digital scrapbook giveaway...

What is better than free? Over at kevin&amanda you can get up to three chances to win a whole kit. She is raffling off two October kits & two November kits. All you have to do is leave a comment to be entered. But that’s not all you can enter up to three times if you tweet about it and/or post it on your blog. But wait there’s more… if Amanda gets 800 comments there will be EIGHT winners instead of four! Entries have to be posted by November 8 @ 11:59pm central time. Good luck everyone!

10 ways to waste time on the internet...

1. Watching my favorite shows on Hulu.
2. Checking on friends @ Facebook.
3. Blog hopping my favorite reads.
4. Brushing up on coding @ W3Schools.
5. Menu planning & recipe searching on All Recipes.
6. Twittering on Twitter.
7. Visiting Silentwarriors message board.
8. Café World on Facebook.
9. Watching movies on Netflix.
10. Job hunting & networking.

mosaic monday...

| carved pumpkins | Abby went to Halloween party | went shopping w/Haillie | raked leaves | trick-or-treating | watched Eagles win | MIL’s birthday dinner | did some digital scrapbooking | Haillie bought sword thing at Renn Faire |

YEAH! It’s November 1st & it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to start planning Thanksgiving dinner. *yummers* We can start stringing our popcorn garland & make the cinnamon applesauce gingerbread men for the tree. I can start our Christmas cards & plan out the cookie trays. Turn up the Christmas music… I love it!
Today is also my MIL's birthday so Christopher & I are about to leave for the hour & a half drive to her house. Getting together for a birthday dinner was a last minute idea and the kiddos had plans for today already. Haillie will be going with friends to the Renaissances Faire, she is on cloud nine. Abby has dinner plans with my parents they are making her favorite meal, homemade gnocchi. She has promised to bring home the leftovers for me. When we go off in different directions it really makes me miss my babies.

blogoversary...

YEAH! Today is my 10 yr blogoversary. *WoW* Back before I had a blogger account & was using dial-up to connect. I remember updating my HTML page daily with my post. My kiddos were little (Haillie 3 yrs & Abby 5 mths) and I remember having Abby’s highchair next to the huge desktop computer. Our home only had ONE computer that we had to share. *lol* Boy times have a changed!

happy halloween...

1. Happy Halloween blogland!
2. YEAH Halloween is over!!!

I’m just not a fan, love fall & decorating for it but really dislike costumes & treat-or-treating. The girls are lucky their dad is in to it. Christopher & the girls carved their pumpkins while I roasted the seeds. This year's flavors were ranch & cinnamon sugar. The ranch seeds were delicious but no one seemed interested in the cinnamon sugar seeds. Notice below I'm one child short in the group photo, we are at that stage of not allowing me to take or post her photo. *eye roll* Teenagers! Now as annoying as my teenager was for the pumpkin carving, picture taking part of the holiday she did something surprising. Christopher had to work on Halloween and thought he would be home in time to take Abby treat-or-treating. When he didn’t make it home by 6:00 Haillie offered to take her. They covered the whole town in two hours & Abby had so much fun. I love those moments.

grown-up time...

All day I have been excitedly looking forward to 6:00pm. What happens at 6:00pm you ask? Well something that doesn’t happen here often… Christopher & I will be home alone for THREE hours! Haillie has a football game & Abby will be at her friend’s Halloween party. My morning started on a high note. I woke up happily anticipating my upcoming grown-up evening. Got the kiddos off to school. Emptied & filled the dishwasher. Ran a few errands & grabbed the rest of Abby’s costume. Returned home to happily run the vacuum & finish up the laundry. Even ran an extra mile on the treadmill. I was on a high all day. Gave myself a mani/pedi with a fresh new color. Shaved & lotioned. Make-up & hair. You would think I was going on a hot date. So you ask, why am I’m blogging at 6:30pm during my amazing, adult, child free zone, empty house time? Because at 2:45pm I received a recorded message… “due to the past few rainy days tonight’s football game will be cancelled.” *sigh* I felt like calling the high school’s principal and telling him, “you can’t cancel I already shaved!” Now Christopher is sitting on the couch on his laptop & I’m on the other one on mine. Just another typical Friday family evening.