Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Mmmm, the good stuff!

I know I haven't updated my blog for a while, but if you know me you know that I like to make little projects big by letting them pile up and tackling them all at once. So now you have a months worth of events to read about

The past two years I have ordered bulk Guittards chocolate chips and dipping chocolate from Karen so now that we live 900 miles apart I had to place my own bulk order. Thanks to a friend here who knows far more people here that I do we were able to gather the minimum 500 lbs. required to place an order. Emillie and I laughed about me weighing out 5 lb. bags of chocolate on my new "Biggest Loser" kitchen scale. Do you think they had this in mind when they marketed it?

Volleyball



This was Taralee's first time playing volleyball on a team and she really had a great time. Her team was undefeated when they finished their season. She is already looking forward to playing next year.

Trick-or-Treat Time





Can I just say that we had the best weather in Halloween History this year! I'm pretty sure I've never been trick-or-treating in flip flops before! I made Emillie put this costume on (she wore it to school) for a picture, but then she was off in a flash to spend the holiday at the corn maze with her friends. Taralee trick-or-treated with us for a while, but she, too, eventually went her own way with her friends. Addilee was so cute running from door to door, with Boots waving his hand out of her backpack, collecting treats. She only lasted about a half hour or so and then she wanted to go home. I took JR and Melanie a little longer, but after another block they declared that their bags were too heavy and they just wanted to go home and eat their treats. I wasn't about to argue! I think they had just as much fun handing out treats at our house, and yes, you guessed it, we passed out toothbrushes!

The Great Pumpkin Carving








Carving pumpkins is something that I could really do without, but in the essence of making memories it is something that we do every year (usually another great FHE). Melanie was so careful with her pumpkin and spent over an hour carving it's delicate little features, right down to the ears! She was adamant that no one help her and even asked the next day if she could work on it some more.