Bird Day Vacay

I have no reason to post other than tomorrow is FRIDAY. No, you say? How dare you! I work for the public school system and I say tomorrow is Friday and I'm having a 5 day weekend. Yes, I'll be cooking a bird. Yes, my husband will still be WORKING, because the television must always have his lovely face to tell us that it's gonna get COLD here in TX. But he will be home for "dinner" (2pm? is that about right? I don't do this every year, ya'll) and not have to be back on air until 10pm. Fun, fun. I'm off to pull out recipes that the kids will sneer at and say, "but what is IN it?".

And I'm going to make them be thankful for it all.

Happy Birthday Marines/ Veteran's Day

My friend with a husband serving in Iraq told me it's the birthday of the US Marines. I'm giving a shout-out to the tough guys and gals who fight in the front lines. Thanks and Happy Birthday. She mentioned a recruitment poster that seemed right up my alley... equal opportunity toughness. In honor of the men and women who serve in all branches I found the Marine poster. Love it.

A lover and a fighter

We did Halloween. It's one of my favorite holidays and we always do it up BIG. Everyone in the neighborhood comes to our house because we have the huge inflatable decoration in the yard. I usually put a lot of work into the costumes (even store-bought I try to augment with home touches). This year no one could decide WHAT they wanted to be. Sonny wanted to be Elvis. It would have been ADORABLE. He came up with the idea of "Thank you, thank you very much" for the candy. He does the voice very well. But when he saw an actual ELVIS costume, he was so *not* interested.

He decided on being a boxer. We don't usually promote violence, but it was cute. We made him the loser and gave him a black eye with my eyeshadow. I could hardly get him to keep his robe on, even in 60 degree weather.

Daughter chose an angel (smirk). It's such an inside joke, but if you really knew her... My mom is the witch. She wears the same thing every year.



(These are the only pictures I took. My dad took a lot with his new I-phone. As soon as he learns how to email them to me I'll have some GOOD ones. He took pictures of EVERYTHING)