happy halloween...

from cinderella...

and her jellyfish...

our hayride...

at fulton farms...

where we get our pumpkins every year...

then, we have a campfire, which usually leads to a couple rounds of "chubby bunnies"...

{yeah...those are marshmallows}




and, just in case we didn't get enough pumpkins at the hayride (7!!!), our local fire station has a pumpkin giveaway...

this is...

absolutely incredible!
while doing a little blog-hopping, i happened across this site called Grosgrain...

anyway, this woman makes these fantastic children's dresses, costumes, and outfits, and GIVES THEM AWAY!

check out the Marie-Therese gown...

stunning, right?!??!

3 more things...

i never thought i'd hear...
1. "we just wiped a booger off my bed with a raisin"

or say...
2. "take your toe out of your sister's bowl"

or do...
3. "spit-shine" my daughter's face
{you know what i'm talking about...
and you know you've done it too!}

do they make...

baby carriers for 3 year-olds?

because...apparently, mine has to be with me at all times!

warning...

i've been scrapping...

look at all these layouts!
can you believe it???

some 12 x 12...




















some 8 1/2 x 11...








and a few 9 x 9...

perhaps...

when the laundry starts eating your children,
it's time to put it away...

and the homecoming queen is...

my cousin!

jackson and i took the girls to the game. jen, ("the queen"), had her own cheering section...my crew, her crew (my aunt, uncle, and cousins), my other aunt, and about a thousand rowdy teens screaming "we love you jen!"...

they announced the candidates, lined them up on the field, and we heard..."the 2008 homecoming queen is...Jennifer Schmitz"!

i was a flippin idiot...jumping and screaming and crying...
i probably would have been an embarassment if not for the fact that everyone else around me was doing the same! oh, and thank god for cell phones...how else could i have told EVERYONE i know in a matter of about 47 seconds??


isn't she gorgeous?!?!?

we went to the parade before the game...{nevermind the out-of-order sequence...it's backwards day - didn't you know?}
there's my stunning cousin and her escort...

and all the kiddos were "parachuting" off the curb with their candy bags {while their nervous nellie moms kept jerking them back since the traffic hadn't been stopped yet for the parade}...

and to my surprise...

I came upstairs (from my newly organized studio...i'll share pics eventually) to find jackson putting up the Halloween decorations.
go hubby!

no boys allowed...

found this on the girls' bedroom door the other day...

{daddy wasn't allowed in, but we had a rockin time!}