Deck the Halls

It's been such a busy weekend. Olivia and I went shopping on Saturday for holiday outfits for her and Dalton, it crazy trying to match a girl and boy. I decided to dabble in the brown family instead of the traditional black and red or burgandy. I found Dalton a pant/shirt/vest/tie in browns and creams and I found Olivia a dress that is brown velvet at the top, a turquoise bow in the middle and big dots at the bottom in turquoise and hot pink. It looks adorable. It's not the traditional Christmas colors, but Olivia picked out the dress, so we went with it as inspiration. We'll see how it works. Bonus, they can wear the outfits after Christmas, too.

After church on Sunday, Olivia kept asking me when we were going to put up the Christmas tree. I told her after Thanksgiving... Well, Brian forgot to tell me that he promised Olivia that we would put up all the Christmas decorations this weekend. I'm a softy, I had to help Brian make good on his promise, so we flew in decorating the whole house. It was fun and I'm sure glad it's done, but wow, what a shock to find out it's was already time. I feel like I'm so ahead of the game this year, I'm motivated to finish my Christmas shopping and get everything done. Good to know some people had the same idea this weekend.

Well, there is one added bonus, I have to squeeze in a birthday party before Christmas, Dalton will be 7 on December 13th. More busy weekends to come!!

H1N1 Flu Vaccine

I'm so torn on the H1N1 vaccine. Has anyone's child had the vaccine? What has your pediatrician recommended? Mine says that we should, but I'm still torn on whether to do it or not.

Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet...

Surprise, where's the candy???

Wasn't Snake Eyes scary?

Ninjas and Pretty Little Bats! I guess one would stab me with the sword and the other would suck out all my blood or come to my rescue, not sure.

Isn't this the cutest batgirl you've ever seen? Check out the bows, I made those an hour before we left. A little girl still needs some frills, even if she is going to fight crime.

Ninja/Batgirl

Ninja and Darth Vadar, very scary!

Yum, look at all the treats!

Much more serious batgirl in class. I don't think she wanted her picture taken.

Pizza and Halloween Treats!

I'm so sad Halloween is over, it's my favorite holiday. You get to act silly, there's really no cooking involved, everyone is so nice and they give you candy just for saying trick or treat.

Peace Out Halloween, fly away until next year!!

Another Year Older

Well, I am officially 35 today (October 8th). I can't believe it. Five more years and I'll be in my forties. That's just too much to think about right now. I'm just going to be content to be in my thirties....

Birthdays sure are hard on a diet. I went back to Weight Watchers last week. I weighed in this week and lost 3.2 lbs. This morning I got to work and now I have brownies and a huge cupcake on my desk. Luckily someone had already been through with macadamia nut cookies this morning. They are killing me!

Vacation 2009

So, this is the second post in one day. Thought I would catch up with this one. Since I wasn't really blogging in the summertime, I missed putting on my vacation photos. We went to Holiday World and camping with our friends the Doyle's. We had such a good time. It was so hot, luckily we could just walk down to the boat and go riding around.

Alyssa, Olivia and Madison enjoying the ride

Ready for fishing

Darren is telling Madison where she needs to fish

Brian is just having fun baiting a hook, gotta love him

Swimming, what can I say? It was so hot.. it felt so nice.

The kids had a great time doing cannonballs off the boat.

"The Best of Friends"

We had a great time. Good company, good food and lots of fun camping!! Hopefully we can continue this every year.

Funny, but one day we got rained out when going to the Louisville Zoo, so we ended up at the Patton Museum (Brian is such a history buff) in Elizabethtown.

The kids asked the other day when we could go back. You never know what they will enjoy. I thought they would moan about it, but they enjoyed it. It was Father's Day, too, so we decided Brian should get to pick somewhere he wanted to go. Maybe they will like historical stuff (unlike me).

Fair Day

We had such a fun time riding on the float in the parade. I had watched the parade, but this is the first time that I was actually on a float, it was fun. Here's some pics. Lesley was on the float with us, but she requested that I not post her picture on my blog (although it was a good photo)..

Olivia checking out the hay on the wagon.

Dalton and Olivia getting thier candy ready.

Olivia, Hallie, Caroline and Macy (Dalton and Marty are all consumed with electronics). I told Olivia she had to work on her smiling, she needs more training...

After the parade, we traveled over to the exhibit with all the school submissions, Olivia won 1st place with her handwriting and Dalton won 3rd (he was a little upset that Olivia had beaten him). I told him it was a Kindergarten thing, he won 1st place last year and apparently thought he had the best penmanship in the family... think again, little sis isn't far behind her big brother.

Yesterday was parent teacher conferences, it went great. Ms. Lesley said that Olivia was doing great and Dalton's teacher Ms. Monica said that Dalton was going above and beyond and she was having a hard time keeping him challenged. I'm so very OCD about them doing good in school. So, this makes me very happy!! I hope it continues.

Do you ever wish you were more of a Computer Geek?

Because of budgetary constraints here recently at the City, I was moved from my computer job at the BG Police Department to a job with the Information Technology staff that supports all the city departments. This is a huge change for me. I designed databases, generate statitics, ran reports and supported users at the police department. Now, I do all kinds of computer work like replacing hard drives, printers, replacing print servers, create e-mail accounts, etc. plus I still do database work for Police.

I say all that because I wasn't a computer geek. Before I moved jobs, I really never saw the inside of the computer and I had only a general knowledge about how everything worked. Well, now I wish I was one of those techno geeks that just loves this stuff. So, I've been thrust into a world were I am learning so many new things. I don't think I'll ever earn geek status. I'd rather be a good mom, that knows a little about computers. I'm sure most mommies have the same dilemmas....