Happy Halloween!

A day in the life at our house on Halloween. Ryan spent the day and evening with us since his parents are in Hawaii…….he was supposed to spend the night along with another boy, but the sleep over was off with Lucas having H1N1 during the week. Ryan hates having his picture taken…….I had to bribe him with candy.  One piece for every photo. I love this shot.  Lucas thought his expression says “hey, whattya doin Saturday night?”…….but I love it because I have almost the exact shot from a few years ago.

See?  Somewhat the same……….just different.

For lunch I made Wrapped Mummies.  They thought it was pretty cool. 

Then they passed the time playing Wii and Monopoly.  

It was finally ready to get dressed, wait for Bryce and head out.  They thought they were extra cool since we let them do our neighborhood on their own.  Jim was especially happy about that because he could watch the duck game a little longer.

  Lucas’ pumpkin.  He designed it…… Blurry decorations  My costume……my new tatts.  You can see a bit of my dreads too. 

Our scary yard……. 

Happy Halloween everyone………..

Oink Oink

We’re not confirmed, but all the symptoms are there.  Doesn’t he look miserable? 

Although I love these shots.  I think he was starting to whine in this first one.  :)

He’s concerned about Halloween.  He asked me if I would buy him a couple of bags of candy if he couldn’t go trick or treating.  Bless his heart.  If he does go, perhaps he should dress up as a pig with wings?  Don’t worry…..he’s not going unless he’s been fever free for 24 hours.

Halloween isn’t his holiday.  Remember this?

Maybe Mabie……

Hi, my name is Mabie…..my mom calls me Maybelline when she’s mad. Like when I went on a poop fest at 4am. 

I’m glad my fur is finally growing out after that lady shaved me. I’m much cuter this way.  People now ask if I’m a Portuguese Water dog rather than asking “What is she?”  Most people are surprised to learn that I’m a Labradoodle. 

At home, I like to harass the cat.  I know she secretly likes it too. See that black basket?  That’s where my mom puts all my toys……the ones I like to tear up.  I also like to hang with my homey’s at the dog park.  I’m the one running after the ball, but I’m way too busy to bring it back, so I just drop it on the trail.  Mom’s coming that way anyway.  I don’t like the big dogs that bark, so that’s when I run back to mom and hide my face in her knees.  Sometimes she’ll pick me up if I look really scared.

Just another shot of me trying to look cute. 

We spend a lot of time with The Boy and that ball.  I love my boy.  He’s the bestest human ever.  Mom really likes him too.  Mom usually takes me on a walk while he’s running around with the other humans.    We don’t like that neighborhood since we saw a pitbull jumping and hanging onto a piece of meat hooked to a rope.  Call me a snob, but that’s just not lady like.  So my mom drives me to another neighborhood that has nice trees (on the parking strip) to smell……..Sometimes a cranky lady will come out and yell at my mom to “get her DAMN dog off her yard”  My mom just smiles, tells her we’re not in her yard, that I’m not going to the bathroom and to have a nice day.  I think she’s way to nice to that lady.

I’d love to chat longer, but my dad is going to take me on a run……I can tell….he’s got those shoes on.  My dad is pretty nice too, but he’s always wanting to cuddle. 

See ya………….

Pumpkin topiaries.

It was my turn to host ladies bunco.  It’s always good to have an event at your house every now and then….at least for me, because then I usually do something creative.  Or it inspires me to complete that one chore of cleaning up my scraproom.  Well this time it only inspired me to create something.  My scraproom is still a mess.  Oh well. 

I decided this year I wanted different Pumpkin topiaries.  I’ve used my fake orange ones for 3 years or so.  This year I wanted a white one……but after searching high and low for that perfect white pumpkin………..with a stem……all I could find were larger ones without a stem.  I’m so picky.  So, I picked up one of those bluish/greenish ones to plop on the top.  Pretty cute huh?   Then I decided to use my owls I picked up in Utah this summer.  Those babies were only $1.49.  I used a grapevine wreath that I found at Michaels for $3.99.  Then I found some Fall picks on clearance for $1.50.  I tore those apart and stuck pieces of them in the wreath.  I left the dirt in  my urn from my summer plants, plopped my pumpkins on top….and called it good.  I love how they turned out.   Bad time to take photos…….way too bright.   

