The weather outside is frightful

That's not the only thing.   But, SERIOUSLY?!  I want it to be cold already.  Like, cold or at least cool, not muggy and 75.  Oh well, I can turn my AC down and pretend its cold out there. 

No, whats frightful is the $2100.00 bill for our brand new transmission.  I love my mini, but not $2100.00 worth.  It just happened at the worst of times.  We are leaving Tuesday for my brothers house in Florida, so we don't have time to find another one.  I mean, we can find another van, just not one we can afford right now.  And we made the terrible mistake of looking at some new ones.  Excuse me, not NEW, just new to me.  Oh what I wouldnt give for leather interior and a sunroof.  I know that sounds really petty, but I want it.  The leather because, well, the three fruits of my womb are just a tad bit messy.  Just a tad.  The inside of the mini on Madelyn's side looks like she spray painted it with pink candy.  She probably did.  Apparently she's a graffiti artist.  A couple of weeks ago she was at a neighbors house and decided to write on another house with a sharpi.  Oh yeah, I said HOUSE, as in red brick... with a Sharpi.  Not that she knows or cares what "washable" means, but obviously we've tried to get it off and no luck.  I mean, I would love for her to be an artist, just not at the neighbors expense.  I just had to go and love Sharpis enough to buy an multi color pack, didn't I? 
And did I mention that our home computer is broken?  Again.  Oh yes.  Again. 
And our garbage disposal,
And our garage door,
And our play room DVD player. 

Im not complaining though.  Whats the use?  Im too excited about the Holidays to care about such non-essentials, including the frightful weather. 
If I don't post again before then,  I hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Loves!

Funnies...

I might decide to make this a series, "funnies", because it seems that on a weekly basis, if not daily, one or more of my kids says something that makes me roll.  This week it was Madelyn.

Madelyn,  "Mom, we need to go to Pennsylvania."

Me,  "Why do we need to go to there?  Whats in Pennsylvania?"

In her best you should know this voice,  "PENCILS".






Its why God gave me three children, He knows how much I love to laugh.  :)

Halloween pics

Here are some pictures of my sweet babies on Halloween.  We had so much fun trick or treating this year, meeting some of our neighbors and getting LOTS of candy (darn you, fun size twix).  Why are they called "fun size"?  Because "smaller than the average candy bar" is insulting. 
ANYHOO... look at the cuteness...