We are ready for Halloween

It just seems crazy that I'm shopping for Halloween goodies and it isn't even October yet. The stores seems to get into it as soon as the back to school stuff is done. Like they have nothing better to push on all of us. I love Halloween, but don't have a ton of places to put the so very adorable knick knacks. While on a trip to SuperTarget this afternoon, the kids honed in on the orange and black display at the back of the store. They have been talking about the costumes that they wanted for a while. Normally I would worry about getting costumes now and then having them change their minds. These two will never change their minds, they are set. Also I probably could have gotten much better deals on them later on, but again, I don't want to end up disappointing them if we can't find their dream costume.

As soon as we got home, they wanted to put them on. Firefighter was a one size fits all, so I maybe doing some trimming along the bottom. Batman is a bit big also, but the smaller size wouldn't have been long enough in the torso.

Socks and Dinner

What a perfect combination. I got a picture taken of my socks with a tripod. Yes, Jared is getting better at using the camera (only when I am highly supervising), but his idea of taking pictures is usually of trains or cars, not my socks. I really liked making these Fawkes socks, but I really didn't like the heel. You can really feel the ridge. Of course by the time I had figured out that I didn't like this heel, I was done with the first sock and I wasn't going to frog it.





I would have asked Nick to take the picture for me, but he was making dinner. Now that I have started a new job (working for Mesa Public Schools in the Music Ed. office), I'm home at nights both Monday and Tuesday. That now means we have three nights together. To celebrate our first week of dinners, he made Chicken Marsala. It was awesome. He made it just for me though (I didn't ask for this particular dish, he planned it all while I was at work), he is allergic to mushrooms. He ate the spaghetti though.

Scrapping with the girls

Last night I got out to go do some scrapping with the girls. This being CK convention weekend I felt the urge to do some crafting. Jackie, Lisa, Me, Elisabet and Heather (Deb, we miss you so much) all went to Devine Memories. I had the most wonderful sitters for the boys last night. One of the ladies who scraps religiously and just started working at Recollections has a daugter who was willing and able to watch the boys. They absolutely loved her and her just slightly younger sister. We all had such a great time. Granted, I got two pages done in 4 hours, but who cares, it was a blast.

On the knitting front, I'm just about done with the second Fawkes sock. I just have to finish up the toe. Of course it would probably be done already if I was knitting not finally getting around to updating my blog. I will get it done tonight and take a picture tomorrow of my finished pair of socks. I love how they have turned out. Once these are done, I have some holiday knitting to get started on. I probably won't be posting many pictures of those projects as some of the recipients do read this blog.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

McCormick Railroad park is = to Disneyland

That is what you'd think the way that the boys have been talking about the Railroad park all week. We figured that we would have all of the house chores done before the weekend so we could do something fun. If you've been over to our house, you know how overrun it is with Geotrax trains. They seem to migrate into every room no matter how many times we try to explain that toys stay in the playroom. I don't know, maybe the toys have a mind of their own. I feel bad, I forgot to charge my camera battery so I only got a very few pictures of them at the park. Even though it was overcast this morning, it was still hotter than hell so we didn't stay for long, but we got to ride the train and go see the model railroad clubs' exhibits. We are at least ten years away from being able to have that kind of train set. These two want to rearrange every track they can.