Party time!

Friday night Christa and I took Brenda out on the town for her 40th birthday. WHOOPPEE-DEE-DOOOOOOOO! This involved pedicures, eating a HUGE dinner (with free dessert)...


... several shopping stops, and an unexpected and unplanned trip to Burger King for sodas, which resulted in three yummy free shakes from this super-hot burger king late night worker guy thanks to Brenda's head gear and Christa's big mouth.



I'll leave the rest in the history books where it belongs, but man did we have a good time and laugh a lot. The best fun you can have sober, I'd say!!

Like a dog on a bone ....

This is the hardest puzzle I think I've ever done. All marbles. About 3/4 of the way through it I wanted to just put it all back in the box so bad ... but I made myself finish. Why? So I could put it all back in the box ... which is why I felt I needed to take a picture to memorialize it first.

So yes, I'm stubborn, ridiculously so.

New kitty - again

Our last kitty abandoned us - she took off out the door one day a few months ago and never came back. It's taken me awhile to relent and get another one, but I'm so glad we did!


Greg got the job of naming her, which he hadn't done before yesterday. I called the vet to get an appointment for her shots, and they asked her name, and of course I had to say "Hopefully I'll know when I bring her in on Monday."

I was over seeing the kiddos yesterday and told Lexi we got a new kitty. She immediately asked her name, and I said Papa hadn't decided you. First she said she thought we should name her Callie Anne, but then we decided together (ha) that it might get confusing. Suddenly she said, "I know! We can name her Billie Bob!" Cracked me up so much I had her call Papa and tell him, and guess what, the (girl) kitty's name is now Billie Bob. Hopefully the "ie" on the end of Billie will help? Should I put two b's on the end of Bob? Such a dilemma.

Lex is suddenly interested in learning how to write her letters, so she made had me tell her how to spell the kitty's name so I could bring it home and show it to her. Naturally the kitty was thrilled, so thrilled she climbed right up my leg and bit my arm just for fun. :)

Brief update ...

Today Lexi needed to wear the Spiderman costume ... understandable since she had been the "Little Mermaid" for something like six days in a row. You know where this is going... since she was Spiderman, guess who had to wear the dress today? (I'll give you a hint - it wasn't Callie :) Pick your battles, right?

We're watching Callie Anne tonight - I haven't seen her much lately because I've been sick and WOW has she ever changed! I promise I'll get some current pics up of her really soon.

Halloween fun ... and the aftermath

Here they are in all their Halloween splendor - Mason in a puffed up pre-muscled Spiderman suit, and Lexi as the good witch in the wizard of oz, aka the little mermaid because that's what she insisted she was. :) Mommy even gave her a little makeup to make her more beautiful.


And a close-up of the spiderman suit ... apparently after every house he yelled "thank you - WUDGE!" Which many of you know was Lexi-speak for "I love you" before she could speak very well, and it has stuck in our whole family. Doubt too many of the neighbors caught on but it was still very sweet.


And Callie Anne showing how interested she was in the whole shebang ...


AND, last but not least, Lexi trying a repeat of the makeup Mommy did the night before. Not bad, really!!