And So It Begins...

The first pumpkin of the season has now been carved!!!

I picked out this design today because I thought this guy had a smashing grin.Matt then with his skillful non-arthritic hands carved my lil ghost pumpkin into a work of art! He's so good! I wish I could have helped.I can't wait to put him on the front porch to greet our trick or treaters.My co-workers got a little testy with me because I hadn't followed through on the week long Halloween celebration I had been planning for 4 months, so the past two nights I've been whipping together Halloween Brownies and tonight Halloween sugar cookies....I thought the Bride of Frankenstein was a good idea at first, but it turned bad soon after I finished the hair and tried to make a mouth.Then I thought a bat would top off my creations until I realized that I couldn't tell my bat apart from an owl....so I wrote "Bat" beneath my icing illustration and called it quits.Maybe no one will notice him in there and hopefully this will get my co-workers off my back!

Only 2 more days until Halloween! EEEEEEEE!!!!

The Halloween We'll Never Remember

This post should have been titled "The Halloween We'll Never Forget", but due to our camera battery dying as soon as we put the car into park upon arrival at the haunted house, we were unable to take a single picture of our frightful night.

I can't express my disappointment that for all these years, I've had a picture taken with a ghoul each year and this year, my collection will be blank! This is why I have a hard time keeping up with the times. Had we not gone digital, all I would have to do it crank my little camera a few times and it would be good to go until my film ran out! But my problem with modern technology is an entirely different post in itself, so I'll stop there.

Anyhow, last night we drove out to Waxahachie to visit "Screams" Halloween Theme Park for our first time. There we met up with 15-20 friends (All family of my friend Niki) and enjoyed all the festivities! It was very cold and since all the lines were so long (like longer than six flags long) our friend Nina treated us to our very first "Speed Pass"! And Holy Mite! I have never used one of these because they are too expensive, but it was so worth it! We would have never seen or done all we did without it! I really wanted to at least have a picture with our golden arm bands of power, but not even the camera phone could make it out in all the darkness. :o( We also have never gone anywhere in a large group of people like we did last night and that made it a lot more fun too! The more people we had, the more they were able to join in on the scaring and eventually, even Matt got scared (which is a very hard task in itself).

All our activities ended a little after 1 am and after the long drive we finally arrived home after 2:00, thus making us sleep until almost 1pm this afternoon and creating crazy wacked out dreams in my head that included Matt stealing a dead body and hiding it in our dresser....it was pretty intense.

I was a very fun night last night. I wish it wasn't going to be gone from my memory bank within a few months, but I guess it is what it is.

Perhaps I can coax some over aged trick or treater that comes to our door to take a picture with me this year in exchange for a few extra handfuls of candy. That way I'll have my ghoul picture and will at least not have an empty spot in my collection.

Fun Fall Festivities

Today we celebrated fall by going with my parents and Kennedy to pick out pumpkins!

When we arrived at the pumpkin place, there was a children's hay maze and Kennedy led the way through all the twists and turns!

She had a blast doing this....2...3...and even 4 times...
The maze.
Finally we all reached the end because the sun was really bright.
After a long search Kennedy finally found her perfect pumpkin and promptly used it to block the sun from her eyes. Smart girl.
Kennedy suggested we have our photo taken with these scarecrows.
When we got back home, we were just in time for the ice cream man! Kennedy picked a Dora Popsicle. Big surprise there, eh?
Kennedy wanted to take my picture with my ice cream. She told me to say "Banana Booty" and then came in for this disgusting close up of my tired sick face. Upon review of how it came out, she commented, "Awww! SO cute!" At least she thought so....
After ice cream it was time to decorate for Halloween so that we could keep up with the Joneses around this neighborhood. Matt started by hammering in stakes for our orange and purple lights.

We hung ghost lights....
Matt made some impressive spiderweb designs....
And alas we called it a night....for now.
I love this time of year!

Tucker's Trip to the Vet

Today Tucker and I went on a trip to the vet!

When we arrived we met this guy in the waiting room! He promptly ran over to greet us and welcome us to the clinic.

Our friend quickly made his way up the side of the cage until he got at eye level with me and then proceeded to try and reach his claws out to me and make contact. This pretty much pissed Tucker off, but I restrained him and tried to disperse my love evenly between them both.
Afterwards, once I had taken Tucker home to rest from all the excitement of getting his ear infection treated, I went to do some grocery shopping and perhaps pick Tucker up a little somethin' somethin' for going to the vet so willingly. However, when I got there all I saw and wanted to get him was this:

But I knew Matt would have a fit if I bought his dog clothes again....party pooper... So all Tucker scored this time was some treats and a delicious meaty dinner that he'll partake of tonight. Anyone who can happily walk away wagging his tail after having a thermometer shoved up his butt, definitely deserves it!

A Pedi Is Great Medi

There are seriously few things I love in life as much as going to get a pedicure.

