Happy Halloween!!

Ahhhh...Halloween. My least favorite holiday, and the one the boys live for! As you all know, every day is Halloween in Adam's world! I tried sooooo hard to convince Adam to be Capt. Jack Sparrow, since, for his birthday, Grandmom bought him the costume from the Disney store and Aunt Jean bought him the hat and wig. But no way. He wanted to be Anakin Skywalker and there was no talking him out of it. So, Anakin he was. Andrew was easy. He couldn't wait to be the "kid abducted by the alien" that was Russell's from a few years ago!

Speaking of Russell....since he is the cool 8th grader, he is way too cool for "costumes". But, St. Margaret's really does it big on Halloween. So, Jean came up with the idea for him and his friends: The Verizon Network. It really was a cool idea!

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands!

Andrew's 2nd grade class recently read Ready Freddy and the Pumpkin Elf. In the story, the class has a pumpkin decorating contest. So, Andrew's class thought that would be a great idea.

We talked about what he wanted to do and some of the ideas he kicked around were: a soccer ball, a baseball, a monster and a globe. He decided on the globe. We spray painted it blue, Doug drew all the continents on it and Andrew painted them and labeled them. We think it came out great! The class will vote for their favorites on Wednesday. There were a lot of very clever ideas!

CRASH!!!

Yup, crash. Our laptop crashed Wednesday night. Are we smart enough to back up? Nope. You know, it will never happen to us. Yeah. So, we lost 7 years of our checkbook (I didn't know Doug was not backing at least that up!), I lost all my word docs, excel files, email addresses - EVERYTHING. Our resident computer guru, aka my BIL Wayne came over with his magic tool kit and after about an hour, decided that nope, there was nothing to be recoved, it was all gone. I think I'm most upset about all the email addys that I am now without. I am soooo glad all our pics are on the desktop and that they are backed up to cds! So, looks like we are starting over again and going computer shopping tomorrow. Ahhhhh...gotta love technology!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I can't believe I'm 39. When did I get old?? LOL. Well, I used to think it was old, not anymore! I got a wonderful surprise from Doug and the boys - a ring from Nelle and Lizzy! It is two intertwined silver rings with the boys names on them! I tried taking a pic of mine, but it's not coming out right! Here is an example of it. A friend of mine had received one over a year ago and I loved it. I was quite shocked (and impressed) that Doug remembered it, and actually emailed my friend to get the details! He gets major props for this one...it almost erases the dreaded "Mother's Day 2006", but not quite :)

Orange Crush!!

Our first soccer game of the fall season was today! Truth be told, I really expected to get steamrolled. We were playing one of the best teams, and I have quite a few new kids on my team. Well, surprise, surprise! My team did GREAT! Andrew stepped it up in the goal in the first half with 7 saves and scored a goal playing offense in the second half. Adam ran his little tail off and did great with ball handling. The whole team did awesome, despite the 93 degree weather at 10 this morning! We won, 3-2! I am so proud of my team, ORANGE CRUSH!

School Days!

I can't believe the first day of school is here! I didn't want summer to end! We had so much fun and did so many cool things the last few months!

But, September is here and that means back to school! I was so worried about Adam. He is a bit of a Momma's boy and I was expecting tears. He made me so proud this morning - not one tear! I was so glad! When he came home he talked a little about school, but not much. I'm sure more and more will come out as the day goes on! WOW, my baby is in Kindergarten!

I knew Andrew would be fine, he was always my "don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, Mom" kind of kid. He has a very tough teacher this year, but I think he'll be fine. I can't believe he is in 2nd grade already!

Today felt like the longest 4 hours of my life! I can't imagine how Monday will be with them in school all day! We'll see how that goes!

My Blog....

Well, I always said I would not "blog". But, since we have friends and family all over the country now, I figured it would be easier to have everything in one place. So, here it is, my blog.