Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from

my Hallo-weiner!

Made this up to look back at past Halloweens with E's cousins.

Here are some of my Halloween & Fall decorations around the house.

I made that 'boo sign' myself for only $1! It was not my idea, though. I got it from Joys of Home.


It is a Dollar Store frame and print up BOO in different fonts and the glue on top of newspaper back. So cute and so cheap!












Our Halloween treats at work...Sally brought in those yummy Lindt truffles all dressed up like cute pumpkins





Tonight we will be passing out these...




I'm going to try to leave work early to get E ready to go out.

And Happy Birthday, Amanda!! Yeah, you're 8!! Her birthday party is Sat.

Fall decor

Last weekend we went to my parent's for Sunday dinner.


I love my mother's fall porch display...



and this great little gourd...




After dinner we were entertained by the kindergarteners songs...






Then Amanda even remembered the Months-of-the-Year Macarena!

On Saturday was trick or treating around the square...

And this year Ethan has chose to be...

a HOT DOG!

This is the day when his Ga & Poppy find out what he will be for Halloween

at Ga's store...

He got a ton of candy there and Ga had to give him $5 dollars, too!

I'm making cookies to take to work tomorrow! Holly is going to miss out (ha!).

Presidential Election according to Ethan

I was curious if Ethan understood anything about the election or at least recognized Obama or McCain.
I played the video clip of Obama below and asked him if he knew who he was.
He said he had seen him on tv.
Ethan: "Yes, it is him and another contestant." (wow, too much reality competition shows)
Ethan: "The one that wins has to leave the country."
Me: (laughing) "No, the one that wins will LEAD the country."

I just asked him again and this time he said the one that loses has to leave the country.
Ethan is on fall break, Thurs & Friday off. I decided to take Friday off.

I got my hair cut today. 7 inches off! I needed an update or sorts. It hasn't been the short in sooo long. Ethan was so cute waiting for me to come inside to see my new hairdo. He immediately said he liked it. Aww, what a charmer.

We just ran out the grocery store and I forgot to grab the dvd to return it to the redbox. Had to make a 2nd trip out in the pouring rain this time to return the dvd. I found a redbox code to get a free dvd. I wanted to get Sex in the City, but it wasn't in so I got Baby Mama. Waiting until E goes to bed so I can watch it.
T has possibly his last football game left tonight. I just checked score online and doesn't look good. They are losing 35 -0 at halftime. I love the nwitimes shows live score updates now. No more searching for it possibly on the radio. I didn't make it to any games this year, but not surprising. E went to 2 with T's parents.

I am so loving T's new laptop he got through work. He brings it home with him so I get to use it late at night. He usually gets on it in mornings. We told E he couldn't use it at all. That lasted maybe a day. He will ask to use it by saying "Can I have laptop practice?" He actually did catch on to the finger pad mouse thingie. What is that called?

E got his interium reports last month. He got all good checks, but she wrote at the bottom, "needs to practice skipping" Was surprised by that, sort of. We asked him to skip for us, and it was pure comedy. Wow, our kid doesn't know how to skip. Do you know how to teach someone how to skip? Not the easiest thing to teach, at all.
Well, good news is that he finally got it. About 2 weeks ago, he just says, "Mommy, watch me skip" And he did it perfectly! I asked him who helped with it and he said he just watched and caught on to it. Now he will skip right along, no problem.

I still need to put up my pumpkin lights on our porch, need T to help out with that.

Obama Roll

So clever....so funny! Love it!

Happy Birthday, Holly!

Since I didn't have to make up for birthday signs this year...
you get an e-card!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Happy Birthday!

White Sox Win AL Central Title!

For my sister and my dad...
the true Sox fans in our family...




this video is awesome...taken from the seats...wow!


I know that other Chicago team won it, too.


I found this old commercial from 1979, I sort of remember it, well at least the song.


Update: Check out this new rap song for the Sox, I just found...the video with it is great, especially check out at 1:51

Fall is here!

The arrival of Fall at our house means ACORNS!




We took the time and picked them all up last weekend. I did a little on Sat. then the rest on Sunday.
We raked some, sat on the ground and picked up by hand, and then used the shop vac on most of them. We noticed our neighbors were using their shop vac to suck them up! Well, ours is too little, hose was only getting one at a time. We borrowed T's parents heavy duty one and it worked like a champ! We spend a good 3 hours out there getting them all out from our front lawn. WE filled 2 big garbage cans of acorns! Didn't get a pic of all of them in the cans, but it was quite impressive.

