So I am completely late on posting pitures of Halloween this year, but here are a few. My darlings were smashing.. Macky and Katie had a blast. We went to Trick or treat Street. The businesses in the city put it on every year. Long lines and not real fun, but the kids like it.. LOL Here are pictures of the waiting and primping in line.. LOL




We stopped at Kevins house. Kevin is a long time aquaintance turned friend. He also is one of our tow truck drivers.. Anyway.. He turned his deceased neighbors house into a haunted house. It was stinkin' great! Scared the crap out of me with his nephew. This nephew is taking after his father and uncle.. I swear they live for scaring hte wits out of me.. LOL Great fun!! So.. Now that the holidays are over, it is time for me to finally get going on Christmas.. I really gotta get moving or I am going to be one of those Christmas Eve shoppers. I really hate it too.. I am generally finished by now.. I have barely started.. Have a great day to all.. I am off to work.

So.. WE had a great day. Busy, but great. Brittni had her Senior year powder puff football game today for Homecoming. Seniors kicked Butt... LOL They won 58 to 14. Yay Seniors.. Here are a couple pictures for your viewing pleasure.. LOL Brittni is #34 wearing red pants..
Here is the whole senior team that showed up.. We call these two "B squared" LOL Both are Brittnis (different spellings though) and if you want them both to turn around you have to holler B-squared or you are likely not to get either of them to turn.. My Brittni is holding Delilah the cutest BB Puppy..



Now after a busy day of football, and transporting kids, what better way to celebrate than to make soap right... So....

Here is my first batch of the day. Pumpkin Pie.. Oh how I love that scent.. I just dream of the scent, but can you believe that I cannot eaat a pumpkin pie to save my soul. I don't think I have ever really liked it either. But it sure does smell good..
Here it is after about 2 hours in the mold. I added a touch of cinnamon to the top just to give it some edge.. LOL Looks good doesn't it?.?.?.
Okay.. So this is a really yummy Apple Spice soap that was cold process until that darn rice-ing problem happened.. So.. I hot processed it and it still smells heavenly.. It is the 1st rice-ing in a while. Talk about piss a person off...ARG!!! I decided to put wax paper over it to smooth it sown and it stuck to it. Frack!! So I left it on until it was cooler and pulled the paper off. Not bad. It didn't turn out as smooth as I would have liked, but better t han nothing I guess..


Here is a yummy smelling double broiler hot process soap that is higly scented in Hot Apple Pie. YUM YUM YUM... It did not start out to be hot process, however, the fragrance caused it to rice, so I figured to heck with it.. Lets just cook it.. 2nd one of the day that did that. I am wondering if it is the apple fragrances or what???Did I mention I really hate hot process.. LOL
In the pot...
in the mold...
And here is the last batch for tonight.. Honeydew. Beautifully colored in green. It will be darker when it cures, but I wish it would stay this color. Stunning and it smells GREAT!! And the best part.. It didn't rice on me.. YAY!!!
And here it is in the gel stage...

Okay.. so I am a bog slacker.. LOL.. Sorry.. But.. The girls and I went to a really great concert Saturday night. It was Log Jam 2008 at the LaCrosse Loggers Stadium. We really had a great time. Here are the girls waiting for the concert to start.. LOL









First band was The Ditch Lillies. They were good. Not great, but good. I am not overly fond of those who take other peoples songs and poems and turn them into songs. Drives me nuts, but these ladies were really good. The bass player even had dreads.. LOL



Next up was Renowned Bluegrass singer Dale Ann Bradley. Now this gal can really sing.. WOW!!

Dale Ann has once again been nominated for the Female Vocalist of the Year award. The 2008 IBMA awards show will be held on Thursday, October 2, 2008, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.



So.. Last but not least. Michael Martin Murphey.. Yep.. You got it. Carolina in the pines was the final song and my absolute favorite next to Wildfire of course.. LOL He sang both and Macky was thrilled.. My pictures didn't turn out very well for his part becasue it was sark and Pauls camera stinks for taking night pictures.. LOL But here is what I got..





