First Boyfriend

One Wednesday Luke, Mallory, Grandma Renee and I celebrated my spring break. It came a few months early in the form of high winds. The electric to our school was out, so school was cancelled. Since Ohio is only offering 3 calamity days this year (which I'm sure we will use all and then some once winter hits) losing a day because of power almost assures we'll be in school over spring break and into June. Anyway, we all went to Chuck E. Cheese. Luke and Mallory had a ball! Not to mention Grandma and I had fun too! When we got home Mallory was carrying a phone around talking on it. We asked her who she was talking to and she said my boyfriend. When we asked who her boyfriend was, she said Chuck E. Cheese. YIKES!!!

Chuck better watch out for this cute little girl's daddy!

Fantabulous Fall Fun

Fall has given us so much time to do fun things! We were able to decorate pumpkins at church together, go to a pumpkin carving party at Davon and Chris' house, and have a blast trick or treating. Here are some pictures of the fun.

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The kids and Dad going through the loot. I'll admit, Iwas down there too, just stopped to take the picture. Craig and I decided that some smart parent a long time ago came up with the whole idea of 'checking' the candy to make sure it was safe to eat. We remember hearing stories of needles and razor blades in candy. However, we now believe it was that parent's genius idea to get to the candy first and take all the good stuff out!!!!!!!!! So, we are stealing the idea.
Mallory was flower pot for Halloween. She was the cutest little flower.

Luke was the meanest Darth Vader out there! This kid was so excited to be gathering candy from all over town. He walked the entire way. He didn't complain about anything! We had a lot of fun while Grandma Nee handed out candy at our house.

Nappin', Dancin', Decoratin', and Yard Salin'

It's been a busy few weeks. We have had lots of fun doing some fall things.

The most exciting thing ever...well not really ever, but it's pretty exciting. I found this crate last year at a yard sale. It was the first time I had ever seen a Campbell's crate other than in a museum. So, I needed to have it for my kitchen. It was marked $50.00. YIKES! My frugal mom talked them down to a whopping $45.00, but I just couldn't splurge. $45.00 bucks is a lo of money. So, this year...I went back to the same yard sale searching for the crate with every intention to spend $50.00 or more on it if they still had it. This crate was so important, I drug my son to the yard sale who was recovering from the flu, and had to drag myself off the couch also recovering from a touch of the flu. I was covered in sweat searching the sale for the crate. I had the owners searching for it too. Finally, I saw it. The price tag was on the bottom and took forever to find. There it was...$20.00! A whole year passed and they knocked $30.00 off the price! I was so excited. I had every intention of going home, cleaning it, and displaying it right away, however, I still felt horrible, so I crawled back on the couch and displayed it in the morning when I felt better.

Here's the other stuff we've been up to:

DECORATIN' the outside and inside for Halloween.


DANCIN' at cousin Dawn's wedding.

Trying to catch the garter at Dawn's wedding. That's Luke in the left hand corner

NAPPIN' peacefully.

There's always time for LOOKIN' good!

Some more NAPPIN' on a Saturday afternoon, so Luke needs to sleep with his OSU gear.

Finishing up with soccer too!