"Fall" Thoughts...

I hate Fall...and today I began listening to Christmas Music on XM. I decided to put up Christmas Decorations tonight. Except I also hate Daylight Savings so I have been taking to going to bed about 8:00pm. I would go to bed at 7:00 but that would make me seem to lazy!

Anyways since I have decided Fall is over I will say that I think I am obsessed with Pumpkins.

I think about them all the time and want to have them.

I want gourds, white ones, antique ones, huge ones and all of the small ones, ornamental,foam, or ceramic... are all good.

Since I regularly deny myself things I really really want I did not purchase all of the pumpkins I wanted. Thus leaving me obsessed with them.

Next year I am planting my whole back acre in pumpkins and gourds. Maybe I will sell them.

I hate Fall!!

YES THAT IS A TOOTHBRUSH!!

Strange how when the toilet gets clogged no one did it! This morning we mysteriously woke up to a clogged and gross toilet. Since I am apparently the only one who knows how to use a plunger I plunged our problem. Paige seemed fascinated with this process and several minutes later I found her using the plunger and the toilet brush. Gross!!
The second time I went in the bathroom to tell her "No, No, Ca ca, Yucky" I saw what she had done...
You can only see two of the cars in the toilet... there were four, and Shani's toothbrush. (Shani's bathroom drawer is her favorite, many lip glosses, chap sticks, toothpaste, bows and other goodies.)
Shani told me later that she had even been brushing her teeth lately... with that toothbrush. I guess she is implying that brushing was an option and she recently had made it a habit. My kids are kind of sick! Nonetheless all items were retrieved. Time to start closing the lids!!

If I Can Not Do Great Things, I Can Do Small Things in a Great Way

My Dear Friend Passed away last Wednesday Night...
Ann Hale was one of the first people I met when we moved to Socorro NM 5 years ago.
We were like Mutt and Jeb. She is 6 feet 1 inch and I am 5 feet 5 inches. We started teaching Drug Prevention Classes in the Middle School and continued our work with youth for the next 5 years. Although Ann is 9 years my senior we found much in common. She grew up in Whiteriver Arizona, My best camping memories are of Whiteriver.
She loved the Arizona Wildcats as do I. She played basketball at MCC... I attended MCC.
So the similarities were a stretch. Nonetheless I enjoyed a co-dependent, enabling, close -distant tumultuous relationship with this powerful, and gentlewoman.
I attended her Memorial on Saturday and my eyes have still not recovered.
Lesson learned... I will pay more attention to relationships. I guess in the end that is all you have.
She will be missed.

Tweedle Bugs and Snow

This morning we woke up to this... Coldy, Coldy!

Here are a few pics of Halloween. Paige was a Tweedle Bug/Butterfly. Very Cute!

I am at a loss for words lately so just enjoy the pics.

FaLL FesTiVaL

When Lee is off of work I always feel like we have to do something. My idea of something is usually clean the house, rake the tumbleweeds out of the yard, clean out the garage or something like that. However this weekend it was my idea to ride the quads AND go to the Fall Festival and pick pumpkins. Riding was not that fun since Trey refuses to use his brakes and just runs into people and things. Shani is afraid to go up any hills and goes very slow.

Anyways back to the PumPKin PaTcH. Lee surprisingly just wanted to go to Safeway or the Kmart Parking lot but I insisted and we were off to Aztec.

When we finally got there I was much dismayed that we had to pay to get in!! You can't even just buy pumpkins!? They made you go on a HayRiDe to the PumPKin PaTch. Even though the pumpkins were about $15 each it was worth it. The kids and Lee had a great time picking the best pumpkin.

Another treat for Trey especially was the corn pit. He dirtied himself and played forever. Paige did not like that stuff on her clothes and much preferred the SpriTe BottLe and the chickens.

Ty shot corn at a target and ShAnI got her face painted. Lee said it felt like DisneyLand for PumpKins. Pretty close. But I thought it was fun. First time I liked spending money.

Come play with me...

Shane has never really liked dolls, babies, kids, anything that takes effort. But she loves Paige. She plays dress up with her, plays on the trampoline, teases her, and reads to her. I shouldn't be but I am always so surprised at how attached she is to Paige. Here are a couple of snapshots of them playing. I know in a couple of years when Shani is raging in her teen years I will long for these days!

Angel's Peak in the Morning

Seems like the most meaningful time I spend with Trey is in the morning when I am waiting for the bus with him. The other morning he looked across our yard to the mesa's and mountains and said how beautiful they were. He described the colors of the sky and the mountains etc. Then before he hopped on the bus he said I am going to draw that. When he came home from school he had this picture. He drew it. I am surprised that a kid with the attention span of a gnat could transfer what he saw to this.