The Party is Over

Wow, where has November gone. It must have been whirlwind month because I can't seem to remember why I was so busy. This past week has been so fun, and now the party is over and it is back to life. All of my brothers and sisters, their families and my parents were here for Thanksgiving. We had such a nice time. The kids had a ball playing with their cousins. It is so nice when they get to the age that they just play and play and you hardly even see them. We have a playroom downstairs and the kids played down there, which made it easier to visit upstairs. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my sister and brother in laws, and it was AMAZING. Think of the best food ever, and multiply that by 5! My favorite was the stuffing. WOW! It was really nice. Our kids had colds and I am afraid we gave them to the whole family. A parting gift, I guess you could say. Sorry everyone. I love my family so much. It is so nice to be together and just talk, laugh and do whatever else we can find to do. Lindsay and I even braved a couple of early Friday morning sales. We went to the fabric store and boy, I have never seen so many flannel hoarders in my life. Thankfully we were just able to buy a bolt of fabric, didn't have to wait in line to get it cut, and we were out of there. WHEW! Seriously, we could have been there for 5 hours waiting in the cutting line. We also braved Roberts crafts, and that wasn't bad at all. It was fun to brave it together. Thanks to all of you guys for coming. It was so nice to have you here!

I started a new job last night. I am working at a job called myanswering.com. I am a "receptionist." Basically I am a receptionist for lots of different companies. When a call comes in, the company pops up on the computer, and there is a script so you know what to say and how to answer the peoples questions. Interesting. I am working M,T,TH,F nights for 5 hours and probably every other Sat . I started training last night. There was 3 of us there, and it was pretty dead. I just listened in with another girl. Let me just say, I am grateful that I won't have to have jobs like this forever. The people I work with were nice and well.. interesting. I hate to say it, but kind of what you would expect when you work for $8.00 and hour. I guess the bright side is they are entertaining? There are not many calls that come in at these times, so I think that I will be able to bring a project in or something to keep me sane while there is nothing to do. We'll see how it progresses. Let the adventures begin.

Halloween 2007

Camille was a princess....again. We have got our money's worth out of this costume. She had a Halloween parade and party at school, and had lots of fun. She made sure that this was REALLY the day we are supposed to dress up. No mistakes this year! (Last year I was confused about when they were supposed to dress up. I sent her to school dressed up as a princess on the wrong day. She was the only one dressed up in the class. I was SOOO embarrassed. It was right after I had Morgan, and I was in the new baby fog I guess. She was young enough that I didn't ruin her forever I hope!)

McCray was Red Ranger. His was also a repeat from last year, can you tell? (I am sure the high-waters and the obscenely tight pants might give it away.) It was hilarious. I video taped the kids and McCray was so into being a power ranger. He was doing all of these poses and was so serious. It will be one of those recordings that he is going to HATE when he grows up, but the rest of us will laugh our heads off.

Morgan was a kangaroo. She looked really cute, but didn't really like having the hood on her head.

We carved a pumpkin for Family Home Evening. The kids all helped in designing something. Needless to say, it was a pretty random looking pumpkin.

We also decorated bat sugar cookies. In our family, the favorite part of Family Home Evening seems to be the treats. The kids NEVER let me forget them.

Reed was Batman. He looked really cute and I cannot get his picture on here for some reason. I will have to work on that.