How long can she ramble on?

Busy. Busy. Busy.
Friday night we had a teen activity. It was mall Madness. We get people from the church to dress up in disguises and then walk around the mall and the teens break up in groups and try to find them. We do this activity every couple of years and this year's costumes were especially excellent. One man had longish hair and a full beard. He cut his hair short and shaved all but a "Brandon Inge" strip of hair on his chin. No one recognized him. The only bummer was that only three teens showed up. I guess the Tigers beat someone after all. After the mall, they all came over our house for delicious "bloody eyeball stew" and "baked bones" and "graveyard cake". (I can only image who I will get with google searches with those descriptions.) We usually have a trip to the graveyard for a little Ghost in the Graveyard or "scare the teens so they pee their pants", but it was raining so hard we skipped it. We watched Monster House instead, which is a hilarious movie, although demented. I don't recommend it for children under 13.
Saturday, Larry and some guys from church went to the U of M game in Ann Arbor. It rained just about the entire time and then the sun came out when the game was over. Larry, being a geek (a cool geek though) and not a jock, left the game and went and sat in the van after halftime. It wasn't a close game and it was freezing. He really went just to spend some time with the guys. Emma had her first birthday party invitation from her new school. It was a bowling Party. She seemed to have a good time. After I dropped her off, I took the other two girls shoe shopping. Payless had a BOGO sale so it worked out great. Because, as we all know, girls need a lot of shoes. After I picked Emma up from the bowling party, where she said she was the lowest scorer. So a two year old beat her. Whatever. We went home, had dinner and since it was raining the girls took about 35 pictures with my camera. Good thing it is digital. I always forget to check to see what is on the camera before I import the pictures. This time it was posing with books and still shots of their toys. I tried to post a few, but Blogger did not like me today. Maybe in the morning.
Sunday. Ahh. Daylight savings time. We get an extra hour of sleep. Not in my house. My children have little built in clocks that wake them up every morning. And if one of their clocks isn't working her sister will take care of that for her. I'm lucky that they stayed in bed until 6:59. I was surprised they were up because usually the only day those clocks don't work is Sunday when I have to drag their little keisters out of bed. After church, where I left early because some little kid dumped a cup of hot coffee on my lap, we had a baptism dinner. I helped in the back with the food and I think I sat down for about 10 minutes. We came home and of course the girls wanted to do something because we can't just relax and do nothing! So we carved our pumpkins. This was the first year Emma was allowed to carve hers by herself. She did a great job. I highly recommend those pumpkin carving kits with the plastic scooper and little knives. Get one after Halloween cheap and save it for the next year. The best part of the day was eating pizza all together and looking at the clock and seeing it 8:30 (wow! where did the time go?) So I sent the kids to bed. We couldn't figure out why Channel 7 wasn't playing Extreme Makeover home edition. It was supposed to be on 8. Until later, when I realized we hadn't changed the clock in the living room and I had sent the kids to bed at 7:30! I am SO doing that every night!
Like I said Busy! Busy! Busy!