Turkey Day

Truly, what are you suppose to blog about Thanksgiving? Don't get me wrong.... great holiday! Love it! But in our family, it's a pretty uneventful holiday. Maybe that's why it's so great. No pressure with gifts or visits from magical characters (yes, I'm talking about you Easter Bunny). There's not a huge build up to Thanksgiving either. You just have it. Maybe that's why I like it so much. Of course there's the pumpkin pie, too. Happy Thanksgiving!

We are NEVER all in a picture at one time. Of course, my children are highly uncooperative when it comes to picture taking, but nonetheless we are all in a picture.

Thankful for my sweet hubby

Thankful for my Sam

Thankful for my Syd

This picture is too funny not to post. Sam is obsessed with putting his shoes on. He wants them on all the time. He likes the sound they make on the floor when he's stomping around. Shut your mouth, it's a phase. I'm not thinking we have a tap dancing, Tony award winning star on our hands. But it's very cute (for now) especially when he has on his way too tight last year's pajamas.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all 4 of my readers!

The Switch Witch is coming!

So we are trying the Switch Witch with our Halloween candy this year. For those of you new to the idea, you leave your Halloween candy out and the Switch Witch takes it and leaves a surprise in it's place (think Tooth Fairy). I've heard that it's a toy she leaves behind, but I'm sure at our house she will leave cold, hard cash since the Switch Witch is very tired and overworked and couldn't dream of getting to Target to get a toy at the last minute. The candy is out and ready to be taken by the Switch Witch. I am hoping this works because the candy is going away with or without that witch's help. I'll let you know...

I've Been TAGGED!

I've been tagged by Coco. Coco and I have known each other since 1st grade and since we are so young that is not very long. We have reconnected through the great world of technology (thank you, Facebook) and now I love to follow her blog. I'm not sure there are 7 interesting or even random things about me, but here goes.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by including links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.


1. I am obsessed with Fabuloso - yes, the purple cleaner that you buy at Wal-mart. It smells so good and cleans anything. Although I'm quite sure it's not winning any kind of environmentally friendly award. But when your house smells like a bouquet of lavendar, you probably won't care!
2. I love the movie Pollyanna. It is one of my all time favorite movies. I will still watch it anytime I see that it's on.

3. I can't remember the last movie I saw at the theater. Seriously, it has probably been almost 6 or 7 years. I never go and don't really have a strong desire to do so.

4. I detest milk. You couldn't pay me $1,000 to drink a glass a milk - not even chocolate milk.

5. I am a HUGE General Hospital fan. I don't watch it everyday, but at least once or twice a week I tune it to see what's happening in Port Charles.

6. I've always lived in the DFW area. I've never moved very far away from my hometown.

7. The students I taught my first year out of college went to college this year (I taught them in 3rd grade). YIKES! This makes me feel really old.

I want to hear from you:

Cara Beth
Leslie H.
Belinda
Brandy
Amber
Jennifer
Shelley

Happy Halloween

Dee-Dee Doodle, no. Disco Dancer, no. Street Walker, no. DAPHNE from Scooby-Doo. Sydney loves Scooby-Doo so when she saw this Daphne costume the search was over.

Sydney is not really the type that you can persuade into being a sweet kitty cat or cute little lady bug. Unfortunately I think a few of my neighbors thought I let her dress up as a hooker. Jeez, come on people. Lighten up!

We had to kill some time in the yard before everyone was ready to trick or treat so Sydney was performing a routine from her Stretch and Grow class.

Scooby, Scooby-Doo, where are you? SO DARN CUTE! I thought for sure Sam would hate this costume. But come to find out, he loved it. He kept his hat on the entire night even though at times he had to tilt his head back just to see.

Where's my candy? I didn't think Sam would be that into trick or treating this year, but he loved going up to the houses. And the best part was that he didn't realize they were giving him candy. He would just put it in his bag and go on. Could my kids be any more different? Sydney usually eats the candy before she makes it down the driveway.

This is one of our neighbors. They are big fans of Halloween so they always dress up and have a huge production at their house. They had a flying witch and all kinds of crazy stuff. Sydney kept wanting to introduce me to the witch lady. She is not scared of these kinds of things. But the girl will not watch E.T. Go figure!

Here's their house...

Under Construction

Pardon my mess. A few updates are in the works.

Birthday Wish

At dinner Sydney simply states:

Riley is getting me a cupcake maker for my birthday. Sarandon is getting me donuts. And Tristan is getting me a real chincilla.

WHAT THE...??

I've included a picture just in case you haven't watched enough episodes of Diego to know exactly what a chincilla looks like. ummm... Tristan is not invited to Sydney's birthday.