Halloween 2009

Halloween this year was pretty uneventful. Tristen's friend was hosting a Halloween party so he went to that. Colby didn't want a costume but had his mind set on a baseball mask that ge saw last year. We couldn't find it this year (I'm sure it didn't help that we shopped 3 days before Halloween), so he opted for paint and hair color. Here is the result of his baseball face. Looks kinda like a zombie. Jason decided to dress up as a greasy farmer (chainsaw, wheelbarrow and all were in the front yard) with some random stuff he found around the house. The overalls were from a drama class project for Tristen. Lol!

Colby went trick or treating around our neighborhood with some of his friends, while Jason and I sat in the front yard and passed out candy. After the trick or treaters died down, we enjoyed the fire pit in the backyard. The boys love it and I'm sure it will get plenty of use.

Oh the house was decorated, but I failed to take pictures before we took down all of the decorations yesterday. Oh well! We had spiderwebs on all the windows, Frankenstein in the yard, and ghosts and spiders hanging from the tree. We forgot to do our pumpkins this year! OOps! :)

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Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving came and went a week ago. Our Thanksgiving was very low-key, but enjoyable. Since there really is not point in posting about it now and we really didn't do any very exciting, I'll just post what we are thankful for. With the state of the economy and all of the other stresses, we are a very lucky and blessed family.

• Our jobs - With myself being in the banking industry and Jason being in the automotive industry, with are both very fortunate to have not been HARD hit by the tough economic times. At Jason's previous dealership, they laid of both techs and advisors this week. Jason fortunately has been fairing pretty well at work and making good money (his pay is pretty much straight commission without having to go into a long drawn out explanation.
• Our healthy family
• Our home
• Our surrounding family
• Our marriage
• Our friends (even though we don't get to see some of them as much as we'd like)

Even though it is late, I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Halloween @ The Hoppers

Our first Halloween in our new house was a success. Here are some pics of our decorations. We had a large pumpkin that stood about 8ft tall in the front yard, but was demolished by the wind about a week and 1/2 ago. Jason says that he is going all out next year with black lights, strobe lights, etc.

Those would be ghosts hanging in the tree.

Our celestial pumpkins were a success, and we received TONS of compliments on them all night. They were by so much easier than carving a pumpkin. Tristen's pumpkin says 'BOO' and Colby's pumpkin says 'Leave!'.

Colby was the scary guy and Tristen was the ninja.

Updates....

Kiddo Update - Boys are done w/their 2nd 6 weeks of school. Time is flying by! Colby made all A's!!!! :-) Tristen had all A's and B's! We are very proud of both of the boys! We hope the trend continues. Colby had a charity baseball tournament this past weekend. Although his team didn't fair too well, it was all for a great cause - Toys for Tots. Colby has been getting some experience catching and we hope to see him play catcher more when the Spring season starts back up.

We've slowly started the house search. We are currently toying with the idea of building. We've looked at a couple of communities online, but we haven't physcially gone out to the communities yet. To try and time it right, we would need to start building in March. Right now, we are looking in the Frisco area.

Christmas is finally upon us and we've had our house decorated since before Thanksgiving. I cannot wait to be in a house and have more room to spread out all of my decorations. I told my sister-in-law that I was going to have to start a 'Christmas decoration' savings account so I can go all out! I'm hoping to find a few good deals this year after the holidays. I have most of the boys' shopping done, but have not had much luck buying for Jason. I've purchased one thing and have a few other things I plan to purchase for him, but I cannot figure out his 'big' gift. So frustrating!

Thanksgiving

Well, Thanksgiving is finally upon us. The fall weather is arriving here just in time. I'm stuck at work today and wish I would've taken today off. I originally had planned on taking today and Friday off. With my change in position though, I opted to work today and have time off at Christmas instead. I'm sure I could've taken today off as well, but oh well, it is a little late now.

I went shopping last weekend for me some new work clothes for my new position. I'm so horrible b/c I go shopping for myself, but end up w/more clothes for the boys (when they really don't need any more clothes). The Children's Place was having an awesome sale and so I couldn't pass up clothes for $2.99/each. I got them each 2 shirts and a pair of camo pants for $2.99/each. The hoodies were orginally $19.50, but were marked down to $14.99 + another 30% off of that, so they were $10.49. I love finding good deals. Too bad I couldn't find any awesome deals for me. I did find some stuff at Banana Republic and everything in their store in Grapevine Mills Mall was 40% off. Too bad Banana was my last stop on the way out and I was exhausted, otherwise I probably could've found some more stuff. I might venture out on Black Friday, but I doubt it.

We are putting up the Christmas tree tonight and I can't wait. I already have wrapped presents to put under the tree and more presents to wrap. All of the clothes I bought for the boys last weekend are the presents for under the tree. Their new baseball bags should be in by Friday. I'm hoping to get them embroidered this weekend and get them wrapped as well. I have NO idea what I'm getting Jason. He won't give me any good ideas. Apparently he already knows what he is getting me. I have no clue though.