Happy Thanksgiving

From my turkey to yours I hope you all have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving.

G-n-R on GNO

This past Saturday I met up with my girlfriends for a much needed night out. We made plans to attend the Guns -n- Roses concert at the Sprint Center after hanging out at the Power and Lights District in KC. The concert didn't start until 9:30pm so I was concerned how I would be able to stay awake. We arrived at the concert around 9:00pm, listened to the first band from 9:30pm - 11:00pm. There were so many open seats with good reason. The first band was awful!! G-n-R got on stage around 11:00pm and rocked out until 2:00am. They did not disappoint. Axel has still got it, even though he is old and the Slash look alike did pretty well. We made it back to the hotel and crashed after 3:00am. I was pretty proud of myself for staying awake past 10:00pm, and not being too terribly grouchy, although my friends may disagree.

Here are just a few pics from the night... Sorry for the ones that are sideways.

Halloween 2011

Better late than never, right....

Halloween morning I went to school with Madelyn and helped out with her class party. They had a parade around school then enjoyed a buffet of healthy foods, decorated pumpkins, and played Halloween Bingo.

That evening we met up with the Slussers to trick or treat, we drove to a couple places and spent the rest of the time walking door to door. Ryan met up with us for the festivities too. 

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!! We hope you have a safe and fun holiday!

What We've Been Doing

I made homemade cinnamon rolls and delivered to friends and took the rest to work. My mama's recipe is delicious!

Went to the fall festival at The First Baptist Church

Played with the newest addition of our household... Tucker James (TJ)

Went to Trick or Treat Street in downtown Augusta, which included a free movie. Dylan and Madelyn both won prizes at the movie.

Go-carting at the Back Alley with friends

Pumpkin Carving

This is the first year I was master pumpkin carver. Since I have very little artistic ability I knew this would be a challenge and would likely end up being a disaster if I didn't have some assistance. Off to Wal-Mart we went to locate a pumpkin carving kit with stencils. I let Madelyn pick out the design and of course she chose one of the more challenging ones, but I was up for the challenge. The end result didn't turn out terrible but there is room for improvement next go round.

Madelyn's favorite part is cleaning out the pumpkin "guts" and cleaning the pumpkin seeds. 

 Getting the pumpkin seeds ready for baking.

 The final product... It says WELCOME... kind of

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Last Saturday Madelyn and I met my sister and niece, Aubrey, at Walter's Pumpkin Patch in Burns, KS. There is so much more than pumpkin picking to do at Walters. It was an awesome day for the pumpkin patch.  Madelyn and Aubrey had fun with all the festivities and DeAnn and I had fun cracking jokes and poking fun.

Here just a few of the pics from that afternoon (in no particular order).

Such concentration as she picked out the perfect pumpkin

 Naughty girls

Madelyn sure would have liked to take this kitten home, too bad she is allergic.

This was so funny to watch in person.

 Jimmy cracked corn... DeAnn came up with a good one when Aubrey got corn in her crack. We figured dad would be proud.