My sister's family moved to AZ.

Yesterday my sister and here family got on a jet at 7:25 am and flew out of Maryland to Arizona. Beanie called me as soon as the plain landed and of course I cried when I got off the phone with her :( My sister uploaded these photos on her FB page and their house looks really nice! I can't wait to go visit them. It's going to be a very hard change on all of us but, we will get through it. When I last saw them on the 4th we were all being really good at keeping ourselves together until we made a video of their old house and that's when the tears started pouring out of all of us. We spent the weekend with them and were lucky enough to have had perfect weather, it cooled down just for them. ;) We made a lot of memories that we will cherish forever. I miss them very much but I will see them all soon.

Remembering Belle

My Belle... forever missed! Binky was one of her best friends and he is missed too! They both were great dogs!

Happy Halloween!

So it's that creepy scary time of year again and we spent it with my family. Drew and I did homemade costumes again this year like we did on our first Halloween. I made my hat and broom the night before and Drew bought his giant spider that day. Oddly enough he

won best costume again at work! I made pumpkins for his employees with their names craved in them which was a lot harder to do than I thought it would be. For my employees I made a large pumpkin to hold candy along with a Starbucks gift card

and the winner of best costume won it. This year was the best turn out for my work, even the bosses dressed up. Later that day we made ghoulish dishes and met everyone at my sister's house My sister is always good with coordinating her families clothes and costumes but, this year had to be my favorite. I love the "Superhero" theme! Drew, Chris, Andrea, and I all walked the whole neighborhood with Chris and the kids. It was pretty cold on this Halloween and it started raining towards the end. You could defiantly tell we were in a recession by the decorations and lack of candy. The kids made out well since they live in a rather large neighborhood.

The FALL Festival

Today Drew and I met up with my sister and her family to go to a local fall festival. The weather was beautiful and the rain stayed away till right before we left. There were a lot of cute crafts and yummy food! We treated the kids to some sweats and hopefully they wont be up all night. We took them to a trail that we use to walk all the time when we lived down there but, had to stop right before getting on it because there was a creepy homeless man on the trail just staring into space. And the girls didn't have a good feeling about him and didn't want to go. So we turned around after he walked on. My sister later told me that she noticed him following us for a little while and that fact that he go in front of us when he figured out we were heading towards the trail, she knew we could walk any further! She also said when my back and her husband's back were turned he was staring at the girls. What we didn't realize till later is that man is a criminal and he got into trouble last year with attacking a teenage girl so I called the Police and reported what happened and they said they were going to talk to him. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if something happened to anyone in my family, especially the kids! I hope that man never hurts anyone again! And, I hope other people call the police when strange things happen and they listen to their gut feelings!

They gave their Aunt a scare playing on the rocks!

My dream dog! Can you see how happy I am? Look how pretty and good she was... she let the kids put that wreath on her head and just laid there. I can't wait to get one!

Apple Picking Time!

Drew and I picked up my little brother and all my niece and nephews and went apple picking. We took the kids last year and they had a blast so we wanted to do it again before they move. I strapped they baby onto my chest and we started our walk to the apple orchard. The weather was perfect! It wasn't cool but, it was hot, just perfect! Since there were nine of us picking apples I told them all to pick ten apples each, yeah that didn't work. My 7 yr old nephew had has bag full in about five minutes! It was really cute to watch my 2 yr old nephew pick. He wanted to take a bit out of each apple he picked. Their Uncle Dylan and Drew would climb up in the trees to get the really shinny hard to reach ones.

It was towards the end of the apple season but, they tasted really good! In all we picked about 30 lbs of apples!