Ghouls, Goblins..........Mater and a Monkey!!

As expected, Circe's Halloween Party was fantastic! Alex went as "Mater" (or as he says, "TOWWW Mater!") and Lincoln was a cute little Monkey! This was Lincoln's first Halloween and he had a blast. He couldn't take his eyes off all of the kids running around on the sugar induced highs!

Alex drank so much of Circe's homemade "Witches Brew" that he was so amped up all he could do was scream as loud as he could the entire way home! That was fun! It was worth all the sugar induced rampages to see how thrilled he was to be "TOWWWW Mater". I don't know how Circe does it but I think that next she should run for "President"!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

HEAVEN HELP ME!!!!

Ok, so here is the infamous picture of the deer head that our "lovely" neighbor hung from his kids swing set last winter and didn't take down until Spring when it started to thaw and smell! The reason that I am bringing this up now is because we are approaching that fun season once again, Hunting Season! So, what's going through my mind now is, "am I going to have another poor deer glaring at me through my laundry room window?" Only this time, I will have to look at it while I am doing laundry. Gross!

I was leaving our house today, which will never be done, and I met one of our new neighbors. She was very nice for a change. It has been so disheartening to keep running into or hearing about neighbors that just don't like us! They don't even know us other than what they've heard from the neighbors to the north, aka The Deer Hunters! Anyways, this neighbor I met today says to me, "I hope that you've made piece with them (looking at the Deer house!)" and I said, "no, they won't even talk to us. I'm not sure what we ever did to them?" She replies, "you built a house? (chuckle)" I am not sure exactly how to take that but I never knew that building a house was a crime! At least she did say the house was beautiful.

Anyways, the neighbors are the least of my worries at this point. I swear every time I go by the house, I want to strangle our builder! What does it take to get things done around here!!!

ps. sorry for the disturbing picture, but you had to have a visual to get the full effect!

Lincoln is 11 months old!!! I can't believe that he is almost a year old. How time flies. He is so much fun. He loves to eat and eat and eat! He is also trying to keep up with his big brother, Alex. He watches everything that Alex does and so I can tell he is going to keep us on our toes. He is almost walking, he stands up all by himself and he is babbling up a storm. He is our "Mr. Smiley Pants Man" as Roland calls him because he is always smiling. Alex has decided that he wants to send him back to the hospital! I am hoping that this is a 4yr old phase, he will be four in November. If anyone can give me any advice on age 4 it'd be much appreciated. I thought that it was only the "terrible two's"? Compared to age 4, the terrible two's seem like a walk in the park. Our sweet little Alex can go from Angel to Devil in about 5 seconds! I have never seen anything like it, it amazes me. Most of the time he doesn't even know why he's freaking out in the first place! Oh and also, he started this whole thing, "I'm gonna make Lincoln disappear, Abra Kadabra......... he's gone!"

I was at Restoration Hardware today, because I go there almost everyday because of our house, but that's another blog! Anyways, they had a book there on Astrological signs and so I started to read a little about "Scorpions", that's what Alex and Lincoln are. It basically said that its easier to just give in than to try and fight them when it comes to something they want and I think that I have to agree! Poor Roland, he doesn't have a chance in a household of two Scorpions and a Taurus! By the way, Roland is a Pisces, so he is obviously the Peacemaker in this household!