Done....finished.....

The kids' costumes are finally finished! All completed in 1 week....can you see and smell the smoke from my sewing machine and serger?!?!?! Here they are trying on their sets, Sydney wasn't in the mood to try hers on~go figure! Bruce insisted they should have tails too, so I quickly made some up to pin on their backsides!

3 inches!!!

It doesn't seem like a lot, in terms of measurement, but what a change 3 inches has made on Sydney! We let her get that much cut off the length of her hair. It was really had for Daddy to give the go-ahead, but she sure does look cute! And she really loves it, which is very important as well!





She wasn't thrilled about getting her pic taken with wet hair, but that was really the only opportunity we had last night.

A "Laugh Out Loud " for Friday!!!!!

A remedy for scratched CD's & DVD's

Check out this post by Samantha of The Handmade Dress. What a great tip!

We're going to Disney World!!!!!

Funny story.....Last week we got a flyer in the mail; certain dates in the value resorts in Disney were going to be $59 per night. I have never seen the prices so low, so I started dreaming about a vacation there, even though I know we cannot even think about going until our old house sells. It's been 3 years since we last went and I am so anxious to go again. I did check into flights, but let me tell you, the flight alone would cost more than our whole Disney vacation!

Anyway, when Bruce got home from work on Friday, I handed him the flyer. He looked at it and held it strangely in his hand (like he was going to tear it down the middle). He said "You know what I'm doing?" I replied "going to tear it up?". He then proceeded to tell me that, for some time now, he has been stashing away a little bit of money from each paycheck into an account~exclusively for Disney! He said he had enough saved for the vacation minus the flight!!!!! I was instantly in tears!!! He said he wanted to wait until my birthday to tell me, but the moment was too hard to pass! So needless to say, we booked the vacation the next day and we leave Friday, October 24th!!! We are driving down (we have driven to Disney twice before), staying 5 nights at a value resort, have 4 day park hopper tickets AND we are doing the Not-So-Scary Trick or Treating on the 30th!!!!!! I don't know who is more excited: the kids or us!!!! So the next few weeks will be busy, busy, busy!!!!!!

The Effects of IKE

This is a picture of our beautiful Riverfront Park. It is under water. The IL River crested this past weekend and this is how it looks now.