Buffalo Bills attire!

The kids and I decided we were going to surprise our Dad and put on our Buffalo gear for him for the Monday Night football game. I guess they are not on Monday nights very often. I thought we looked good.

Don't we look GOOD!

Burning Down the House!

A while ago I almost burnt my house down. Our toaster is not working properly and I was cooking lunch for the girls and went to go look on the computer for a recipe that I wanted all forgeting that I had stuck a piece of toast in the toaster. While I was in there Bria yelled mom your toast! I ran out of the den and my whole house was filled with smoke. It was a lesson to show the kids that smoke really does rise. It took days to get the smell out. I can still smell it on my cupboards.

This is the toast that almost took my house away!

The darndest things kids say!

I wish I carried around a video camera all of the time just in case there was something funny I wanted to catch on video. Well the other night was one of those times. We were over at my parents surprise birthday party and we were getting ready to leave and Bailey was giving my Dad (grandpa) a hug goodbye and then started naming the different things on your face. She said chin, cheek, eye and then nose, but then she stopped leaned back a little and pointed to his nose again and said BIG nose. It was the funniest thing I had heard in a long time. I thought that this would be a good thing to write down for later use.

Halloween Night

During the day we went over to Dan's work and went trick or treating. We also got to see for the first time where he works. So that started off the candy pile. Then we had Grandma and Grandpa VanZandt and the Ashby's come over and we all went Trick or Treating. It was a lot of fun. The girls had a blast. They had so much candy that they didn't want to hold their bags anymore. We just went around the neighborhood to some houses. This was the nicest night there has ever been for Halloween that I can remember. It was so warm, all we needed was a little jacket. It made it much more enjoyable. When the girls got home they had so much candy that Bailey said her tummy hurt. Then after all the eating they fell asleep so fast. It was a fun Halloween night.

My cute little girls all dressed up.


All of the trick or treaters there was a bunny, a poodle, Minnie Mouse and Cinderella

After getting home from trick or treating counting all the candy

Night Before Halloween

We waited until the night before Halloween to carve our pumpkins. Might I add that they turned out pretty good. Not to brag or anything buy I think that these are the best pumpkins we have ever carved. I helped Bailey carve her Minnie Mouse and then I did a ghost on mine. Dan helped Bria do Cinderella and he did BSU on his own. We had a lot of fun doing them. Bria decided she was going to carry hers outside and dropped her lid about 20 times so we had pumpkin all over the floor. My sister Sydney came over that night and carved hers with us because parents were out of town. (Can you believe it the grandparents didn't see their grandkids on Halloween.) Anyway Syd was having quite a hard time. She kept cutting out pieces and then having to put them back in with toothpicks. It turned out cute though. They all did. We carved Bria's and Bailey's pumpkins what they were being dressed up for Halloween, so Bria's was Cinderella and Bailey's was Minnie Mouse.


Bailey with her Minnie Mouse pumpkin and Bria with her Cinderella pumpkin

BSU, Cinderella, Minnie Mouse, Ghost