Halloween

So, James decided to be Darth Vader this year for halloween. No real reason, since he had never even seen a Star Wars movie before, had no clue who Darth even is! We were just in Party City looking at the wall of costumes, told him to pick one, and he said I want to be THAT ONE MOMMY!!! Think he liked the mask and the light saber...kid is no dummy! Its cool! So, darth it was.....now we are officially in Star Wars mode as we got him two of the six movies which he LOVES, and I am in the process of framing star wars movie posters and other cool star wars stuff for his walls of his room, and got him a star wars comforter for his bed (sssshhhhh...dont tell James...its all christmas gifts for him to open!)

Pics from Halloween and pumpkin carving:

The Lake House

Took some really cool pics at my sister's lake house the last couple trips up there....thought I would share....love it there, so peaceful and quiet...and breathtakingly beautiful at sunrise and sunset....

Day at the zoo with Freddy, James, Jada and Marlee

Spent the day with Freddy, James and the grandkids........Tiffany (Freddy's daughter) has a stepdaughter that is 5 and a 2 year old daughter of her own....we babysat them today and decided to take them all to the zoo...then came back home with them, played, watched Spongebob, had some food etc......and I made the girls some hairbows that they LOVED!!!

Anywy, I just uploaded a TON of pics to my facebook account from our day and am going to be lazy here and just add the links to the albums here...says on facebook I can share "with anyone" even if they are not on facebook...so lets see if this works...enjoy! LOTS of GREAT pics of the kids!!! :)

Think you will have to copy and paste each one into a browser to get it to work...the insert link feature on here is not working or I am just tired...or both! :)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113220&id=685530748&l=4b267016c6

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113193&id=685530748&l=d58fb1f6eb

Richard and Lorelie's Wedding

We went to Richard and Lorelie's wedding last nite. Richard is my nephew (Freddy's brother Johnny is married to Kelly....she has two boys - twins - Richard and Wesley...is was Richard getting married). The wedding was at Johnny and Kelly's house and it turned out fabulous (much like my wedding to Freddy 6.5 years ago at Johnny's other house!! LOL!!)

Well I ended up being very glad that I brought my big camera as it turned out their photographer was sick and did not come. So I decided that since there was no "professional" that I would be stepping on their toes/getting in the way, that I would take as good of pics as I could with my camera for them (they had a couple other friends doing the same thing).
Below are some of the shots from the night...it truly was a great wedding! James was the ringbearer and he was SO handsome in his tux and did a great job (even if Uncle Johnny did have to walk with him at the last minute as James got nervous!) and Richard and Lorelie make a beautiful couple! Here's to a lifetime of happiness for those two, and hope y'all enjoy your trip to Hawaii this week!!! :)

Lorelie all set and ready to go........looked so beautiful!!

The groom and my little man the ringbearer!! ;)

James and Auntie Kelly

Ringbearer and flower girl

The cake table

one of the cakes and a great photo of the happy couple!

My handsome little man suiting up

All ready to go!!! He looks so big and so handsome!!

Saying vows...

Mr and Mrs Richard Day....

You may kiss the bride.....

So happy....aaaawwww......

James and Uncle Johnny....

Wedding party minus the flower girl..she had already gone inside and changed.....LOL!

Cutting the cake.....

My hubby salsa dancing with the bride...shake it honey! ;)

James showing off his moves....

Cracking us up BIG TIME!!! What a nut!!

James and Grandma Salinas.....so sweet.....

James and Cindy - Jarrod's wife.

Road Trip to Grandma's

So as you will see in the post below...I got a new car on Monday. Perfect timing as I had a pre-planned trip up to my mom's house to help her paint the inside of her house and was taking James with me as Freddy had his mom this weekend. So was NICE to be in the new car for the road trip...drove great, we were comfy and loving it! Left at 5:30 AM on Friday morning, got to mom's like 9:40 AM I think it was? Pretty good time. Today's trip home was a bit longer only due to "child needing to potty....a LOT on the way home, but still not bad, think it took us 5 hours and that was with 3 stops along the way...cant complain...I was in my new car! HA!

Well the painting at mom's went GREAT!! I literally painted EVERY wall in her house except for her two bathrooms and her bedroom, while Mom painted the baseboards and trim around the doors. It looks so freakin awesome! Like a totally new place now. She did it in the same color I did most of my house recently (relaxed khaki) and she is as in love with the color as I am. here are some before and after pics of her place....she had a light sagey green on her living room walls, and basicaly an off white everywhere else before.........looks pretty damned good if I do say so myself now!!!! Had a great time this weekend Mom!!! Glad we were able to come up and see you and help you paint!!! We love you!


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