Forever Beloved

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halloween events…

fall and halloween are such a fun time of year around our house…i just really enjoy every single thing from when the leaves begin to turn clear up until christmas…totally my FAV time of year!!!  around halloween we always try to keep up with most of our “cutler traditions”…we carve pumpkins, watch TONS of scary movies, roast pumpkin seeds, decorate our house and go trick or treating.
wednesday evening we did some pumpkin carving…it made this mama so happy to know her “almost” teenager didn’t think he was too old to carve a pumpkin.  i can remember when i was little how much i enjoyed carving pumpkins with my mama…and how fun it was to get my hands in the ooey gooey guts and pull them out.  i hope my kids always remember these fun times we’ve had together…
jade’s finished product…
joey’s finished product…
friday night we went to a family halloween party that friends of ours had.  joe was jason voorhees/penndot worker, i was the bride of chucky, joey was the pig head from saw and jade was a dead prom girl.  we had a GREAT time…i hadn’t been to a halloween party in years…
jade still wasn’t feeling her best and was in NO mood for her picture taken…can you tell? 

out for now
~kisses

happy hump day…

ugh, can’t wait for this week to be over.  i have a sick little girl (fever/sore throat/slight cough/no voice) and i have a sick mother-in-law (swollen feet/ankles/legs)…jade is SO upset that she is sick this week, of all weeks…it’s “red ribbon week” at school which means each day they had a certain dress-up theme…today is pajama day and she was SUPER stoked about it  🙁  poor thing is at home though.  tomorrow is jersey day and she is hoping to make it for that.  i hope she is feeling better by friday, she is so excited to go to a halloween party…

and joe’s mom is experiencing extremely swollen feet/ankles/legs…which is exactly what happened years ago when her kidneys shut down.  we are praying that isn’t the case again.  this poor woman seems to have some health problem every year in the fall, around thanksgiving time.

so if you could, please remember both of them in your prayers.  as much as i don’t buy into the whole “swine flu” hype, i’m still worried about jade. 

i’m off to the warehouse-o-creepy to work today…which i’m totally not sad about.  i love getting out of the office and working by myself for a while. 

out for now
~kisses

weekend recap…

we had a great weekend…of course it wasn’t long enough, lol, never is right?  friday night i went after work and had a little mani…then i hurried home for family “pizza and movie night”…we watched land of the lost and the haunting of molly hartley…neither of which impressed me much.  i was actually disappointed with land of the lost, i really like will ferrell and think that was by far his worst movie…
saturday morning i was up at the crack of dawn and decided to get in a workout with my new aeropilates machine before the rest of the fam got up…i stinkin LOVE this machine!!!  it’s low impact, which is awesome and man does it ever work out your abs/legs/arms…i’m sore in spots i didn’t even know existed…
saturday afternoon we headed to town for my photoshoot with dj…the pics can be seen HERE…
sunday after we had had an awesome lunch (you know sunday dinners are my FAV)…i made paula deens bacon cheeseburger meatloaf with my cheesy potato recipe…it was DELISH and everyone (minus jade) loved it…jade just doesn’t like anything with the word “meatloaf” in it…
and we had our LAST football/cheer game yesterday!!!!  woohoo!!!  the girls did their thriller dance and just rocked it.  i had a malfunction with my camera so i didn’t get to video it but others did…hopefully i can post one of theirs here…
this is peppers new halloween costume for this year…yes, he is going to be a squirrel…and it’s hilarious…and he LOVES it…and prances…

out for now
~kisses