Catch The Stars Fitness Clinic

Saturday morning we went to the mall and Gabrielle got her pictures taken. Had lunch and took Hannah to the High school. Tamika Catchings # 24 for the WNBA Fever team was hosting a great event for the kids called Catch the Stars Fitness Clinic.

When we arrived we signed in and donated our can goods. We walked in the gym and Hannah had a hard time being shy. Tears were running down her face bc she didn't know anybody and she didn't know what she had to do. The volunteers were great and got her a buddy and I had to go bc it was sort of a drop off thing. With 200 kids and the volunteers there's no way parents and siblings could stay for safety reasons they asked parents to go.

While Hannah was at the High school we decided to use that time wisely and go grocery shopping. We went home watched a movie then after that we left to get Hannah. We got there a little early so I got her on video doing a relay race. At the end, Hannah got all kinds of goodies and I got Hannah's pictures taken with Tamika Catchings! How awesome is that!!

The Holidays are coming

The day after the Election I went through the storage closet and I wanted to see what our tree looked like since we got it from a very generous person from freecycle. Freecycle is a website where you post things that you would like to give away for free. It's great! Anyway I took the box out and open it up and the tree is absolutely perfect. It's a prelit tree and there's only a couple of lights that don't work but overall I couldn't ask for a more perfect tree.

Since there's nothing wrong with it I had planned on living it in the box for at least a week . I really didn't feel like putting it back into the storage closet because I arranged everything back really neatly, and the girls had plans of their own. They insisted that the tree has to be up. It was a 1-2-3 step tree so easy. We are saving the decorations for after Thanksgiving!

Is it me or does everybody just love Christmas decorations and collections! I can not figure out how I want my tree. I'm going through all of the collections and I really do love them all. I love the gold, bronze, silver, white, and even the more modern neon colors. So I ask my husband which colors do you like and he says the same thing. Since I can't make up my mind we just going to do the traditional red and green. This year I'm seeing a change.... The display trees don't have garland instead they are using ribbons and I'm thinking of doing the same.

I thought it was alittle crazy to put the tree up early...way early. But I think it's great. I think the holidays is a reminder that it's the people that count in life and now that our tree is up, I think it just helps us remember that much more.

Children's Museum

It's National Chemistry Month and we got free tickets to go to the Children's Museum. We saw some of the new exhibits and did a couple of chemistry experiments. The girls had a lot of fun!

Halloween

We had a Great Halloween! I never really enjoyed walking door to door and seeing strangers and now that I have children I really am against it. So this year and the last we did Trick or Treating and our High School and the Mall. The High School was a great experience bc they did so much for the holiday. They had games, a haunted maze, and tons of candy. They set up tables throughout a section of the school and decorated them and we said trick or treat. The turn out was amazing. I am so proud that our township does this.

We went to the Mall bc the girls were still in the costume and I wanted to use another Place Perks coupon and the radio station was telling people to get there and have more fun. We got there and I guess they were not set up for the candy instead that night they we only doing a costume contest and passing out candy on Friday night. I know there was alot of hot people bc there was a huge crowd, like shopping on Black Friday, It was crazy and no candy!!! The stores was telling people come back tomorrow, we'll have candy on Halloween. I'm sure they did but we didn't go back. Friday, Halloween night, we watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown with Hannah and Gabrielle.

This year I didn't want to spend money Halloween stuff and I looked for ways to achieve this goal. Hannah and Gabrielle's costume was from last year so I just bought some cute accessories and I only got Leia a costume with a $10 coupon I got from my Place Perks so I ended up paying for half of it and it's really cute so now she can play dress up and I got a size bigger so she will wear it again next year. Money isn't tight but saving goes a long way.

Yes we can!

President Obama and First Family!

Election Day was the one of the most memorable days of my life!

Tuesday I watched the morning news to see the turn out. Some places had long, very long lines! My husband and I voted around 4pm with the girls and had no wait at all! But there was a line forming when we left. Talk about good timing!

I think my girls are alittle young to know what this really means but I kept Wed. newspaper for their babybooks!