Happy Halloween!

Things have been so busy since Halloween. I am finally going back an posting on all the happenings of the past month starting with Halloween. PP and I have some really great friends (another mother and her daughter) here. We tend to spend ALOT of time together. So naturally we had to Trick-or-Treat with them. My friend's husband and brand new adorable baby went to. We all piled in the car and drove from house to house. With Halloween on a football Friday, not many houses had the porch light on. We still managed to take home a bag full of candy. After hitting a few houses we went to my friends' aunt and uncle's house. We roasted hot dogs and made s'mores. It was a great time!

Halloween Carnival at DSU

DSU Panhellenic Council sponsored a Halloween carnival in conjunction with the Child Development Center on campus. PP and I went with our friends. The girls had a blast playing the games and getting their faces and nails painted. They also came home with a TON of candy!

Playing pin the wart on the witch

One of the many candy walks

Posing like true rock stars!

Jackie the Jack O'Lantern

This afternoon we carved a Jack O'Lantern which PP named Jackie. PP and I cleaned the guts out of the pumpkin. Then GBE and PP collaborated on Jackie's face. GBE drew the face with PP's input. He also carved the pumpkin. PP and Nick were there for moral support! While they were carving I made pumpkin seeds.

PP and Nick got a little bored during the carving...so they played with the duck!

Cheering at the Game

Tonight we went to the CHS game. PP cheered for a bit and GBE watched some high school football. It was sooo cold so we only stayed until half time.

Let's Go WildCats!
V-I-C (clap clap) T-O-R-Y, victory!
Spread that V dot that I curl the CTORY!

The Songwriting Shop

Since the blog is about PP and I, we created a profile for PP to post on the blog as well. As you can see, she posted one of her songs the other day. Actually I typed as she recited since it is much faster that way. She has become quite the songwriter in the last couple of months. She started writing songs so she would have material for when she was a pop star. Can we say too much Hannah Montana?!?! I finally had to break it to her that she couldn't sing and a career was probably not in the grand plan for her. She was most upset and I felt bad. So I countered my bad news with "...but you are a great songwriter!". That wasn't good enough. So my sister and I convinced her that writing the songs was as good as singing them. Now she has a songwriting business in the works with all the family being employed in different areas. So that is the back story on the songs by PP. Be expecting many more posts from her. She has lots of songs!

I gave you a dream

I gave you a dream
And you just gave it back to me
Everything you wanted but you said you really didn't need it
When you did
So you said bye-bye to me
I said your the one that needs help
Just come back to me
Just come back to me baby
C'mon get up rise up
Baby I gave you a dream
But you just said no way
I gave you what I wanted
I gave you a dream but you gave it away
You said I don't know what I want
So take that back
You know have to
So take that back
You know you want to
So take it back from me
You just have to come back and get it right

A Perfect Weekend

We had a great weekend! Friday after school we just hung around the house. PP invited a friend over to play in the afternoon then went to her house for dinner. I spent the afternoon reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It is an AWESOME book! I usually don't get into the whole vampire thing but this book is really a suspenseful love story. It is the first book in a four-book series. When I went to pick up PP I talked with my friend, PP's friend's mom, for awhile. We had to head home early because PP had CHS Cheer camp the next morning.

PP had a great time at the cheer camp! She went two years ago and had a blast. Since we travel so much on the weekends (with my parents in Lucedale and GBE in Oxford and her Mimi and Papa in Olive Branch), things like this don't always workout. PP was supposed to go to Mimi and Papa's this weekend so it didn't look good. On Thursday, PP had a great idea (all by herself too!). She asked if it would be ok to go to the cheer camp Saturday morning then to Mimi and Papa's that afternoon. I told her that would be ok with me but she needed to call and ask Mimi. Of course Mimi said that would be ok. So bright and early (argg) Saturday morning we got up to get ready for cheer camp. The cheerleaders from CHS spent the morning teaching the girls the cheers and the jumps so they would be ready to perform their cheers at a game next Friday night. At the end of the camp the girls put on show. I made it just in time! PP was so excited because two friends from school went to the camp as well. Bless her heart she isn't always so coordinated but she ALWAYS has a great time!

The ONLY picture of her looking at me!

One of the cheer they performed at the end or Cheer Camp

After cheer camp, we left to drop her off with Mimi and Papa and I headed to GBE's. Since it was a Saturday in the fall that meant College Football. I enjoy a good football game but can't do an ENTIRE day of football games. But I wanted to spend the day with GBE so I decided I would get the second book in the Twilight series I mentioned earlier and read. So I sat on the couch next to my GBE all day reading while he watched football. It sounds odd but it was wonderful. We were spending time with each other and both doing what we wanted to be doing. Then we repeated the good idea on Sunday. I ended up reading my entire book and he saw all his games. We did miss PP but the quiet is nice every now and again. This weekend will be not be so relaxing...cheering at a football game, a Halloween festival and carving pumpkins!

Apologies

You know when you are always upset about one thing a person does and you tell them how it makes you feel but they don't seem to listen and change the action...I have one of those people in my life. We tend to argue about the same things all the time and nothing gets resolved. Until yesterday...we had a spat. I got upset and a little unnecessarily nasty. Then they got mad and we hung up the phone angry at each other. Then out of nowhere about thirty minutes later this person realized what I had been talking about and apologized. It was wonderful. I cannot describe the feeling I got at that moment. I felt like I mattered and had been listened to. It was like a new chapter in our lives had just been written. Those two little words made my day! Thank you!

Hello

I have been considering creating a blog for awhile now. I did not feel like I/we had much to blog about. But I finally talked myself into trying it out. We have family and friends who we don't see often so I decided this may be a good way for them to know about us. We will see how it goes....