Friday night, Lauren and the rest of the 8th grade band were invited to participate with the high school marching band at the football game. She's been wound up about this for weeks. She can't wait to join the marching band next year, so she thought it was so cool to hang with the high schoolers for a few hours ( Read more... )

Man, I'm tired. Tonight Lauren's 8th grade band class got to perform with the high school marching band at the high school football game tonight. It was COLD. Miserably cold. And we were there from 6:30 to almost 10. Brrrrrrrrr. But Lauren had a blast, and she can't wait to join the marching band next year ( Read more... )

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I have been terrible about taking pictures of food I make recently. It's so much harder to do a photo journal post of a recipe while you're overseeing homework, running kids here and there, etc. But here are a few things I've made recently, with links to the recipes ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, we made our yearly pilgrimage to the pumpkin patch. We've been to a few different ones, but Jumbo's is really our favorite, so we went there. Plus it's only a few minutes away ( Read more... )

This week's Four Foods on Friday is on a subject I really like - cupcakes! I do love cupcakes, and would love to visit a cupcake bakery, which seems to be all the rage now. Here are the questions:

#1. I passed Costco and saw gas at $2.84 and have had Costco on the brain since. Share a cupcake, muffin or cookie recipe.Here's a confession - ( Read more... )

...and it's not even my birthday! Lisa at JujuBoo gave me this cute gift as thanks for the award I gave her yesterday. It's been a good week! Thank you, Lisa!


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Just a quick 13 today. I've had a sinus headache for days and just can't think of a clever and awesome 13 this week. I like Fall, but it does play havoc with my sinuses every year.


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Magic likes to sun herself on the nightstand sometimes while I make the bed. Today, however, she wasn't able to enjoy it for very long.


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