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!!