HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Just wanted to say happy halloween to all of our friends and family back home...have a good time tonight!! AND....to my very best friend Nikki..... H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y!!!!! I so wish I could be there to help you celebrate....we all love and miss you!!

Halloween....a day early

Well one of the things we found out about our town when we moved here is that they do Halloween a day early. The whole town has all their trick or treating the night before Halloween and then on Halloween the whole town goes to a parade....ya a little strange, but we are going with the flow:) We headed out with our next door neighbors and the kids had a blast.

Bath Time!!!

Gracie and Charlie love taking baths together, in fact i don't think i have ever given them a bath separately since Charlie has been born. I love the age they are at now because they really keep eachother entertained...meaning I get more done:)

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y!!!!

We have so many birthdays starting today and way into November. Today is my best buddy Steph's 29th b-day...yay..and on Halloween is my other best buddy, Nikki's 29th b-day... HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS!!! For a few days you get to be the older and wiser friends:) We also get to wish a happy birthday to Dave, Wade, Wes, Linnea and my mom this month...wow...and can you guys believe we are only a few weeks away from Thanksgiving...ahhh!!!

Bella

If you get a chance to get out and see a movie this weekend, this is the one to see. And if you can't find it in a theatre near you then make sure you tell your local theatre that you would like it to come to your theatre. This movie has won the people's choice award at the Toronto Film Festival. Amongst all the other degrading and horror films that are out this weekend, this one blows them all away. ************************************************************************************* Hollywood, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Bella, the pro-life themed movie that has the potential to change hearts and minds on abortion, opened solidly with $1.3 million over the weekend in a limited release in just 31 cities. Though other movies achieved higher gross sales, they needed significantly more theaters to do so. The film stars Eduardo Verastegui as a former soccer player who learns the value of human life and helps a pregnant waitress, played by Tammy Blanchard, appreciate the value of the baby she's carrying. The number one movie this weekend, according to initial figures, was "Saw IV," a Holloween horror flick that took in $32.1 million. The movie had the highest per theater average of any in the top ten with $10,087 per theater over 3,183 theaters across the nation. Bella firmly established itself in second place with $7,784 on average at each of the 167 theaters where it opened this weekend. That's well ahead of the projections for any of the other movies in the top ten that played at 10-20 times more theaters such as Disney’s romantic comedy “Dan in Real Life," the horror movie “30 Days of Night” or Disney’s other top movie “The Game Plan." In fact, Bella boasts a higher opening screen average than previous Latin releases this year such as “El Cantante” which generated $1,993 per theater at 540 cinemas and “Ladron que roba el ladron” which grossed $1,393 per theater from 340 across the country. A third movie geared towards Hispanics, “Feel the Noise,” only took in $1,110 per engagement from a whopping 1,015 theaters. Bella opens in another 12 cities on November 9, including Albuquerque, Des Moines, Duango, Colorado, El Paso, Green Bay, Honolulu, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh and Tucson. The sales figures could prompt its distributor to move to a larger release in the coming weeks.

The BIG Day!!!

Wes and Jill's wedding was BEAUTIFUL!! The weather was perfect and everything went so smoothly. The bride looked stunning and so did the wedding party. Gracie and Marshall did a really cute job of flower girl and ring bearer. I can't wait to see the professional pics, but here are a few I took....

Another Halloween Playgroup

The kids had a blast getting into their costumes again...Gracie was excited to see all the princesses!!! And Charlie found this horse in the play area and pretty much stayed there the whole time...:)

Rehearsal Dinner

Wade's parents had the rehearsal dinner at thier place and it was unbelievable. They cooked an unbelievable meal on their own, and their place was decorated so beautifully... Here is everybody gathering in the kitchen Wes and Jill gave Gracie the bride barbie and she was SO excited!! Wes and Jill we can't wait for the big day! We love you guys so much and we can't wait to see all the joy to come in your married life!!

More pics

Mother of the Groom

The practice wedding

Thursday night we had the "practice wedding" as Gracie calls it. Gracie is SO excited to be the flower girl. She got to meet Marshall the ring bearer and they hit it off right away and now she wants to marry him:) Gracie was extra excited because I let her wear the necklace i wore on my wedding day and she got to wear it down the same aisle that I walked down when I married Wade, she thought that was pretty neat. Everybody had a great time and we can't wait for the BIG DAY!!!

Trunk 'r Treat

This was the first one I had ever been to...what a blast. Our church put this on and the kids loved it!! People decorate the back of their car/trunk and then hand out candy. It was a blast and just one of the many halloween things we have going on...crazy!!!

Playgroup

I joined the MOMS group of Edwardsville and i've met some really nice ladies and some really cute kiddos. They break the playgroups up into age and this month all the playgroups had Halloween parties. Tuesday was the party for Charlie's age group, but he was sick, and i promised Gracie she could go.... so he stayed home with daddy and Gracie and I headed over. We had a great time and ate some yummy food.