Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from all of us! 

Draculara from Monster High

Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games

                                                           

                 Skeleton Soccer Crew

Enjoy your candy!

Time for a Change

This week I decided I was finished with having long hair.  It was getting into things, such as purse straps, car doors, food; plus it was always in a ponytail.  This is the longest I've grown my hair ever.  In the past I would have cut it before it got this long.  Maybe I'm getting more patient in my old age -- nah.

Before:

After:



This was taken just after getting my hair cut.  Amy, my hairdresser, had fun styling it.  If only I had decent hair skills, it would always look this nice. 

It's Autumn-time

It's seems like every year, as much as I would like to avoid it, there's at least one trip to the pumpkin patch.  Last year I got out of it because Robyn went with her kindergarten class.  This year I did not.  Though, it wasn't so bad because this new pumpkin patch had an baby animal area.  Baby animals -- they are just soooo darn cute.

Annalise's favorite animals were the ducklings:

My favorite animal was the baby goat.  He/she (I didn't check) was so adorable.  There was a label attached to the collar saying don't pick me up, but how could you resist.

Robyn's favorite animals were the kittens.  There were four and she liked them all.  She would have taken them home if we would have let her.



At least it's not my fault

Our beautiful new car - Honda Accord.  It's only 5 months old.

Last week Jeff was in an accident.  It happened right after Lisey's soccer game.  As he was pulling out the van directly behind him was also pulling out of their parking spot.  It was a no fault/both at fault accident so no penalty on our insurance.  Though we needed to get a new bumper.  There was no way this was going to be fixed.



No was hurt but we are very thankful for insurance.  It's expensive to replace a bumper!

Our Little Pumpkin

We had to go to the dentist to create this little space.  The root was detached but her gums didn't want to let the tooth go.  (Also, her dad & mom are chicken when it comes to pulling teeth out!) 

Annalise must have felt left out because two days later she lost a tooth - a molar.  Well, that's siblings for you -- can't let each other do something without them.



What's Up

So what have I been up to???  Well I've discovered eBay.  Now I've known about them for years but this last month I've actually used it.  I first started looking for this really nice, but expensive, Liberty of London fabric.  I saw this lovely  fabric in a store in Santa Cruz  -- retailing for $42 a yard.  As much as I liked the fabric I'm a cheap person and that's just too much so someone suggested to look for it on eBay. 

Instead of the cool, expensive fabric I have found other cool things to buy.  So far I've bought 4 different yards of fabric, a jeans skirt, something Hunger Games for Lisey (can't specifically say - just in case she reads this) and a cell phone cover for Annalise's phone.  That's just in the last six weeks.  I'm not a huge shopper but shopping on eBay is just too easy.

On Friday I got my new glasses.  This last month I've had to wear my backup pair because my other glasses got run over by a car.  How, you ask? 

In order to be outside and see I have to wear my sunglasses so my regular glasses were in a case in my purse.  Somehow as I was getting the keys out of my purse my glasses case fell out onto the parking lot.  I didn't realize the case was missing until I reached my next destination.  So I drove back and found the glasses.  I was so excited until I took the glasses out of the case.  The lenses were not broken but the frame was all twisted.  Boo!  I had to wait to order the new frames until my vision insurance would pay for them.  Thank goodness for backup pairs of glasses!   

Saturdays for the next couple months

This is how our Saturdays are going to look until November because soccer season has started.  Especially now that both girls are playing soccer.  This is Robyn's first year and Jeff is the assistant coach of her team.  She's liking soccer and has even made a goal in her first game.  Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me so I couldn't take a picture -- bad mommy!

So far we've been able to go to both games but that will change as the season progress as Annalise's games are all over the county.  When that happens we will definitely need to divide and conquer!