I just updated our picture gallery with some pictures from over the weekend. Saturday was my MIL’s (mother in law) birthday and we took the kids (with the exception of Ashlyn who was at her dad’s) up to Tacoma to visit her. We were going to ride the ferry up to Seattle but the timing didn’t work out, so we went to lunch with David’s grandma and her DH, and MIL and BIL, and then took the kids to the Oktoberfest. It was alright…. we got McKenzie and Bailey’s pictures taken at one of those Old Time Photo Booths - they came out really cute. Katie and Tanner wanted no part of it… but one of these days, we will go back and have a family portrait there. Or maybe buy our own costumes and do a photo shoot ourselves. Sooo cute! We had friends over Sunday night for dinner and games. We haven’t done that in awhile and had a great time. We played Cranium, which I had forgotten how much I love that game! So, hopefully, we will do that more often. Talk about an inexpensive evening of entertainment! We made lasagna, salad and garlic breadsticks. I made my yummy carrot cake for dessert, which I added the recipe for this to my Recipe Page.  Yum, Yum.

My mom came over tonight to introduce Shelby to the rest of the family. She is totally freaked out by Libby, who loves other animals but wasn’t sure how to react to this guinea pig size ball of fluff. She was excited at first but with Shelby running as fast as she could, even at one point sticking her nose in the corner of the couch trying to hide for about 5 minutes, I think Libby  was a little offended LOL.
So, nothing new to report. Getting ready for Katie’s big Halloween party. Let’s hope her grades stay up to par and this thing goes off without a problem. Everyone is having fun decorating the barn and planning it, but if things go bad…. we will all be bummed.

Brooks N Dunn on Friday Baby… WOOHOOOO… should be fun!!!

Click here to see some pictures of Katie and the rest of the clan in our October Photo Album on our gallery page

I’m finding it harder and harder to update this website! Busy days!
David is still working just about every waking hour of every day of every week, between his job and coaching football. Although I take that back, he is “usually” here for dinner, which makes me happy :o)

Tanner joined Chess Club this week, which he is really enjoying. My little nerd. I’m glad he found something he likes though. He doesn’t like sports, which has always been a hindrance for him in the friend department. He’s a smarty, has to be using his brain at all times. So I think it will be really good for him to be around other kids that are interested in the same things he is. He starts Radio Club next week too, which I’m not exactly sure WHAT that is LOL.

My mom has been looking for a dog for awhile, she feels like she needs a companion now that she’s retired. LOL… she bought a Lhaso Apso (sp?) on Monday. I took McKenzie and Bailey out there to see her today. McKenzie fell head over heels in love with that puppy. She’s just a little ball of fluff and SO sweet. I know Libby was smaller than that, but she didn’t have much hair. Dang, they grow so fast! I added some pics to our gallery, also added a couple of recipes to my recipe website.

Gotta get some laundry done before the kids get home from school. It’s sock sorting day… I have this mountain of mismatched socks that the kids get to go through and try to make pairs out of. There must be 300 socks to go through! Gotta love that Hanes color coding system though…