It sure is FALL!

Yesterday we got rid of some of our leaves. Grandma came over to help and got to play with the leaf blower. She's a real pro at it! While she got all the leaves into piles I was burning them. Then the boys came home from school and helped gather them together. I would then bring over the trash cans and burn at a steady pace.


Sophie was not enthused.


The can is almost full of ash and I still have to pick up some more today!


We worked for about 4 good hours yesterday. I came in the house smelling like a campfire and am a little sore today from all the bending. But no worries, I only have this much more to go:


:)

Punkin' patch!

Today we went to the pumpkin patch. Grandma, me and the boys. We had a good time! Here are some pictures from our day.

Froggy came with us on the hayride!





Pumpkin bowling!






The corn maze.




We sat around a nice fire to warm up.






A nice day! Thanks for the idea, Grandma! Love yinz!

And the story continues...

Well, I am back from Ocean City. Me and my BFF had a super duper good time at Sunfest 2009. We did a ton of walking and laughing. Such good times! And naturally we brought along the Guitar Hero for our down time. :)

Yeah, after you read the recent post on The Adventures of Dippy, Dingy, and Goofy, what was conveniently not mentioned was on the results of our duel. Yes, she won. I will give her that but as you can see in this picture, I was the winner also:


See that? Yeah, "best performer".

And also, the last song we played was left out of her post. I was on the hard level and she was on medium. I kicked her butt on that one.

Ok, I feel better now that's out of my system. :)

Our Summer Safari

Well the pics from our vacation are here. Finally after fixing a few bugs with Photobucket, and help from my good friend, I figured out how to get these on here.

We went to African Safari Wildlife Park while we were enjoying our stay in Huron, OH. You get to drive through it in your own vehicle and feed the animals. The animals know that there is food in the cars so they really do stick their heads in to get at it. Lots of animal slobber on the cars! And a bit on the inside too. Yum!

We took the sunroof off of our car so the boys could get a bird's-eye view of everything. They even got to feed the giraffe from the roof of the car. It was really cool!

Enjoy the pics!

One week down...

Well, excluding the first day of school, the first week was a success. The boys are in their routines. I am trying to get into my routine. I woke up on time for the rest of the week. It's hard getting used to waking up when it's still dark again. If only school started just a half hour later, I could see the sun the moment I opened my eyes. But alas, it's 0-dark thirty every day for us. And hey, at least I can go back to bed for a while. :)

Oh, and I am not one of the cool moms that takes pictures of their kids on the first day of school. So there are no first day pics to post here. But they looked well-dressed, and their mood was positive. That's the best picture I can post.

Speaking of pictures, I do plan on posting some of our vacation pictures on here. We went to Huron, OH again this year for our "last hurrah-vacation" before school, and we, again, had a blast! Thanks, again to the Marble family for the invite.

Now the only pictures I took were of the cool drive-thru safari we went on. Really cool! We spent alot of time at the beach area, and chilling in the lake house, but I don't have pictures of that. When we were at the beach, I was in the water. Not a good place for a camera. And then when we were chillin in the lake house, I could have gotten out the camera but that would have interupted my relax-time so, well, you get it....

Anyway, I will be posting those soon. As for the weekend, I welcome the time to sleep in. Gotta get my rest caught up on, to be ready for Monday morning, so we can do it all over again. Nighty night all.

:)

School? What school?

Well, I've done it. It took me 30-some years but I have done it. I woke up today to daylight and the sound of a bus backing up. Yes, I slept in!! The first day of school! I can't believe I did that. Never, ever in my entire life have I done that! I have always been the one to be so nervous about not being on time. I have had bad dreams in the past where I got to school late.

Last week I got the kids' backpacks loaded up with supplies. We went shopping for some clothes over the weekend. I knew it was coming. But last night when I set the alarm clock for the crack of black, I really don't remember hitting the "ON" switch. Me! The one who, when trying to fall asleep at night often opens her eyes to make sure that the little light is on that let's you know that the alarm is set. Me! Who has always been even too nervous to sleep the night before. Yep, me.

Now the kids actually did get to school on time because of my cat-like reflexes to take action in any way to avoid embarrassment. They didn't get the full-belly breakfast that I planned ( they got a bagel in the car), or the sweet, slow morning-hug goodbye-"Have a good day" that I also planned. But they did get there on time. And I gave both the kids permission to use the name "Dodo-head" in reference to me today.

But I hope that they do have a good first day anyway. Nothing like adrenaline to get you moving in the morning! Man, my stomach hurts. I'm gonna go lay down. But I won't fall asleep. At least not without setting my clock, hitting the on switch, and setting my cell phone alarm too. No maybe I shouldn't lay down. Hmmmm...this may be a good time to take up jogging.