to her walking but we had to hold hands . . .

To finally walking a few steps away from me to ALMOST touch the pumpkin painting . . .

and then we sat together for a few minutes on the ground . . .

We are going to a festival tonight at a church near our house. I'm looking forward to it! We hope you all have a great Halloween!!!!

The Right Stuff

You got the Right Stuff . . . Baby . . .You're the reason why I sing this song . . .

Oh my oh my . . . Tara and I went to the NK0TB concert last night and had a blast!!!! Were any of you fans back in the day? I went to their concert 2 or 3 times in high school . . . we even found out what hotel they were staying at one time and saw them briefly before getting on their tour bus . . . I CAN'T FIND MY PICTURES FROM THAT!!! AAAAHHHH!!

Anyway, last night was fun. It was a bunch of 30 year old women screaming and carrying on like we were 15. Some of these guys are pushing 40 now . . . wow. My fav was Jordan and he is still a cutie! There were lots of people dressed up like the late 80s with their side ponytails and pink tights . . . freaky!

Tara and I got home at 1:30 this morning so I'm doing all I can to stay awake!!! Good times.

Here they are Now

and then . . .wow

Stuffed Animals

I walked into the living room last night and Emily had lined her animals up in a semi circle. I guess she was playing "school" like me and my sister used to do ALL THE TIME. We would line our baby dolls and barbie dolls up and then pull out school books and paper to teach class. It was also cold enough for Emily to wear a sweater yesterday. She looked so "grown up" in her clothes . . . I don't think I like it!!!!

The pink baby must be the teacher and all the others are students:

Post It Girl

Emily helped herself to some post it notes last night. Joe helped her put some on while she tried to decorate Bud also:

Moving stuff around

We spent last night and all of day today moving furniture around in Emily's room and our computer room. As you will see below, our computer room was WAY overrun with computers and junk . . . and since we are planning on being here a while longer it was time to clean!

We ordered two smaller desks and Joe put them together last night and this afternoon. This morning we moved everything out of the computer room and then moved the double bed from Emily's room and put it in the computer room. We then moved the two filing cabinets into the closet and moved our new computer desks in to the room. It was a lot of work but I'm very pleased with the results! Now Emily has more room for her toys, guests can spend the night at our house without worrying about waking Emily up, and our computer room now looks normal.

We should have done this 2 years ago . . . but you live and learn!

Here are the before and after shots:

Emily's room before and after:

Emily was such a trooper today since she went unsupervised for a lot of the time while we moved stuff around. So that also means that we have crayon marks on our wall and piano : ) But the Magic Eraser (my favorite household item) cleaned those marks right up! Emily got upset when we took the crayons away from her for coloring in places she wasn't supposed to . . . but she got over it. I also discovered that she colored on her yellow chair . . . crazy girl!

Here she is coloring in places that were o.k. These were the computer desks boxes so this kept her busy last night. She also enjoyed sitting by the door and coloring on some paper:

Grocery shopping

I don't normally shop at P blix because it's more expensive . . . but man I wish I did all the time because their grocery carts for kids are way cool! Emily loved driving around with the car and the cart wasn't gargantuan like it is at other stores. I saw in the flyer this week that Boston Butts were on sale for 1.99 a pound . . . so because I have my new freezer I knew I could go buy one and freeze it . . . . yea!!!!! I also had several $1 off coupons so we used those too.

And the Winner Is . . .

Joe and Me!!!!!

A few months ago Joe and I watched the movie National Treasure. At the end of the movie they had a special from our internet provider to submit some type of treasure answer (I don't even remember now what all it was) and qualify for a grand prize for 4 people to see London and Paris. I'm always up for a cool trip to Europe so I filled out the little questionnaire online and then forgot about it. Well yesterday afternoon, Fedex left us a little package from National Treasure to tell us. . . we won! Not the big trip for 4 . . . but a National Treasure t-shirt. Ha! Apparently 1 person won the trip and 50 other people got a T-shirt!!!! So no trip to London and Paris for Joe and me and 2 other fun people : (

But look at this lovely t-shirt:

I also snapped a couple of pictures of Miss Priss in her Halloween shirt:
And last but definitely not least . . . Happy Birthday to my Mom today!!!!! Hope you have a great one!!!!