A few good deals....

Last week I went to Target and their whole Christmas section was 90% off! I got a 3' silver, tinsel Christmas tree in a silver pot for $1.99. Over the Christmas season, I was loving the tinsel trees. This one will go great with my new collection---before Christmas I bought a mini silver tinsel tree and also a red one. I also scored a funky, silver wreath for $2.49.

Something else for you Boise girls. There is a Joann's Fabrics superstore opening next to Cost Plus in March so they are closing down the store on Fairview and Five Mile (maybe others too, but I'm not sure). They are having some great sales. One great deal I got was an $11.99 Simplicity pattern for $1.99. I took Matthew with me so we didn't last long in there. I am going to try and go back next week.

Halloween

The kids had a lot of fun this year--especially Sophia. She was very gung-ho with the whole Trick-or-Treating thing. We did one big loop around our neighborhood with our neighbors who have twins. The kids got a lot of candy which I'm not sure what we are going to do with. Sophia really wanted Chris and I to dress up so at the last minute I put pig tails in my hair and threw on a baseball hat. Sophia took one look at me and said, "Mom, I like your hair, but you need to go put a dress on." And to her dismay, I didn't put on a dress, I stayed in my jeans and sweatshirt. She's all about the dresses :)

Since having kids, I wasn't sure what I thought about Trick-or-Treating, but have decided it is a great way to meet neighbors and strike up some good conversation. Here are some pictures of the kids.

Matthew on the run (okay, not the best picture, but you try and photograph a 17 month old in a tiger costume!)

Pretty Fairy Princess...

And after many failed attempts of a perfect portrait of the two of them together, this is what we got!

It's time to party!

Today was Sophia's Halloween party at school----here are some highlights...

The Frankenstein heads Sophia and I made for her party.
Sophia and a few of her classmates.

Sttttrrrrike!

Fishing for goodie bags.

Decorating her mini pumpkin.

The finished product!

Sophia's First Field Trip

Sophia had her first field trip last week. She went to Linder Farms with her class (Matthew and I joined her too). We had a lot of fun! Here are a few pictures....

Sophia surveying the pumpkin patch.

Hey! This looks like a good one!

Matthew enjoyed looking at all of the pumpkins too...

Sophia and Teacher Karen...

Matthew has a good dialing finger!

I am taking a sewing class on Monday nights for the next 6 weeks so Chris was home last night by himself with the kids. I was only gone for 3 hours but there was quite the drama in a short period of time. As soon as I walked in the door he told me that something happened that he had never before seen in his life happen that evening. He told me that the incident involved Matthew. I was assuming there was blood involved and maybe a slight head injury or something because I always assume the worse. Thankfully that was not the case. Chris was busy doing something and Matthew was playing with the cordless phone. Matthew was busy pushing the buttons on the phone and called 911. Can you believe that? What are the odds? Seriously....So, Chris heard the dispatcher say "911, what is your emergency?" He grabbed the phone, but Matthew had already hung it up. Immediatley after that our phone rang and it was the dispatcher asking what our emergency was. Chris had to explain that Matthew was playing with the phone and accidentally dialed 911. She then hastily said she would cancel the dispatch. Pretty crazy---you hear of that happening, but I've never personally known that to happen to anyone that I know. Now thanks to our son we can say that kids accidentally calling 911 really does happen. I can't wait to tell him that story when he gets older...

Remember when....

Remember when you were in labor and how it all went down?

How long were your labors?
Sophia - 11 hours
Matthew - about 4 1/2 hours

How did you know you were in labor?
Sophia - I started having contractions at home while waiting for Chris and my mom to pick up my sandwich for me at Subway.
Matthew - I was induced.

Where did you deliver?
Sophia - St. Luke's (downtown)
Matthew - St. Luke's (downtown)

Drugs?
Sophia - had an epidural as soon as I could!
Matthew - waited as long as I could, and finally caved~had him a 1/2 hour later after the epidural was administered (at least it took the edge off!)

C-Section?
Nope (on both).

Who delivered?
Sophia - Dr. Carlson
Matthew - same

I got this from another blog and was told to pass this on---! So go for it! I want some details (nothing too gory though please) :)

St. Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration

We almost didn't walk this year, but at the last minute I changed my mind and decided we would do it again! This was Sophia's 3rd year participating...and my 7th? I think (???) It was raining horribly on Saturday morning (not to mention there was thunder and lightening), but we went for it. We met Emily downtown at the race. It is the nation's largest 5k walk/run for women. Surprisingly Sophia did really well. I didn't even bring the jogger stroller! She walked most of the way (with a little help from Emily and myself carrying her off and on). Sophia was a real trooper. We were soaked at the end---seriously, literally soaked! I had my camera in my backpack in a plastic baggie but it still got wet and now doesn't work....so there are no pictures to post. Note to self: take camera in to be fixed. Next year should even be better since Sophia will be 5 years old. I am glad we ended up doing it again this year---it has been fun to start a mother/daughter tradition with her at an early age :)