{r} finally carved her pumpkin 2 nights ago but all the batteries in all the cameras (ok, we only have 2 cameras) were dead so we didn't get a picture until last night. 
Have a fun and safe Halloweenie!!
So, we have all had fun recently on this blog poking fun at me for being told I was a homeschooler, and the trauma it caused to my coolness status. Two nights ago I ran to Target to get candles for the pumpkins and saw some cute coats. The girls were in need of coats so I bought them.
{l}'s red;
Tonight was pumpkin carving night and boy are my fingers sore! In years past we have always gone traditional-ghosts and gobliny. The past 2 years (in OR) our Halloween was celebrated at our homeschool groups All Saints Party so the pumpkins had religious tones. This year the girls were trying to decide what to do. Originally {l} thought of doing Noah's Ark and {r} was leaning towards Mary Queen of All Saints. When we informed them that our Saints party here isn't until Nov. 9th and that we would not be taking pumpkins to that party therefore they could pick whatever they wanted they decided on
Actual audio of a radio interview BO did back in 2001. I think if he is going to try to be Robin Hood he should have to wear tights!!
9. pretty great years
8. days a week, I lo-ov-ov-ov-ove you
7. brothers & sisters-in-law
6. different homes
5. different cars
4. usually wonderful kids
3. different states
2. shall become...
...One (true love)Happy AnniversaryI love you Tuggie!!
While you are over there in cold-erquerque, trying desperately to keep your lil' pumpkins from freezing thinking "Man my hands are cold, but I really need my fingers to lay these tarps!" I will be thinking "I wonder how it feels to have cold hands?! These fingerless mitts are grrrrreat!"
fetching mitts pattern here
Though no one actually tagged me for this I am going to play along because I didn't do a post yesterday and I still have nothing to blog about today. Paula and Shelly have already done it if you would like more challenges.
A friend of ours created this video showing the differences of Obama and McCain, in their own words, when it comes to life.
No Obama, now isn't the time to play offense...NOW is the time to stop playing GOD and start realizing life begins at conception-it is above your pay grade to snuff life out!!
Somehow when we registered to vote (when we got our new driver's licenses) we were automatically entered to receive absentee ballots. Works for me-and now it is in the mail!
a quick funny:
{l}: mom, did you know sam's* middle name is elvis?
me: elvis? really? i am not so sure.
{l}: yes it is, he told me.
me: hmmm
{l}: yeah, he told me his middle name is elvis because that used to be his mom's last name...
me ::quizzical look::
{l}: pressley, pressley. his mom's last name used to be pressley. his middle name is pressley.
*a fellow Catholic homeschooler though sam isnt his actual name
Cris at junecleaverafterasix-pack has a great post up...background: her husband is in the Air Force and is currently 1 or 2 months* into a 1 year deployment. I really liked this post, especially the last, poignant paragraph.
(tug don't read this post)
On Friday we had a field trip to Ohop Pioneer Farm. It was a bit of a drive for us but the kids had a great time, despite the cold.
It was a 'hands-on' museum and the kids rode in a carriage and saw how a Pioneer's home would have looked
They were able to milk a cow, pump water from a well, and do various things Pioneer's would have done
The museum had a blacksmith area set up and {j} couldn't see so this sweet museum worker picked him up...in the second picture he is weighing a chicken egg
{r} is checking out the blacksmith in her new hat
And finally a group shot
And some scenery 
Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test ... You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert! English Genius
(me think if you score fewer then 70% acrost the bored on the test you're blogging writes should be revoked)
Hey Laura, here are some conspiracy theories for you
No, not you Max We have had a rash of visits by the tooth fairy. On Sunday night {r}'s right front tooth came out. On Tuesday night her left front tooth came out. pics from tuesday
"we did it, yeah"
Unfortunately we can't find the tooth. {r} was rather distraught until I told her the the Tooth Fairy would still come and would still leave her money. Once {r} found this out she calmed down and wrote the TF a note explaining the situation and promising to leave the tooth should she ever find it. Damn Tooth Fairy didn't come on Tuesday night. Last night while tucking the kids in I found this letter written by {l} (I found out this morning that {r} couldn't find the note she had left the night before)
to which the TF responded
You like getting free stuff? I do and here are 2 chances for you.
Fun, six is my favorite number. Shelly tagged me for this little game...go to your 6th picture file and post the 6th picture within that file. I don't have that many pictures on the mac so this is the 5th file and it was the only picture in that file:
It is {r} back in Albuquerque in 2004 so she was 2. We were at a fishing hole and she is holding the bait worm. That is Tug's hand in the foreground and my mom standing in the background.
Wow, what great friends you guys are!!! I tell you I am in need, and suggestions to 'check this website' or 'look at espn360.com' come in as well as an offer to record the game for us and mail it later. You guys are amazing! I am happy to report, however, that the game is going to be shown on ESPN Gameplan. We used to buy this package before the Big 10 Network came into existence. Now they aren't supposed to show Big 10 games but ESPN is no idiot. They know Buckeye fans want to watch their Buckeyes so they are showing it. We had to shell out $22 to get the programming just for the weekend but we get to watch the game. $22 well spent!
Tis me. This weekend they are showing the buckeyes vs wisconsin on ABC, regionally. Regionally! We won't be seeing this game. Instead we will get USC vs Oregon. I hate regional coverage. I hate the left coast. We will be buying an audio feed to hear the game, but it just isn't the same. Go bucks!!
Yesterday was one of those days. The type of day where, no matter what they do, your kids can't do anything right (in your bad mooded opinion). The type of day that you start rethinking your homeschooling choice. You start reasoning that Catholic school is too expensive but public school is free. Public school. It can't be that bad, right? I was publicly educated and look at what a gem I am. Then I read crap like this
who wants to learn piano so she is teaching herself
who likes to stand herself up in the middle of the room but still refuses to walk
who is excited for day 2 of gymnastics and refuses to take her 'leetatard' off
who is working on fixing his 'big trumpet'
who has a very fat left foot but is still very happy to not be in a true cast
who nearly cried when she discovered she had messed up a round 3 rounds prior to where she was so she stayed up until 2 AM frogging (lots of on purpose twisted stitches and i was on decreases so it was very slow going)
Still no battery for my scale, honest mistake. I have forgotten the few times I have gone to the store and there are no special trips for a battery to put in a scale that will tell me I have gained weight. I do have to go grocery shopping today though and I have added a battery to my list. I will check in next week, for the reals. Oh who am I kidding? I am not dieting. I am fat and loathsome and doing nothing about it.
