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The boys have been really playing well together today. They even wanted to sleep together last night. And today while they were outside playing I caught them sitting on the 5 foot brick wall behind our house!! Little stinkers! Here are some pictures to make you smile. :)

Brrrr.....

This old house is DRAFTY! And the floors are soooo cold! I had to buy us all some warm, fuzzy houseshoes. :)

The Great Squirrel Rescue

Monday it got cool out (FINALLY FEELS LIKE FALL!!!) and rained cats and dogs.....and squirrels....all day. I heard this strange, loud sound and finally figured out it was coming from outside the boys bedroom. It ended up being a baby squirrel in distress. It was crying on and on. Apparently it had fallen from the pecan tree and landed on the chain link fence and was scared or disoriented and cold and wet.

I got a shoebox and raked it off the fence into the box (no, I didn't touch it). It quit crying so I got a towel for it to dry off with. NOW... remember, my husband is the enemy of all squirrels. According to him I was committing a gross act of treason by bringing this poor innocent squirrel into his home....home of The Squirrel Assassin. He demanded I get it out of the house before he put on a pot of dumplings in preparation for his meal of squirrel-n-dumplings. I quickly let him know just how comfortable our couch is for sleeping. Mind you, he's been home for several days with a hurt sholder and at this point, he has cabin fever and is increasingly annoying with each passing minute. Once we established the squirrel was not to be his next meal I added a few cracked acorns, pear slices, and sunflower seeds to the box... info I found when I googled "feeding a squirrel". You'd be suprised at how much information is on the world wide web about taking care of orphan squirrels. I eventually moved the box outside. By nightfall the squirrel was starting to get frisky and was not very inviting when I checked on him so I put the box in our Live Oak tree. The next morning I went to check and the lid was off so I reached in and picked up the towel and the squirrel, much to my surprise, was still there...clinging for dear life to the green hand towel... his new security blanket. I shook and shook the towel to get him off but he just wouldn't let go! I took the box away and put the squirrel and towel in the tree. A few hours later I went back to see if he was still there and Yes! He was. He hissed at me and scurried away this time...the last time I checked on him. Apparently he realized that I was consorting with his enemy and thought better of having me around. Much to James' dismay the little squirrel survived with my help. The boys thought all of this was great... and have now given me the name "Animal Rescuer". In case you haven't watched it, Animal Rescuer is from Dora & Diego. Well... that is our latest adventure! Here are pictures of the squirrel.

October 21, 2007

After my launch, the boys stayed with their Nina & Pops and had a fantastic time! They took them to a halloween party complete with a ghost trail. Nelson is still talking about how much fun he had! On that Sunday the boys stayed with Nina all day while James and I went to Maypearl. An old family friend of ours, Scott Jackson, was having a cross country dirt bike race (TCCRA) at his farm. There were TONS of people there. We saw a couple of folks we haven't seen in years. From there we went to my Aunt Pam's house for a visit. It was great to see everyone but Pam said we aren't allowed to come back unless we bring the boys! :) Ha ha! She sent us home with some of Allex's pig. We watched Aaron & Taylor play Barber Shop and we got to see our old goat, Jewelee. We also had fun sniffing all my Scentsy testers (thanks for the order Aunt Pam!). All in all it was a great visit! It made me even more excited about Thanksgiving...I can't wait for the whole family to get together!!

Scentsy Launch, October 20, 2007

Well, I had my "big" Scentsy launch. It wasn't as successful as I'd hoped since only two people besides me were there but I did get orders from them as well as a couple of others who didn't make it. It was a great learning experience and I did have fun.

The Pumpkin Project

Nelson had to decorate a pumpkin for school (NO CARVING). Since we couldn't carve it I decided to go the fake decorative pumpkin route. We went to Michaels and bought a pumpkin, fake leaves, and a fall foam sticker kit. Nelson decided he wanted to make a pumpkin person. It turned out really good!! On the back side of the pumpkin he put the foam stickers. Cute Cute CUTE!

Square Fair presents Pirates of the Kindergarten!