Ethan thought it looked like fun to suck them up and helped some. (a good 15 min.)

I love the fall season! Picked up some yummy caramel apples.



I have 4 potted mums I got at Meijer for $2 each! I want to get at least 2 more larger ones this weekend at T&J's. It makes me sad to put away the potted impatients & geraniums, especially now when they are not dead yet!

This weekend is Covered Bridge Harvest Fest in CP. Not sure if we will go on Sat or Sun yet. We went last year and it was ok, we liked the wagon ride.

I just ordered E's halloween costume. He picked it out.

I am selling his pirate costume from last year on Ebay. I usually make a profit off of them on there, plus they are buying it used! I've been selling a lot of his 4T clothes in the last few weeks. I've made over $110 so far!

Trying to decide if we should tear up our carpet downstairs or at least do half of it. I'm liking some tile or laminate stone/tile. I need my mom to go with me to pick it out.

Picked up some seasonal candles at Yankee Candle.

I got Autumn Wreath-new one for me and Spiced Pumpkin-my fav. I got the 2 wick jar this time-new for me, too! Plus, these 2 scents were 25% off right now!

I'm going to get out my Halloween/Fall decorations tomorrow and get a start on it all.

Can't wait

Can't wait until fall tv season starts!
My fav is The Office




It is Must See TV for me!

Sick of this RAIN!

It has rained here the last 2 days. Overcast and yuck for 2 days! Tomorrow is still supposed to be overcast with more rain. Sick of it. Sick of water coming in downstairs in our laundry room and bathroom. I need to get those carpets cleaned still. Glad I waited, I guess.

Went to Target today with E and my mom. Nice time. We had to dodge some flooding to get there, though. She got E a cute Halloween shirt. I opted not to get one, I think I have a couple already.

We threw a last day party for my co-worker, Holly. Sally made a yummy choc. chip & m&ms cookie 'cake' and I got a bunch of fun-size m&ms and these cute little Pepsi cans. I printed up a big banner and laid it over the tables as a table cloth.

Funniest thing I must remember was when she walked in to the room...

She came to her own party with her 2 favorite things for all of us..

m&m's & Pepsi!!

Something to remember her by...

The girls got her this awesome new briefcase/bag and filled it with some new necessities like pantyhose! We had Elmo and m&ms, of course in there, too.

I made this funny sign for BigBird to hold...

CB with Holly, great pic of them holding the picture I made for her from all of us. It is a picture collage of all of us with her over the years, something she can hang up in her new office. (and it is up now- I saw it!)

I made up a funny - SP queen sash for her. (since she was a former beef & pork 4-H queen)

H- thanks for the girls lunch on Friday!

We went to Tyler's Tender on Sunday & used the gift cert from my parents. T had never been there. Fun place, you must sit at the counter and the train delivers your food. They just added an arcade room and E said next time he wants to play in there.

I'm really loving this season's Big Brother. E has been watching it with us, too! Earlier today he told me the exact order of each houseguest's eviction. Accurately and quickly. At least he has learned a new word, eviction!

Ethan's favorite since the first episode has been Renny or as he says 'Remmy' (red head & 54). I've like Keesha, blonde & 30. Pleases me so that they alligned and were super friends.

But when Renny was evicted E actually cried. We even told him prior that it was going to be her last day. He still got upset, actual tears people! T & I tried not to laugh. I love that T watches it with me. I love it so much that I will watch it with him a 2nd time when he comes home late.

This season has had the most likeable characters/houseguests. Yes, it has all types, but BB10 has more to root for. The finale is Tues. and the final 2 are Memphis & Dan. E & I are rooting for Dan, I think T likes M. I really think Dan will win. I think he deserves it more.

Dan better win! Had to post a pic of him with these swim trunks & red SMF shirt that he has worn pretty much every day in there for 3 months!

Lastly, a pic of our dog with our 'cousin dog'. First time they met at our house. Ashton was not amused by the puppy. And I stress PUPPY. Lightning was at our house for over an hour and Ashy I think was must upset that it took away from his napping time. Their dog just wanted to play & play. So funny. We had to watch him one Sat. when they were out of town. So decided to have him at our house so we didn't have to keep driving over to their house to let him out & stuff.