We have been bitten by the Halloween bug!

Yes it's a tad early but we bought candies for the trick or treaters this weekend and it's a good cold weather day activity to occupy the big kids.

They counted up all the candy and are dividing them up into treat bags. We only have 60 bags but we've never had more than that so we should be good!

And for costumes they are going to be Evil Jesters. It's not as wholesome as Thing One and Thing Two, and last year we made the leap to the Zombie Rockers so it wasn't a shock that they wanted something scary and creepy this year.

...sigh...my babies are growing up

Day 1 - SUCCESS

I started a blogging challenge with Jenn, then Michelle and my mom for blogging everyday in the month of October. Five out of the seven days must have a picture too.

I was really gung-ho with blogging in the beginning but then entered Facebook and so the blog was often shelved.

Anyways - here we go!

This weekend Aaron and I went on a mini-holiday without our kids. Second time EVER! First time was for Nannie's 75th birthday celebration in New Brunswick and that was a few years ago.

We went to Great Falls with our friends Kathryn and Jeff. It was a whirlwind weekend of shopping, shopping and more shopping. We ate out, drank out, drank in, and did a schwack of shopping.

Did I miss my boys? YES! But did the boys miss me? Probably yes but not as much, ha ha. The kids went to Nannie and Papa's house and were busy golfing and hot tubbing. Lucky kids, lucky us!

Here's me and the boys on our last holiday together :o)

Old pictures from the Beck side of the family tree

Aaron and I have spent about 10 hours going thru hundreds and hundreds of old pictures from his mom and scanning them.

And amongst those pictures we found this one:

This was taken at Aaron's parents 25th anniversary dinner ... which will be 15 years ago this May. Look how young we were, lol!

Happy Birthday Ma !

My mom is one of my best friends! She's a great role model, person to chat with, Nannie to my boys, caregiver, she keeps Dad in line (ha ha), a wonderful mother in law to Aaron and she's my mom.
What more can I say?
Wishing you a whole lot more of what we've already experienced and some new experiences just to keep it fun!
Love you!

Geez Louise I hate adding receipts up!

It's indeedio that time of year when I'm figuring out how much of my income was spent on my dayhome. I have a large Ziploc freezer bag filled to the brim with my receipts. Does that beat a shoe box or is a shoe box better? Ha ha.

Oh, the grocery bills. Eye-yi-yiye groceries are expensive.

It's good that the kiddos and I like to bake - flour, sugar and eggs go a lonnnnnng way around here.

Not to mention all the things we make with our Jack o lantern's, lol.

But the bottom line would have to be I wouldn't trade careers for anything...no matter how much I dislike the paperwork!

A quick glimpse of our Christmas

Here's Nannie and Me with Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Our last day of holidays was about as productive as the others. Which is not really productive at all but very relaxing.

And I'm back, lol

After a long hiatus I think I'll make an attempt at posting on the blog again. Please note I did say attempt.

We rung in the New Year with some lovely friends of ours and tried something new to us. Cooking meat on hot stones. I'm sure there's a fancier name for it than that but it is exactly what we did, we started with cheese fondue and then took it up a notch to the hot stones. Tres fun, I highly recommend it if you're looking for a long leisurely dinner with some friends.

What made last night even more fun was that all of our children get along really well. No one felt left out of anything, no tears, no drama just good ole plain fun. It was the perfect evening really.

Today we had a lazy day, we all kind of lazed around for the most part of the day and then headed out to the movies to see We Bought A Zoo. It was a fantastic movie! Every member of the Beck family enjoyed it. Very thought provoking at times. We can all do anything for 20 seconds!

Happy New Year everyone!