Happy Halloween!

Our new arrival!

Mickey and I got a new baby today! My mom got a new piano and gave me her old piano. About 20 years ago, my mom found this piano in the local penny saver for 125 dollars. She made me go to the stranger's home to take a look. Of course, we fell in love with the piano and for the price, we couldn't pass it up. So now after 20 years, 3 long distant moves, a tornado and 2 refinishes, it has made its way to my house. I have always joked that I earned this piano since I went along on the first trip but I thought I would get it from my parents' will...glad that wasn't the case. :) I have been a little nervous about how this piano would fit into our tiny house. While it is not a perfect fit, it is pretty good and I will enjoy having it to play on! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Picture of the Week

I was uploading pictures from Beth's camera and came upon this shot. Emma insists on bringing dolls on every car trip and she will buckle them in for the ride. I guess Beth was bored and had a photo shoot in the back of the car. Not a bad shot of Barbie if you ask me. :)

This picture also reminds me of an incident that happened yesterday. Just before I picked Emma up from preschool, I ran into Kroger. While I was checking out the grocery bagger couldn't stop complimenting me on my hair. It started to get a little embarrassing since it probably looked a lot more like the Barbie's hair! Anyway, I told Mickey he better get to Kroger and stake his claim with this boy because I may just bring him home with me. What a fun grocery trip!

Scrapbooking Weekend

My mom has friend in her ward that hosts a scrapbooking weekend twice a year. I have been able to go 4 times and I get so much accomplished. My sister Becky(2nd from left) and my Mom (back left) have been a few more times and my sister Tina(front left) came for the first time this year. (The woman in the picture with the Christmas page, is another friend from my mom's ward.) We generally stay up too late and eat too much on these weekends but we have a great time! Plus we do get a lot of scrapbooking done. I finished 22 pages this weekend!

Here is my cropping area. I am usually a little neater when I crop, but not this time. I just didn't feel like it. I am now caught up to July 2007 and I'm looking forward to next year's crop.

Fall Break

Almost every Fall Break, I hit the road and head to my parents home near Detroit, Michigan. The kids love to visit their grandparents. This year was a bonus since Tina, my sister from Hawaii, brought her four girls for the same week. We hadn't seen her family in about 18 months so it was fantastic to be together. My oldest niece, Katie, had her wisdom teeth taken out. I don't know how much of a vacation she had. Nothing too exciting happened except that my mom's purse was lost/stolen from Sam's. We did visit the zoo and the polar bears showed off for us. We also had a night at Chuck E Cheese that was fun too.

Jacob's 7th Birthday

Today is Jacob's 7th birthday. He had a party at a glow in the dark mini golf. He loves to golf. I think this is the third time we have celebrated his birthday with golf. Jacob told us that this was the best birthday ever! He had a great time with his friends.

A Night Out

Mickey was invited to a dinner party for work last night. I was excited to have a reason to get dressed up and go out with my husband. (The kids were excited to have a babysitter!) We got to eat dinner under the Saturn V in the new Davidson Center. I have seen these rockets for years, and I was even awed by the size of the rocket. Mickey teased me enough that I didn't take any pictures. As you can see, Mickey just loves it when I take pictures. Here is a picture of the rocket that is outside the Davidson Center. Imagine it turned on its side, suspended from the ceiling and us eating dinner under it. It was amazing.