Thanksgiving

We had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday. It started off with me getting sick, but we were still able to enjoy our time off work and with family. We spent Thanksgiving day at home cleaning up the house, rearranging things, and putting up the Christmas tree. We took the big bookcase from the living room and put in Whitney and Blaine's room. They have SO MANY books (a good thing!) that we were running out of room for them all. We were also able to put some of here knick knacks on it and get them out of the way of other things. The smaller bookcase that was in her room, we moved into the living room and put the small scrapbooks and some of her smaller toys on. It was another good solution to an ongoing storage problem!

Here are a couple of pictures of us decorating the Christmas tree.

On Friday evening we headed to Sandy and Charlie's house to spend the weekend. Joe's High School reunion was Saturday night. It wasn't an even number like 5, 10, or 20....it was 17 1/2 years! They had not had one before...so why not start now! It was a good time and I even had fun talking with the wives of Joe's HS friends :)

Sunday marked our Thanksgiving feast day! Joe's brother Jeff and his family came over and we enjoyed a feast of turkey, filling, my sweet potato casserole, creamed corn, mashed potatoes...we even had WAFFLES! The kids had fun playing together and we even got some formal family shots. Joe brought his camera equipment and he did a fantastic job getting some good pictures of the family.

We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving as much as we did. Sooner than later it will be Christmas!!! Take care

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Happy Halloween to all!

Whitney enjoyed all the festivities this year. She decided to dress up as SuperGirl again, which suited us because we did not have to buy a costume!

Blaine dressed up in a cape and a SCREAM mask. It rained on us trick or treating this year..pretty hard. Joe took Whitney out while I stayed home and passed out candy. We had mostly teenagers this year. I didn't see many small children except when we walked further out in the neighborhood. Joe and Whitney came back and we went out together to the firehouse where they had a haunted house set up. Whitney would not go through b/c it was too scary! It stopped raining, so we stopped at some more houses and Whitney saw one of her friends from preschool out trick or treating too!
They got to dress up yesterday at preschool too. They had a Halloween parade through the rest home next door and a party that afternoon. She had a blast!


We carved pumpkins and went to the Quakertown Halloween parade. Whitney drew the pumpkin on paper first and Joe carved it according to her specs :)

After we got home from trick or treating, Whitney took some time to sort through her stash! She wanted to separate it into likes and dislikes...mom and dad got all the dislikes!

Sense of Humor

I like to think that I have a sense of humor. Sometimes Joe would disagree, but I am usually the one at work that is making jokes and having fun. Apparently, some other people I know don't have quite the same sense of humor. In my last two posts I have mentioned that Joe and I are looking at a house and have to get together a down payment. I joked about contributing to the fund, etc...We are in NO WAY WHATSOVER asking anyone for money. It was a joke, simply.
I think the people who know me the best realize that, which would explain why I got the response I did from a person who has known me the longest, but knows very little about me.
So, to everyone else--thanks for being my friends and always supporting, loving me. Everyone else can, well....I'd rather not say.

What month is this???

OK...it is October 15th...only about a month into FALL, mind you, and it is snowing in Pennsylvania. Where we live, it is only very cold and raining...the 39 degrees is not quite cold enough for the change over, but about 30-45 minutes north and it is snowing! I left work this afternoon to find it snowing big wet flakes mixed with snow and sleet. Some friends that live towards the Poconos area have seen LOTS of snow, as well have Joe's mom and stepdad. CRAZY stuff!
From what I hear, this is not typical to have snow so early into the season, but obviously it is possible. If this is a sign of things to come then I think we are in trouble! 39 degrees today and this weekend, in the 60's again next week!
In other news, our house in NC is on the verge of being officially sold. We are anticipating closing day Friday (tomorrow) October 16th! It is a bittersweet moment. We LOVED our house so much, but it could not be put on the moving truck, so another lucky family was able to take it away.....ummmm, no one has yet volunteered to make any donations to our down payment fund!!! Come on---good cause! :)
Love to you all!

We want a house

We want a house. We have enjoyed living in our apartment for the last 10 months, but it is time to get our own place. We would like to stay in the area...it is only about a 35 minute drive or less for both of us to get to work. So, we found the house in this picture. It is in Richlandtown...the same town we live in now. It is actually only about a 2 minute drive to get there. It is a foreclosure, but is in pretty decent shape. It has a couple of issues, but none that couldn't be fixed. 3 bedrooms...2 1/2 baths. A nice back patio, a shed...great front yard...partially fenced in back yard. It also has hardwood floors in the dining room and kitchen.
Here is a link to the listing....
So, we want to offer a low price and see how that goes....but we need a down payment of 3.5%. Anyone want to help with that??? About $6000!!!! Hey....it's for a good cause! :)
This house is close enough that Whitney would not have to change preschool...which is great! She has been having some transition issues...saying how she misses different friends or her old daycare or our old house, swingset, etc... Joe also joined the volunteer fire department recently, so he could still be in town to help out. He actually went out on his first call last night!
So, that is how we are...how are you???

Dancing girl

I have a dancing girl!



She is beautiful and loves to dance in front of the big mirror :)






Her costume is a little itchy, she says, but that will subside.



Each night after class, she comes home to show us what she learned. Such a treat!

Splash Pad and Pizza

Today we took Whitney to a splash pad at a local shopping center similar to Alamance Crossing. There is a small series of fountains that squirt water about for the kids to run and play in. The splash pad is right next to the Starbucks, yummy lattes! So, the parents can relax with a nice iced latte and watch the kids splash around. Then, there is the SHOPPING...always a good thing! I got Whitney some much needed new clothes for the FALL season....she is growing like a weed,right before our eyes!











Later, we took her for pizza at a local pizzeria. She had a slice of white pizza, b.c now she doesn't like sauce. She wanted a slice of macaroni and cheese pizza and cinnamon sticks but they did not have that there. She cried, but Joe took her out for a talk and calmed her down long enough for her to enjoy her HUGE slice of pizza! We ended up going to the grocery store to buy ingredients for cinnamon rolls and macaroni and cheese pizza to make at home! She is SO rotten :)