Matt, as a kid, used to enjoy latchhooking. He hadn't done a latchhooking project in years and Julia's friend Connie brought him a kit that had been sitting in her closet for years, with one row partially finished. He finished the kit and the results are below. He's thinking of buying a bigger, more complicated kit to work on after the New Year.

Last night a fellow Twilight "Mom" and I participated in the Hot Topic New Moon Autograph event. We each paid $30 which bought us a New Moon special event t.shirt (Tricia is sporting hers in this picture-I'm saving mine for opening night), & 2 posters (one signed by the two vampires). Their signatures ended up being scribbles and totally illegible...hopefully one day I'll remember who the signatures were from!
Here we are standing in line for our turn to meet the New Moon actors.

We stood in line for approximately 2 hours. And, we were not the oldest in line, but almost! :)Here is just a portion of the line which wrapped around outside the mall entrance door.

Following the autograph event was a free evening Q&A in the outdoor amphitheater (and, it was chilly!) Q&A picture

The two actors were:
Edi Mue Gathegi: who plays vampire Laurent in Twilight and dies in New Moon
Jamie Campbell-Bower: Vampire Caius who is a new vampire not in Twilight but will appear for the first time in New Moon

This past weekend Matt and I went to see the movie "Where the Wild Things Are". I slightly remember the book when I was a little girl. So, I dragged Matt to it Friday evening. We both enjoyed the movie, not that it was worth paying full price, but we were inspired by the movie to create our very own living room fort!

OMG, As a child I remember creating forts out of bed sheets & dinning room chairs! LOL...good memories!

We didn't do a great job with it, but we had fun attempting to make a "roof" over our blow up mattress, LOL...yes, we went high tech and took the opportunity to inflate our camping mattress in the den. Check Matt out peeking through the door portal

At first glance, Penny and Sierra didn't want anything to do with the fort. Eventually they ended up on the mattress with us.

However, Nacho was ALL about getting comfortable under the fort "ceiling fan roof" (instead of moon roof- get it? LOL we left a gap to get air under the covers)

As the night progressed our "roof" started falling inward, so with a little help from Matt's foot we could keep the roof intact (at least until his leg got tired :) LOL

We highly recommend in your spare time, to create your very own sheet fort! If for nothing else but to enjoy the silliness and brighten your day with smiles and Laughs

This past weekend, at Tribble Mill Park, we brought two cameras with us our SLR film camera (& the digi- we already shared those pics with you on our last blog post). Today, we picked up our developed B&W pictures from Wolf. Here are some of our favorites...

Matt took this one of me on the swing set- he's pretty good behind the camera lense!


I really like this one of Bingo Patudo, he has soulful eyes:

Finally, the best (and, that's not saying much) from a series of timed pictures we attempted:

What a beautiful Saturday here in GA! Matt and I had to get ourselves out of the house & away from any crowds. So, we packed a picnic lunch, loaded Matt's hand held GPS with coordinates & headed outdoors to get fresh air in our lungs and miles on our tennis shoes.

There was a chill in the morning but as the progressed the sun warmed us up to the low 70's. Matt and Bingo at the start of the trail that lead us 3+ miles around the lake.

We were searching for three caches called "The good, The bad & The ugly".
Check out the moon in this picture!

Like I said - - It is a BEAUTIFUL day today!!

Here's Matt headed down for the first cache of the day:

Walking along the serene trails, we spotted a deer along the fence line...and a squirrel lacking any fear:

Happy Chihuahua's
Penny...
Bingo...

And, Matt graciously took a break from caching so we could take a group photo with our cameras timer:
One final pic of me with the dawgs...on our way back to the car:

The Goblins have rested & we remembered to move our clocks back too! Halloween was a fun time! We had a few friends over to help pass out candy to the neighborhood children. It was a cold and drizzly evening, so we set up shop in the garage. Unfortunately the lighting was poor so we did not get a great group picture. But, this is the closest we could get:

Our party costumes were Spider & Web (Connie & Gerald), The Cakestress/Bakestress(Crystal), Scary Witch (Tracey), Queen of Da'nile (Julia), Cross dressing Tu-tu wearing Chihuahua (Nacho) & Gauze Zombie (Matt)
My Posse' The Girls

Matt really got into his costume character


At the end of our evening, the Baketress made frosting shots for us - for one last sugar rush! Cheers!

Matt, showing off, attempted to eat his sugar shot in one gulp...
He was unscessful, but enjoyed trying

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!

A few weekends ago, at "Gold Rush Days" we picked up an adorable Halloween Tutu for Penny to wear on Halloween. Penny obviously did NOT appreciate the costume...but, she sat long enough for me to take one picture.

