Happy Birthday

***UPDATE, It's a GIRL!!!!****

Happy Birthday Carly!

We've been best friends since High School, lived together during our attempt at college and vacationed together as we got older, and this is the best picture I could come up with. I guess we're always to busy having fun to stop and pose.

Not only is it Carly's birthday today but she has an appt to find out the sex of the baby. I'm predicting it will be a girl. Stay tuned for an update!

Pumpkins

We went over to Jen and Christophes on Sunday and had an amazing brunch then carved pumpkins with the kids. Mark chose the biggest pumpkins he could find that the kids couldn't even carry them. The boys each chose a design or decided to make a "custom" face as Braden put it, and went to work. Of course with the help of Jen, Christophe and Mark. I was the official picture taker :). It was a nice relaxing day but pretty warm. It's hard to get into the fall spirit when it's 95 degrees still. Peyton chose the spider design and when that was done he decided to carve a custom face on the other side. So, our pumpkin is a 2 for 1. It was the final touch we needed for our spooky house.

Spider side and custom face side

It's Gone

I had to do it. I was so sick of it that I chopped about 5 inches off of my hair. Now, I didn't relax it like I normally do, just dried it straight, which I'll have to do from now. I'm pretty sure I love it but it'll take me a few more days to know. My hair just got so long and I hated the way it was looking. So, any comments? Good or bad? It's definately a change but hopefully a good change. And, it's only hair. It'll grow back again soon.

Hmmm, do I like it?

It'll have to do for now!

Spooky House

I had to work late the other night and when I came home the house had been decorated for Halloween with a lot of decor we didn't have before. Mark had gone to Michaels and bought styrofoam balls to make the heads of the ghosts and tore up an old sheet. He put fake spider webs and a spider web light up. I thought it was cute that him and the kids did all of that.

I've never seen him so into Halloween before but I think Peyton's bringing it out in him.

Another Sunday Funday

Sunday Funday has come and gone again. I hate the end of this day because it means I have to go back to work. If only I could win the lottery or hit a jackpot at the casino then we'd be all set. Isn't that realistic? I dream of being a stay at home mom. Just think of the friends I'd meet at the casino! :)

Mark had to work today so I tried to entertain the kids as much as possible, which lucky for me means minimal house cleaning. We rented the Bridge to Terebithia. I never read the book and the movie made me cry at the end. Not what I was expecting at all. I think it has a great story to it and was thoroughly entertained but being a parent I couldn't handle the ending. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive today but I felt horrible for the little boy Jess and the guilt he had. Peyton thought it was a great movie and looked at me like I was crazy. We definitely had different perspectives of the movie. When that was done we made Halloween decorations. We haven't pulled out the "real" decorations just out of pure laziness so this was the next best thing. Another reason is that the HOA doesn't allow us to decorate until the 5 days before. Pretty lame if you ask me.

When Mark got home we went bowling. Now, some of you might think this is incredibly geeky, but it's one of our favorite past times. It's a perfect place to take kids who like to scream (Drew) and we get to be out of the house. Yes, there are some worries like what about the shoes, but as long as you wear socks (**coughcourtneycough**) then you're in the clear. We started taking Peyton bowling when he was 2 so we thought we'd give it a try with Drew. She did great for the first 5 frames then was over it. She did love her "shoe shoes" though and I really wanted to mark the occasion with a picture of all of our feet.

Night Night

3rd times the charm

Danielle, I changed the song just for you :)
The Geckos won again today. Peyton scored 3 goals and the end result was 4-0. It was pretty exciting but next week is going to be a hard one. We're playing the Dragons and they are really good. Hopefully we can keep up our winning streak even though we're technically not supposed to keep track!



My pops and Monica came for a very short, quick visit. They were able see the game, we went to lunch afterwards and now they're gone. Doing what grandparents do, my pops took the kids to get ice cream after lunch. That was something he never did when I was a kid. Why is it always like that? This is the before and after. I don't think she knew she could eat the cone because it's bone dry inside without a nibble on it.

Almost done

So I never thought making the banner for Soccer would be so hard. We're almost done. We just have to cut out all the names then we're finished. Of course, cutting out the names has given me a headache so I decided to stop for now. Here is my work in progress. I promised to have it done by Saturday but I'm wondering if I can just go buy letters somewhere and glue them on. Maybe even stickers? It's so much to cut. The players, coach, assistant coach, etc. I'll put the completed one up this weekend.

On another note, here's some pictures of the kids. Drew got these hand me down p.j's about a year ago and they fit her perfect. I think they're so cute with the eiffel tower and oooh la la everywhere. This was over the weekend. My favorite time of day is when they wake up and are excited to see each other. They always say good morning and give each other kisses. I love it.

Black Jack

Saturday night was dinner and blackjack at the Douherets house. The kids got an early start on Halloween and got into all the dress up clothes. If you can't tell Peyton is a rhino. Drew was sound asleep in the bedroom and missed out on the action as usual. We had a great ahi and clam dinner outside then moved it in for a competitive game of blackjack. We've met some new friends/neighbors, Danielle and David, who live across the street and are fun, interesting people. Just a side note, Danielle is a 911 dispatcher and I find that so interesting. I always have questions about the calls she gets. They were able to join us along with their son Braden. This was good for us because it meant there was more money to be won. The Sickenberger's came home up $30.00 and were the big winners for the night. Okay, really Mark was but it usually goes into my wallet. :)

2-0

The Geckos won there second game 5-2. Peyton scored a goal and the game was really exciting. It's so cute to see them run in a pack while tripping over eachothers feet.

The key is to make sure they know which way the goal is. Peyton had the ball and went all the wrong way almost scoring a goal for the other team.

My Space

Here is just a thought for the day :
I don't understand myspace, which I think is why I started blogging instead. When you bump into someone you haven't seen for a while the first thing they ask is "are you on myspace?" I tried several times to set up a page but I couldn't figure it out and got way frustrated. I just thought of this because my cousin seemed shocked that both Randy and I don't have a page. I tried to go to my cousins page to check it out and again, couldn't do it. Ugghh, the frustration.