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She was the prettiest pirate on the block!
Mommy and daughter…
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And her little doggie too….
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As I stated in this post yesterday… last Saturday we went to Bush Gardens for HOWL-O-SCREAM!!
The weather was perfect and we had A BLAST!!
The Lil Princess is 3 years old but pretty tall for her age so we were very anxious to see what she was going to be able to ride and to see if she was even interested in riding any bigger rides.
Long story short…she rode everything that she possibly could and LOVED IT ALL!
She even walked through the Haunted Cavern!!
A few pictures from our day….
Yep…she even rode the BIG swings!
Played games, won 4 stuffed animals, plus one HUGE frog and got to meet Grover….
She also rode her very first roller coaster!! In the front seat!!!
But her favorite ride of the day was the Battering Ram. The first time she rode it she sat in the middle. Well, I guess that bored her because the next time she sat 1 seat away from the top!! My heart was pounding out of my chest!! I yelled at The Man “ You better hold onto her!!” When the side that she was seated on swung high above the building I grabbed my camera to take a picture when all of a sudden I noticed that……
SHE HAD HER HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!!
She stayed that way the entire ride. *sigh*
To be continued tomorrow…..
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How was YOUR weekend?
This was mine...
Friday was Halloween...enough said!
I have already wrote a post about our search for a pumpkin, pumpkin carving and trick or treating. You can click on any one of those things to recap our Halloween.
I must say though that all the kids behaved very well all night!! Not once did I have to yell at any of them!! That alone equals a GREAT night!
It was tons of fun but I am glad its over!
*Wish that I could say the same about the election but I just know tomorrow will not be the end...its going to be dragged out even longer for one reason or another..I just know it!*
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Saturday morning was the same ritual...but this time we made homemade donuts AND muffins! And as always, it was a delicious delight!
After a nice sugar filled breakfast we were off to the kids school where the boy had a soccer game. He played his little heart out and his team won 7 to 4 with the boy scoring 6 of the 7 points. That certainly made his day!
Of course we were blessed enough to hear about it until the last minute before he went to bed. In his words...It was the BEST day ever!!
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Sunday was a day of rest. It was also FOOTBALL Sunday!!
The mans team, the Giants played the Cowboys Cowgirls!!
Its always an exciting game when your playing a team that is so many of your friends favorite....it just makes it that much more intense!
The Giants kicked some Dallas Cowboys Cowgirls butt!!!
Score= 35-14, to improve to 7-1 overall, 5-0 at home and 2-0 in the NFC East!!
Way to go GIANTS!!
Okay, so I know I'm a Panthers fan but I cant help but to root for my mans team! Plus I watch it...how could I NOT get into pulling for the Giants after watching their awesomeness!!
Don't get me wrong...I still love my Panthers...Rawrrrrrrrrrrr!
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So that was it, that was our weekend in a Snippet.
Besides the fact that the entire weekend was a blur due to the horrible migraine I had for 2 days, the weekend was pretty calm, which is always nice!
Trick or treating was fun and very exciting
The people were welcoming, warm and inviting
There was pizza for dinner and laughter with friends
Could you think of a better way for a night to begin?
With my gangsta, dirty redneck and devil/angel in tow
We all boarded the trailer and it was off we go
That’s right, there’s no walking in this neck of the woods
Its tractors and trailers that pull all the goods
With a full moon high above us and a cold crisp in the air
The kids run from door to door without having a care
The smallest of them all, she skipped from door to door
She admired all of her candy and wanted much more
After two and a half hours and the last house in site
We packed up all of our things and we called it a night.
It’s time to go home, time to get all cozy and warm.
Dump out all of our goodies and see the kids swarm.
Happiness ensues as they see all that they got
Surrounded by candy…oh, good lord it was a lot!
Trick or treating turned out to be an enormous success!
But the time has now come to go get some much needed rest.
Amazed by all her candy the Princess hugged it so very tight
Before going to bed and saying Happy Halloween…GOODNIGHT!
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As soon as Daddy walks in the door he is greeted by the Lil Princess.
"Come Daddy, Come...Carve our pumpkin Daddy!!!" she said excitedly.
We all gather in the kitchen impatiently waiting to begin.
Daddy cuts the top off the pumpkin.
Confused and not really knowing what to expect the Princess watches very closely.
The boy begins to pull off the lid... stringy slime hangs, it wiggles and it jiggles...this site was NOT what the Princess had expected. (Partially due to the fact that the big kids told her earlier that there was candy inside of the pumpkin)
The Lil Princess was petrified!!
