WHAT?

Are you kidding me? It is November? Just 2 blog posts ago I wrote that it was the beginning of October!! This means a few things: 1: time is going too quickly! 2: I don't blog near enough, and 3: Thanksgiving is right around the corner!

I like Thanksgiving. Mostly because I love eating ham and cheesy potatoes and green bean casserole and my mom's homemade warm buns with homemade strawberry jam. YUM! Mostly, I like eating those things because I am not the one that has to make it. I just enjoy. This year however, I am not sure I will make it home to eat "home cooked" food. I'll have to eat my own home cooked food, which for me, consists of mac and cheese. If I'm lucky, it is the extra cheesy kind. And if I am even luckier - Brett will cook :) Which he does most all the time anyway.

Last night we had a little fire in the backyard. We burned a few sticks and leaves (shhh!!) It is perfectly legal to have a fire in the backyard if you are cooking something, so we made smores. You just aren't supposed to burn yard waste. So it was a joyous occasion and I should have taken pictures, but I didn't. Speaking of pictures - I have been TRYING to get my house all nice and clean so I can walk through it with my video camera and show it to people who haven't seen our house. But alas - I am terrible at making the whole house clean at once. I'll get one room all nice and clean and then the next day try to do another room, and by the time that is done, the first room is messy again! Can ANYONE relate?

Happy 21st Birthday to my little sister a couple days ago! She's all grown up now and everything. Now, if only she'd act grown up. Just kidding Laura! I love you.

Parker, our little cat has become quite the monster!!! Brett ordered a pair of shoes off the internet and they came in the mail the other day in a box. Parker tore around in the box and chewed up one side. He'll run around, and then run straight in the box and duck down inside and then poke his little head up make some meowing sounds and then jump out again. Oh, the cuteness. :) Currently Brett is lying on the couch with his notebook in front of him studying. Parker just jumped up and sat on his notebook and looked at him like, "hey, I'm sitting on your notebook - what's up?" Then he'll bite the paper. Oy.

So on the 31st we had these 3 little kids come to the door trick or treating. I had thought they came around on the 30th, Saturday, so that night we hid in the basement with the lights off and watched a movie. Well, on Sunday we were upstairs and had the lights on and these 3 cute little kids came by - and I had no candy.....so, what did Brett find to give them? They each got 1 whole bar of Hershey's chocolate (the kind you use for smores). Those lucky kids.

I'm off to ride my bike before it gets too cold. Maybe I can get Brett to go with me. Fat chance though!