Punkins carving pumpkins

Thanks to my mom helping me at work today, I was able to get home at a decent hour. The girls had enough time to carve their Jack-o-lanterns just before the sun went down.

Happy Halloween

Scott really gets into decorating the outside of our house for Halloween. It seems we get pretty involved as well. Although I do have to temper it a little and remind him, after all, "Halloween is for the kids".


Halloween 2005 (Obviously, the wrong date on the photo.)




Halloween 2006


Halloween 2007



This year Scott made a head stone for me. (It says, "Melle B. laid to rest, a shallow grave will serve her best.) He said I should consider it an "honor". I didn't find it funny at all. So, with a little help from McKenna and my mom, we wrote his epitaph and I made him a headstone. Check out the video below.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I've been so busy. I just can't seem to get caught up with anything....
Awww, but finally, my favorite day of the week - Saturday. I fortunately have today to add a few posts, work on a few photos projects of my own and hopefully make a few Halloween costumes. (I'll let you know how that goes.)
I did make time to take a few photos of the girls while we picked up some pumpkins this week. I'll start w/ this photo, but hope to post a few more after I play with the photo effects. I so badly want to try some in b & w, but then we miss the beautiful fall colors. "Fall colors", those are my colors for today. I do love, oranges, reds and yellows :)

Gals, thanks so much for leaving me comments. Now you'll have to let me know - where do I comment to you back? Do I write you back on your blog or do I just post responses here on mine...I'm a little confused.

Any hoo, some have asked "why in the world would I blog?" and I've thought on that a lot....so, in keeping with my response to them, now I'll post a few photos and sort of journal about what's going on with us....


As I mentioned on my very first post, I have a new car! We said good-bye to our little red ranger in front of the Hyundai dealer Wednesday night. We got our red ranger 10 years ago, when we traded in the black ranger. The black ranger is the one I owned when I met Scott. Wasn't aware of it really, but now that I think about it, I guess I get pretty attached to cars.

So, officially, may I introduce you to Midnight, my new Hyundai Santa Fe. (It's the first time in a long time that we haven't owned a FORD.

First photo is with Andrea and the second photo is with yours truly and McKenna.

GARNETT AND GOLD are my colors today!
Wow, what a game! Go Noles!

Hey, hey, hey, here I go, actually a second post! Okay, I admit it, I never really thought I'd get this far. However, with two friends adding comments to my post, I can see how it can be addictive. Thank you! :)

Let's see, my color today....maybe some pink, some blue, some orange, you know, some birthday party colors. Not that it's my birthday but we finally had a chance to celebrate my and my mother's birthdays at our traditional dinner at our favorite Japanese steak house last night. It was a nice celebration with family and good friends :) I got a new music CD (which will go very nicely in my new little car), I got a new dress for work and I got lot's of money to spend at GRIFFINS!!!!!!!

OOPS! I can't use the words orange and blue in the same sentence...oh my gosh, I just did it again! FSU plays Miami today....hmm, I'm sure we won't do very well today, but I'm still hopin'.

Okay, I think I got this hokey pokey new fangled stuff workin'



hmmm, "the colors of me"? Well, right now....BLACK! No, not a bad thing....a gooood thing....

I just got a new car yesterday! Sweet! I mean it's been a while since I've really had my OWN car. Do you remember that feeling? And I mean I've thought about it a lot. Am I being selfish? I can remember when I couldn't wait to have a "mommy mobile". And I am ever so grateful I've had two wonderful reasons to have a mommy mobile and ever so grateful I had one.....but, just goes to show ya, that we really do change over time.

My new little black Santa Fe has a sunroof! Okay, that was the big selling point. It's as close as I can get again to my JEEP days and still tote around a family and all the paraphernalia for work and school. Next, I guess I can learn how to post a picture of my new car...Midnight. Midnight because I bought her on the first of October and she is "black as midnight" :)