Screams!

Maggie had her 15th birthday party at 'Screams Haunted Theme Park' again this year - it was cold and dark and scary and fun!! You'll have to check her blog (the story of my life) for more pics soon.

Her cute BAT invites

coming out of what was apparently a scary house!

the gang

this lady was scary! she kept crouching down and popping out from behind trees!

"Don't let them get me, Haley!"

What's going on today

A little more remodeling.

We aren't doing too much this time - just a cookbook cabinet and a big cabinet (with cool Rollie drawers) in the utility room meant to increase our pantry space. (how can a house this big have a pantry fit for a one bedroom apartment? I'll never understand)

Nevertheless - I feel like we are remodeling the whole kitchen- -which would be nice, Tommy - wink, wink! -- We have canned food and cookbooks everywhere! Even piled into laundry baskets - thank you Tim for that help!

That's what is going on today!

Run

Tommy likes to run - he runs on the treadmill everyday like clockwork. He was sidelined a bit because of his shoulder surgery, but he is back! (he still keeps his sling on the arm of the treadmill just in case, i guess) I hate to run - so I am proud of him for getting up to do it each day, and for trying to keep himself relatively healthy. Mostly, the kids just thought this picture was gross with all of that sweat, so I wanted to post it for them! Run Tommy, Run!

Rain

It seems like we have had a whole lot of rain lately - I love it, but unfortunately, so do the weeds that have sprung up in my vegetable garden- "it's ok lettuce... it's ok spinach... I won't let them get you!"

Blast from the Past!

The reasons I am keeping this blog are #1 it is a journal of sorts for our family and #2 I can create a book of pics and posts at the end of the year that will serve as our family scrapbook.

So I am really killing two birds with one stone, right? Well, what about all of those pics over the years that I intended to scrapbook but somehow never got around to doing?

I thought about this as I was cleaning out my craftroom last week (sorting through ZILLIONS of poorly taken photographs!) This is the solution I came to - Blast from the Past!

Great idea, huh?! I was going to start it in January so that it would begin in our 2010 book - but I couldn't wait!

These will be in no particular order - if I try to organize I will not get this done either!!!

Tim and Friends on kindergarten field trip - Dallas Zoo

May 2005?

girl, jacob, mackenzie, lily,

tim

Backyard play

February 2003

maggie, josh, haley

(LOVE maggie's belly shirt! - They are STILL friends!)

haley, maggie, josh, caleb, tim

Florida 9-09

Tommy and I took a little vacation in september to Orlando. we went without the kids - the first time we had been away from them for more than one night - EVER!!! We had a great time together!

We went to Mickey's "not so scary" halloween party dressed as cavemen!

We were super intimidating! (as seen below)

We drove to the Orlando Temple, but had not brought church clothes, so we just walked around and took a few pics. (this is us with temple hedges!)

There is a new ballon ride at downtown disney - of course we went up in it!!

We also took a drive down through Tampa and into St. Petersburg. We spent just a little bit at Mediera Beach.

This is a few pics of us at the airport.We felt like we spent half of our trip there.

We had a bit of trouble with our flights. Gotta love being put on standby!!

Here is how we looked after about 7 hours!

Childish?...YES

...but I call him!

and since I'm pretty sure I am the only grown woman to actually, officially "call him"

- that makes him mine! YAY!

I have this spiral notebook - called "boys are cute". On the cover is a photo of my Tommy and Tim. On the back are photos of boys that me and maggie think are cute too. Ian Somerhalder holds a special place on the back cover! (upper left)

I LOVED him in LOST, as Boone - but he is so sinister in

Vampire Diaries, that I have to LOVE him in that show too!

OK - so who is your big crush?

Don't forget, it can't be Ian... he is mine!