Can I live in Pottery Barn and/or Crate and Barrel?

Please? I need to ban myself from looking at their websites, or going to their stores (which I did recently.) I really think they are like drugs. Now that I have a beautiful new place setting complete with dinner plate, salad plate, bowl, silverware and beautiful new non-broken glasses, am I satisfied? No! My appetite has only been whetted. (I think I just made that word up?) Now I'm spending my time dreaming of the beautiful couches, beds, kitchenware, and holiday decor both of these stores offer, instead of grading riddle poems written by 7th graders, doing laundry, going grocery shopping, setting up visiting teaching appointments, cleaning my house, or any of the other productive activities I had planned for today. Sigh... Take a look for yourself, I think you too will be delighted.

Halloween 2009

Pick a pick a pumpkin from the pile,

You can give it eyes and a great big smile,
Pick a pick a pumpkin round and clean,
then you'll be ready for Halloween.
Ha-llo-ween,
Ha-llo-ween,
then you'll be ready for Halloween!

A belated happy Halloween to everyone! We didn't do anything too exciting, and though we did dress up, (Taylor as Bellatrix LeStrange and Dean as a deranged hockey player) we forgot to take pictures of our costumes. Oops. Here are some shots of the rest of our low-key but enjoyable festivities.

We carved pumpkins together!
(Henry was extremely curious about the whole process)

A shot in the light and
A shot in the dark

He's the Devil in Disguise

Bloody steaks, ice cold blood to drink,
salad, and popcorn balls rounded out the evening.
Until next year!
(For Halloween that is...hopefully it won't be that long until I post again)