Presley's First Halloween as (Annie)

Because Presley is soooo in LOVE with the movie "Annie" I decided to make her an Annie dress for Halloween. We had so much fun putting curlers and orange spray in her hair. P-lady however didn't like the curlers and screamed when I painted freckles on her. But once she was dressed up she was toooooo CUTE!

Getting Ready:

Trick-or- Treating with dad:

Stealing a glow stick at someones house (she liked this better then the candy:)



P-lady and Mom at Pizza Hut afterwards with friends:

Scariest thing I have EVER seen- "Happy Halloween to me!!"

This morning I went out to put a load of clothes in the washer and was greeted by a LARGE chunk of dead grass, (however we don't have grass, only pavement). So I took a closer look and realized it was a HUGE tan spider! The biggest spider I have EVER seen in my life. I am by no means exaggerating when I say it was as big as my entire hand!!!! I immediately killed it with the first thing I could find, then found Ben to get rid of it. He tried to tell me it was a "banana spider" but I thought he made that up because we still had tons of bananas in our garage. Well, it turns out he was right, they call them "Cane-banana spiders"! (Too bad I didn't get a real photo of this scary thing, but I am extremely glad I killed it, and will never again climb around in banana trees for bananas EVER again!)


(this looks exactly like the one I found, only you can't really comprehend the size of this thing until you see them in person!)


Apparently they are very dangerous (if I have the right name), this is what it said about them on line... " A bite from the banana spider is painful and neurotoxic. The victim of a bite will experience sweating and an irregular heartbeat. The bite from a banana spider can result in death and antivenin does exist, so seeking treatment as soon as possible is imperative. "

My Great Husband- on my birthday

Ok, I'm usually not the sappy, mooshy type, but I had to post how great my husband is. As most of you know he is bogged down with studying everyday. (This semester in particular is supposed to be the hardest of all the 4 years) -so he has literally studied at the library from opening to closing, then for a few hours more when he gets home EVERY DAY. However, yesterday was my birthday and he still managed to make me feel special. I picked him up after a super long test and he took me to dinner and got me cake and watched an old horror movie with me. He has another test in a few days but despite how stressed he may have been and needed to study he still took the night off to be with me. I on the other hand probably wasn't the most fun to be around. I got completely sick feeling (thanks to this pregnancy) and threw up most of the night. But Ben still stuck with me. I LOVE YOU Ben, thanks so much for all of the hard work you put forth for our family!

ps.. The brown sweatshirt he is wearing in that photo is what we have named "his study shirt" I bought it for him on one of our first Christmas together over 6 years ago and I truly loath this shirt (I have tried to secretly throw it away at times). He wears it everyday because the library is cold. So this is the only thing I have seen him in for weeks and I am beginning to think I wont see him in anything else until Christmas break!!! hahaha:)

Presley's first pony tail!

I have been dieing to put a pony tail in P-lady's hair. It has gotten sooo long, it was just a matter of keeping her still. I had to bribe her with the hairspray bottle to keep her from screaming. She seems so grown up to me.

Ben finally jumped the fence

Ben finally jumped the fence this weekend and cut down bananas. It was way harder then it looked. These trees are so big and the banana bundles are really heavy. I actually had to climb the fence and get on his shoulders to get them down!!! So much for being sneaky, I'm sure the whole neighborhood saw us:) But I am really excited to make banana bread -- yummy.