I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!! This month has been non stop for me with the holidays and Megan on school vacation for 2 weeks. This past week i got hit with a nasty cold and couldn't talk for almost a week! That was hard. But i am almost back to normal...

I wish everyone health and happiness in 2009!!

Michelle

The countdown has begun! LOL


Now that it's December i can safely decorat e holidays. I cannot bring myself to put up Christmans stuff until the other holidays have past. I like to enjoy each holiday as is comes and then move on to the next.


Also my daughters birthday is the 24th. I always ask her if she wants to put up decorations before or after her party. I like her to be able to celebrate her birthday without it being lost to Christmas. She is OK with the tree going up this week.


Her party with her school friends is on the 13th and the family will get together on Sunday. I just couldn't see trying to combine ALL those kids and ALL my family together at Monster Golf.


She picked Star Wars (big surprise, lol) as her cake theme. So i have been scouring the internet for some ideas on how the decorate her cake. I found at Walmart the Star Wars Galactic Heros sets and i have been thinking of ways i can use them on the cake. They are cute figures...kind of kid like.
















I will post pictures of the cake when completed.





So last night we went to the tree lighting event in town. It was pretty cool. They had kids from the local dance studio dancing to music and the chorus from the high school singing Christmas carols. Free face painting and ballon sculptures. S'mores and hot chocolate and cider. Fire pits for toasting marshmallows. Santa arrived on the fire truck and gave out candy canes and apples and oranges. You could also have your picture taken with him. I took this one.





Megan with her cousin Joey.

It was the first time i've been to something like that. It was pretty cool. I went with my sister and her two kids. Megan had a blast. I wish my husband could have gone but he had to work last night. At least he will be home for Christmas and that's what counts.



Ok i am off to pull out the decorations now that Megan is home from school.




Have a good one.
Michelle

Halloween has come and gone and now the big push in on for ......Thanks....wait WHAT...Christmas?! Where did Thanksgiving go?

Why can't we celebrate each holiday as it comes, then move on to the next? Halloween was barely here and the stores were already getting their shelves ready for Christmas! I don't know about anyone else but i like to take each holiday as it comes and enjoy it. I know that Thanksgiving is a food holiday, but it's a day were i get to spend time with ALL my family members.

This year 3 people in my extended family have moved down to South Carolina. It's hard when relatives move out of state. My in-laws live in Florida but they come up during the summer only because they can't take the cold winters anymore. So we go down there in the winter and spend time with them. I thinks that's a fair trade! Fort Myers in the middle of January!! I'm there.

Only this year we have to go in February as Megan is in school now and we need to work around the school vacations! Oh well no big deal...what's one more month?

Anywho...here are some pictures from Halloween.

Megan with her sister Tammie

Megan wither her friend Mason and his little brothers in the wagon. I'm not sure who the older girl is. Friend of the family i think.

My cool pumpkins lit up!

Hope all are well

Michelle

I can't believe that Halloween is almost here. Megan is sooo ready. She keeps looking at the calender and counting down each day as it gets closer! LOL

This past Saturday she went to her first school event. They had a Halloween Party/Dance at the school. She had a blast hanging out with her classmates and dancing and doing crafts. So for almost 4 hours my little girl "partied" with her pals.

The only thing missing is her laser gun!

Dancing the night away.

We went pumpkin picking earlier in the week and on Friday we carved the pumpkins.

Heading home with our goodies.

The artist hard at work.

Posing with the finished products. The little one in front was for her babies. She "helped" them draw pictures and a face on it. LOL

Hope everyone is well.

Michelle

Today Megan went to a classmates birthday party. ( first of many i expect) The party was held in a place in Providence called Regal Reptiles. Yes...alligators...snakes..turtles and the like. At first i wasn't too keen on the idea but i figured when ever in my lifetime would i be able to get up close to these kinds of creatures and pet them. Yes i said pet them. I actually got to feel an alligator....felt sort of like a wallet. LOL The afternoon was definitely interesting and fun for the kids. Megan's ready to go back again!



This is the alligator everyone got to pet....small but strong!



She was the only kid in the group who wanted to wear the snake around her neck. I think the reason why was as the story goes back in ancient Egypt the pharaohs wore these kids of snakes as living jewelry because they would stay curled up in the person. Megan has a HUGE fascination with ancient Egypt.



This is part of a really big snake that was laid over all the laps of the kids. The head was to the left of the picture down 2 kids.






So that was our big and exciting day. Like i said...it was different but a pretty good time. Who knows where the next birthday party will take us before Megan has hers in December. She choose to do Monster Golf. That place is cool.



Time to pack it up for the night.

Later all.

I think i have finally settled on a color scheme and layout for this blog!

This whole change over is gonna be slow getting used to. I feel so lost. I have been reading journals on AOL for a few years and have gotten to "know" quite a few people out there. Recently i decided to take the plunge and create my own to share back to the people i knew...as to who i was. Then they pull this crap. Oh well...just gotta roll with it. Crying over change isn't gonna put thinks back to the way they were.

So onward!

This week i have been preparing to post some stuff on Ebay. Megan has a TON of clothes that are just sitting in storage so i might as well see if i can make a few extra bucks. Also if anyone knows of someone that might need girl clothes i will gladly ship them to that person. I have everything from baby clothes right on up to size 4/5. i whole heartedley believe in giving to those who are in need.

Oh...if anyone is confused as to why i have a picture of a chinchilla for my picture on here....it was my nickname at work from a co-worker friend of mine. Not sure why...but he thought it was cute. I also have that picture on my My Space page. I really don't have many pictures of me...and those that i do have i REALLY don't like. I do have one of me and my husband a his promotional ceremony to LT. a few years back that i like. But i will have to scan it into the computer first to post it. Maybe next week i wil have him show me how to use the scanner.

Well time to pack up for the night...everyone have a good one.

So slowly i am finding all of my favorite people and adding them to my blog. I really don't underatand why AOL is just cutting off the journals like they are. AOL is certainly NOT what they used to be 10-15 years ago!!

I also started a new journal over at Live Journal. It's not a bad format to use but then agian i'm still a newbie to all of this blogging stuff.

I will be adding more to this journal later on.

Test mode

This is a test. If this was an actual emergency then i'm in real trouble! LOL