Halloween!

Don't worry, Bella didn't mind wearing her costume after she had it on for a while. She had it on for about 6 hours on Friday and then ALLLLLLLLLL day on Saturday! As I mentioned before, I had people over on Halloween! Bella was a trooper. We had a fun night, even though it was a little hot. (Our heat had been on and once we turned the air conditioning on, it took too long to actually boot up so therefore we had an extremely hot townhouse all night).

Devon, Kathryn and Cara... they were greek goddesses and very beautiful!

Josh came for Halloween!!! That made me super excited!!

This is my friend Stephanie playing "Pin the face on the Mummy."

My sweet friend Cara. I love this picture of her. She will probably not enjoy that I put this on here though!

Funshine Carebear VS. Peter Pan

Kathy and I! I think I will frame this one!

Funshine + a sunflower!

My old roomie Ashley and I. She was a chicken.... I think her and Josh were the hottest (temperature wise) people at the party. I am sure you have noticed that it looks like we are all sweating in all the pictures! IT WAS HOT!

But it was a great Halloween!

Anderson turns 1!

This post is long overdue. Anderson (the son of one of my dearest friends) turned 1 on the 22nd of October. I cannot believe he is already 1!!! It seems like just a couple of months ago he was born! Anywho, he is one of my favorite kids in the entire world and like a nephew to me! The Browns, who I consider family, graciously allowed me to attend their family party for Anderson. I was honored and thrilled to be able to go to celebrate that sweet little boy!

This is Anderson getting excited about opening some gifts!

I took this picture for Ashley's mom since I had my camera in hand. It was too cute not to post! What sweet grandchildren she has!

Singing the Happy Birthday song to Anderson! He loved it.... SO CUTE!

These were his little froggy cupcakes I made him. They don't look very cute in this picture but they were cute in real life (or at least I thought so).

YUMMY.

Playing with his new toys!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Halloween is one of the few things I actually enjoy about fall. I always LOVED trick or treating so much and I have such great memories of childhood. I still enjoy dressing up and doing Halloweenish stuff! :-) I am dressing up as the same thing I was last year.... Gretel. Hopefully I will take some pictures this year though. And as you will see below, Bella is a skunk! I think it is hilarious. She doesn't mind wearing the costume but just hates the part that goes over here ears. I have several friends coming into town to stay with me! So we are going to have a little get together at my place and then maybe stop by a few costume parties. I will do a post-Halloween update!

I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad's bday, Scooby Doo and the fair.

I have been super busy again! Nothing new to report really! I was doing good with my posting for a while but now I am behind again. This is just a random post about the last week and a half!

Barry, Sharon, me, my dad and Natalie out to eat for my dad's 48th birthday. We went to the Flying Biscuit.... yummy! I think this is a great picture! If only Mitch were in it then we could get it framed.

One night some friends and I went out to Southpoint to meet a friend for dinner. After dinner we went Halloween costume shopping. This is my friend Devon as Scooby Doo! We were all laughing so hard when an employee came up to her and rudely asked "Are you planning on buying that?" Devon's response was "Maybe, I am thinking about it." And the rude woman was surprised and walked off. I am so happy that I have this picture.

So I went back to the fair the following Friday with another group of friends. This is my friend Andre. He played that balloon popping game and won! As a joke, he got a picture of Hannah Montana. He had a hard time deciding between that and the cast of Twilight.

Ashley and I in front of the fireworks!!!

Fair with the girls!

On Friday I went to the fair with Ashley and Emily! We planned this totally last minute but I was so glad it worked out for us to go! We shared deep fried oreos and Wisconsin cheese sticks. And we rode 2 rides! We went later at night after their kiddos were in bed so it was definitely cooler outside but it wasn't very crowded at all! I think this is the least crowded I have ever seen it at night!

Me, Ashley and Emily.

Ashley and Emily with the fireworks in the background and hot chocolate in Em's hand.

Me and Emily. There weren't any fireworks in our picture so I cropped it!

I know this is a bad picture.... this was my attempt of taking one of the 3 of us. But i did succeed in getting the ride we rode in the background. THE FIREBALL. Except this one was actually called Freak Out or something. I ride this every year but I got SOOOOOO scared before getting on it this time. It was short and ended up being a blast! You may want to click on the picture so you can see the ride in the background!

Emily gets cold easy and doesn't enjoy it. This is her keeping warm!

This is me and my very favorite ride EVER! I made Ashley and Emily ride with me and I think at first they didn't think it would be very much fun! But then they liked it so much that we rode it again!!! I will never go to the fair without riding this!


I am not sure if I will go to the fair again. I may take John one day this week. I usually go numerous times but I may have had my fill! :) Thanks Ashley and Emily for going with me.... I had tons of fun!

The Proposal!

I have been so excited to see the movie 'The Proposal.' I don't know why because it just seem like every other chick flick. I finally saw it and loved it! I do felt like it had a lot of potential to be better and a little bit more funny but I still loved it. I watched it yesterday and I have watched this one scene with Betty White and Sandra Bullock over and over again. I just think it is hilarious!!! So if you haven't seen the movie, here is a clip below! Just a warning to all the mommies, there are curse words in this clip but not super bad ones! I hope you think it is funny as I do.

To setup the scene: Sandra Bullock was taking a bike ride and heard some funny noises. When she discovered what it was she found the grandmother chanting around the fire. The grandmother made her come down and start doing her own chants....



HAHA!!!!!!!!!

NC Zoo!

On Monday, John and I ventured to the zoo with the Browns. I was SO excited to go because I hadn't been since I was in middle school. I had a lot of fun with John and it was a lot of fun to watch Camden so excited about all the animals. Sadly, right after lunch it started raining and it cut our zoo trip short a little bit. I still had a great time and hope to go back sometime soonish!

John, Camden and Anderson watching the Sea Lions. I love this picture!

Willy, the polar bear. Even though he would love to eat me for dinner, I still love him! He was so cute and seemed to be posing for pictures!

And I love you too, Mr. Owl.

Camden and a Buffalo.

I bought a zoo poncho after lunch so I could walk around in the rain. I also didn't dress appropriately for the trip so I was freezing when it started to rain. The poncho warmed me up!

Hey, there's an elephant!

Camden got cold so he stole his mama's jacket.... haha!

John was exhausted!!! He fell asleep and missed the lions and zebras!

I love this picture too!