All I want for Chrithmath

Is my two front teeth! Rachel finally lost the second front tooth. For a while there, she looked like Nanny McPhee, because her tooth had shifted to the middle and was kind of crooked.

Rub a dub dub

Three kids in the tub!

New York!

Yesterday, I went to New York. My friend, Christy, and I went with the Westminster Riding Club on a chartered bus! It was a lot of fun. I was able to see my friend, Karen, from high school. It was nice to catch up. We went to Chinatown, had lunch in Little Italy, and got to see the Rockette's Christmas Spectacular! It was really good! The only thing that was a little crazy was that they were going to lite the Christmas tree at Rockafeller Center, so there was a ton of people!

Next fall, I hope that my Aunt Mary and her family and mom can come down and we all can go together! There was so much going on! Much more to see than we had time for!

Mascara anyone?

Madison and I were bonding the other morning...actually she was watching me put on my make up, so I thought I would put a little mascara on her. This morning while I was checking my email she wandered upstairs. When I came to find her, I found this....

She also had put on my purfume and my deoderant! Fun! The teenage years should be fun!

Candy Goodness

We had such a fun day yesterday! First, the kids (Jake and Madi) got up with Rachel (not to fun for me!) So we decided that we would start our day early...usually I try to put it off till 10 or 11. Because we started our day off so early, we had a lot of spare time. We decided we would suprise Rachel and have lunch with her. She was really suprised to see us. I will have to do it again....I think we will have to go on a Friday and have school lunch (pizza) with her. I loved school lunch pizza when I was a kid.

Then, Stacey suprised the kids by coming over for Halloween. Rachel said "I got 2 surprises today. Mommy, Madi and Jake for lunch and now Stacey." I love to see excitement in the kids.

We then went trick or treating. We walked around Othello and Juliet and then we dropped Jake back at the house and went for "real" trick or treating. We have always just stayed on our streets to trick or treat, but Madi and Rachel were so into it this year. Stacey and I drove over to the Greens ( a big neighborhood/community about a mile away) and they went trick or treating for another 45 minutes. I have never seen so many kids before! We will have to do it again next year! Here is a picture of every childs post trick or treating ritual...surveying the goodies they just got!