She anxiously jumped into the safety of her sissy's arms without ever taking her eyes off the pumpkin.
After a lot of reassurance, and maybe a tad bit of bribery the Lil Princess held tightly to her sissy's neck and pulled that lid off the pumpkin all by herself!
The gooey mess hanging and spilling out upon the counter top was so wondrous and yet still a little frightening to her.
"Touch it, touch it" the big kids exclaimed as they continually taunted and teased the Lil Princess.
And so with all the courage that she could muster up, she put her little hand inside that big scary (forget pretty and perfect) pumpkin and touched that slimy gooey mess.
The moment went as quickly as it took for me to snap the picture.
And the pumpkin was then passed off to Daddy so he could get to work.
Daddy began to dig and scrape all that gooey pumpkin mess out as the Lil Princess stood watching curiously beside him ewwwing and awwwing.
After cleaning the pumpkin and with the kids watching intently Daddy went straight to work on creating his masterpiece.
Instead of doing mean and scary, Daddy did what the Lil Princess wanted.
(Shocker there... I know.)
Which was Pluto and his pumpkin.
Daddy did a great job!
We lit the once again "pretty" pumpkin and placed it on the porch to burn so brightly.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
PS."I love it Daddy...good job...*big hugs were given*...I love you Daddy!"
For days weeks I have been searching for a pumpkin patch.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch!
That means no cutesy pictures outside with the hundreds of beautiful orange pumpkins in the patches, no pictures on a Hay Ride, nothing.
So it was off to the freakin grocery store with all 3 of the kids to pick out a pumpkin.
Yeah there's nothing better than walking down the cold, hard isle and finding your pumpkin sitting on a shelf- insert sarcasm here!
Naturally I had planned on getting 3 pumpkins, one for each child. But the "big" kids didn't want to carve their own pumpkin. Guess they are too grown for digging into pumpkin guts. (eye roll)
The Lil Princess and I picked out what we thought was the prettiest pumpkin on the shelf!
And the "big" kids...the kids who didn't want a BIG pumpkin of there own, yeah...they wanted one of the tiny pumpkins. So whatever, we picked 3 of them off the shelf too. (eye roll again)
We happily took our perfect pumpkin and the 3 cute little ones home.
The Lil Princess and I were super excited to get to carving our spooky face.
But first we had to eat dinner.
We quickly ate our dinner and we were all ready to carve the pumpkin...
when Daddy tells us NO!
What?!!? Why Daddy Why?!!?
Apparently we misplaced the nice little tools we had to carve the pumpkin and the man being the perfectionist that he is didn't want our pumpkin to look, as he called it... "Ghetto!"
Here our pretty perfect pumpkin and the 3 tiny ones sit...
Right next to my clovers on the kitchen counter.
I'm going out this afternoon to get the tools to carve it...dang it, our pumpkin will have a spooky face by tonight!!
Nothing like waiting till the last minute...
Welcome to MY world!
I have known the man since he was 14 years old. He has always been quiet and well reserved. Other than his smashing good looks he would not be the type of person who would stand out in a crowd. Only a small chosen few of us are lucky enough to get to see the goofy side that deep down he truly does have.
With that being said...This weekend we were invited to a Halloween Party for adults only.
Oh goodness, that means we have to find something to wear!
Here is where the panic and me stressing out about everything starts to arise…Iwanted an outfit that was cute yet comfortable to hang out in all night, one that didn’t require any kind of make-up that would sweat or run off. I also didn’t want to go out and buy anything expensive for just one night either. And if that wasn’t enough, I wanted us to do a “couples” costume too. ex: Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf So here I am panicking with all these objectives that I have set, I also had to go and think of something that was decent enough for the man to even AGREE to wear as well. {Thinking in the back of my head-yeah, right…that’s NOT ever going to happen!}
So here it is the day before the party…I want to wear this, no he’s not going to wear that, I will just go buy something, no I’m not going to go buy a costume or two costumes for just one night…ughhh…back and forth I went, over and over in my head…what are we going to wear!?!
Cleaning the house I come across the boy’s football gear…hmmm, the wheels start turning. I look at it and think “heck no is my 11 year old boys gear going to fit my big butt”. And then what if it did? Is the man really going to be my cheerleader?? HA HA HA- NOO!!!! So as quickly as the thought entered my mind, it left. It’s back to the drawing board I go!
