Halloween '08

Another year, another Halloween. We started out the usual way and headed to Emerald Hills in Edmonds for some trick or treating. You can tell the economy is taking a toll even on those that are "comfortable" as there weren't quite as many full size candy bars as in years past. I know, trivial eh?

The boys went out & had fun, BJ in his 1930's Gangster outfit & Brennen in his UPS delivery driver uniform. Yea, I was a little proud of that but just so you know, he picked it out on his own. I tried to get him to wear something else, but the UPS guy is what he wanted. Oh & just and we definitely DO NOT promote smoking stogies of any type, but when playing a part you have to look it, paper cigar was pretty disgusting according to B!



Anyways, here are a couple of pics:

Brennen chewing on some pre-trick or treat candy

BJ with his "I'm a cool 30's gangster look"

Brennen on the Trick or treatin' trail

BJ looking cool waiting for his much slower li'l bro

BJ & Brennen with a new friend

Brennen with some "not scary" ghosts

Se7en Fun Facts

So a friend of mine put up something on her blog that was very interesting to me ... 7 little / unknown facts - so here are mine ...

I actually like staying up until 3am & getting up around 11am, but I think Bryan's not the most fond of it.

I definitely wish my family could / would go on more vacations ... finances & such being what they are, it's sometimes difficult. Sometimes though, we could put more effort into "local" vacations or maybe just more family time away from work.

My family is absolutely the most important thing in the world and I couldn't be more proud of all my boys -- even if they drive me nuts when they all gang up on me. Which by the way, is almost an everyday event! No seriously, talk to anyone who has spent time with all of us, it's always in good fun though.

My friends (you know who you are!) mean the world to me, and I hope they never forget that, no matter how busy my schedule is.

I'm pretty sure both Bryan & I overcompensate for our ... um ... somewhat lacking childhoods & we try to do everything for our boys, probably too much at times. When you have a childhood friend who tells you your childhood sucked ... um yeah. Our philosophy is absolutely better to try harder doing more than less (as long as your kids behave of course!)

I actually do have 3 brothers, though you wouldn't know it 'cause we're really not close (I wish that was different.) One of my brothers is 18 years older than me & is actually only 2 or 3 years younger than Bryan's parents. Sadly I'm much, much closer to Bryan's 2 younger brothers.

I love Days of our Lives and sadly to say, have watched it since I was 13. Nearly 20 years, yep, I'm old.

Huskies & Mariners Sports Event

The boys had a busy weekend a couple of weekends ago, I took them to the Husky Football game (vs. Stanford - sadly another loss) and Bryan took them to the last Mariners game of the season.

It's been difficult going to all of the Huskies game and watching them play worse than the previous. There's hope I suppose, they will have a new coach next year (pretty sure) and hopefully they're schedule will not be nearly as difficult next year.

Ah well, it's these times when they are just terrible that makes you really appreciate it that much more when they're good. We still managed to have fun at the Husky game and I think Brennen had a great time!