Decision Day

Where there is Great Love, there are always Miracles

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Stay safe!

Goodbye October and Hello November

Our Halloween evening was a lot of fun!  We had a lot of visitors seeking candy.  
If my son had been home for more than five minutes he would have known that his jack o' lantern was a HUGE success!  We received compliments all evening and everyone was taking pics of his jack o' lantern, not ours.  lol  
The pics of my son as a nerd are left overs.  He stopped home betweeen parties and he had already lost his pocket protector and pens!  I told him that he should have gone as Clark Kent and wear a Superman shirt under his button up.  I'm a fan of Superman and always watched Smallville with my son.  Any fans of Smallville out there?

Hope everyone enjoyed their evening and stayed safe!

Welcome November!

Where is your pocket protector and pens?!?!? LOL

Kyle's jack o" lantern.  He didn't use a kit, this was out of his head. :)

Our front walkway.
This is my jack o" lantern, friendly for the youngsters. :)

Kyle's not a ham! LOL

Ara, on the left, just rescued a baby squirrel two days ago and called us.
Kyle and I picked him up and dropped him at a ladies home that does
wildlife rescue, he's doing very well!

I see Clark Kent here,  maybe next year. :)

Happy Halloween

I can't believe it's Halloween already, which means it's the last day of October!  Where is the time going??  Does anyone else feel this way?
Kyle and I found pumpkins for $.50 each, so we bought 5!
We have 4 out of 5 carved and Kyle will carve the 5th one today.  
Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!  What is everyone doing today?  Are you dressing up?  Passing out candy?  Eating candy?? LOL

Here's what we've got ready for tonight so far...

Love my son's imagination!

He's king of carving pumpkins in our home. :)

Taking a photo of his work.  :)

I was kinda hoping for an all brown bag,

so that we could afford the high cost of living. :)

A few of my cupcakes

Which bowl of candy do you think is for trick or treaters 

and which one is for me???

Our National Symbol

The other day hubby and I were getting on I-4 and I saw a Bald Eagle!  I was so upset that I didn't have my camera and we weren't in a good place to pull over to attempt to use my cell phone camera.

Then today hubby and I were out and about with camera in hand just in case I saw some fun Halloween or fall decorations.  We were on our way home and cruising close to a lake and there it was, another Bald Eagle!  I was so excited and yelling to hubby "pull over, pull over"!  Talk about driving under pressure. LOL  We pulled off the road and I jumped out of the car!  He or she was sitting high, about 100ft away, over looking Lake Conway.  I started snapping while I could hear the birds behind me crying because this powerful bird was too close for comfort!  He didn't sit still for long, but it was a beautiful sight to see.  I thought with the election close by this was a perfect time to see a Bald Eagle.
I found a couple of websites with some great information about the Bald Eagle, our national symbol.  
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle9.html or http://www.usflag.org/baldeagle.html

I have to tell you that seeing our country's national symbol at this time has really lifted my spirits.  Seeing two Eagles in five days is a sign to me that everything will be okay, we're strong!

God Bless America!

He was fast and at this point about a 180 ft away!
Breathtaking!

Fabulous Finds

Everyone knows by now that I shop thrift stores regularly.  And I'm finding that there are a lot of friends in blog land that enjoy thrift stores as well.  I wish we could all shop together, but until then lets share our finds here in blog land. :)
My son went to a couple of thrift stores this week trying to piece together his Halloween costume.  He's going as a "nerd".  Yes, there will be pics taken. :)  It makes me happy that he's being thrifty with my money. LOL

I couldn't resist these cute bird houses!  They were $2.99 each!

I placed my cell phone there to give you an idea of their size.

Now will they go in my kitchen or outside for little birds??? hmmmmmm

I found this lovely bowl, it was $.99!  It will have one of the most important jobs

in our home, it will soon be holding chocolate!  LOL

     Acquiring a dog

   may be the only opportunity

      a human ever has

        to choose a relative.

I saved the best for last!  

This was only $.49 and I just love it!

 Hope everyone is having a fabulous Friday!

   

Endangered Species

When it comes to cleaning his room or taking out the garbage my son has to be reminded.  So, when I hear lawn equipment start up and there hasn't been any reminders I get excited!  Now when I was a kid I didn't get any reminders and if I didn't remember my chores I was grounded!  What is going on???  My son has some friends that  have chores and some that don't have any.  Plus, some of them have maid service that includes their bedrooms!

Did you have chores?  How about your kids?  

Pull your shorts up!  LOL

He caught me snapping and there's nothing he can do to stop me
because he knows it's a mother's right to snap! :)