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The Girls and I Voted

November 3, 2008 by Jennifer 6 Comments

Did you vote yet? We did the early voting experience here in NC, so we wouldn’t have to wait in line. Hubbs went and voted for the first time in his life and my parents voted for the first time in about 20 years. I will be saying my prayers on this nice election eve that God will have his hands in this election and may he pick the one that he would like to guide us in this country!

The girls were sooooo excited to get to experience their first voting polls. Once we stepped out of our little area, I just had to snap a pict. Our stickers say “I voted”! I think its important to get your children involved and explain to them why you are voting and why did you pick your particular candidate which by the way was McCain for us :).

GO VOTE. Make your voice be heard!!!! I will be glued to the TV all day tomorrow that’s for sure.

Weight Watchers Here We Come

November 2, 2008 by Jennifer 8 Comments

And yes… I could care less we are entering the Holiday season with all the most awesome food ever. I am hitting the weight watchers train with my buddy Cindy. I know we can motivate each other to get to our goals where we need to be.

After trying on about 6 different dresses/skirts this morning and seeing my body so unflattering, yea I think that’s all it took :(. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes. I’m actually pretty darn excited about this as I know so many people around me that has had such great results.

Let’s get this train started… oh and let me put it in overdrive so it can go super lightning fast WOOT WOOT 🙂

Week of Halloween Fun

November 1, 2008 by Jennifer 3 Comments

Yes, we celebrated Halloween all week long. I love this time of year and love to get out of the house just to have just good ole family fun. Relax and enjoy our little photo journey.

We started out the fun filled week with our annual festival in town. It was really really cold, but that’s not going to stop us ;).

M … I love her facial expression here in the dark house in town.

L enjoying one of the festival games. The pumpkin was big as her.

M coloring us a picture to put on our fridge.

The next day we enjoyed some time after church at the pumpkin patch.

L was having an absolute blast running through all the pumpkins.

Then I told them to pick out which pumpkin they wanted… I thought this would be easy haha. The looks on their faces and them trying to find the best one was just priceless.

After much thought into this pumpkin picking, they finally picked their prize pumpkins.

Phew… now on to carving them. What a hoot this was! We started out with templates from a book, but yea errrr… guess our carving skills were not up to date. Dang carving school kicked us out too early ;). We decided to do a little freehanding!

I think we did pretty good job! This led us to midweek at our library where we could brave the cold once more for the BOO Fest. We did us some walking, downing the apple cider, and left there with overflowing bags of goodies. The best part was the girls just having some good ole fun seeing everyone dressed up.

This was the day after it snowed… soo yes we were bundled up.

We finally reached the big day! Happy Halloween. Of course we did it family style with our good friends the McGuire’s.

Our town was so packed due to the big college football game (yes we live in a college town), but we managed to smooth our way through several activities. We went to a Church Festival, Mall Festival, Fire Dept Trunk or Treat, and then our own Church Trunk or Treat. The night was tipped off by a football celebration with the McGuire’s at their house to see our hometown team kick booty 70 to 24. What a game!!!!

Here is a couple picts of the Halloween finale!

We are on a high from the fun week and trying to bottle some that excitement as we go into the Month of November. I love Thanksgiving WOOT WOOT and the Christmas Music that has already started. Such wonderful music to my ears.

Our First Snow Day of the School Year

October 30, 2008 by Jennifer 5 Comments

WHAT? You say! Yep its only October, but we have already had our first snow day. I thought M would be a little sad since she loves school so much, but once I showed her outside what was falling from the sky… she was yelling WOOHOOOO!

Look at the blast they were having.

We missed out on this a lot last year in Florida, so hopefully we will make a great comeback this year. A funny from M.

Mommy: Gosh snow already, I bet this will be a bad winter.

M: Mommy I think it is going to be a good winter since we are already getting lots of snow.

HAHAHAHA… she always is cracking me up. L loved going out in the snow this year as well. She used to say it was too cold and would not stay out long, but she did this time YAY :). I see lots of sledding, making snowmen and whipping up some homemade snowcream in our future.

30 Days To Natural

October 28, 2008 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

It’s been a big change over the last few years, but my family goes greener a bit by bit each day. Our goal is to be pretty much an all green family sometime in the near future including a Solar Panel House.

Going green really means a lot to myself and so happy to have my hubbs on board with me. Even our girls stop and think before doing things now. I know there are so much more we can do though to go more green.

A few months ago I started using the Clorox Green Cleaner. Yea I pretty much heart that stuff SOOOOO MUCH. You have to know I was so thrilled to hear they were coming out with a site of 30 Days to Natural. It includes daily tips for 30 days to help your family go green. I am so stoked to start receiving my tips and sharing them with my family. I truely encourage you to sign up and do the same for your family. You do know, what we do now to go more green, is going to help our children and grandchildren when they get older. :).

So without delay go now… and sign up. Let me know how you are enjoying the tips and if you signed up 🙂

:::CHEERS:::: (us clanging our glasses) to a better world. We can all change it one person at a time!

Jennifer

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