11th Anniversary and 2nd Birthday

Weldon and I got to go away for three nights last weekend. It was a late celebration of our 11th Anniversary, which was on 10/11 -- 11 on the 11th -- guess that doesn't make it our "golden" anniversary, though!

We are so thankful to the Rozeks! They let us use their home on Lake Superior, near Lutsen... it was SO nice. We ate all of our meals in. It was actually fun to cook for only two! (Plus Weldon makes the best breakfasts!)

I even beat Weldon (once) in Scrabble!

Grandma and Grandpa Broberg (and some wonderful Broberg cousins!) watched our kids (thanks again Bethany, Krista, Kyle, and Jenna!!!). We got back on Sunday afternoon in time for Paul's birthday party (he turned two on Sunday, November 9).

Here's a little video of us singing Happy Birthday to Paul -- he even got to practice blowing out the candles!

And Grandma Judy sent some money for Paul's birthday, so I thought I'd show her what she bought him: the little V-Tech train set (goes well with the train table from the Bode family! Thanks!) and the little hiking boots (FINALLY something he can't take off!) Both from the Hidden Treasures Thrift Store -- on a 30% off day! We'll just put the rest of the money in our ING account and save it for a rainy day! Thanks Grandma Judy!

Pumpkins, Progress, and 'Puters

Pumpkins

Our kids were four of about six trick-or-treaters who came through our neighborhood last night! We had two (besides our own kids!), including the teenage neighbor who felt sorry for our kids not having anyone to pass candy out to, so she came down and rang the doorbell :) (She didn't take NEARLY enough candy, though, since I bought two giant bags!)


Sarah was "Barbie and the Nutcracker," Paul was Buzz Lightyear (compliments of cousin Jenna who very reluctantly gave up her costume about 5 years ago in time for Parker and Sarah both to use it, too), Parker was "Super Why" (see http://www.pbs.org/parents/tvprograms/program-superwhy.html) - his costume is made out of 4 brightly colored t-shirts bought at a Salvation Army thrift store and haphazardly sewn together in 2 hours yesterday! Good thing you can't see it close up! Jonah was Moses with his 10 commandments written out by his own hand, put into the cases of two VHS tapes - his outfit was a set of old curtains from another thrift store... didn't even do any sewing, just tied it with a strip cut from them :)

The kids got to carve pumpkins (Jonah and Parker did their own little ones -- completely on their own!) and Weldon got to do the huge one! (Got lots of yummy roasted seeds from this guy!)

Weldon also got to stay home to pass out candy, and with the lack of trick-or-treaters, he had PLENTY of time to work on his foil costume to get a free burrito from Chipotle... the only problem is that by the time we got there at 8:30 last night, the line was all the way through the store, and another store length OUTSIDE!

Progress

Today Weldon's brother stopped by and helped Weldon get the last of the brick and the stone window ledge on the front of the house:

As far as I know, all it needs now is a couple of coats of paint!

'Puters

Wow... if I see this many more times I'm going to lose it...

(well, I guess it's debatable if I've ALREADY lost it, but)

It says, "MSN has encountered a problem and needs to close..."

The other crazy thing my computer does is, when I open a new window, it tries to be very helpful... too helpful... and opens window after window after window... and there's no way to stop it except to shut it off on the front of the computer (the "wrong" way).

I'm seriously considering getting a MacIntosh computer -- since there are "no known viruses" for them. I spend HOURS looking for viruses, and if I don't, then I spend MORE hours waiting and then having to shut the computer down in the middle of 5 things I was doing... including paying bills which I now do online.

So, if anyone knows anything about Mac, or has any suggestions on getting one (an old one is completely acceptable!) let me know!!!