The Boo Crew

This year was a short and sweet (pun intended) Halloween. The kids don't go door to door in our little town anymore. The businesses on the main street in town all set up booths for the kids to go and collect their cavities, er, I mean candy. So we walked down one side of the street and then back down the other, and before you knew it we were done before it even felt like we started. Good use for $30 costumes? Hmm.

This year the boo crew chose these costumes:

Alyssa the Aqua Fairy

Taylor as Jasmine

Jayce as The Incredible Hulk...otherwise known to him as The Big Green Rrraahrr

And then I caught the kids at the bar

And then...I was taking a pic of my son getting some candy...and not until I downloaded the pictures did I notice the guy standing forefront to the left. WHOA NELLY! The guys hat says chick magnet on it..and he's starin' at the chick takin' the pic..hoping he wasn't sorely confused in thinking I was snapping a pic of him...creepy.

A Thank You to ....Laugh until you Cry

Back on October 26th, Beth from Laugh Until You Cry awarded me with these two awards...


The parameters and rules of the award:

"This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.

Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

After reviewing my blog roll...I have decided that I really do need to find some more blogs to follow! I found some when I first started blogging and then spent a small amount of time searching for others...and well, I don't follow too many! There are a few of the girls that I have already given awards to in the past...and I'm thinkin' they are gonna have to get some again.

I am going to pass this award on to:

*Jessica from Overflowing Bookshelf
*Tattoos and Teething Rings
*3 Boys + 1 Hubby = What Next?
*Rita from Fighting Off Frumpy......Good gawd this woman cracks me up!

*Mrs. Montoya from One Foot in Front of the Other
*Felicia from My Box of Chocolates
*Chantel from Chantelligence
*Shortmama from Family of Shorts

And this is the second award that I received from Beth...and I'm going to give it to everyone I mentioned above.

The rules are...

To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Sometimes I break or bend the rules...so I'm not gonna do an extra 15 people...I don't even know if I have that many on my blog roll yet!

Thank you again to Beth for the awards....and to the ones I have passed the awards along to....I'M SO FREAKIN' GLAD I FOUND YOU GUYS!!!!!!!! (With the exception of Shortmama...I found her when we were just little crazy girls in 3rd grade)

Dear Someone

Dear You People Livin' In My House,

I'm tired. Could we please get back to wonderful, restful nights. No talking while sleeping, no barking while sleeping, no hollering out to me while I'm desperately trying to find the peaceful sleep I used to know. I'm tired...and it's starting to make me really cranky, which isn't good for anyone involved.

Woman with the bloodshot eyes
Wilting Rose


Dear Next Tuesday,

I'm so excited to get to you. State Fair day...rides, cotton candy, laughter, cotton candy, lemonade, cotton candy, old time photos, cotton candy....soooo excited!!!

Woman who wants to be thrown for a loop
Wild Rose


Dear Me,

Oh dear me...I'm too tired to write any more letters.

Woman who zzzzzzzzzzzz.........

Goodbye to peaceful sleep

Shortmama has a link up, and today's topic is....What have you had to say goodbye to?

Welllll...glad she asked. I have had to say goodbye to peaceful nights of sleep on occasion. Sometimes it's because my dog whines in the middle of the night and is barking at something in her sleep. Sometimes it's my son saying he is thirsty..that boy could drink me out of house and home, he is ALWAYS thirsty. I seriously don't know how he isn't attached to the toilet 24/7 with how much he drinks.

But the biggest reason that I occasionally say goodbye to peaceful nights of sleep would be because of my husband. The man talks in his sleep sometimes. Sometimes he talks about moving rock piles from one place to another, he is a plant manager for a rock crushing industry. One time he got up and walked to the end of the bed and was talking some kind of jibberish, I couldn't distinguish what he was saying. But he finally crawled back into bed. And just last night, he sat up quickly in bed and said "they took the flag". I knew that he was dreaming about a game that he plays on the computer. He had a whole conversation with me when I was asking him what he was doing and if he was still dreaming. And he was not talking nicely when I asked him this stuff. I thought about pushing his butt off of the bed, but then decided to just turn over and ignore him...I didn't want him to attack if he didn't wake up after the fall.

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Welcome to another edition of Random Tuesday...head on over to The Un Mom for some more random goodness.

* I have to tell ya, this has been a great week in the blogoshpere. I found out that I WON a book (Marrying George Clooney) from Mag at Sitting on the Mood Swing at the Playground. And then...I received a couple of awards from Beth at Laugh until you Cry. Thank you so much Beth, and I'm glad I found your little corner of the blogoshpere! I am going to do a post this weekend and put the awards up then and pass them along.

*My son is sick with...well, I don't really know what he is sick with. Took him to the doc yesterday, they tested him for strep and the doc says if that comes back negative then she thinks it is a viral sore throat. She doesn't think it is the flu. Last night was fun. 12:30 a.m..."Mooommy, I'm thirsty"...ok, no problem, here's a drink and here's some meds so the fever doesn't spike. 2 a.m...."Mmmooommmy, (followed by a bunch of frantic jibberish)", I get up and go to his room to see what's wrong, "my room stinks"....are you kidding me!

*It's cold in my house...the temp gauge says 71 degrees indoors, but my fingers and toes are froze. Yes, I am a native Arizonan...I can take the heat much better than the cold.

*I am looking forward to this evening. There is going to be a volleyball party for the volleyball players and their parents (my 12-year-old daughter played volleyball). It was for such a great season they had...even though they didn't win the tournament, which was partially due to a ref that had a corn cob up her butt. It will be a fun night tonight.

Friend Makin' Mondays

On this weeks edition of friend makin' mondays...Amber would like to know....


IF LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHICH MOVIE WOULD YOU WANT TO LIVE IN?

Hmm, I guess I would want to live in the Underworld movie. And I would like to be Selene who kicks butt!

And then on the softer side, I would also like to live in Patch Adams, I love the idea behind this movie that is based on a true story.

And aside from joining in on the topic for the day...here is a snippet of a recent outing with my friend in real life...

This is my friend Melissa and I on an outing to a pumpkin festival

And this is us and our whole gang of kids.

And this is me checkin' out the scarecrow.

Happy FMM everyone!

Head on over to Amber to see some cool postings!

Funny Friday

I think the boy may have rabies...