It's a girl....congrats, Trisha!

Today we celebrated the up coming birth of my little sister's first baby. She's been waiting for this little miracle for over 8 years and I'm so excited for her. We had a scrapbooking/baby shower and even though My sister (Heather), Mom, sister-in-law (Mindy) and me hosted the shower, I think Trisha put in more work then we did. Trisha said she stayed up until 3:30am the night before cutting out the kits for our party. And to top it all off she also made popcorn treats for her guests to thank them for coming!

We had a good time and got some cute scrapbooking pages done for the fun memories she's going to have with this darling baby girl.

p.s.. Thanks Linda for providing all the scrapbooking supplies. You are awesome!

Nerd Day!

Danielle and Ashley love dress up day at their school and today was declared "Nerd Day". This is Danielle in her nerd outfit. So funny! (Ashley was sick so she couldn't participate)



Duane had to show Danielle what she's going to be putting herself through today by having that sign on her back. He's betting she'll have it off by the end of the day.

Simple Minds.

Duane and I often comment on how young children have the simpliest minds. We find it funny that kids will interpret some of the things we adults say as something completely different then what we mean. For example, Kaman came to me this afternoon with a liquid measuring cup and asked me what it was for and I replied, it's for measuring cups. Here is what he thought I meant...

Halloween Day #2

Day #2 - Halloween Day! We love to decorate for Halloween (well, I do. I don't know how much Duane enjoy's it). Every year we put out the "tame" Halloween decorations on the 1st week of October, and then the "scarier" decorations on Halloween day. We do get a few brave souls who come through our "bloody" sheet and knock on our door, but I have a feeling there are a lot who don't dare.

Anyway, here are some pictures of our front yard. I didn't get a picture of inside the "bloody" sheet - I guess next year you'll just have to come see for yourself, if you dare...Mwahahaha!



The dedicated pumpkin carvers.
Ashley, Kaman and Danielle carving their pumpkins.
Danielle's pumpkin is all finished...isn't it awesome!
Here's Danielle's pumpkin lit up.
This is Holly's pumpkin.
And Duane's pumpkin.