Happy Hallowe'en!

Well the pumpkin has been carved and the candy is by the door! We are ready for tonight! I am so happy that it is so beautiful today! My kids are soooo looking forward to running around the block and yelling "trick or treat"! Plus this year we are closer friends to more people on our street, so maybe there will be more stopping and visiting rather than running from door to door trying to beat the cold like previous years!

I will post pictures of my Princess Jasmine and my rugged Towboy! Occassions sure are getting more fun as these kids get older! In fact JD just might dawn an "afro" wig for the evening!!! Don't worry if it happens there will be photos!!!

Happy trick or treating!

I Can't Believe It!?!

Well it is official ~ my daughter is 5 today! At 2:50am, five years ago, she was born! I am in awe at how fast these years have gone.

Last night I told her she could decide what she wanted for her birthday supper tonight - and she thought and thought and then came off with "corn on the cob"!!! So after explaining that that might not happen she thought of some more of her favorites ~ she wants "bones" which are Greek ribs, and broccoli and cauliflower, and lastly GRAPES!!!! So I phoned my in-laws to invite them for supper and told them not to question the side of grapes with our meal!

Then for dessert she thought I could make her another cake - not likely! So I am going to attempt a key lime pie! She loves whipped cream so I am safe with any pie underneath!

Her Dad diligently put together a bright and shiny new purple bicycle last night - when he was finished I told him we better hide it in the furnace room until he got home tomorrow night... he said "no way, I am waking her up at 6:30am before I leave for work to give it to her"!! So at 6:20am we were waking her up to show her her new bike! Luckily she was thrilled and also went back to sleep after her Dad went to work!

I better go and start washing grapes!

What a Success!

What a great party Mardi had yesterday!

She was still vibrating last night at bedtime! It was 2 hours of fun, pampering and eating! Her Dad couldn't believe it when he got home - she couldn't tell him all about it fast enough!

She got so many wonderful gifts that are keeping her and her brother busy today!

Thank you everyone!!

Let's Get the Party Started!

The invitations have been sent....

The cake has been made....

The balloons have been ordered...

The "Pretty Piggies" lady has been confirmed....

I am ready for a 5 year old Princess Party!!

If only it was sooner?!? I am half ready for the fun to begin, but there are other occasions I need to attend first!

Tomorrow afternoon is the annual "Kitchen ladies luncheon", where all the ladies that either hold that last name or are past users of it get together and eat and visit. Since I gained that name oh some odd 7 years ago, I am on the invitee list! Apparently the "Kitchen Twins" are turning 90 this week so since the majority of the family will be around the Nanton area so we bumped this years' luncheon to now.

Tomorrow evening we are invited to an "End of Harvest" party at some friends of ours. However it is a "bring your kids" kind of affair so they will be our excuse to leave early! Thank goodness because we have a Princess Party to host on Sunday!!!

Stay tuned for the photos from the shin-dig, I am sure they will include all 8 squealing girls, a few of the moms and CK eating chips?!

Challenge Is On!!

Well Blairmore was a blast~! Had so much fun with the ladies! Lots of pages done - 21 to be exact! Jack's album is one layout away from being finished. I told myself to do that today but my son has turned me into a short order cook and someone he needs at his beckon call?! He is well on his way to becoming an annoying husband!

So while scrapbooking us girls decided to post an old layout showing our lack of talent! So here is mine! You all better hold up your end of the deal! This layout is the last one in my wedding album, and lets just say that by the end of this book I was tired of doing it! Flipping through the whole album made me giggle! There was absolutely NO patterned paper!!! My how I have changed!

Notice all the "utensils"?? How friggin cheesy!!

Also here is my favorite layout from the weekend that I did! I absolutely love the pictures of my little "farm boy"!!

Can't wait to see all of your "beginner" layouts ladies!!!!

And shout out to "bangs and boots"!

Starting to Feel the Pressure!

I shouldn't be on here! I am feeling so rushed today! Now that I decided to take the kids one day earlier to their grandparents' for the weekend - I feel that I am running out of time!

The whole reason to ship them off early was so I could run to the Scrap Yard tomorrow morning, to use up my gift certificates, and go to Costco to pick up my pictures I will need this weekend and do this all alone ... kidless! Now I am not as organized as I was hoping and I still have to run to Stavely with the kids after dance tonight!!

Boy I am going to be busy this afternoon and tonight when I get home!!!

Gotta run!!!

See you there Kacey and Kaly!!!!!!

Home Sweet Home?!

So I have opted out of going to Calgary today! I got so deep into planning pages for Blairmore this weekend that I decided I had better get it finished before I hit the ScrapYard!

This is the most organized I have ever been before heading off to scrap the weekend away. I have to thank CK for that - I would be pissed if once again she was more prepared than me! So Friday it is - I will head to Calgary bright and early Friday morning - without the kids! I am sure to get more accomplished and quicker. Then I will rush back to meet CK in Nanton at 12:30pm to head west for 2 days!

Can't wait to scrapbook with a room full of women I know!

Well there will probably 10 or so I don't!

Fun Fun Fun!!!