Pumpkins!!!!!

Tonight was pumpkin carving night......

In case you can't tell, it's the bat symbol, a turtle, and a joker's face.

Laundry

I do a lot of laundry.  This means I go through a ton of laundry detergent and fabric softener.  I keep seeing recipes on pinterest of ways to make your own.....here is what I did:

Here are all the ingredients.

Here is the final product.  I can't wait to see if it is as good as the reviews!!

Sinkland Farms

Well, I guess today was the last time I visit Sinkland Farms on a fieldtrip (sniff sniff--ha ha ha)
It was pretty chilly and windy, but we had a good time.  I wasn't going to walk through the corn maize for fear I would fall and hurt my foot, but it became a non-issue when we ran out of time. 

Somebody's 7!!!!!

Today was Owen's 7th birthday.  I made a cake I found on pinterest (finally, a successful endeavor!).  Owen got the ipod touch he has been begging for....all in all, a great day!

What a difference....

.....a haircut can make!!!!

Here is Callie last week, when I put her halloween costume on to make sure it fit.

Here she is today (chewing on a new pumpkin I bought her) after her first official 'grooming'  (no longer just a puppy cut)  It's going to take some getting used to.....

The phone call

It's the phone call every parent of  a new driver dreads.....the one with a teenager sobbing on the other end, totally unable to communicate.  I knew something had happened when the phone rang at 6:30am, when they should have already been at seminary.  A phone call that early is never a good sign!  Once Maddie calmed down, she explained that she had taken a corner too sharp, and hit something that punctured the wall of her tire.  Kirk was able to put the spare on for her, and I took it for new tires while she was at school.  $429 later, she has 4 new tires!!!

I couldn't say anything to her--I've done the same thing once before!!

It's a bird, it's a plane.....

.....it's how tiny Callie flies up the hardwood stairs.....
hahahahahahaha

There once was a mouse....

.....who had the misfortune of running in to Hobbes, who chased it around for a while.  Maddie felt bad for it, and went outside to see if she could rescue it.  She then had the misfortune of being bit on the finger by said mouse.  I called the pediatrician's office, who said to call animal control.  Animal control said they would research it, and someone would call me right back, but to retrieve the mouse if I could.  (I did)   Fifteen minutes later, an animal control truck pulls up in the driveway.  After taking the mouse and all kinds of information, he left.  He recommended Maddie get a tetanus shot.  (thankfully, mice don't carry rabies)  I called the pediatrician's office back, and they said to come right in.  I said I knew she just had a booster a few years back--no luck.  Dr. Delaney walks into the room laughing that this was the first 'mouse bite' he had, checked her chart, said she was up to date on everything, and sent us home.  What a day.  Animal control has to inform the health department, who will decide if the mouse needs to be tested for anything.  And so we wait.....

Here we are talking with the animal control officer.

Here she is in the doctors office.