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Hot Toy for Christmas 2009
I hit the jackpot with the Hot Christmas Toy for this year!! A few months back the boys saw the TV ad for the Zhu-Zhu pet and of course they wanted one. I had forgotten about them until an on-line friend started talking about this little electronic hamsters. Of course I find out at the same time that they are VERY hard to find and people are already paying more than double for them on Ebay! When I stopped in Target this morning to pick up a few things, I decided to just look and see if they happened to have any. JACKPOT!!! They actually had a bunch of the hamsters and a good amount of the accessories as well :) Not wanting to be a hog, I picked up one set of the 4 hamsters and then 2 additional hamsters just in case I heard of someone needing them. I also picked up a couple of the balls, and the car/garage. I went along with my shopping and got to thinking I should have picked up a couple more of the little $8 hamsters so I headed back to pick up a couple more. On my way there, I saw a business man (could tell by the way he was dressed) rushing away from the aisle with his arms piled with the little hamsters. Of course when I got there they were all gone, he had cleaned them out. I later found out that every other store limits you to one or two of the hamsters! I was then at Wal-Mart the next day and found the rest of the accessories I was needing! WOOHOO!! I didn't even end up having to pay above market price for any of the pieces :) And I was able to help some friends avoid that as well.

**As of the beginning of December, the hamsters were selling on Ebay for $30+ and there have even been fights at stores over the crazy little things!!

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Setting Up My New Laptop
I spent a good part of today trying to get things moved over from my old laptop to my new one. Man I sure do love my speedy new one :)

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1st Night of Cubbies
In an attempt to encourage Zach to start using the potty all the time, the Cubbie directors said he was welcome to start coming to Cubbies. Zach was SO excited to go to the "big boy" class and is doing SO well at learning his Bible verses. If only it would encourage him to use the potty!! *sigh*

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Happy Halloween!
Our evening started off with yummy homemade pizza at the Walker's house, followed by us all treking back over in the direction of our house (to the 1st Phase of our neighborhood) for all 4 of the kiddos to do some trick-or-treating. Zach only lasted about 10 houses before he just wanted to sit and eat his candy - lol. So John left Drew with the Walkers to finish up the area and drove Zach & I back home.

*Drew was an X-wing fighter pilot (Luke Skywalker X-wing fighter according to him) and Zach was Larry Boy (VeggieTails)

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Pumpkin Carving
It seems that every year we get so busy that we don't get our pumpkin's carved until right before Halloween. This year was no exception. Here just the evening before Halloween, John is busy cutting them out. He carved a Lightning McQueen on the smaller of the 2 pumpkins, and the Mizzou tiger head logo on the other. Both were very neat looking!!

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A New Laptop!!
I have been having all sorts of problems with my laptop over the last few months and the power connection issue that John thought he had fixed, has been happening again. So he surprised me with my Christmas present a couple months early...a new 17" Dell Vostro 1720!!! And it's not just a plan ol' gray or black one...nope...it's a ruby red one ;) and I'm LOVING IT!! Yes, I'm spoiled. :)

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Fall Party
This afternoon was the Fall Party for Drew's class. The kids played pin-the-nose on the jack-o-lantern and bean bag toss into the haunted house. They created handprint bats and decorated fall leaves with jewels. Then they wrapped the party up with enjoying some jack-o-lantern shaped Krispy Kremes and juicey-juice.