Go Vote for Me!

Hi there! Hope everyone is doing well. Still having photo upload problems here... but working on the issue. I probably have a virus or something, so one of these days I will have to go fire up the old desktop and do pictures from there...

Anyway, I entered a contest to win a wii, so go vote for me here!!

Happy early Thanksgiving to everyone!! Hope your celebrations are wonderful!

Hello, it's been a while

:) I'm sure its all because I made fun of Ally that now I haven't posted anything new since Halloween!!

Seriously, several times over the past couple of weeks I have tried unsuccessfully to upload pictures for your enjoyment. Every time I try, I get a page load error that says the internet connection reset itself while trying to upload and interrupted the connection. Grrrrrrr. I don't know what the deal is (obviously my lame rural internet service provider?). But its really annoying. So I apologize for lack of cute and funny pictures, and promise to get some up as soon as my internet stops getting all quirky. I have a few good ones :)

Not a whole lot new going on here. We are just still all giddy about Obama's victory :) And just waiting until January!!

Oh its been really cold here. It was a whole whopping 4 degrees this morning. And its been snowing off and on. No real accumulation (maybe an inch a couple of times). But I'm sure we will be burried in snow in no time ;)

Now I just need to figure out how to keep Beatrice from pulling off her shoes/socks/gloves/hat. I don't think they make buntings for 15 month olds. But I might have to check.

Other than that.... pictures will come some day - hopefully soon.

Spooky Stuff ;)

So nevermind that the pictures are lacking order... for some reason I have a hard time getting pics in the right place with Mozilla, but like to use it to blog because of the integrated spell check feature ;) (yes, it is that hard to just push a spell-check button). But of course I tried to use iexplorer to mess around with the picture order, but it is messing with me and not loading... grrr... so anyway... you will see the completed pumpkins here before the carving pictures... The pretty girly pumpkin is mine, all mine ;) It just didn't look quite as fancy glowing. Maria's is the next one here, she started out trying for one of the fancy template designs, but she chose a particularly difficult one, so decided to just free hand it here and it turned out great.













And Mike's turned out the scariest! Duncan was checking out those big teeth! On the other side of the scary one, Mike carved one of the template designs, its a wolf howling at the moon! And as much as we love pumpkin carving around here we love roasting those seeds even more! They turned out yummy!



We did most of our trick-or-treating in Winter this year, more houses to go to. The kids had a blast! Duncan actually said "trick-or-treat" a few times, it was between houses, but with all the houses decorated and people dressed up, he was a little preoccupied ;) We did get him to say "thank you" a few times though.
The funny thing was that last year the first house we went to Duncan just ran right in and made himself at home, of course the old couple had invited us in, but it was just funny the way he went right in and sat on the couch. This year it was the last house we went to and he did the same exact thing, ran right in and sat on the couch! The lady got a big kick out of him and he actually told her trick or treat and thank you. And she gave him a big kiss and an extra piece of candy :)