weekend update

Since I celebrated Halloween twice this year, I decided to change up my costume a bit. For the mall Halloween event and a birthday/Halloween party, I made an appearance as Juno...much more comfortable than my Madonna 4 layers of white.

Tech 39 - Texas 33

Jon made it back in plenty of time for the game. I wonder what Baby Wyatt thought about all the noise?

raider alley

Here's a picture of the students camping out for the Tech vs Texas game scheduled for Saturday at 7 pm. CRAZY KIDS! Jon is scheduled to be home at 6 pm on Saturday just in time for the game. If he is not on a plane in Dallas by 5 pm I am selling our tickets. They are up to $500-600 a pair. Mama needs a new pair of shoes...better yet, a glider!

while you were out

Jon is in Gainsville, FL this week attending a conference so here is what the girls have been up to...

This is The MAiZe. It's a big field of corn that gets cut into a different maze every year. I visited it our first year in Lubbock but was with a few little ones who really weren't into wandering around in corn that was 3x's as tall as they were. I vowed to return but haven't been able to convince Jon of it's potential coolness. So, I drug another victim, Shelbi, out there solely for my own entertainment. We picked to follow the clues about Music and Movies and completed the maze in 35 minutes after taking at least a dozen wrong turns. I bet it's fun for the guys who sit up in the towers to watch people act like mice hunting for a hunk of cheese.

Here are a few of my most recent Martha Stewart moments. The cheesecake has 4 blocks of cream cheese in it! I was given permission for 25 pounds not 65! I love carving pumpkins but was cut off last year by my less than enthused husband. I tackled a small one on my own and was slightly disappointed that my holes were a little big for my mice. Martha always does it better which is probably why this pumpkin was on the msn homepage this morning.

The remaining man of the house was very pleased to find peanut butter smeared inside of his new kong. Ahhh, the simple pleasures in life.

Dad & Mom aka Prince & Madonna

Halloween is my favorite holiday of all. The house is decorated, my office is decorated, I have carved and baked and am still waiting to find the batch of cat vomit laced with fake spiderwebs. We attended the annual Orthopedic Halloween Party on Saturday night and were dressed up as Prince and Madonna.




Jon will be out of town for all of the Halloween night festivities so Prince has made his one and only appearance and I am pretty sure I am going to have to make some revisions to my costume. 4 hours in a corset did not make Baby Wyatt very happy!

because putting it together twice is way more fun

We picked up the changing table on Saturday morning and carved out some time to put it together because surely it couldn't take that long, right?!? After working at an efficient pace double checking ourselves we found that close to 2 hours had gone by when we slid the last drawer in. No worries about the amount of time, better to take it slow and get it right than to have to redo it. Ha! If only we were so lucky. As the top drawer went in, we noticed 2 pieces of hardware that were on the front of the unit. I had noticed them along the way but figured the top drawer would conceal them and Jon was sure some sort of plugs or covers would take care of them. Alas, no. We had simply put the piece on backwards. And of course we have to pretty much disassemble the entire thing to get to the piece of backwards trim. Oh well, more quality time together assembling baby furniture!

an apple a day

On Sunday, we ventured out to Apple Country Orchards. Mom, Joyce and I had been there before when we first moved to Lubbock, but this was Jon's maiden voyage. We were slightly disappointed to find only 3 varieties left and most of those were rotting on the ground. We managed to pick about a half a bucketful and made sure to pick up a bag of pretty polished ones in the gift shop. I was on a mission to make homemade applesauce just in case I felt the urge to eventually make homemade baby food. It wasn't too hard although I wasn't the one in charge of peeling and cutting the apples. The finished product tastes much better than store bought varieties so maybe this is the start of something.

pieces of you

The first order of business once the mothers arrived was to assemble the crib. Both Jon and I wanted to make sure we were happy with our purchase before making a long term commitment. After about an hour, we were standing next to a great crib that earned the right to stay in the Wyatt house. One thing down, a million more to go.