Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Party 2011

We had our Halloween party last night and I hope that everyone had a good time. We played Bunco and if you can believe it, I had 5 Buncos. WTF I hardly ever get Bunco's at the monthly Bunco group that I am in. LOL There were prizes for best costume male, female and most creative. Prizes for Most Bunco's (I won that) Most Wins and 2nd Most Wins. Plus a booby prize for most losses. Here are a few pictures from last nights party Jordan as a pirate he won Best Male Costume

Todd as a tatooed biker and me as Olive Oyl

Raelynn as Minnie Mouse and Gary as a Oakland Raiders fan

Julie as a QVC return she won best female costume

Peggy made this unique costume a childrens book. She won for most original costumer

There were others that wore costumes but we didn't get pictures of them before they took them off. It was a fun time and will probably do it again next year.

Yep, changed the background

Yep, as Halloween gets closer, I changed the background and I like it!

Annual Scrapbooking Weekend

I have spent Friday evening through most of today at a scrapbooking retreat with my sister and her friend Jennifer. I have not had an opportunity to scrapbook since the retreat we did last year. We had to find a new place to have our retreat. The Bed and Breakfast that we did last year and really liked, closed down so we tried a retreat held at a hotel. It for the most part has been very pleasant. I took a 2 page class on Saturday and got 29 pages done. I still have to title some of the pages and journal them, but for they most part they are assembled. I am very pleased by this accomplishment because I really didn't have a chance to coordinate pictures with paper and embellishments. I brought what I thought I would need. I actually finished scrapbooking around 9:00pm Saturday night. I still had pictures that could be scrapbooked, but I didn't bring or have the right paper to go with the pictures. I brought along the gifts I am making to give to my stamp campers at my Christmas card camp that I did work on on Sunday morning, but I had to stop working on that also because I didn't bring everything I needed for that either. LOL So we scrapbook pictures correct? So what did we do, forget to take pictures of this event. Some scrapbookers we are. LOL The retreat reminded me of an Archivers crop and I think we decided that we would so this retreat again in the future, maybe again next year.

Time for a new background and to decorate for Halloween

For most holiday's I always decorate 1 month before the holiday, except for Christmas where we decorate the day/weekend after Thanksgiving. I changed my background to a Halloween theme, but I am not sure if I like it or not. I will leave it up for a day or 2 and then decide if I want to change it or now.

Arlo and Janis September 29, 2011

Oh Janis if it was that simple I would be doing it all the time. Click on comic if you need to view it larger.

Farewell to 41 years

I remember one of the things that I would do over the summer, over winter breaks and spring breaks and whenever I had a day off of school for a federal holiday, teachers inservice or if I was sick. The one thing I would do is watch All My Children. My mother watched the 4 ABC soaps. Ryans Hope, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital from as long as I remember up until she passed in 1975. I remember her telling us to leave her alone during her soaps; but I also remember watching all 4 of them with her at times when I was able to and I was always able to catch up with what was going on. I remember Ryans Hope being change or replaced by LOVING which didn't last long. I remember Luke and Laura's wedding in 1981 on General Hospital; but I do also remember giving up on General Hospital when Luke and Laura were going to save the world from if I remember correctly the Ice Princess or something like that. I though that they were reaching for story lines that were quite unbelievable. I think when I graduated high school I stopped watching One Life to Live because I had my own life to live, but I continued watching All My Children. I would tape the episodes on the VCR and would record over old episodes until the tape wore out and I had to get a new VHS tape. When I 1st got married, I work for the village I grew up in. I was given an hour lunch from noon until 1:00pm and I would go to my father's house during my lunch and would watch All My Children. My dad was retired so he got hooked into watching All My Children with me. He loved the Nico and Cecilly story line and name 2 of his fish Nico and Cecilly. He too watched until his passing in 1991. When I had children I was a semi stay at home mom I would watch the episodes daily and tape them if I couldn't. This was me time while my boys were babies and toddlers. I returned to working full time once my children hit high school age and up until the last episode that aired yesterday I was DVRing All My Children and watching it after dinner. This is when my husband starting watching with me and that was for about the past 6 years. I will miss the story lines that dealt with current events, I will miss the humor that some of the characters brought to the show. I will miss how they focused around families. I will miss the holiday celebrations that they would have on the show along with the parties, wedding and tributes to characters that my have passed. I will miss the beautiful costumes/clothing some of the characters would wear. But must of all I will miss something that I dedicated a big part of my life to.

Farewell to 41 years All My Children, you WILL be missed.

Fall is almost here!

Boy, where did summer go? I know mine was non existant because I started a new job at the end of Spring and had to for the most part, learn my job by doing. It has been a rough few months but I am finally feeling that I know my expectations at my new job and I am starting to feel comfortable with my surroundings. With that being said, my summer was gone in a blink of the eye. Now that I have some vacation time built up I can enjoy our soon to be here autumn season. Fall is probably my favorite season of them all and I am so happy with being able to take a brealth and enjoy it. I love the fall colors and all the pretty and scary decorations. There are so many different ways of decorating for this season and I try to enjoy it as much as I can. Plus we can pull out our hoodies, long sleeve t-shirts, crock pots and delicious soup recipes. YUMMY! I even changed the background on my blog for the season and will probably change it again in less than a month to celebrate Halloween. Happy almost fall y'all!

OT here we come

My boss had a meeting with our group on Tuesday. She wants to focus on closing the month in AP a different way. So she drop hints about putting in as many extra hours as we could for the next week and a 1/2. I am already working 9 hours day so I think I will work 10 hour days toward the end of this week and until close is complete and then also work Saturday the 27th.

So OT here we come. That paycheck should be sweet.

The Tree

Well we got the tree that we ordered from QVC yesterday. I sat in the big box for 24 hours.

Tonight the tree went up and the tree came down. LOL That quick.
Actually it took Todd longer to get it out of the box then it did to assemble it.
About 10 minutes to assemble and I only think it took that long was because he had to take the string that held each section of the tree off.

It is a pretty tree, full with a lot of light. We showed Ethan and Jordan and Jordan said the same thing I said. "Hey, we can actually put presents under the tree." Our old tree sat so low to the ground that you had to put presents in front of the tree.
Our old tree is still in good condition but it used to take a couple of hours to assemble including the lights.

If anyone need a tree, I give away our old one if you hall it. LOL Otherwise I am going to try and sell it at a garage sale. If it doesn't sell, then it will be sitting at the end of our driveway on amnesty day.