lifehouse Kids Day Out Holiday Marketplace

Please join us for the Second Annual lifehouse Kids Day Out Holiday Marketplace!

Wednesday, October 28th
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

lifehouse church
20825 Wilderness Oak
(next to Wilderness Oak Elementary)

Free admission and parking!

We invite you to jump-start your holiday shopping in a warm, festive atmosphere with music, food and silent auction items all day long!

Many unique and handmade items available for kids and adults!

Vendors include:
Jennifer Massey Designs - jewelry
My Sassy Pants - embellished clothing and jewelry
Twinkles - block frames
Buckle It - decorative belt buckles, cuff bracelets and compacts
Beijo Bags - handbags
Discovery Toys
2HipMama - baby items, blankets
Morgan's Love Hairbows
Tomboy Tools
Tastefully Simple
Tupperware
Mary Kay
Silpada - jewelry
Lia Sophia - jewelry
Stella & Dot - jewelry
Bellissima - handbags and accessories
TX Foundation of Hope - beaded crosses
Simply Fun - games, puzzles
Pampered Chef
Sana Fashions
Scentsy - electric candle warmers
My Pillow Pets
and many more!!!

Brought to you by lifehouse Kids Day Out
(a ministry of lifehouse church)

Fall Festival

Friday was the Fall Festival at Hardy Oak. It was a gorgeous day - low 80s and sunny. The kids had a blast. Lines were long. Jacob rode in a hamster ball, but since I was working, I didn't see it.

I did get to share a nutritious dinner of chicken nuggets, hot dogs and funnel cake!


Easy on the powdered sugar there, buddy!


Monkey see, monkey do, monket get in trouble too!


Ethan's face cracks me up in this one.


Face painting at the end of the night.

Layla Mae Hizem

Layla was born on October 18th at 2:45 am. in Paris, France. Mama Connie is doing well. Back at home and awaiting the arrival of the grandmas!

Med, Alex and Layla


Sweet girl!


I'm hungry ... again!

Technical Difficulties

Argh! Do you ever go so frustrated with technology you just want to toss your comupter out the window? I'm SO there tonight. I have pics from the fall festival, my new bracelet, cuz Kim's visit... and I can't get the error off the memory card, get the scanner fired up or even find the pics on my hard drive I downloaded from my phone. I'll try again tomorrow. If I can find all the pieces of my computer in the yard.

Yesterday was Mark's and my ten-year anniversary. He worked in the morning and came home early so I could spend the next 10 hours at the Fall Festival at Hardy Oak. And then he got this major cold. And we both needed naps. I'm sure we'll celebrate one of these days. Coincidentally, someone I knew from high school also posted on facebook yesterday that it was his ten-year anniversary too! Brent Chapman and his wife were married in Phoenix (us in Minneapolis), but we thought that was still kind of neat that we were married on the exact same day.

Meanwhile all stops are pulled out for the Holiday Marketplace on Wednesday at the kids' preschool. If you're in SA, you've probably already been bombarded by several emails from me. But hey, that's my job. And you're gonna love the vendors. So get there!

Happy birthday shout outs to my sister-in-law Tanya and friend Roxanne today!

Nine Years Later

The last time Mark and I dressed up for a Halloween Party was in 2000. Mark was Spiderman and I was a three-months-pregnant Cruella De Vil. Here we are as Dr. Feelgood and Nurse Betty.

Cupcakes!

I made these for a Halloween party Mark and I went to on Saturday night. The best comment was that they looked "too good to eat"! Which, of course, is total nonsense! NOT eat cake?!? Blasphemous!

Fun Friday

Well, not really. I have laryngitis. The kids are thrilled since I haven't yelled at them in two days. Headed to NAPA after school to get my flu shot. With all the children. Hooray. At least they can be assured they won't be getting a shot with me.

I wonder if they will have any extra "sharps" I can use for my Nurse costume tomorrow night? Mwah-ah-ah-ah!

Happily, I am subbing in a bunco group tonight and we are waiting rather impatiently for news of Ethan's best friend Matthew's little brother's arrival! Did you follow that? (Matthew is Ethan's birthday buddy from school - see Ethan's birthday photos).

Oktoberfest

You always get to see pics of the kids and stuff we go to...but here's a special treat! Photos of Oktoberfest stolen from Andy's facebook page!

No girlfriends or wives allowed. Harder to pick up fraulein beer wenches when you look attached.



Andy and Jon.



Golfing...not sure why Mark is on his back on the bench. Forgot to ask about that before I posted this...stay tuned for update later.
**UPDATE** They were playing behond a slow foursome and Mark was goofing around, laying on the bench with a tee in his mouth. And there was a ball on the tee.



The motley crew: Joe, Mark, Andy and Jon.



Art? Recycling project? Could go either way.