Our newest addition...

Introducing our newest family member...Miss Lexi Cat! She found Taylor a few weeks ago at the school on a cold, blustery day. I didn't have the heart to take her back...but I didn't want the kids to get too attached to her in case someone was looking for her. So...I checked the newspaper Lost/Found for a little over a week and there was nothing...and of course by this time, she sorta got ahold of my heart as well. She is really mellow and sweet (unlike Jordan who's a bit tempermental and snooty). Where Jordan is mostly white with black, Lexi is mostly black with some white...a perfect "ying-yang" if you will...

The scariest day of the year, 2009...

Well...looks like another Halloween bites the dust, LOL! We actually had two celebrations since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year. Friday, I went over to the school around 11:30 and graded papers for a couple hours til it was time to get ready for the Halloween parade. This year was the first year EVER that they did not have classroom parties. Instead, they had trick or treating during the parade. The whole thing was a bit of a disaster though because they didn't start the parade til 2 pm and school lets out at 2:45. By 2:30...only a fraction of kids had gone around (there were still classrooms waiting for their turn)...at 2:40...the pricipal came over the PA to advise parents parked in the bus loop that they had to move their vehicles so the buses could get in...it was just utter chaos, imo!

After school, we came home and got "Fear Fest" on and started working on the pumpkins. Taylor said I could do hers and Chase and Paige both did their own and they really did a great job. I saved all the seeds (they're currently drying) to roast. After pumpkins were done, we had soup for dinner and watched the movie "Silver Bullet"...it's a pretty good scary movie for kids (it always scares me even though I know what's going to happen next, LOL).

Saturday (Halloween)...Michelle, Lee and Courtney came over for dinner and T or Ting. We had a couple drinks, then Nolan and Michelle took the girls out, while Lee and I manned the door. Chase went T or Ting with Mitch and Taylor & Christie went too (then a couple of their friends came over and before long, there was a full fledged party going on)...We finally got 'em all outta here between midnight and one o'clock...as Paige and Courtney were trying to sleep as they had church in the morning.

All and all...it was fun!