Wal Mart & Carving Pumpkins

So Kiley has a Book report on Monday (Halloween) she is doing over Repunzel. I bought my kids costumes quite a while ago...so when I found out Kiley had to do a book report and dress up like Repunzel I was Royally annoyed...Costumes are not cheap and those of you thinking..."Well make one"...I had to borrow a needle and thread from a friend of mine to sew something on something I was selling on e-bay...so sewing...NOT my thing!!! SO anyway, we went to Wal-Mart yesterday in search for a Repunzel costume...struck out at both Target and Party City first...It was a LONG day!!! SO we found the LAST Repunzel costume on the costume aisle and before I had left the store...TWO HOURS LATER...I had been asked THREE times if they could have this costume, out of my shopping cart! Seriously People?! Who does that!? Obviously I am buying it if it's in my cart! So 2 hours and LOTS of dirty looks later we got home and started carving pumpkins. Well we haven't carved pumpkins in YEARS, so I had forgotten ALL it entailed. 1 Adult, 3 kids and knives and cutting utensils is not something I would recommend, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The kids had fun and were throughly disgusted with the inside of a pumpkin, lol. But we all had a good time with it. Kiley wanted a "bat" cat, so she helped me with that one, Brendan wanted a Ghost and Bailey's pumpkin was too small to do any of the big ones, so we had to free hand a face, lol. Mine is Supposed to say "Welcome" but I messed up, but Im pretty sure I was destined for failure by the end and trying to do that one, lol. My hand was shaking and I had broken all little knives by the end of the night! But we finished them and lit them up! MAN...Those things smell terrible! Burning Pumpkin insides, lol...It's supposed to smell right?! I went out to turn them off and their were snails ALL OVER THEM...GROSS!!! I HATE Snails! I have salt on hand just for those disgusting little creatures! BLEH!!! So I moved them up by my door and put salt all around them...so if they try to get to them, they will die...sorry! So it looks like I have some sort of ritual going on, lol...Kinda weird, but it worked. No More snails on my Pumpkins this morning! YAY!!! I WIN!!! ;o) So ANyway. I hope everyone enjoys their last week of October! I am ready for November!!! :o)

One Month to Go...

KORRY WILL BE HOME IN A MONTH!!! It seemed like this last month would never get here, but alas, here we are! September crawled by and October has gone relatively quick, and I am hoping since we have a BUSY month ahead of us, this month will go by fast as well! It has been a long, overwhelming, stressful and crazy journey while Korry has been gone and I am SO ready for him to be home with us! I know this next month will be insane and I am going to feel overwhelmed and extremely Anxious!!! I am far beyond anxious!!! I miss our daily day to day crap more than I can explain!!! I just miss "our normal"...lol. Anyway, this month is going to be insane and im thankful for this, because im hoping it wil go FAST...SUPER FAST!!! :o)

First "Official" Photo Session

So I finally got out there and had my first official photo session! I did Lindsey Wishum's Maternity/Family photos and it was a BLAST! They made it so easy and it was just fun! I learned a LOT and got some good ideas of what I like and definitely some things I need to work on! BUT I now have a little experience and am looking forward to getting MUCH MUCH more!!! I am thrilled that Lindsey asked me to do her new bay boy London's newborn pictures as soon as the little guy comes! I am SO excited and looking forward to it! Anyway, here are some of the pictures from their photo-shoot and I hope you enjoy them! Have a Great week everyone!!! :o)