Happy Halloween

Hope everyone has a spooktacular day today! We dressed up at work today. Or I should say about 3 of us did. Anyway, I feel a little overdressed. I keep getting people saying "I find it hard to take you serious-with your face painted". Not really much different then any other day. I came as a witch, with a glittery painted face.

Sydney is going to be a kitty cat. She likes her costume, but when it comes to showing it to someone, she gets shy and starts to cry. Whose kid is this anyway??? We have been having dress rehearsal to attempt to overcome this.

I am going to take a late lunch and pick her up and bring her to work to trick or treat with my co-workers. Then we will hit a few houses and Grandma's house and that is about it. We may hook up with Josie and Peter, so she can get the hang of it.

Sydney is just now feeling better. She had been sick from Last Friday until Tues. She could not keep anything down. On Monday, I had to take her to the ER two times for IV's of fluid because she was so dehydrated. We went back for a check up on Tuesday. By Wednesday she was eating us out of house and home. Mike and I both had it too. In fact I gave it to Sydney who gave it to Mike. Both of them felt worse than I did.

Don't eat too much candy or scare the little kids too much. We had to postpone Sydney's Halloween Tea Party until tommorow. I keep wanting to do stuff to scare the kids, but then I have to remember that they are only 3 after all.

EXCITING NEWS

It is so exciting……

Just received a phone call……

From Sydney’s Grandma……

She sat on the potty…..

And actually went!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!

This may not be too exciting to you, but it is the best news I have gotten today.

You may say…”So What”

Ok, then, want to hear some more REAL EXCITING news?????

My good news that made my day yesterday?????

May have made my month….

Ranks pretty high up there for the year…..

My brother Randy married my Best Friend Amy last Friday!!!

Yeah, It was a long time coming.

But love knows no time limits, right.

Want to hear better news???

I am now the proud Aunt of a niece and nephew.

Madeline and Austin

Want to hear the best news????

I am going to be an Aunt again in May.

According to my brother it will be a boy.

(That is what I am keeping my fingers crossed for too)

So get out all the John Deere and camouflage stuff.

If you love someone set them free-If they come back it was meant to be.

Potters Marsh

Today I went on a little outdoor excursion with Deb and Kerri and the kids. We decided to go to Potter's Marsh (even though I was still pulling for Thunderbird Falls) As we started out, it started to rain and we thought it was going to put a damper on our plans. But after much diliberation and driving haphazardly around Anchorage and taking the road less traveled, we made it to Potter's Marsh. And as it would happen the rain had miracuosly stopped by the time we arrived at Potter's Marsh. So it all worked out.

The kids love to run along the boardwalk. But, you alway are afraid that they will climb too far up to get a look and then go over the side. Of course that senario was playing through all three of Kerri, Deb and my heads. But for the most part, they just run and run, until they are too tired. So hopefully, Sydney will go to bed early tonight.

We stopped at Kaladi Bros. on the way home

for Coffee and Coco and to warm up.

It was a nice way to wrap up the day.

While we were there, it started to snow big flakes.

I keep trying to put on the breaks.

Maybe, just maybe Thunderbird Falls will happen next week.

I can only keep praying that it will be.

Sydney and Peter looking over the edge of the board walk.
Peter and Jack checking out the half decayed sockeye salmon who was making its way home.
Some of the kids trying to be "cool" while they posed for the pic.

Jace and Josie decided they would rather wait in the warm car. Smart Kids!

Peter and Jack checking out the reader board to see what it says about the salmon.

Autumn Photos

I always love to take picture during the Autumn here in Alaska. Although I hated to see it come this year, since it signaled the end of the summer that never happened. But anyway, love to take pictures of the trees and leaves and autumn stuff. I wanted to go out to Thunderbird Falls this weekend before the snow creeped up on us. It didn't happen, but we did go over to Russian Jack Park and get a few shots of Sydney and Mike. They are not as nice of pictures as I would like, but they work. I still want to take a photography class, so I can understand how to take better pictures with my camera and eventually get an SLR camera and take way cool pictures. But after seeing how much those cost, I think it will be a while before I Am able to purchase on of those cameras, and lenses and flashes. But one day! Anyway, getting back to more pictures of Sydney. Here they are. Oh yeah, autumn pics too.

I think this picture turned out pretty good.

She had a pretty good time running around. She kept looking for the slide and swings.
Sydney and her Daddy

I love this picture. Something about people walking down lanes, is neat to me.

A New Toy for us!

Today we got a new laptop. It has been a year since we moved out of our condo and our computer crashed in the move. We finally broke down and bought a laptop. Mike and Tony got it set up tonight. I am messing around with it and trying to figure out. I think I will like it. I can multi task with it, like watching Sat Night Live and typing this blog, or surfing the internet looking for card and scrapbook examples, while crafting or scrapbooking.

I can't wait to try to figure out my photo editing software or try our new software for restoring our ipod library. I hope neither of them are too difficult. Maybe I will be able to post on a more regular schedule now as well. Well I am getting sleepy and am going to go to sleep.