I'm so excited (Bex)

Halloween is my favorite time of the year...

The fall season, colors changing, cool but not too cold (at least most of the time!)
Playing dress-up...
Scary movie nights...

I love it all...

And I have always wanted to have a Halloween Party... and even though we are not technically having a Halloween Party, all my favorite people are coming over tonight to go trick-or-treating from our house! I decorated the garage and can't wait to put my witches hat on!!!

Hope you all have fun and are safe tonight!

Happy Halloween!

The Cider Mill (Zaad)

So, despite my head cold and the cold, WET RAIN, I donned on 4 inch boots and went to the cider mill with the girlz anyways. I just prayed it would end really, really quickly.

But, as usual, everyone had a blast (I'm glad I sucked it up) and here are just a few shots from Saturday.

Pictures like these make me smile.

Pictures like THESE, however, make me laugh my ass off:

And yes, if I weren't so dang tall, I'd have joined them.

Sundays in the Fall... (Bex)

You know what I love about Sundays in the Fall and Winter?

FOOTBALL!

Yes, I am a woman. Yes, I do like to look pretty, meaning my hair has to be done event to clean the house! But, I Love Me some Football!

I am one of those people that football is on my TV all day on Sundays, even College Football on Saturdays...

There is nothing more "home-y" feeling then the sound of football and cheering and yelling "flag on the field"... When I lived with Zaad and DH, we even had props... we would throw our own flags and lil footballs... I do miss those days! (Only watching football with Zaad and DH, not actually living in the basement, just for clarification!)

Ok, GAME is about to be on... Have make sure my pics are finalized!!!

R U Ready for some FOOTBALL????!!!!!

Weeds... Bex

Does anyone else watch Weeds?

Cause the girlz and i have this saying... "That was a total Botwin move!"

Nancy Botwin is the main character in Weeds, and everytime she thinks she is doing right for her family it backfires... Lately, it seems that Zaad and I have been pulling too many "Botwin" moves...

Oh the internal conflict it arises...

Life is a struggle and even when you think you have it figured out, something happens and life is just messed up again. But it's ok, because this is life right? You just have to make the best of what is handed to you and go on from there...

On a different note...
I want to open my own business, I have big ideas and I think it would work...
Anyone know how to get financing? or find an investor?

Something Cheerful (Lulu)

I decided that I wanted to post something that makes me smile. Something I am very proud of. So of course that would have to be my kids. Their smiles are what makes my world go round.

Regardless of the age differences.....they know how to build together

They know how to make a mess.....

.....together

They know how to have fun together

They share their birthdays

and even homecoming pictures

Even us mothers....

....Mother together

Does it get any better than that....I think not!

Great saying (Bex)

I heard a great saying on a TV show last night ...

"Scars remind us of we have been. Scars do not dictate where we are going."


It made me do a lot of self-reflection... Looking at my own scars and how they have been dictating my life... NO more...

I need to get back in the mindset that I can do anything and will accomplish what I set out to do in life....

Girl Night (Zaad)

YAY! I'm so glad that Tink wrote something! I can stop my strike now. But honestly, I'm just posting a reminder, so no biggie.

I was unclear on what we had decided for this week and I just talked to Bex: Girl Night is on Friday.

We really need to get our calenders out on Friday, too. Consider that your warning, I need to be organized. This week-by-week shit is too stressful for me.

Just sayin'.

Unexpected Fun (Lulu)

I have to admit...I was dreading this weekend at the campground without my gray hairs. Don't get me wrong...I love to spend time with the family, cousins and all, its just that after having the kids around last time I was afraid I would miss them too much to be able to enjoy myself.

WRONG!!!!!

I discovered it was just as much fun...just a different kind of fun. It was adult fun!! (And to the perverts out there....I don't mean that kind)

I also discovered that when you are one of those people that do not drink beer....don't do it...just dont. It doesn't take very many and the feeling the next morning kind of sucks LOL!

And as a note to all the "monsters" that jumped out and scared the kids during the hayride last night....There are two little boys about 5 years old still walking around the campground with their plastic swords looking to "teach you a lesson" (their words not mine) so ya may want to hide out a little longer!