Today was the Square Fair. It kicked off with a parade with the first place float being the Pirates of the Kindergarten. It was truly an AWESOME float! Nelson, and the other kids, looked really cool up there! And... I did help by painting some of the words on. :) The parade was bigger than I thought it would be. Every class had a float, then the homecoming court and pageant winners and of course all the local fire departments, VFW, marching band, and everyone that is running for office. After the parade the kids walked around with James, Gramps, & Mema while I worked the dunking booth. I had a blast! I didn't think I"d like it but I did! After that I had the pleasure of working the ice cream booth for 2 hours... it wasn't as fun as the dunking booth but it was alright. And we raised a nice bit of money for the class of 2020! There were tons of booths and the live music was GREAT! Here are a few of our favorite pics from the parade.

Just some cute pics I thought I'd share. :)

1. Everything is going great...James and I are having a party this Friday that is JUST FOR ADULTS! We have never done that before. LOL I think it'll be fun. It's mostly guys and their wifes from the fire dept, plus a couple of my friends. We kept it small. I'm fixing dinner for everyone and I don't know what we'll do... visit, play cards and/or dominos.... I just wish my house was more finished but every one knows it is a work in progress so I shouldn't worry about it. Plus, everyone that is coming except for a couple of people, were all here before we moved in so they KNOW what it was like before! A lot of them helped us with getting it move in ready and then there's Eric, he's been here for EVERY project. What a trooper. ;)

2. This is probably my favorite thing coming up...and would definitely be if James was off work for this. Anyway, my mom's side of the family is coming here for Thanksgiving!!! I am so excited!!!! It's been quite a while since we have all had Thanksgiving together. And before we had all met at my mom's a couple of time earlier this year, it had been a while since we had done anything with all of us together. So... as you can tell, this is a big deal. It's going to be great! My mother-n-law and her husband (Debbie & AL) are trying to come too. Debbie gave me a lot of holiday decor when we first moved in and let me tell you... I am going to have the prettiest Thanksgiving table EVER! I wish we were already past Halloween so I could put out the Thanksgiving stuff.

3. Speaking of Halloween...This will be the first year that James and I will have trick-or-treaters! We are looking forward to it. We'll take the boys trick-or-treating to a few of our neighbors pretty early then come back home to sit on our porch with a fire and hand out candy. The boys, thanks to Debbie, are going to be pirates for halloween. She sent them a goody box today with costumes and all the accessories and some candy. They though it was very cool!!

4. I'm working hard at getting my Scentsy business up in full force. I really hope this turns into something. I'm not expecting or wanting to get rich quick by any means.. I just want something that is fun and earns me a little extra spending money (or money to pay off some debt) and if it happens to turn into more then that's great. I'm having my first party on October 20th at my house. I'm a little nervous...I've never done this before and my sponsor can't be here because she lives out of state. For some reason, I think I'm more worried about it because it is friends & family... I would be less nervous if it was a room full of strangers! :) I'm sure it will go fine though.

Okay... well that's it. Hope everyone is having a great week.

Love & Hugs,
Kassy

Moments like this....

...are what make being a mom so great!

Nelson has a reading challenge for school so we sat down this evening and started reading an "easy reader" I bought him. Something about a dog named Biscuit. We started out by saying the letters in the words, then sounding them out. He had trouble putting it all together when sounding it out but after a while he got the hang of it and was able to read a few small words - is, this, Sam, too, dog, big and even Biscuit! When we were done I told him what a great job he did and that he read really good. His eyes were lit up and he had a HUGE grin on his face! As I was telling him how proud I was his eyes watered up, his chin quivered and he grabbed me and hugged me around the neck crying! I hugged him back then pulled him away to look at his face. I told him again how proud I was and how good he had read those words. I asked him why he was crying. Are you happy or sad? His response... "I'm happy! I have never done anything that good before! You're the best book reader mom ever!"
Awe...........

Pictures of my Niece & Nephews.

Rayn eating bananas. She's so funny!

Her hair is growing! :) Isn't she precious!! Looks just like John.

Yeah!! I can stand now! I'll be keeping Mom & Dad on their toes for sure now! Hee hee
My brothers adore me, can't ya tell!

Sweet big brother Damien loving Rayn.
My little Maddox got his hair cut! He looks so grown up! Maddox loving Rayn. Aren't they cute?!

What? It's September! And there's snow?? John w/ Damien, Maddox & Rayn...looks like they'll have a white Christmas this year...and Halloween...and Thanksgiving. :)
Kristin & Maddox...enjoying the snow... brrrrr.....
That's all folks!