Yes I'm still here!!! barely but still here. We've had a crazy past few weeks. I kept waiting to blog until I had some pictures to share.....and well you know how that goes.

So I'll start with a picture :) This is Mitchells pumpkin, I'm sure with the cleaver you could've figured it out!!

The boys always have a great time carving the pumpkins!

OK so I'm not sure how to place these pictues where I want them......above on the right is Brian helping Matty with his makeup. Matty designed his costume all by himself. He also drew Brian a picture of how he wanted his makeup and checked it often to make sure Brian was following his directions!

and here they are......my nerd and my monster!!! aren't they adorable!!!

now fast forward to my 40th birthday!!! we took the boys and headed to Chicago to spend a couple days at the Museum of Science and Indstry....I know about this time you're thinking, not a far stretch for Mitchell to be a nerd for Halloween!! well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree ;-) here are my guys with one of their heros...

My yummy cake!! it was as good as it looks too!!

Matty was the super star last week in class. Mitchell came down and joined me to watch him talk about himself to his class. Mitchell is standing on the right.

well not much else has been doing on here. We're trying to figure out where and how we might put up a Christmas tree...if we don't figure it out soon it won't be an issue!! Most of our shopping is done, this is a pretty light year gift wise. Kids have way too much they sure don't need more. They're getting a few big items and that'll do them just fine.

The boys and I have been busy getting the house nice and clean. Last week we went room by room each day after school. It was great they were such good helpers.....probably because they had to work off not going to swimming!! We all agreed Mitchell's room was by far the worst!! Today they were supposed to work on the playroom while I worked in my scraproom (which really IS the worst room in the house) but the boys caught me surfing the net and said it wasn't fair for them to be working while I wasn't.......so because I'm so UNmotivated to get my scraproom cleaned and organized I did some laundry inbetween surfing, shopping and catching up on my blog reading while they played all day. it was a win win situation.......well except for the playroom and my scraproom are still a mess!!!

Brian spent 11 hours at the library today!! his classes end on Wed.....until next semester! I'm so proud of him, I think there were several times he really wanted to quit. But he didn't and he'll be glad when he's done.

I hope everyone is feeling the spirit!!