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Happy Halloween to everyone.

Halloween

We carved pumpkins. I just can't get enough of this little pumpkin. He is just too sweet.
























Everyone got into the Halloween
spirit this year...event the dog!







Tonight for dinner we had the "Creepy Cafe". On the menu-Mummy fingers, freaky fruit, sunken skulls (baked apples), oozing slime (baked brie) and some other goodies. Noah was too cute. He wrote out menus and was the waiter.




















Even dad was a good sport and dressed up for Trick or Treating.

Let the parties begin!

 

The friday before Halloween To do list
1. get everyone in costume
2. load car for first party
3. Halloween parade. Man I love that our school still does this!!
4. Noah's party-I had 3 wafflemakers going making hot pumpkin waffles with chicken apple sausage and fruit.
5. head back home to finish ghost merringues.
6. pack up car with ghost cookies and pumpkin muffins.
7. don't forget treats for the teachers.
8. back to school for Zach's party.
9. head over to Joey's party.
10.jump for joy that there is no homework tonight and let the kids watch a movie.
11.carve pumpkins.
12.enjoy every minute of the day with the boys.

Scrappin'

I was so happy to get some scrappin' and some girl time in this weekend. I took Rebecca's class at the Oasis with Annie and Debbie.

 

 

 

 

Tonight I'm having more girl time at the Women's Conference. I'm so grateful for friends :)

Reflections 2010!!

I am so excited that we are planning Reflections 2010. It is just so much fun to plan and I feel so blessed to be doing it with Karen. She's such a great friend! Last year was great and I know this year will be a blast. Here's some info if anyone is interested in it :)






Registration Now Opened


We've officially secured the dates! Reflections 2010 will be on April 30th - May 2, 2010 with registration beginning on Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Highlights

Here's the full scoop... During your 3 day extravaganza you will be treated to:
• 3 full days of classes
• 7 amazing designers
• 3 hour long, technique packed classes
• Breakfast provided - Friday
• Lunch provided - Friday, Saturday and Sunday
• Make 'n' Takes
• Isle Carnival
• A special event on Saturday night
• Getting Ready Crop Thursday night
• Crop rooms open until midnight on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday

Plus lots and lots of surprises along the way!

OMG- I am going to be placing a big order! Check out this cool site
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!

Busy Weekend

The weekend was busy. Pretty much every day is pretty busy in our household but I got even less sleep than normal this weekend so I am tired. Poor Noah and Zach had to play soccer yesterday in the HOT, hot sun. Man was it a HOT day. Last night we went to a Halloween party. I wish I had pictures because the decorations rocked! Now I am organised and ready ahead of time for Halloween. Whoo hoo. I love being prepared.

I made some devils food cupcakes from my new Magnolia Bakery cookbook and then made up my favorite simple appetizer. Just take salami, smear cream cheese on it and stick some chopped pepperoncinis in the middle and roll them up. YUM! I could eat 100 of them. Speaking of wanting to eat a lot. I watched Alex's Day off on Foodnetwork today and man it was a heart attack waiting to happen but man oh man did everything look yummy. I loved how excited she was about food. It was just inspiring.

Thank goodness it was a little cooler today. Joey had a baseball game and then right from there we ran to a soccer game for his school that he was playing in. Then tonight he was alter server at mass. The poor guys was beat. I think he fell asleep by 8.

As much as I am happy that there is no more dog hair in my house it feels kind of lonely without Anabell here. We are all missing her.

Here are a few pics from before the party yesterday. We were driving to the party and Zach was saying I was driving the batmobile. Joey was so funny. He's all, "yeah, Michael Jackson rose from the dead to sit shotgun and the clone trooper and batman are here to protect Snow White". Now that I write it it's not all the funny, but last night it was :)

 

 

 

 

Right Now...

Right now...

* I am sitting listening to a snoring dog. The boys are dog sitting the sweetest mini golden. She is the sweetest dog ever. We randomly hear "thump,thump,thump" when she wags her tail on the wood floors. She seriously looks like she is smiling all the time. The boys are so RESPONSIBLE with her. They take her on long walks, snuggle with her, hide her pills in her wet food, praise her for eating it and feed her her kibble. Besides my allergies and washing the floor everyday I love having her here.

* I am basking in good mom thoughts. Tonight we took the boys to Disneyland. They were super excited. Then we came up with the plan to ride 2 rides and run to ESPN zone to watch the Angel game. We were all bursting with excitement...and then the parking lot was closed because it was so busy at Downtown Disney. Dave and I weren't up for dealing with the crowds so we told them we were going to change plans and go to dinner somewhere else. They didn't make a fuss AT ALL! They were super flexible and we ended up going to a new sports bar kind of place for dinner and to watch the game. I couldn't believe how FLEXIBLE they were. It was awesome. I was so proud of them.

* I am looking for fun Halloween recipes. We are going to a party tomorrow night. I'm going to make some cupcakes but want to bring a fun nonsweet dish too.

* I am watching tv but wish I was motivated to go to the grocery store instead.
* I am really in the mood to scrapbook all the time. Hopefully when the boys go back to school next week I can make time for it. I signed up to take a class at Oasis. I'm super excited about it. Annie is going with me. Yeah!