No Pictures, But Fun

For some reason I always feel like I have to have a picture to post with each entry. Things happen, great things, but I don't write about them because I don't have a picture to prove that it really happened! So here's a post, without a picture, because I just feel like documenting the fun I have.

My sister-in-law, Amy recently celebrated her 30th birthday. We decided to have a girls night out on Friday night, and leave the kiddos home with the daddies. The 5 of us girls set out for a night of scrapbooking. Let me just say that I don't really love scrapbooking, but I DO love spending time with my sisters. And, I love the end result of a scrapbook...my pictures together in one place rather than a shoe box or shopping bag. I've probably mentioned before, my lack of creativity and talent for scrapbooking. I usually copy people's pages, and still, they don't end up as I had hoped. As much as I stressed while scrapbooking (it's hard to sit there next to my sisters who produce these amazing pages) I have not laughed that much in a very long time. We all got together at Archiver's which has a crop mania (or scrap mania, or something like that) on Friday nights from 5-11pm. For a small fee you get to use their tables, die cut machines, stamps...whatever, plus they feed you dinner. And of course you have access to the store where you can charge up a bill throughout the night and then experience shock at the end of the night when you have to actually pay the bill. (Don't worry, my bill was small...I refrained which is easy when you don't know what most of the tools and products are!!). They also give out prizes throughout the night...stickers, stamps, ribbon...So anyways, I just laughed with my sisters and enjoyed every minute of our scrap night. We were by far the loudest group there, and we even worried we would be kicked out or asked to never return again. We were just having so much fun, it's hard to hold back laughter when you get together with such nutty family! I even won the grand prize at the end of the night which was a scrapbooking wallet that I have no idea what I'm going to do with! I just love my sisters.

Yesterday we had a Halloween party with Kevin's family. It was at his parent's house and I was in charge of the food. I asked his mom to make her delicious potato chowder, and I bought some pumpkin shaped bread bowls. I spent Sunday night and all day Monday in the kitchen. I neglected Rylan but he was such a trooper and mostly let me get things done. He helped me with a few things, including shaping the Witches Fingers which turned out so creepy that several people refused to eat them. We also made Mummy Pizzas, Monster Eyeballs, Mummy Toes, Pumpkin Brains, Spider Bean Dip, Spooky Sushi, and the list goes on. Sadly I forgot my camera, but Kev's dad snapped a few photos that I will hopefully be able to post later. I absolutely love food. I don't necessarily enjoy cooking dinner every night, but party food is great! Maybe I just love the reaction, especially from kids..."I dare you to eat the finger" or "Ewww gross, Lukey just ate an eyeball". Isn't it great how every holiday has some sort of food related to it? That must mean that we, as humans, live to eat, rather than eat to live, right?? Ok, ok, maybe it wasn't meant to be that way and through so much enjoyment we have just made it that way. But, oh what fun can be had when people get together to EAT! Aubrey and Mary put together some crafts and games for the kids to keep them occupied and entertained while the adults chatted and relaxed. I think I should have a Halloween party every year.

Rylan just woke up from his nap. From the neglect the last couple days I deemed today Rylan's day. We spent a long time at the park this morning, we read books, played outside...what will he choose now? Whatever it is, I'm sure we'll have fun :)