Updates for the Fall

Yeah, so, I haven't been updating because our Internet has been so slow. I took advantage of the faster Internet at my parents' house in Texas to do a little uploading.

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/o-turns-one.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/many-faces-of-dr-no-also-known-as-elsie.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/curls-are-for-girls-os-first-haircut.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-at-park-and-playground.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/halloween-2011.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/jack-o-lantern-lane.html

http://beaverfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/bama-babies.html

More to come...

Cheers.

Bama Babies

The first (of presumably many) Alabama football games for the kiddos. Great weather, good game. Nice to be with the Beavers..

Hello, November..

Yup. It's November 2. And I've decided not to participate in NaBloPoMo no mo. At least not this year. I have a ton of other things going on that take precedence. You know, like survival. This is a busy month where we are going to travel at least 3 of the five weekends. One of them I'm headed to Phoenix to see DJ, another we're headed to Tuscaloosa to take Elsie to her first Bama game day experience (and maybe game?) and then we're heading to the ol' motherland for Thanksgiving, planning to see my sister in a musical (I'm jealous) and possibly go to the Baylor game at Jerry World. Ah, we'll see.

I do have a special project I will be working on this month. More on that to come, but first I wanted to update you on how our debt thermometer is looking:

First 10K Chunk, started 10/1/11, paid off as of 11/1/11

Fundraising Thermometer




After this month is over, we should aaaaaaalmost be halfway there. And then things will slow down considerably. We did have a yard sale, so that's fun. Didn't make too much, a little over $100. Our yard sale philosophies were a little different (Eli: get rid of stuff, Me: make money to pay off debt), so the next time we do it, we probably need to meet in the middle. Oh, well.

My projects for this month, about which I will write more in depth later, are:

1. Complete our Legacy Drawer (a la Dave Ramsey)
2. Complete the Holiday Control Journal (a la FlyLady)
3. Complete the Regular Control Journal (also FlyLady).

One and two are my priorities...

Cheers.

Halloween 2011

Honestly, I had already decided not to do Halloween costumes this year. There's been so much going on that I just didn't want to stress myself out about it. But, the daycare provider wanted the kids to come in costume for a little party, so I looked around. In a box of boy clothes that Aunt Bev had sent, I found a Spider-Man costume. Score! Free costume. Then a friend at church mentioned that her son was going as a cowboy since he still had his hat from Elsie's party, and I thought, hey, that's not a bad idea. So this year, no family theme, just Spider-Man and the cowgirl, and Daddy Sheriff. We went trick-or-treating to a couple of the neighboring houses. Elsie loved it. People gave out SO MUCH candy to a 2-year-old. I wanted to scream, "Are you CRAZY??" But then, I knew that the adults would eat most of it, so it was okay. Haha.

Jack-o-Lantern Lane

Last year we went to the Farmer in the Dell pumpkin patch out highway 14 toward Loachapoka. It was nice, but it was dusty and there wasn't a whole lot that was friendly for the little little ones. This year we tried a new place. We went out to Jack-o-Lantern Lane in LaFayette, AL. It was a hit. They had an inflatable park ("I wan play!" -- Elsie), train ride, tractor ride, petting zoo, and pumkin patch. We might go back there again next year. It was definitely worth the drive.