Happy Pre-Thanksgiving!!

I hope that everyone has a great gobble day tomorrow. We will be playing it low key...saving up energy for the madness of Black Friday. Since we have to have things mailed out we have a lot of the extended family shopping already completed, but really need to get going on presents for the boys. So what is on the wish list of the boys this year...well they really aren't that vocal about it.
M did say he wanted the new Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board and he also said he wanted some Transformers, which are very popular with his friends even though he isn't allowed to watch the movie...good flick just not for kids IMO. We will also probably get him the Lego Star Wars II game for the xbox, he pretty much has the first one mastered.
J is a little harder...he pretty much goes with the flow and does everything that M does too, plus his birthday is the 28th of November so all the good ideas are usually used then. If anyone has any good ideas let me know I would sure love to hear some!
We are also looking forward to having my parents visit us in 2 weeks. It hasn't been that long since we have seen them, but the boys love having Grandma and Grandpa around to play with. I would really like to head out to NYC and see all the neat holiday decorations and store fronts, we rarely do any mini trips like this unless we have guests to go with. So cross your fingers that it isn't too cold or a Nor'Easterner come through causing us to get iced/snowed in!
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend, and save some of the good deals for me!

Belated Happy Halloween!!

I don't know about you but it seems like some weeks go by as fast a a day around here sometimes. Halloween week being one of them. We had the office party, M's costume parade at school, and then the real deal of going out around the neighborhood...and by that time I think the whole family was a little Halloween'd out.

J was Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies and M was Dash from The Incredibles movie, both had a lot of fun with their characters. I think they set a record for the shortest trick or treating and were out for maybe 30 minutes before coming back with full baskets and wanting to "help" hand out candy.

We also have officially kicked off the Christmas shopping...more things are getting crossed off the list is seems everyday. We are excited to get as much done as possible earlier this year, partly since my folks are coming out in December and we can send some stuff back with them and also while they are here we don't have to worry about shopping for presents and enjoy adventuring to some of the sites.