I am so comfortable while I'm there with the people and I feel so good about myself when I leave. Maybe it's because I have low self esteem, but the people there make me feel like royalty! They always come and compliment me on how white or "thin" my skin is and tell me how it is of great value, they tell me how soft I am, they always tell me what a good job I do of keeping up my finger nail shape, and they like to tell me I have "baby feet" which somehow seems to flatter me too. On top of that, they never want to do any freaky designs on my toes either. They always insist on lady-like flowers and today without me asking (I could care less what they do) they went through great lengths to find light pink stones for the middle of my flowers because apparently the other colors were too dark for me and my skin.

I don't know if they do that for everyone...I probably don't want to know either...I just want them to keep it up!

Counting Down!

Things are really coming together for us as we're preparing to move November 1st and we're getting more and more excited with each passing day.

Matt shows his excitement by putting a countdown on his google home page and sending me pictures to my phone of the clock each day when he gets to his desk at work.

I show mine by buying things like polka dotted shelf paper a month ahead of time because I just can't wait to stick it to the cabinets!

Today we got my most dreaded task out of the way which was getting a washer and dryer. I never knew how many sizes and specifications there were to choose from! When Matt and I went searching for one last Saturday, I was quickly overwhelmed with the price, small load sizes for our price range, and problem of finding a dern arthritis friendly washer that didn't have a knob you'd have to pull on to start each load! But alas while at work today I found the perfect one for me and grabbed it while it was still on sale for 6 more hours!

I can't wait to do my first king size load of laundry with not a pull, but a touch of a button!!!

Only a few tasks more and we'll be all set! Next stop World Market!

Matt said, "Let there be seating!" ...and it was good.

Matt and I purchased our first living room furniture tonight from a nice man named Charlie at Haverty's. We got a chofa and a matching chair! I can't wait for it to be delivered!

Hiiiiiighway to Hell!

So apparently each day around 12:00pm, 635 doubles as what quite possibly could be the Texas Autobahn. I would have never known this had I not gotten sick at work today and have to drive home at this hour. It was insane how fast cars were flying around me and coming close to smashing into one another! I've seen a lot of crazy things on 635; lots of wrecks, lots of fires/spills, and on Tuesday I even saw a guy turn his car sideways in the 1st lane to get out and fight a scared white man and his wife who were stuck behind him in a convertible Z3; however, I have never seen people drive this fast on this freeway! The average speed was no less than 90 miles per hour and even the crappy cars were zooming around me with their mufflers flapping in the wind about to fly off!

I'm sorry I cramped everyone's style today by going 70 in the slow lane, but why the dern hurry folks?

Strawberry Dippers

This weekend my niece Raechelle got married and to do our part, Matt and I made chocolate dipped strawberries. I've done this task countless times, but I never had help from someone other than my mother.

Having Matt helping out made it so much more fun! He loves taking part in this sort of thing and he does such a great job at it too. I was really proud of him.

Annal Work Fair Day!

Today was my work's annual fair day and I was super excited for some reason this year.
I couldn't wait to see what kind of shirt Big Tex would be wearing and what kinds of nasty foods they would be serving!

Below our lovely pictures will tell of our trip...

Say hello to Big Tex! His voice was especially loud and clear this year. I think he had some work done.

Matt and my first picture together with Big Tex!

This year we made sure to make our first stop a visit to Elsie the Borden Milk cow since Matt has never seen her and was very disappointed he missed her last year.

He was so excited.
Elsie looked sad and it made me pretty sad. Then an old lady (it was senior citizens' day) came to me and told me she was sad for Elsie too. :o(
Our next stop was to the Old Mill Inn for my work dinner. Apparently Matt didn't get enough to eat...
My friend Dorothy once took a picture like this with her friends. I went into the car exhibit with the sole purpose of finding an unattended car and taking this picture. A crowd stirred as soon as I laid upon the ground. It was a little embarrassing.
Then when I saw this spot on the floor...something more had to be done. It was pretty funny until a rather large man wearing his pajama bottoms (perhaps that is all that fit after all his fried coke and twinkies?) appeared laughing and kept asking us to see our camera to review the picture again....creepy. I can't wait to carve my jack-o-lantern! This one was beautiful and huge! I was very impressed.
This year's fried food of choice for Matt: Oreos. Blek! I wasn't even tempted to try a bite.
After the fried food and a trip down the super slide, we headed to my favorite area! The Children's petting zoo. This giraffe liked Matt and Matt liked him.And here I am with my yearly friend. Everyone is scared of the ostriches, so I try and make up for it when I arrive. Poor little buggas. I love their eyes.Big Tex is the only cowboy for me.This is a statue of Anubis we saw while at the fair. It looked oddly familiar...Vienna, Austria-May 2008
I wonder if it was the same one and it came all the way out to have lunch with Big Tex....Behold Anubis and King Tut in the form of Butter! I can't eat butter, but I love looking at it when it looks like this! This is my favorite part. Getting Henna. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fair, it's just a booth there and I like this girl. She's good.

And finally The Texas Star! We didn't ride this year on account of it being so expensive, but we enjoyed watching it.
I already can't wait for next year!

Howloween!

To kick off our month long celebration of Halloween; Tucker received his first ever Halloween present! A jack-o-lantern that hides a squeaky trick bone, a treat bone and of course a spooky ghost!
God love 'em for sitting still for this picture, he was about to go nuts.