Wednesday, October 31, 2007

happy halloween!




I hope everyone had a good halloween! We had a good evening. I had today off so I spent the day recovering from my cold - sleeping late (12.5 hours!!!), reading, raking leaves, etc. It was colder today (high of 50) but still gorgeous outside - raking leaves always feels so autumnal doesn't it?
Our neighbor had told us that our street usually has 50-100 kids treat-or-treating, so I bought 8 bags of candy in anticipation. We had our first trick-or-treater around 6pm while we were still eating. I love the cute little kids who are too shy to say "trick-or-treat" without prompting from their dad. =) Our third trick-or-treater was our neighbor Fish - his prize was the free knife set we got when Jon ordered from Omaha Steaks - we figured he could use them for his camping trips.
Jon and I kept a tally of the trick-or-treaters (along with Ernie's help - he loved all the visitors!) - grand total?? 31. So we're left with a lot of candy - hopefully it will make it to our workplaces before we both gain 5 pounds!!
sugary wishes for all! =)

Monday, October 29, 2007

Naptime - Ernie pics



Our male kitty - hard at work on a Sunday afternoon.


Deal of the Week



I love the Grocery Game! Freebies from this week!


Sunday, October 28, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

October SNOW!!

First snow of the season - probably 3-4 inches. (it snowed quite a bit more after this pic!) The view of our deck from upstairs complete with our huge maple tree.

View of part of our backyard (and yellow-leaved maple!) along with our neighbor's pretty red tree.

Does anything say "fall" more than bright gold mums??

Our pretty red maple tree in the front yard - I love autumn colors against the snow!