What a perfect day!!!!

I have been waiting for months for today to come.  I had a nice quiet day at work and I accomplished a ton of stuff.  All of my paperwork for October is done!  I have seen all my clients this month, their purchases are done, their CDER's were updated and the reports are done and turned in.  What a wonderful feeling!!!  I got a few disturbing phone calls from clients today but I had more good, entertaining, positive, and easy phone calls than I did disturbing ones.  A very productive and relaxing day and that's not even what I'm excited about. 

Like I said I have been waiting for this day for months.  The anticipation has been killing me!!! Two of my favorite things returned!!!  The new MY SIMS- KINGDOM game came out on Nintendo Wii!!!!

 

Of course I preordered my copy at Toys  R Us and went and purchased it on my way home from work just in time for my next favorite thing to start.  It's the beginning of BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!  Life is good.  I had the chance to play My Sims for an hour before the Basketball game started.  I am now sitting comfortably on the couch watching the Lakers play the clippers and for the moment the Lakers are winning!!!! 

What a perfect day!

Fall is here....

I love Fall and here are 10 reasons why...

1. It's the beginning of the holiday season. Halloween is this month which means cute kids in costumes and carving pumpkins. Thanksgiving is around the corner which means family and one large meal that takes all day to make and 30 minutes to devour. Christmas will be here before we know it. Watching the kids on Christmas morning is worth waiting all year for.
2. Socks. The weather is changing and time to break out the silly, comfy, cute, and furry socks. I absolutely love socks. Socks of all colors, patterns, shapes and sizes. I think that I have close to 100 pairs of socks and I can't seem to get rid of any of them. Even the ones with holes I sew so I can keep on wearing them!!
3. Candles. It's time to breakout the candles that remind me of the holidays. Pumpkin, apple, cinnamon, harvest, baking spices, cranberry, mulberry, pine, vanilla bean and warm apple pie. There are so many more but I'm sure you get the point.
4. Leaves changing colors. This time of the year I love that I have a job that allows me to spend so much time in the car. I love the days that I get to take my time and enjoy the scenery. The leaves falling on my car as I drive. The red, orange, yellow and brown leaves.... I love them all. I recommend slowing down from your busy day and spend sometime admiring your surroundings.
5. Baking. I love to bake and I love to bake around the holidays. That's when it's time to make all of my favorite things (apple pie, apple crisp, cinnamon roles, pumpkin and banana bread). I also love that I get to do the traditional baking with Thomas and Noelle. I am really lucky that I get to spend the time that I do with Thomas and Noelle. For such a long time it was just me around the holiday time and the traditional baking wasn't all that fun and now that I get to have them with me, it's totally fun to prepare for the holidays. Last night my mom came over and we baked Halloween cookies with Thomas and Noelle. Thomas ate a couple of the cookies and rest went to day care with him this morning.
6. Our annual trip to Apple Hill. I love Apple Hill and I love to go to Kids Inc. and get the most amazing apple crisp with caramel sauce that has ever been made. I love that we get to go up as a family and spend a day going from orchard to orchard buying all kinds of apples and having a picnic by the pond. It's usually cold and we wear our warm jackets and gloves and that hot apple cider always hits the spot!!!
7. The pumpkin patch. I love the pumpkin patch. The hay rides, the corn mazes, again the hot apple cider, kids in Halloween costumes and watching kids and their parents trying to find that perfect pumpkin.
8. Hot Chocolate. I love hot chocolate and my hot chocolate maker. Some people have to have a coffee pot at home. I have to have a hot chocolate maker. I enjoy making all kinds of flavors of hot chocolate (strawberry, hazelnut, caramel, vanilla, butterscotch and mint).
9. Harvest Moon- Tree of Tranquility, My Sims- My Kingdom and Animal Crossing- City Folk all of my favorite games have new additions coming out this fall. Harvest Moon came out a couple of weeks ago. My Kingdom comes out at the end of this month and Animal Crossing comes out in November..... Yeah!!!!
10. The Presidential Election. I love this country and I love that we get the opportunity to vote. I am grateful to live in a country that allows me to think the way that I want, practice the religion of my choice, the freedom of speech and all the other rights that we have of citizens of the United States!!! I don't care how you vote.... just vote.

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Babies, Babies, and more Babies...

It seems like this year there have been so many people around me having babies.

My nephew, Tyler, started it out in April. Most of you know all about him. He is totally cute and a bundle of joy! I love him more and more each time I see his little face. I only wished he lived closer so I could spend more time with him.

Wanda had Baby William in May. William has the most amazing eyes. When he gets older the girls are going to be lining up. He is a really good baby and he is smart.

Millie Mil had Baby Dominic in July. I haven't gotten the chance to meet him yet, but he has two amazing parents, so I am sure that he is just as amazing. Here are some of his totally cute pictures. His little round face is way toooo cute. Mille.... keep sending the pictures, I love them.

Bonnie is going to have Baby Riley anytime now. Last weekend I helped with Bonnie's shower. It was everything PINK! Bonnie also has a son, Nicolas, that will be 5 years old on the same day Baby Riley is expected to arrive. November is going to be quite a busy month for them. I can't wait to meet Riley!!!

Cassandra is going to have Baby Evan in January. Baby Evan maybe Baby____ by the time he arrives. Both of his parents haven't actually agreed with Evan (but I did get permission to put it on my blog). Earlier this month I went to Cassandra's baby shower and had a wonderful time. It was a baseball theme which was perfect for Cassandra and Pat, as they both love baseball. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to share of baby Evan. I can't wait to meet him to.

I am happy for all of them and can't wait to meet each of them.

A bunch of hodgepodge

Not a whole lot has happened around here to write about the last week or so. The kids stayed with me last week and I was able to get a couple of cute pictures of them.

Thomas spent the night with me last Friday so I could take him to go and see a movie on Saturday. Saturday morning he woke me up asking where his "pulling blanket" was. I just told him to get up with me and we would look for it later. In Thomas's normal fashion that answer didn't work for him. He insisted that I help him find it. So, we got up and found the blanket on the floor next to my bed. I asked him why he needed it and he said "I made my bed Auntie. All by myself and my "pulling blanket" goes on

top". I was pretty amazed. I didn't even know he knew how to make his bed. He was so proud of himself. He said his Mommy showed him how to make his bed yesterday.

I thought it was cute that he put Noelle's blanket over his pillow.

I just thought this was a cute picture of him.

Wednesday night Kelly brought cupcakes over for the kids. So, before bath time the kids had fun with their cupcakes.

My friend Tanya made me the best blanket ever for Christmas last year. It is the warmest and softest blanket ever! I love it. Since I enjoyed it so much I thought I would make one for Thomas and Noelle for Christmas this year. I am going to make a few more but I don't want to give anything away to those that may read this. I bought the fabric this week and was able to finish both Thomas and Noelle's.

Lastly, I went to my friend Cassandra's baby shower today. I took Noelle with me and we had a great time. She looked really cute in her pink overalls so again I had to take a picture. She has been doing really really well with her walking. She walked all the way from the car and all around the grocery store with me last night. I took a video of her walking from my living room to the bathroom tonight. The video isn't that great but you can see her walking.