Monday, October 31, 2011

This is Halloween

I don’t really get excited for Halloween and can’t remember the last time I dressed up.  I think because my family didn’t celebrate it when we were kids, I never got too into it.  Usually at work I wear something orangeish and call it good. 

However this year was different.  My boss gave us 2 reasons to encourage people to dress up.

  1. Only those dressing up could get casual dress.  Everyone else had to wear business attire.
  2. The winning group won a pizza lunch.

Jeans and pizza?  I guess I gotta participate. 

Our team did a nice job decorating our cubicles with cemetery decorations.

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They even had a scary dessert contest.

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And here is our team…

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We won the pizza lunch and I got to wear jeans.  Successful day at work.  Smile

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Late Night Cuddles

Jack hung out with us all day Saturday so he must have felt comfortable enough to jump on our couch to cuddle with Jeff. 

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Pumpkin Carving

EDITED:  Danny’s pumpkin pictures at the end…

Jeff and I had bought the pumpkins last week, and we had been waiting until today to cut into them. 

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We let the girls pick out their own design and then made them scrape out the guts.

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Once the guts were scraped, I started Brooklyn’s pumpkin thinking it was the easier of the two.  It was not, but can you tell what it is?

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Brooklyn kept Daniel company for a bit and then got bored and played with Kalea and Hailey.

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The finished products.

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Brooklyn’s = Rapunzel

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Kalea’s = Kitty

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Shannon’s = Owl

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Now we are just waiting for Daniel to finish up.  His are always the most work…

And here is Danny’s pumpkin!

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Now with a prop.  Holla!

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The nieces really wanted to light up the pumpkins so we turned off all the house lights and grabbed some candles.

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Good night!!

Who’s making all that noise?

Look who we hung out with last night.  And yes, they insisted on sleeping in different directions.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Hold the Frosting

Jeff’s work had ordered some cupcakes for one of their meetings.  There was a slight mix up and some extra Sprinkles cupcakes were delivered to Jeff’s building.    

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Sprinkles is known as the “Original Cupcake Bakery”.  These are supposed to be THE cupcakes.  The box had a red velvet with cream cheese frosting and a cinnamon sugar cupcake sans frosting.

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While I’m a big fan of sweets, these gourmet cupcakes haven’t been hitting the spot.  The frosting is just too sweet and too much.  So I chose the cinnamon sugar cupcake and HELLO DELICIOUS.  This is my new favorite.  No frosting needed.  I tasted like a snickerdoodle muffin, pefectly moist and just the right amount of sweet.  Now how do I get some accidently sent to my office???

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fall Fun

Crystal sent over some pictures of Hailey carving her pumpkin and the girls trick-o-treating at the Parkhouse.  Here are some of my favorites.

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I love this picture, Noelle looks like she’s thinking “why do I have to stand here?”

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And in this picture, she looks like she’s thinking “I’m over this!  The girl in the back is crying, give me some candy and take me home!”

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And then she made her escape…

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But didn’t get far.

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