Still not Thawed

Guess where I went????

Hint: With LOTS of "friends", say like 40,000



Have you guessed? I went to the Phillies World Series game with my husband last night!! It was CRAZY there. My husband is a HUGE Philly sports fan, and when I say HUGE, I mean there probably isn't anyone alive who is as big of a Philly sports fan as he. He has tickets to everything!!

Anyway, he couldn't have been more excited that the Phillies are in the World Series. Not only might they win another penant (he was at the 1980 series as well!!) but this year he got to take his son, his uncle, his dad, and of course me. We didn't all go to the same game but I am certain each of us had a Great time!! Now if you didn't watch the game last night, it was not your typical cool night at the ballpark. It was 42 degrees and POURING!! So not fun when you are in seats NOT under cover!! Fortunately, we both semi-planned for it so it wasn't so bad...and being a diehard fan, we stayed at our seats watching until they put the tarp on the field.

In the end, they ended up postponing the rest of the game until tomorrow night. I'm not sure if I will go back for the game or if someone else will go in my place but it was well worth the frozen fingers and drenched clothes!!

GO PHILLIES!!

Call Me Jack...

as in Jack-O-Lantern. That is what the kids decided to name the pumpkin we carved this weekend. Nice and original, right? It does make me laugh when they put one and one together and think they are the first to ever come up with the idea. A pumpkin named "Jack", who would have thought? LOL.

I had my son a pen and paper and told him and the girls to go draw Jack's face. The rules as I stated in a previous post are that they must agree on all parts of it. Unfortunately, I am not much of an artist so they also have to stick with squares, circles, and triangles. After much debate the kids decided on this ----



We had a great time digging the guts out and getting all messy!!

My Little Monkeys

I haven't had a lot of time to scrap...nor have I felt very inspired. However, I did sit down last night and crank out a few pages. The first are pixs of my girls watching their bro's baseball game this summer. They just loved climbing the fence and pretending to be monkeys.



This next one, I'm not too sure about. I tried something different -- not sure I love it though. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the prettiest of all?" I feel like it is missing something...Come on girls, I really want your feedback here.

Weekend Whirlwind Part II:

Sunday -- Hannah's 5th Birthday Party

We took our oldest daughter and 6 of her friends to a beauty parlor/dress up place. It was too cute!! However, I don't think Bella-the-Ball has ever seen anything like the tornado we brought in! The girls took one look at the dressing room and went crazy!! We had girls fighting over shoes like it was the annual sale at Filenes. After a few compromises and at least 3 wardrobe changes for each of them, they all decided on their outfits and were off for make-up, hair, and nails. I can honestly say that I have never seen the girls have so much fun. They even got to walk the red carpet at the end....with me snapping pictures as they stuck a pose....what great shots for scrapping later!! ]

Without boring you with the other two hundred shots, here is a cute one of the group. Mine are the two in the front (the rock star and the littlest princess)...

Weekend Whirlwind Part I:

This weekend was jam packed with activities. We had our usual Saturday morning -- soccer, gymnastics x 2, ice hockey, soccer again --- afterward, the two older kids and I decided to try out our local farm's corn maze. We had never tried before so thought it would be fun. In theory, it is a great time! However, they told us that the average time to go through the maze is 1 1/2 hours, about 3 minutes and 17 SECONDS into the maze, Hannah decides that she is done. Lucky for her, in about 10 minutes, we found our way out...except that we had found our way back to where we started from. I certainly hadn't paid all that money to spend 10 minutes, so we went back in. After another 40 minutes of listening to Hannah beg to go home, and about that same amount of time of me contemplating the idea of just leaving her in there to fend for herself (i'm kidding, really, I am :))we asked for help to find our way out.....at least Noah can say we finished even if we did cheat.



Anyway, as soon as we found our way out, Hannah was a perfect angel...but of course that meant she wanted something....she spied a face painting booth! The kids each got something small and then it was off to find our family pumpkin. Each year we buy a relatively large pumpkin to carve together. But the rule is that they have to agree on the pumpkin to bring home with us. The two of them must have spent a good half an hour debating the choices...this one was too small, this one too bumpy, the next too flat....

They did finally decide on one...22 lbs of perfection. Next weekend we'll carve but again, we have to agree on the face design so we're just hoping to finish before Halloween is over!

They Crack Me Up

Kids just say the funniest things sometimes....

I drink coffee occasionally. I love Wawa's Hazelnut with hazelnut creamer. Everytime I get it, Hannah asks if she can have some. I tell her "no, because it makes little kids stop growing and it is important that she continue to grow. She can have coffee when she is an adult."

Tonight, Hannah was taking her vitamin and asked if I took a vitamin everyday too. I responded that I did not but vitamins are good for little kids to help them grow up to be big and strong. I also said that I am already big and am not growing anymore...to which she says, "yeah, because you drink coffee."

Ok -- it doesn't sound as funny when I tell the but it had me laughing out loud!!

I'm Back....

My girlfriends and I spent the weekend away in the Poconos....scrapping. It may sound silly to those non-scrappers out there but it is so much fun!! It was nice to get away, laugh with friends, and just RELAX. I know it was nice for me to get away from the stress of working these days with the plunging stock market! We all had a great time and were unbelieveably productive. I made 35 pages--that is about what I do in 2 months! Here are a couple of the pages I completed:

True Love...

Hannah is OBSESSED with Tattoos! I have come home from work to find her covered from head to toe (face included) in tattoos. She loves them!!! So of course I had to do a scrap page....

Latest projects

This first layout is my latest entry to the Pen Pals Challenge (see my favorite blogs link). The challenge was to create a layout highlighting a conversation. The journaling reads:
N: Mommy, when I move into my own house, will you come over to babysit sometimes?
M: Sure honey to babysit your kids?
N: No mommy, to babysit me!!
M: (laugh) You do know when you have your own house, you won't need a babysitter anymore, right?
N: Oh...


Hannah and I were taking the dog for a walk a few weeks back and she keep running ahead, turning around, and growling at us. It was too funny. As soon as we got home, I made her do it one more time for records sake....


This last one is made using my latest SO kit -- which is just awesome!! Unfortunately, I just haven't had to time to really play with it. These pics are of my dd when she was only 19 months old. The pics speak for themselves.

October...

It is hard to believe it is October already!! I must say though, this is my FAVORITE time of year. I love the crisp air as I head out to work, I love the changing leaves and their crunching under my feet, I love the burnt colors of the season, the preparations of Halloween and Thanksgiving, the family gatherings, etc. Today the kids and I went to buy our mums and ended up with more than just that...check it out....




Of course, now I see that you can't even really see it all but we got 3 bales of hay, 4 mums, and our "warted" pumpkin....yes a WARTED pumpkin. I had never seen anything like it but apparantely is a type of pumpkin that grows little wart like bumps all of it. The kids thought it was so cool and just HAD to get one. They even had little green ones that looked like huge apples with green popcorn stuck all over it. They were certainly interesting! ... the only issue with this whole thing is now my van smells like a farm from all of the hay!