Alrighty Then.....

So, I get these messages on facebook "you need to update your blog, we're sick of looking at your broken truck" Well, it's Tuesday and that happened Saturday!! But I get it, I've been slacking on my little family's happenings and the truck smash was convenient blog material. So let's see what I can conjure up for ya.

Things have been going really well for us here, Tatum & Mason are in indoor soccer right now and really enjoying that. Charlie is of course busy with work but very happy to be back in the swing of things and out of the lab!!! My business has grown like crazy over the last 3 months and it is so dang fun. I can't believe the new people that I'm meeting that are becoming my new friends. I am very blessed to be able to do what I love.

I am trying to get into the Christmas swing of things but I haven't gotten any decorations out yet, my studio is in my living room and must remain there till the end of the month. My last studio session is on the 29th and then down to the basement it all goes until January. We are working on the basement right now, turning most of it into a studio for me = :)

So, for now the Christmas tunes blasting is all the Christmas whatnot going on at our house, but it's all good.

Let's see if I can find some sort of picture to round up this post, can't post without a photo - that's pretty much criminal in my mind. Hmmmm, what do I have.......Okay for some reason it put the photos at the top and so at this point you've already seen them. I found these little beauties in a folder I labeled "Loonies". Hmm, wonder why I called it that?

Beautiful Saturday Morning.......

So this is what we woke up to this morning, what looked like a hit and run. The guy that hit our truck actually left his information with our neighbor at 5:30am which of course was a huge bonus. He came around the corner and smacked it so hard it bumped up onto the curb!! He was driving a car he just bought 2 weeks ago - sucky for him.

See the dry spot behind the truck (the one the length of the truck) that is where we were parked!

The rest of our Saturday was actually quite good. Mason had a soccer game this morning and I hat a great family session this afternoon. Charlie got the garage spic n span and then headed off to work. Very good day despite our poor jeep's early morning smash up. :)

Sorry Kels, here's a little more Halloween!

So here we have Clone Trooper, Alice In Wonderland, and Iron Man

This is in front of the Coombs house just before we hit the streets!

Always in character - this is pretty serious stuff. ;)

This is what I get from Sam everyday, whether it's putting him in his carseat, or he's just finished breakfast or just finished up in the bathroom - I get the thumbs up. Sometimes two but mostly one. Sam is the funny one of the bunch - for my siblings, you'll see why at Christmas.

And Alice, you may think by looking at her that it was a nice warm day. No, if she wore a jacket then nobody could see her dress, if she wore a long sleeve shirt under she wouldn't look like Alice. Short sleeve shirt would be "too bunchy". So Alice trick or treated for hours just like this and refused her jacket every time I offered. Her arms were a little purple when we got home, but at least everyone could see her dress and knew that she was Alice In Wonderland. Oh my.

HaPpY HaLloWeeN!!!

Well, we could not have had a better Halloween in Spruce Village! There were TONS of kids on the streets and it was just a little bit chilly- no snow and no jackets!! Tatum did not even have a shirt under her Alice In Wonderland dress because it "was too bunchy" and if she wore a jacket no one would be able to see her dress! So, I carried her jacket and periodically asked if she wanted it but was consistently refused. The kids had so much fun, we went with the Coombs kids and the big boys stayed out for hours with Celena.

I was lucky enough to get my own special treat at one of the houses we stopped at. Sam and I were the tail end of our group and the man at the door told me to wait just a second because he had something special for me too. Curious. He comes back and puts something in my hand and tells me to put it in my pocket for later, and that the Moms that trick or treat should get something too for being out there. No it was not a baggie but yes it was airline size booze!!! At least if I needed to warm up I had options! Oh my. Thanks buddy for thinking of us moms! All I could do was laugh and give it to someone down the street who looked chilly. ;)

Alot of people in our neighborhood really get into with the decorated homes, which was really fun for the kids.

Yes, there are more photos but we need to head out for groceries so I will meet you back here after the kids are in bed!