My small pumpkin was too small for this planter…….I didn’t let that ruin my day.  I just grabbed a section from the morning paper, wadded it up and shoved it in my planter and placed my too small pumpkin on top.  Then I added the owl. 

That little laminated card says that Family and Friends are Always welcome, but I do not except soliciting from religious groups, political campaigns and door to door marketing.

Happy Anniversary has gone to the dogs

That doesn’t sound very good does it?  It’s really not bad………it’s just our anniversary and we spent the morning taking Mabie to the dog park.  She loves it.  We love it because we get to see so many other types of dogs. 

Mabie usually LOVES to wrestle, but only with dogs she knows.  While at the dog park, she prefers to be chased.  She’ll fetch a few tennis balls, she’ll steal a few from others just to get her to chase her…….such good manners. 

Hi Hi Hi…..My name is Mabie……

This poor guy has a bit of a disadvantage  wouldn’t you say?

Finally after sniffing about 50 butts, she found another pup to play with…….this was a 5 mo old lap mixed with a boxer or pit bull………….I say it’s part pit bull because they actually got into a bit of a scuffle after this shot was taken……this dog would not let her up, biting, barking etc…. and Mabie even snarled back….she wanted nothing more to do with this guy…….I had to pull her out of the mess and check her over for bite marks.  Lets just say both of us were done after that.      But we kept walking to let her and myself calm down…….if the boys wouldn’t have been there, I would have left right away.

Lucas stops and chats with just about everyone, asks what kind of dog they have, what the name is….etc……  Let’s just say he has a bit of  his Ya ya in him.  (Ya ya is what he calls his Grandmother)Lucas is always trying to get her to jump up on the logs……….Looks like she finally listened.

Looks like she recovered…………

And Happy Anniversary to us!  12 years. 

sign of the times…….

Lucas finally has his first cell phone……actually it’s his second….the first one we bought had a glitch.  The poor kid…..he can’t give out his number, he can’t text his friends……..and he’s not to brag about it.  We got it for strictly communicating with us when needed……It’s also a pre-paid………so if he was texting and calling his friends, it would eat up his minutes pretty fast.  Had lunch with the college roomies……freshman year roomies.  We missed Kathy……  Laurie made us a delicious pizza…….with no sauce.  It was SO good.  Always nice to be around them.  It’s always nice to find people you want to be friends with for more than 25 years.   I love this photo below because I’m the skinniest one……..who cares if they’re all pregnant.

 

Peaches the super cat………..if you look really close you may be able to see the coffee vomit stain from our pup.

Back to reality……helping Lucas study his vocabulary words. 

Neglected with a plan

My poor blog has been neglected.  It gets that way sometimes.  Life has been full of school habits, having lunches with girlfriends, taking Mabie to the dog park and icing my knees.  Once I turned 48 they decided to remind me that I’m not as young as I think.  Who knows what I did……..I think I was walking down too many  steep hills around here….they feel hyper extended.  So the last few days I’ve been on ice and moist heat………and Vitamin I (ibuprophin) 

My plan…….my menu plan has been working nicely.  I charted our dinner menu’s until Oct 8th…….why Oct 8th?  No reason.    I’d love to hear what you’re family favorites are.

This week:

Sunday -  Crock Pot Potato soup

Monday – Crock Pot Pulled Pork sandwiches

Tuesday – Taco’s or Taco Salad. 

Wednesday – School fund raiser for Papa Murphy’s Pizza

Thursday – Chili Mac

Friday- BLT’s (so many fresh tomatoes in the garden, gotta have them every week.)

I’m starting to clean up my craft room today, so maybe I’ll have something crafty to show you some time soon.

Please go vote for Mabie in the pup contest!  You can vote daily and I could win $500 if I win the week.  Each weekly finalist in entered to win ONE MILLION DOLLARS!