Big day.

Happy 10th Birthday to our adorable nephew, Jack!

and

Happy Anniversary to our wonderful friends, Jenn & Jeff... a.k.a. Jeffiner!

Love all of you!

Buzz.

Morning Movie Day! Megs & I are going to see "The Secret Lives of Bees". Yeah!

Just Kidding.

Due to likely inclement weather, the Vocabulary Parade has been postponed until Oct. 29. Now you'll have to wait 'til then to see my cute little Vocabulary Word.

Megan should be here in about 5 hours. Parmesan & Roasted Garlic Chicken for dinner. Yumminess!

Baseball hangover.

I've got another "baseball hangover", I'm having a hard time staying awake for these games... I made it to the top of the 9th before I fell asleep on the couch last night. I was hoping for better news about the Rays when I woke up this morning. There's always tonight, boys. Get 'er done, will ya?

Megan will be home for dinner tonight! I'm still not sure what I'm making, but I've got to make sure that it's something she likes. Trouble is, I can't keep track of which kid likes what. With very few exceptions, all of them will at least eat a little of everything, but for special occasions, like say, coming home from college, I want to make sure to make something she REALLY likes, especially since the rest of the weekend may be kind of hectic & this may be my one shot at feeding her a home-cooked meal.

I used to hear people talk on TV of "home-cooked meals" with such love & nostalgia & I just never used to get it. Not that my mom wasn't a good cook, because she was, but I always enjoyed eating out more than eating in. Within the last year or so, I have become such a fan of the "home-cooked meal", even when I'm the one cooking it. Planning meals, however, is another story... I HATE that! I need to get to the store soon, too, so I need to think of something p.d.q.

Tomorrow is "Vocabulary Parade" day at the elementary school, in lieu of Halloween. They haven't done it every year, but when Ben was in 1st or 2nd grade, he went as a BOOKWORM. Here he was the day before, he was home sick when I was creating my "work of art".

Tune in tomorrow for a picture of our new Vocabulary Word. I think he's gonna be pretty cute!

In the meantime... GO RAYS!!!

C'mon Boys!

I know I promised a coherent post, but that's not gonna happen. I had a very busy, productive day & I just sat down to watch the Rays. Down 2-0 in the 1st inning. C'mon boys, you can do it!

Various updates.

Jordan had a great time time at the dance. Of course, she didn't take any sweaty dancing pictures so I'm going to have to take her word for it that she actually danced, but she said she did so I'll take her word for it.

Jordan's game this weekend got postponed until tonight, but we managed to go to 2 soccer games anyway. How pathetic are we?! Saturday we watched her old team (that she was on for 5 years) play against a team that was comprised of a lot of players from the team she played with last year. It was fun watching so many kids we know & seeing their parents, many of who are great friends & who we miss very much. Sunday was a beautiful day (almost sweater weather, but not quite. Actually, not really close, but it wasn't unbearably hot, so we enjoyed it), so we decided to get out of the house the only way we know how... we went to a soccer game. We went to watch the local college girls play. Unfortunately, the home team lost, but all in all it was a really nice day.

I'm so glad the Rays are in the World Series, but GEEZ! I am so tired after staying up til after midnight watching those games. I hadn't planned on getting so involved in the whole thing, but I am. I'm looking forward to getting a good night's sleep tonight so I can stay up to watch the games... goodness knows I need it because I was CRANKY yesterday! Michael could barely stand me & I don't blame him because I could barely stand myself.

Megan is coming home this weekend. :) YEAH! She's coming in on Thursday night, so I think she's going to join me for a Friday morning... I'm looking forward to it.

I'll try to post a more coherent post tomorrow...this one is all over the place, but hopefully that good night's sleep will help me make some sense.

Homecoming

Jordan is at her Homecoming dance right now. Hopefully, she is dancing her butt off & taking some pictures of her own, but, just in case I took some to share...

Here is Jordan & her friend, Kara at our house before group pictures (notice 2 things: 1) I moved my Halloween decorations, just for the occasion. 2) Jordan is wearing HEELS! I believe this is the first time for that).

Here are the soccer girls who were in their group.

The whole group. They had dinner "reservations" for 6pm at Carrabba's... they left the photo sesssion at 5:55pm... the restaurant is AT LEAST 20 minutes away... I'm interested to hear how that turned out.

My favorite picture of Jordan this evening.

Me & my Jordie-Girl. I was not prepared to have my pic taken tonight, but one of the other moms, who just happens to be Jordan's high school soccer coach, insisted. There is no resemblance, but I swear, she's mine...and Michael's. Michael wasn't able to get off work in time to see her tonight, but if he were there, you'd see where she got her looks.

Anyway, I'm exhausted from watching last night's Ray's game so, I'm going to pretend to watch the FSU-Wake Forest soccer game on the DVR & I'll probably fall asleep. But, I'll be on the couch where I'll get to talk to J when she gets in. I'll let you know how it went tomorrow...