ITS PARTY DAY!!
My Moma comes over to watch the kids for us, we still don’t know what we are going to wear, and the party is less than 4 hours away. Getting desperate, I decide I’m just going to go try on the boys’ football gear…surprisingly enough, it FITS!!
HALLEJUAHHHHH!!! {Yes, I begin to sing}
Ok, I think to myself, one down….now what about the man, he ISNT going to dress as a girl, no way in H*LL!
I go and tell him what I’m going to wear and casually I mention he can be my cheerleader.{He knew how much I REALLY wanted to do the couple thing}He looks at me with that you’ve got to be freakin kidding look in his eye, frowns and says to my surprise…well, where am I going to get a cheerleader costume?!
OH MY GOSH…did he really just say that?!?! Is he really going to go along with it?? No way, not MY man!!
But he does…this is where a lot of the fun truly happened. We went out and found him a 3 dollar wig…that’s it, that’s all we spent on our costumes, pretty good if you ask me! We came back home, the man tried on countless skirts and tank tops{Oh the laughter} but we just couldn’t get the cheerleader “look”. And to top it all off, we couldn’t find any pom poms either! Ugh, so here we are already 15 minutes late to the party and still trying to figure out what he is going to wear!! Although the sites of watching him fiddle with putting on a bra and trying to stuff it with balls, socks and whatever else he could find to make it look “realistic” was fun, we still weren’t any closer to finishing his costume. Then all of a sudden he comes waltzing in the room with his wig on and a CROWN on his head acting so super silly, that’s when it hit us…he can be a PROM QUEEN!!
It’s 10 minutes to 8:00, we put together a cute ensemble for him, fix his hair, get him some shoes, snap a few pictures and we take off!
Although we didn’t think our costumes were that great everyone at the party loved them and my man my Prom Queen was a HUGE hit! All night my man my Prom Queen was being hit on leaving this Quarterback sitting on the side lines! Ha-ha! The party was so much fun; we really have been blessed to find such a wonderful group of friends out here.
I am so proud of my man for being such a good sport and doing something SO very out of his character. After almost 14 years of marriage the man still manages to surprise me and make me love him more and more each and every day!
Last night we took out Halloween decorations.
And let me tell you, lil princess LOVES the scary stuff!
It really amazes us how much she is so into it all.
When we go out anywhere all she wants is to see/hold/play with all the scary decorations. I know people walking past think I’m insane as I hold up the skeleton that shakes and makes scary noises while my 2 yr. old giggles with excitement.
The boy has even gotten her hooked on Scooby Doo!
She actually will ask for me to put it in so she can watch it.
I know- bad mommy for letting her watch TV.
But all my kids watched it and so far they have turned out just fine.
They also get their fair share of other activities to do instead of sit in front of a TV.
The man pulled out Halloween costumes from 1999 that the other 2 kids had wore.
1999…Geezzz!! That seems like so long ago!
The costumes were 101 Dalmatians and who else but Scooby Doo!!
This is where I give the man the evil eye!!
I wanted her to be something cute and sweet…thinking an angel or a princess. But I knew when she saw that costume that those ideas were all over! Of course I was right…she totally flipped out when she seen the Scooby Doo costume and had to put it on immediately!!
Costumes are put away for now. Maybe she will forget and I can show her other ones and see what she picks…ultimately it is her decision, her fun so I will let her be whatever her little heart desires.
We decorated a little bit, ate some muffins and had a great time.
The boy & the teenager were at a church function.
I haven’t mentioned them much YET… but their time is coming!
So after bath time lil princess picked a booger.
Yes, I said PICKED A BOOGER!!
Well when the man gave her a tissue the booger went in it and off her finger.
She had a total melt down!!
“My booger!! You lost my booger Daddy!! Bad Daddy, Bad Daddy!!” I want my booger!!!!” she cried and screamed for about a good 10 minutes!
Can you tell it was near bedtime!?
So picture this…the man who does whatever the lil princess wants starts fumbling through the tissue looking for the damn booger!! And he actually finds it and tries to give it back to her!!!
At this point, I’m standing there looking at him like he’s insane!
I couldn’t believe that…
A. She was having a melt down over a booger and
B. that the man actually looked for it and tried giving it back!!
Lil princess had enough; she refused to take the booger back and was very mad at the man the rest of the night.
Time for bed.
Good Night our lil Booger Princess!
Of course you know I had to snap a picture of her during her melt down. J
