Happy Halloween!

Here are a few of our favorite pumpkin carving pictures. I think we got a little lazy (or we'll say, cost efficient) this year with only two pumpkins! Check out the Pumpkin Party going on over at We are THAT family!

Oh, and here is my one little pumpkin carving tip: Instead of cutting the top off to get inside, we cut a hole in the bottom and then just set the pumpkin right over the top of the candle. That way you don't have to worry about the lid dropping inside!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!

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Fit Friday - Week 3, or whatever week it is!

I started out so well this week. I went to 1-hour classes at the gym on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I feel so good when I get done. (I totally hate it while I'm there!) My plan was to go all 5 days. Yes, that would have been exceeded my goal, and I'm all about that, however I started feeling icky again yesterday. Dizzy, lightheaded and achy. I decided I better not push it. Instead I took a hot bath at 6:00 last night and got right into bed. Still feeling weird today, so I 'm skipping the gym today too. I'm a little bummed, but at least I did still get in my 3 days! That makes me happy.

As far as how I did this week:

• Still no soda, oh believe me, there were several times that I put my hand on the little fridge and then read the note!

• No seconds on meals

• I even left food on my plate a few times - this step is hard for me, since I totally hate to waste food

• I DID eat 2 peanut butter cups this week(not the same day) - Darn Halloween candy! When does the candy witch come???

• I ate healthy snacks (except the pb cups!) Here is one of my new favorites:
  Max calls them "Sunshine seeds!" Isn't that cute! Yes, they are salted, but when you buy them at the store, look at several bags because some bags don't look as salty as others, I did try to get one with less salt. Oh, and they do have just roasted, but I am SO a salt person.

• I drank water, but still need to drink more

• I also bought a battery for my scale, I know I said it wasn't about a number for me, but I got a little curious.

• Oh, and here's the biggy! I did have some "mommy drinks!" And they were soooo good. I will try harder next week to try not to have as many.

• I only ate after 8:00 pm one night. That's pretty good!

So there it is! Week 3 wasn't too bad, but week 4 is going to be great! Hop on over the Missy @ It's Almost Naptime to check in on everyone else!

From Hayley's eyes....

This has been in the works for a while now. I just got the pictures from Brenda! Hayley, thanks for writing this and for being so patient. Great job!



Hello, blog friends. I'm Hayley and Traci has asked me to write the entry for this because I have been nagging at her about it forever. I hope you enjoy it. A few weeks ago my junior high youth group was going to a concert. My friend Cori and I were really excited. We were expecting to see a whole bunch of youth when we got to the church but all we saw was a bunch of little kids and their parents. Now don't get me wrong I love each and everyone of them but I was looking forward to spend a night with my age group. When we found out that some of the kids were going we got kind of disappointed and I started second guessing if I wanted to go because there was more people not in youth than that are in youth. It was really nice of our leaders to ask us if we still wanted to go but we went anyways. So all of us including: Traci, Brenda, Connor, Kate, Mike, Lily, Cori, and I all piled in and headed off. By the way Brenda's husband Chris was meeting us there. Something that was really cool was when we got there we were kind of confused about where to go but we got help from this man who turned out to be from the opening act. They were from a group called Two Cent Offering. They were really good and they seemed super nice. It sounded like it was like a new kind of Christian music even though it wasn't. Plus Traci and I have crushes on them. While we got refreshments they started setting up for the main band called Remedy Drive. When they started playing Kate and Connor got scared because they are much louder than the opening act. They ended up leaving with their dad Chris. Remedy Drive was awesome they are a rock and roll Christian group. Even though I couldn't hear what they were saying and I couldn't even hear myself after they were done it was still an amazing concert. After Remedy Drive was done Cori and I wanted to get pictures and I wanted autographs. We kind of chickened out but then Brenda asked for us so we got pictures with our two favorite guys from Remedy Drive, we weren't able to get the pictures with the guys from Two Cent Offering, and I never got my autographs but oh well. On our way home we stopped at Steak 'n' Shake to get milkshakes. Cori and I ended up having a great time. Everyone in the car could tell because we didn't stop talking or laughing the whole ride home. Plus we made up the best jokes ever. To all the junior high youth that didn't come, YOU MISSED OUT!!!!! Enjoy these pics from our great time.

Cori & Hayley

Cori, Traci & Hayley

Just being goofy!

What's his name again???

The lead singer dude!