I bought something for Daddy

We went trick or treating at the mall yesterday. While we were there I stopped in the halloween store. They had some cool costumes but the best thing they had was a shirt that I bought for Steve. It is perfect. It suits him to a T.

Maddie's Halloween Party

Today was Madelyn's special Halloween celebration. We, I, made a cake - special cake I might add. It was a simple round cake that needed to be made without eggs. Maddie's cousin Michael has a very severe allergy to peanuts and eggs. I must say that it wasn't all that bad. It was a very flat cake but tasty none the less. I made orange icing and used one of those frosting tubes to decorate. Not as good as the store ones but I didn't do so bad. Of course, I forgot most of the things I was supposed to bring with me. Like the table and chairs for the kids to sit at outside. But I remembered the cake so Maddie was happy and the pumpkins for the kids to decorate. I spent the day holding Auntie Snephanie's new baby - Abagail. She was so cuddling. She is 7 weeks old and just loved snuggling with Auntie (me) and the bubbies! It was awesome. Auntie Snephanie took over my job of helping and I just got to love the baby. It was awesome. I got to chat with Auntie Krissy. It was a nice time had by all.

Monster Mash

Christopher had his first school dance last night. Stephen stayed home with the kids that I watch in the evenings so that I could take Christopher and Jonathan to the dance. The dance was Halloween themed - ie Monster Mash. So I dressed the kids in their costumes and we were off to the big school. Dance started at 630 and ended at 830. We got there about 625, I parked the rig and into the school we went. We saw a few of Christopher's friends. Will was the incredible hulk, Katherine P was a princess and Molly was a witch. He said hello and then walked straight away from them. I sat in the one of the folding chairs that circled the gym. 2 older children decided to play some sort of chase game around the chairs right next to me. I, the drill sargent, told them that was not a good idea and to please stop. I am not as bad as some people believe that I am but I am not one to tolerate schenangans. We lasted a whopping 30 minutes and were home before Steve had a chance to find a show for the other kids to watch.

Mommies got a fat azz

Yup, I was sitting on the coffee table - I know tables are for glasses not for asses. Anyway, there was a large pop from under my ass and yup - I broke the glass on the table top.

Neena came to visit

Neena came to visit last week and she brought a truck load of stuff. 3 plants and a trash bag of clothes for me. Another trash bag of clothes for Karyn. Tonka trucks, trailers and front endloaders from when my brothers were young. BTW they are 25 and 18 - can you say pack rat. The most exciting part was that she brought two powerwheels. One is a jeep and the other is a motorcycle. The only problem with them is, well, they are pink. Not even a muted pink. The are O M G pink and purple. They were Renee's and in great shape. Daddy spent most of today peeling decals off of them so that they can get painted. As you can see the boys could care less what color they are. They are just loving that they can zoom around the driveway.

pictures from the topsfield fair

Our wedding anniversary

Okay so I suck - my 9th wedding anniversary was on the 25th of September and I forgot to blog about it. SO our anniversary passed. I ordered a cookie bouquet to be delivered to Steve at work. I placed the order 3 days in advance so that it would be there on the day I wanted and the bouquet that I wanted. Well that backfired. The store in Woburn never received the internet order so no bouquet was ever delivered. Yeah - that was the only thing that I got him for the anniversary. Bummer! Anyway - hopefully the 10th one will be better!