Carving Pumpkins

"Eww, I don't want to touch the yucky stuff"
"I help you daddy"

"I'm tired, I think I will take a seat on this here pumpkin you are caving. I'm a helper, huh daddy?"
The finished product. Adam's is the big one on the left, Grace's is the monster in the middle (to match her pink monster costume) and mine is the one on the right. Turned out pretty good! I never thought in a million years that Grace's attention span would allow us to carve pumpkins but she absolutely loved it. She got right in there and helped Adam and was very in to it the whole time. I am not sure how much Adam appreciated her "help" but it was so cute to watch her actually be able to participate in a holiday activity.

The Pumpkin Patch

I love holding her hand... she spotted the rooster or "doodle doo" as she calls it.

Where are we and why is it so cold? That goat is scary but those chickens are hilarious!!
I am a happy girl! A happy girl on the move!!

We went to Flavor Fruit Farms last Saturday. Just call me "Mom of the Year" right now because this was literally the first weekend in October we had available to go. Lets just say it was a little disappointing. The place didn't have hardly any pumpkins left (at least not any good ones). It was a little desolate. No pumpkins, no hay rides, no sunny fall weather, no swarms of people. Even the staff was looking at us like, "What are you doing here, don't you know Halloween is in a week?" Luckily for me, I have a one year old who really doesn't know the difference and didn't mind that her mommy and daddy were dragging her out in the freezing cold to get non-existent pumpkins and look at some animals. She did like the animals. The rooster and chickens were her favorite. She loves birds, they just crack her up. We did go inside for a donut and cider and she put that away no problem. We also got an apple pie, caramel apples, and cider. Yum. She is so happy and easy to please. God, I love this kid.

Yup, this pretty much sums us up

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Dorks. Seriously BIG dorks. We think we are funny though. This was our one night out on the town. Lets just say we can't quite party like we used to. But, we did manage one night and had a great time. Note to self: "Sushi is not a good idea before a night on the town". HAHAH.

And the video. This was on the way to the mall when we had no idea that Ilene was videoing us from the back seat. A pretty good example of what dorks we are and how we have fun just being together. Period.

My favorite part is when we bust out the robot half way through in perfect unison. Nice Work :)


(okay for some reason the video won't upload, will try again later)

So much to do

I am still here. You wouldn't know it by my utter lack of blogging. I am not feeling well, super tired, my head hurts, achy, and just plain yuck. I guess my 10 day travel stint is finally catching up to me. Here are the updates coming soon:

• the rest of my girls weekend including a funny video
• fall pics of Grace
• pics of our visit to Flavor Fruit Farms on Saturday
• a new banner

And other random updates: I finally scheduled my gallbladder surgery- December 5th. My other option was the day before Thanksgiving, uh no thanks :). The work meeting went well, you get a bunch of sales people together and mix it with alcohol and boy things can get interesting. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be and I actually learned some pretty good stuff. We had a good weekend, a visit to the pumpkin patch, watching the Spartans beat Michigan, and scrapbooking with the girls at Nicole's house. I think that is about it- pictures and more interesting posts to come soon. I promise! My head hurts too much right now...

Crazy Town, USA

I will post more from my girls weekend when Lindsay sends me the rest of the pics. I think there might be even a few funny videos in there. I had such a great time with my old college friends, it's like we don't even miss a beat. There is something about having friends that love you no matter what. They mean the world to me and I think we have started a new yearly tradition of a get together.

Now, back to the real world. I am home and working today but not for long. I leave tomorrow for Arlington, VA for a meeting until Friday. Yuck. I always dread these things. One, I am away from my family and I will miss them terribly (esp after being gone this past weekend) and Two, I hate being couped up in a conference room for 8 hours a day and when we are finally done being forced to socialize with other drug reps. It is very competitive with everyone trying to show off how smart and great they are and that drives me bonkers. Jeez, I sound like a barrel of fun. Lets put it this way- I love my team and the people I work with but really have no interest in kissing you know what. Know what I mean? I always feel this way before I go but it usually ends up not being that bad I am re-energized about my job and products and kind of enjoy the socializing aspect. We shall see how it goes this time around :)

Have a great week! I hope I do...

Girls Weekend: Day 2

On our way to the mall...

Shopping together and everyone buying the same shirt at Express.
Wine tasting at Chatam Hills WineryWe made a scene as usual and the lady at the winery was so annoyed by us. She still agreed to take our picture even though we were taking obscene pics in her winery. So mature.

Dinner at an Italian place called Daniel's. Great pasta with pink sauce.

The best part of the night. We played games and this one was kind of like telephone. Everyone writes a phrase or statement down on a piece of paper. You then pass it and the next person has to draw it, then the next person writes the phrase and so on and so on. This was hilarious, especially the more wine we drank. Somehow everything became really perverted. Typical- LOL.

Girls Weekend: Day 1

Day one of our girls weekend in Cary, North Carolina. Here we are in the car after Julie picked us up from the airport on our way to Julie's beautiful new home. Mere, Petey, and I flew in from MI and Ilene met us from New York. Lindsay and Lori are getting in tonight from Indianapolis and New York respectively.

We went for the grand tour of Julie's house and then went on a little walk around the neighborhood to enjoy the 86 degree weather here today. We then hit up a local nail place for pedicures and wine!

We finished the night at PF Changs for dinner. As usual we are having so much fun together. We don't even have to be doing anything and we just laugh and are crazy and feel like we are in college again. More posts to come...