LOOKING FOR A NEW LOOK !!

You will have to bear with me over the next few days.....

I'm shopping for a new look for my blog. I'm looking for something that I can interchange seasonal pictures and backround with.

So over the course of the next week or so if you see that it changes daily don't be surprised!

I PAID A $1.67 FOR GAS LASTNIGHT !!!!!

HOW COOL IS THAT !!

ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED !!

THE TRAINING WHEELS ARE OFF !!!!

i will share pictures later!

GIRLS GONE WILD !! sort of !!

I'm home from my scrapbook weekend with my girlfriends and the weekend went off without a hitch.......

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well, that isn't really how it happened.

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we had a slight "run-in" with the law.

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seems the park manager has a small penis and felt that he needed to push his weight around in order to make himself feel more like a man.

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let me just say that i've NEVER had a run in with the law in all of my adult life so this threw me for a loop.

what we have always done in the past for my two friends that get there after the park has closed is drive up to the gate and trip the bar and they can drive right in. Now, keep in mind that I learned this little move because I witnessed others doing the same thing. Does that make what we did right? Probably not but it wasn't like I had just robbed a bank or anything. right??? Besides the Park Rangers knew we had late arrivals coming......

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as it happens, Sue called me to say she was at the front gate and could I come get her. I hop in my truck to drive up there.....in the meantime she calls again to tell me that this man comes out of the house at the gate yelling and screaming that she is trespassing and that she is now going to be detained......so don't go anywhere! He said he was a police officer and he was going to go call his park ranger and get to the bottom of this. Then he approached me.....he was offended when I asked him if he had a badge....he didn't like that question.....after yelling at me when I was trying to explain the situation he told me that tomorrow he would talk to his rangers and if he found that at any time I had lied to him then we would be evicted. When I hadn't responded to this comment right away he told me...."got you thinking didn't I ? " I responded, no....you really aren't listening to me so I'm not going to waste my breath with a response......what I really wanted to say was SHUT UP and stop acting like my FIVE YEAR OLD !! I mean, come on....what was he going to do? Put me in treehouse jail?

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well, as it turns out he let Sue in and later Joni and I must say that the four of us had lots of fun at his expense. Our husbands have vowed to "get to the bottom of this" which is nice of them and honestly I would expect it from my husband....... But to tell the truth I was proud of how us girls handled ourselves. We had every right to be there....we had paid our fee to be there..... I was shocked with how I responded to this guy.....I didn't back down.....I wasn't timid....and I didn't cry in front of him. That came later.

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on Saturday afternoon we got a visit from the park manager with his tail between his legs. he told us he was sorry for the misunderstanding and that the next time we come........sorry mister, there isn't going to be a next time.....we are shopping for a new hangout!

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now as for my scrapbooking? I had a very productive weekend. I'm caught up with Aubrey's book and started one of my cruise vacations books. I feel good with my progress and I left the weekend refreshed......I actually slept in on Sunday!

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I've learned that I would probably do anything for my friends in a time of crisis and I'm sure they would return the favor for me.

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thank you for reading my ramblings....hope it doesn't confuse you!! I'm not the best story teller anyway.

A MUCH NEEDED WEEKEND AWAY!

In a few short hours I will be packing up the truck with enough food, clothing and scrapbook supplies to spend the entire weekend away from home.

A much needed little retreat where I'll get to spend grown up time with my friends Joni, Rebecca and Sue. Scrapping, eating, snacking and talking into the wee hours of the night.

A weekend where I will hopefully get caught up on my scrapbooking.......or at least make a dent in them.

From Friday at 3:00 till Sunday Noon I will be in a calm and peacefull place.......well, maybe not to peaceful if we get Rebecca laughing!

This will be the third time we have rented this cabin out at Scott County Park for the weekend. No Boys No Kids !! We each bring a meal to share, snacks and munchies are also required. We also each pack up our drivables to the gills with enough scrapbook supplies that you would think we are running away from home. We do sleep....some more then others.

Catching up on our scrapbooking is the "main" reason we get together like this twice a year......but if truth be told we could probably leave the scrap supplies at home and just spend the weekend telling stories, sitting by the fire and we would be prefectly happy. It is our weekend to not be mothers or wifes, our weekend to escape from the everyday hassles of life.

It is our weekend!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM !!

Hope you are enjoying your day in the sunny south!!

We love you!

Aubrey wore a cute little halloween skirt and tshirt to school the day before halloween......she was also SO excited that I let her wear her black boots with the outfit!!

We carved pumpkins on Tuesday night.....this is the first year that I think she actually didn't mind getting her hands down in the pumpkin gunk. She cleaned out two of the four pumpkins by herself.

Above: Aubrey and Maddie head up to someones door to trick r' treat. The neighborhood was FULL of kids...... I estimate that we had 320 - 350 kids this year.

Below: Caden is batman, Maddie is Cinderella (a costume I had made for Ashton about 8 years ago.), neighbors Morgan is a black cat and Logan a Starwars "thing" .... sorry, not really up on my Starwars terminology! AND of course the costume Aubrey picked for this year is Belle from Beauty and the Beast! One of grandma Hilbrant's FAVORITE costumes to make!!

On Friday Aubrey got to wear her costume at school. They put them on at the end of the day and had a parade through the school and also thourgh the nursing home next door to the school.

After the parade each classroom had their own halloween party.