Happy Halloween!

Well, I am back from a wonderful weekend at home in Illinois.  We celebrated my baby sisters 40th birthday in high fashion.  We gave out all our candy in a short amount of time because I did not plan for enough kids.  Eeks!  And, I have soaked in the tub and gotten all ready to read for awhile in bed.  Hope your Halloween was full of treats and no tricks.  :)

Old Friends

Well, this was simply a wonderful weekend for me!  I was blessed by two of my most special friends coming up to see little ole me!  On Thursday my dear friend Kim came for her first ever trip to Michigan.  We had so much fun yakking and drinking coffee and running around together for an entire day!  I hated to see her drive out of the driveway, but she promised she would return with her family the next time.  And I didn't have to arm wrestle her for the promise either.  :)

Then, Saturday morning my friend Darla came to see me.  We ate and drank coffee together and yakked about all kinds of stuff and went to church this morning.  It was a lovely day!  Once again, I was sad to watch her drive away from my home as well.  She to, promised to come back and see me again soon.  No arm wrestling was involved with her either!  :)

What is it about spending time with girl friends that can make you so gosh darn happy?  :)

Concert

 Last night was both daughters choral concert for the fall.  High school daughter gets to wear uniforms for her year in choir.  Yeah!  Now we don't have to frantically go out looking for an outfit.  If you are the mother of a daughter, you know exactly what I mean.  :)  Here is daughter #1 with a few of her friends.  Aren't they all so pretty?

These two cuties also sang last night in the 7th grade choir.  Daughter #2 and her good friend.  They were so cute getting ready for the concert together.  Lip gloss, hair stuff, tights, shoes.....girlie stuff. 

They had two cellist's play last night at the concert.  Oh they were good!  So nice to see kids playing stringed instruments.  I love the violin and cello so much!

The big girls kept saying they looked like nuns in their uniforms.  So, they had to strike a pose.  :)

Pumpkin Hoarder

Awhile ago, my sister told a girlfriend and I about a pumpkin shortage.  The initial report was that there was not going to be any pumpkin this season due to the bad weather and poor crop of pumpkins for the last two growing seasons.  With that in mind, I set out to find a can so I could make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.  Because my hubby says that there HAS to be pumpkin pie for dinner.  Here we are a couple weeks later.  This is my "stash."  Um...I think I am good for pie this year.  (Now Meijer, Walmart and any other place has pumpkin.  Shortage is over.)

This pumpkin hoarding got me thinking.  Remember when Y2k came around?  People were stocking up on bottles of water and food and taking money out of the bank because the banking system was supposed to fail when the clock rolled around to 12:00 a.m. on 1/1/00.  I remember some people in my life who were gathering supplies "just in case."  As a Christian, I am reminded of a verse.  God does not want me fretting about pumpkin or anything for that matter.  He has it all under control.  Oh how thankful I am for that promise.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.   Philippians 4:6

Boo To You!

A few years ago I made a few of these little ghosts.  They are made with felt.  White felt for the bodies and black felt for the faces.  There are also white buttons that you can not really see sewn on the mouth for teeth and also his eyes.  The frame is a tomato cage strung with white Christmas lights.  I like Halloween decorations that are not scary.  I think he is a welcoming little ghost for my front porch.  He makes me smile.

Homecoming 2010

My daughter celebrated her first homecoming as a high school student Friday night.  She began the night with a friend eating dinner at Culver's before the game.  They moved onto the high school for the parade.  The Freshman class float was Toy Story she told me.  The floats were all Disney themed.  Isn't that cool?  :)  After the parade, the game began.  But, not after the chorus sang the National Anthem.  My girl is the one on the lower right side.  These kids can sing!!

They won the game.  53 to 31!!  After the game was the dance.  Much different that when I was in high school ten years ago.  Ahem.  Just kidding.  I mean 29 years ago as a freshman!!  Oh goodness does that sound like forever ago...

But one thing that has not changed in 29 years is the importance of good girl friends and fun and giggles.  The more giggles the better.  And, I am quite sure this group of gals laughed a lot Friday night.  :)

Up To No Good

Remember when we got "boo'd" a few days ago?  Well, we found out who did it!  Our sweet neighbors next door confessed.  It was soooo cute when I asked her if she had done it she said no.  Then she confessed and said she could not lie to me.  HA!  It was so sweet.  :)  So, my youngest daughter told me we had to boo them back!  We also thought we would get the neighbors across the street from us while we were up to no good.  We found these little felt Halloween baskets at Target.  The men got the Frankenstein baskets.  The girls got pumpkin and kitty. 

Isn't Frankie so cute?  And yes, that is Mac N Cheese in there.  Halloween of course.  We do things very gourmet in this house.  Hee hee.

One of the things we put in the girls baskets was homemade pumpkin spice coffee creamer.  I had these little jars so we filled them up.  Then we stamped the tags and added ribbon to make them not as plain.  I hope our neighbors enjoy their goodies as much as we enjoyed getting ours.  Sometimes it is fun to be sneaky!  No matter what your mama taught ya!  (Wink!)