On the other hand (or paw), Nacho got very jealous that Penny got to wear the Tutu and he danced around barking until we let him try it on. Sometimes Tutu's aren't just for girls. Nacho LOVES to be the center of attention!

He LOVED it so much he didn't want us to remove the costume and just wanted to play fetch while wearing his tutu

It is just soooo obvious Nacho is a girlie boy:

At least the Tutu fits them both, so we can let both Penny (by force) and Nacho (our little cross dresser) take turns Halloween evening.

We are getting our "Spooky on" here with our decorations! Check out this rose vase. The spiders are taking over! Don't be Scared!!! :)


The skeleton is not real, I promise.

This weekend I co-hosted a retirement/birthday tea for a very dear friend of mine. Tea was held up in Maysville at the Burns-Telford Tea House. A tea house with plenty of character and delicious food. The group of attendees are all tea aficionados and enjoy a proper cuppa!

My plate of yummies...

Isn't this beautiful? Makes my mouth water

It's not even Halloween, but...the tree matched my hat & I couldn't resist the photo opp.

After the tea, full of cafiene, we got silly and snap happy! :) But, the photo shoot produced this cute picture.

While I was enjoying a relaxing day with friends, Matt ran "The Fast Pace 5K" in Cumming,GA! His time was 29 minutes, 7 seconds and he came in 71st place out of 140 runners! Yea Matt!! I am VERY proud of him!!!

It's Fall Y'all!!

This past Sunday we trekked up to Dahlonega, GA to participate in "Gold Rush Dayz"! One of my favorite GA Fall Festivals. LOVE, LOVE "Gold Rush Dayz"!! If you are in GA, you should check it out next year!

It was a chilly day and I relished the opportunity to put on my crocheted hat and knitted scarf!

One of the F.U.N parts in the festival experience is trying out the fair food. We just couldn't pass up trying the DEEP FRIED REECE'S CUPS. We stood in line 4-ever because the booth really wasn't ready for customers (even though they thought they were.). First they dipped the chocolate cups into funnel cake batter, then they fried them in a big vat of grease, turning until they turned golden brown. Well, that is how the cooking should have gone if the process went as planned.

Their first try at making these, their grease wasn't hot enough to fry the treats...the reece's cups just melted into a gooey mess...

What seemed like 30 minutes later, the treats were finally ready. Man, they sure looked good

But, they tasted horrible!! YUCK! A Total waste of money, just look at Matt's face for a clear idea on what he thought of them:

Not even golden on the outside, melted chocolate mixed with uncooked batter on the inside, with a frozen peanut butter center! Note to self: Don't try these EVER again!

More Columbus Day Weekend, GA Aquarium pictures

I FINALLY uploaded the rest of our pictures from our Columbus Day, GA Aquarium experience! Unfortunately a lot of my pictures did not come out as well as I had hoped. I think I should pull out the user manual from my digi camera and refresh my memory on how to take indoor pictures!

One of my favorite rooms in the GA Aquarium is in the "Tropical Diver" section. It has a huge window with waves that come over head & crash onto a coral reef. The day we were there the waves were turned off so divers could clean the tank. I was disappointed that Ed and Matt didn't have an opportunity to get the entire affect of the waves however it was neat to watch the divers clean off the glass.

Walking through the tunnel
In the "Ocean Voyager" section is a LOOONG tunnel that walks guests through the BIG tank. On one side of the tunnel is a moving floor however, we decided to walk ourselves through.

Waiting for the 3-D movie to start
We decided to pay a little extra to watch the "Deepo's undersea 3D Wonder show" cartoon. Here Matt and Ed wear their 3d glasses (it's a bad picture, but a wonderful memory). The cartoons theme was regarding how humans are responsible for the oceans welfare. And, the special effects made this 3D movie a 4D experience...chairs moved, bubbles floated through the air & water droplets sprinkled on our faces.

Newt Gingrich
As we were waiting for the break period to end, at the "Explorer Touch Pool", Ed said, "That's Newt Gingrich"!! I said, "OMG, no...no way!!" But, as usual, Ed was correct...Newt was feeding the rays and sharks with the help of his Granddaughter (in the picture, that is not his grand daughter, that was an aquarium employee.)

At first I didn't believe Ed, but later I googled Newt and pulled up pictures and sure enough, the lady standing next to us (who was also taking his picture) looked exactly like his wife!! How cool!!

I am Not Afraid!!OMG
Matt & Ed didn't hesitate to put their fingers in the water to "pet" a ray. Matt tried several times to touch a shark, but the sharks preferred to swim just out of reach, deeper than the rays.

All hands in the water, watch your finger tips...I hope the sharks got enough to eat...

this is what they were reaching for...

What Brave Miller Men I have!!