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Halloween 2009

Ian as Buzz Lightyear

Ben as Darth Vader

Leah as Princess Leia

Ben, Jacob as the Wolfman, Leah, Ian, My Husband as a Broncos Fan, me as a Burbank Police Officer (wearing my husband's old academy shirt with his patches and stuff, it was cool) and Connor as a Toddler because he decided to be scared of his Elmo costume. He had no problem trick or treating though.

Happy Halloween!

Sad state of affairs....

Ok well see, my lovely internet friend (that sounds bad, but... I don't know her in real life, though I'd love to, so creepy sounding or not, that's the only way to describe her) Susan from Friday Playdate wrote about the five movies she could watch two days in a row and then asked her readers which ones *we* would pick. And ya know? I don't know. Because I couldn't tell you which movies I'd watch *one* day in a row, because anymore, the only movies I watch belong to the kids.

So I could tell you which 5 kid movies I'd watch two days in a row (and mind you, in my house that means continually for two days). In fact I know I've watched these 8,234,786 days in a row. *sigh*

1) Toy Story
2) Bolt
3) Wall-E
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) Finding Nemo
5) Kung Fu Panda (it's a tie)

Except that we've lost all of these movies. Or they are so gummed up that they are unwatchable. We even lost the 2nd Transformers movie and we just got it. The Bermuda Triangle West, that's what I like to call our house.

Now then... if I could even *think* of movies that *I* like and would watch a couple days in a row....

Um.....

Errr.....

Well now... I'll have to get back to you on this one....

Your Mattress is FREEEEEEEEE!!

Ok so, the mattress wasn't free but look what my husband came home with last week, which was TOTALLY free:

Not the kids, naturally...though... they were free too come to think of it.

and also? This. My future purse:

HAHAHAHA JUST KIDDING. Now, don't eat me.

Anyway both the couch and the iguana (or giuana as the boys say it) were totally free thanks to a friend of my husband's who is moving up north. Awesome!

an apple a day....

Today we took a trip to yee olde apple farm to, you know, pick apples. Now due to my peculiarly Snow White life (married to Prince Charming, I have 7 dwarves...er kids, missing a heart, like to whistle whilst I work and I attract butterflies unnaturally) I tend to eschew apples. It's a chance I don't want to take. However, today was an exception. (I did it for the kids, what can I say). 

We drove an hour to the quaint little village of Tehachapi, CA (driving quickly through the not-so-quaint and quite-frankly-horror-movie-creepy town of Mojave. If you live in Mojave, I'm very sorry. Not sorry that I said that, but sorry that you live there! Yeesh! Spooky!). Knaus Apple Ranch is quite literally at the end of the road and I nearly ran into it actually looking for it but I didn't and I'm glad 'cos it's a super cute little place and I would have hated to put a hole in their fence.

We got a little lesson about apples, some apple pieces to taste test (again, something I was exceptionally cautious about)... very good btw. Red and golden delicious and really nothing like the varieties you get in the store. Then we got to pick some (limit 6 per kid due to early apple shortage). So we left with 24 apples, 2 apple turnovers and 2 apple cakes.

If you live in the area, I highly recommend a visit, though right now you'd pretty much have to buy your apples in their little store due to the aforementioned apple shortage. But it was worth the drive.

Oh and everything was short. The buildings, the house, the barn, the trees in the orchard: short. Not the people though, they were normal sized.

                                                         Be patient. It takes a few to get to the apples.

Do NOT look at my arms:

You looked didn't you. UGH!

The Sun. It burrrrrrrrrns.

The Sun. Still burning.

Told you the trees were short.

Enjoying the fruits of his labors.

Pamper yourself while helping others

This holiday season, pamper your feet, pamper someone else's feet (or both) and I'll donate 10% of my profits to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (Susan G. Komen for the Cure).  Contact me to order: Here 

Pampermint foot care set: Foot scrub, foot cream and toasty warm socks, $44 retail, plus s & h, etc.