After the concert, we went to say hi to Murph. He was thrilled that we made it. He called at the beginning of the week to ask if we could make it to the concert. Of course after finding out about it, there was no way Macky was going to let me skip it.. LOL So.. Here are Macky (redhead), Katie and Murph..





All in all it was a great night. Even though the gnats were horrible and we got soaked in the rain.. LOL We still had a great time.

Today is Courtneys 15th birthday. I cannot believe how fast they grow up. Sheesh. I am really getting old.. LOL

6 months until she gets her drivers permit. sighing here.. Brittni drove me crazy with the driving. Courtney will be worse.. LOL I just know it. I am already planning who I am going to backdoor into taking her driving. It just plain scares me having to teach it. Thankfully I have several months to plan it out.. LOL

Brittni is almost 18. September seems to be coming up really quick. She of course is taking the age thing to the max. Don't blame her, but she is really expensive to keep in gas. LOL Her friends talked her into driving her car (with my gas) all over the countryside looking for a beach that wasn't packed on a hot weekend.. WTF!! It takes $60.00 to fill her tank and I swear they burned $40 of it. They never found a "free" beach, so they ended up at a hotel pool.. LOL Did I mention it was only about 2 miles from our house?? ARG!!

Macky is as stubborn as ever, but gotta love her. LOL She is so upset that her summer school papers didn't get turned in. WE found it crumpled under the seat in the car today. She really wanted to participate in the fun activities, but so far she has been pretty much active. Birthday parties, sleepovers and the constant flow of friends here.

Katie is of course still getting into as much trouble as she can possibly find. I swear she just never stops. Course, you can't blame her. She cannot seem to help herself. she certainly acts before her brain engages.. LOL But. She is just to darn cute. How do you stay "serious" when they look at you with sparkling blue eyes and the most innocent look?? ARG!! LOL

Kids.. you gotta love em.

On another note. I hope all you flood victims are okay. I cannot even begin to imagine it. Our parking lot was flooded pretty bad. We had to rent pumps to get the water out. We found another leak in our basement. We are supposed to get more rain in the next couple days, but I am praying for sun. I love a good storm, but darn it.. I hate having to wade across the parking lot to get to the impound lot. LOL

Okay.. so as soon as I find my stupid camera cord, I will upload the pictures of the parade to you can see our wreckers again. And also the pictures of the new hats I have knit and crocheted. I made some really cute watermelon hats and a very cute pumpkin hat.. LOL Adorable!!

Well, lets see.. Today has been a great day.. I took the girls shopping for snowpants and jackets today. We have snow on the ground and figured I had better get them new stuff before school on Monday.. Brittni couldn't find anything she liked and just wants to keep her stuff from last year. Saves me tons of money, but she did ask to get her schnoze (sp??) pierced.. LOL She is 16 and working on her license too.. Courtney got some garments that didn't fit, so I will have to take those back. Macky (McKenzie) got a new coat, snowpants and boots. She picked a brown coat with fuzzy around the hood. Really cute.. No snowpants at the first store, so we went on to the next. Found a great pair of snowpants there in brown. Really neat too. They have a gripper on the inner bottom. They under part will not slip up. Does that make sense. It grips the boots and therefore will not ride up so the snow stays out of her boots. We also found Katie a pair of cute snowboots that totally match her snowpants from last year. They were to big so she never got to wear them. They actually fit this year. Wait... Brittni did find a pack of socks she liked. Penguins on them.. LOL Can't believe I forgot about those.. Big production on how cute they were.. LOL

I bought some really cute sock yarn today. I only have access to Lion brand striping sock yarn, so ... I bought 3 skeins of it.. Cute. Should make some neat socks.. Will post pictures when I get my camera charged.. Well.. I am off to finish up a hat I am knitting on a round loom.. You will be impressed..