Happy Halloween!

In our house, Hannah Montana, Gabriela and Sharpay, Cheetah Girls, and all of the Disney Princesses aren't anything to write home about.

But, Bindi the Jungle Girl--now she's a celebrity. So, like most little girls who want to dress up like who they admire, Landry chose to be Bindi Irwin this Halloween. And, we thought it only be appropriate for Korley to be a crocodile. :)

In case you're unfamiliar with Bindi the Jungle Girl, here's a picture of her from one of her shows. We got pretty close to her "look". Got the yellow monogramed shirt, khaki pants, crimped pigtails, and something to hold that resembles something I would never ever touch. Wasn't willing to cut bangs, though!

After we got the girls ready we headed to our church's carnival. Landry had a great time playing the games!

After we got back from the carnival, Landry got to go trick-or-treating (Korley was pooped and went to bed!). And, then, as we've done in years past, she and Daddy hung out on the front porch to hand out candy!

The other big news of the day was the 3rd lost tooth (first top one)! When I picked Landry up from school today her tooth looked like this (yuk!). It was just dangling there, barely hanging on, and flapping in the wind when she breathed or talked. I told her she wasn't going to get to do any Halloween stuff until we pulled that tooth out. Yeah--go ahead--submit your nominations for me to win Mom of the Year.

Anyway, about 30 seconds after the previous picture was taken we got the below result!

Last Minute Costume

This isn't Korley's real Halloween costume. She was supposed to wear her costume to daycare today and I didn't want her to wear her real costume because 1) it would be way to hot for her in this EIGHTY DEGREE WEATHER (ugh!) and 2) I didn't want her to get it dirty. ;)

So, we went with Plan B--the ol' standby cheerleader outfit. Here she is this morning before she went to school--and with Landry, too!

And speaking of last minute costumes, the following pictures were not only last minute, but could also be categorized as the WORST COSTUME EXECUTION ever!! Jeff and I went to a Halloween party a couple of years ago. We weren't going to dress up, but at the last minute we decided we wanted to. We tried to go as Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, circa 1970s. Seriously--worst costumes ever.

Last Friday we took the girls to the pumpkin patch. I'm using the term "pumpkin patch" very loosely. This wasn't the kind of patch we are used to going to--this was basically a bunch of pumpkins thrown in a church lawn.

Korley brought me this pumpkin that had a bunch of *warts* on it and she said "Ewwwwwwwww".

This was the only half-way decent picture I got of Landry and Korley together. I didn't know it at the time, but Landry was running a fever and didn't feel good. Later, we went to the mall for dinner and she feel asleep in the on the bench in the foodcourt. Yeah, I'm a good mom.

By Saturday she was feeling much better and my parents treated us (ok, it was REALLY for Landry!) to the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show. I'm not much into dinosaurs, but this was really cool.

BTW, Ann, Erica and Chas--here is a picture of my new 'do (kind of). It's kind of deceiving because I'm leaning forward, but it's one of those bobs that's shorter in the back.

And, of course, PopPop bought her some really cool souvenirs!

And no weekend would be complete without laundry. This weekend I got a little *help* from Korley. Actually, she was the polar opposite of help. Anytime I tried to get an item out of the basket, she'd scream, take it from me and move it to where she was sitting on it better.

Is it weird that.....

on Wednesday at work I didn't see ONE person that I work with ALL DAY. People were there, but it was one of those days were everyone was is a nerdy mood and just stayed in their cubicles all day. So, Thursday I wore to work THE EXACT SAME OUTFIT I wore the day before. Because I could.

Witchcraft

I guess the title would be more appropriate if these were actually witches, but it's the best title I could come up with. :) I've always liked the personalized ceramics with handprints/footprints--like Paint.ed Pig.gies does--but, they're quite expensive. This is the same concept for nearly free. I stole this idea from my friend Tiffany--these didn't turn out perfect, but still cute!

It's been a while since I have blogged. I should have a lot to talk about, but I don't. At the end of the day when I do have time to blog, the last thing I want to do is get on my computer. My work has been very busy/frustrating lately, and quite frankly, I'm hating it. I am finding harder and harder to find the work/life balance. Really I don't have anything good to say about work right now--so I'm not going to say anything (else) at all.....

Cute Landry story--so this week is Red Ribbon Week at school (probably all schools). I asked her the other day if she knew what Red Ribbon Week meant and she said "Yes. It's where you don't do drugs all week." Nice.

What else?....I got my hair cut last weekend. REALLY SHORT. I'm okay with it, but I don't think it looks very good to others. The main reaction I'm getting is, "wow, you cut your hair!" And that's all. The only person who really *raved* about it was this lady that I don't know at all, but she works on my floor and I see her everyday. However, her hair is EXACTLY like Peg Bundy's so I don't really know how to interpret her compliment. Oh well, I'm not. A compliment's a compliment and I'll take it!


Allright, I'm tired and have nothing useful to say. I'll try to blog something more entertaining tomorrow.

Randomness

Traci tagged me a couple of weeks ago to do an 8 Random Things list. I don't know why I found this so hard, but it was. I mean it's only eight things.....how hard can that be? However, I placed a lot of pressure on myself trying to make them "random". We'll see just how random they are....


1) I don't really like to read. This is not something I'm proud of, but it's true. I hate books. I sometimes force myself to read and usually I'm disappointed by the end of the book and wished I hadn't read it. I've pretty much hated every book suggested by Oprah. If I do decide to read, I'll generally pick a Nicholas Sparks book--I like his books. When I read People or US Weekly I usually go through the whole magazine first looking at the pictures and then I might go back and read an article. A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in the waiting room of a tire store reading an article in a magazine about this crime/controversy incident that occured on the Texas/Mexico border. It was very intriguing and I was interested; however, I flipped through and saw how many pages the article covered and quit reading it--too many pages.


2) I might not like to read, but apparently I like to ramble on about how much I don't like to read.


3) Fall is not my favorite season (summer is), but two of my favorite fall things are football and taco soup.


4) One of the reasons I don't like fall is fall clothes. I hate wearing long sleeves and I hate wearing coats. I hate how I have to pull my hair out of the neckline of coats, and how my hair gets all static-y.


5) I am part vampire. No, silly, not really! But, I CANNOT go outside without sunglasses on. Even if it's cloudy and rainy out, my eyes are so sensitive to sunlight that I have to wear sunglasses outside....always!


6) I played tennis growing up and I miss it. I would love to find the time to start playing again. Maybe I'll give up reading altogether and replace it with tennis! :)


7) I work full-time and I sometimes struggle with this choice. The (what seems like) weekly Today Show segment on the "mommy wars" doesn't help, either. It doesn't matter, though, I constantly have my own mommy wars going on inside my head.


8) I have this horrible, terrible, awful habit of not putting on my seatbelt. Barbara Mandrell (and my mom) would be so disappointed in me. Today when I was driving my 18 mile drive to work, I put my seatbelt on for the last .0000005 miles of the drive.


I'm typing this while watching Dancing With the Stars....is it just me or does anyone else prefer Drew Lachey to Samantha Harris?

She's Got the Look

Many people tell me that Landry and Korley don't look alike. But, since Korley was a newborn she will occasionally make a facial expression that stops me cold and takes me back to when Landry was Korley's age.


Korley definitely has her own "faces", but she has developed Landry's "super cheese" smile. This is the smile she flashes with everything she's got--her nose wrinkles like a bunny, she squints her eyes to where she can barely see, and shows every tooth she's got. Both of these girls have gotten out of more trouble with this smile....

Korley--almost 18 months

Landry-18 months