2010 Annual Spring Valley Pumpkin Contest

Yes, it is that time of year! Time to get our pumpkins decorated and entered in the annual school pumpkin contest. The pumpkins have to be based on a story book character. Luke went with "Charlotte's Web" and Landry chose "Horton Hears A Who"

We will find out soon if they placed!

The boys had fun (and momma too) working on these characters.

Happy Halloween!

The Clowns you will see at Wal-Mart!

One of my many nursing jobs is that I give Flu shots for a company at retail stores for a couple of months. Recently I was at Wal-Mart giving shots when somebody tapped me on my shoulder to ask if this is where they are giving flu shots. You can imagine my face as I turned to see a clown asking me this! I didn't know what to say seeing this sweet little lady all dressed up. I told her yes and that I would be happy to give here a shot. As I was getting things ready I asked her was there a carnival going on at Wal-Mart today? Why was she dressed up as a clown? Her reply was that she has been at a VA Hospital early this morning for kids. I smiled......and then it hit me! Wait, it is 3:00pm now and you are walking around like this at Wal-mart? Ha! Bless her sweet heart, I guess she just wanted some attention and kept her clown suit on as she went to go pick up her cat food and get a flu shot.

Oh, the Clowns you will see at Wal-Mart!

Chili Peppers....Oh my!!

My Father-in-Law gave us a HUGE feed sack of these beautiful chili peppers. I think he was secretly wanting to get them out of his house. ha! Casey and I decided we would roast them on the grill and then freeze them to use in recipes later.

Wow! What a chore this was.

The red ones are not used much for chili relleno recipes so we had to throw them away.

Kind of sad because they were so beautiful.

So, one night while the kids were getting in their last summer night swim I grilled all these beautiful guys. (Never again! They produce a smoke that makes your eyes water AND I got several fire ant bites while doing this. I had no idea there was an ant bed near the grill. OUCH!)

Oh, I shouldn't complain.......they will be well worth it as I taste their goodness in my yummy recipes!

I even baked several cakes for the school Fall Festival that night too! Just call me Betty Crocker....please, don't!

Leave it to my silly husband to make me feel better after all that cooking and a swollen foot from ant bites. Love you, hun!

Beach and Best of Friends

(I am back! Sorry to be away so long. If you follow my best gals blog, Trendy Mindy and Her Loves, then you know about Travis. Let's keep praying for him. God is sooo good and is hearing our prayers!!!)

Back to my previous post, we went with some wonderful friends from our NeighborHOOD. The kids had a ball and it was so fun to relax in the sun (when it wasn't raining) with our fun friends!

So THANKFUL for GOOD Friends to share family vacations with!

The Reeds in Galveston, Texas

Our super fun vacation at the Beach!

Stayed tuned to see who went with us!