I finely got all of my kids Halloween costumes done! I hate buying costumes so i go to the thrift store and make my own. I spent a whole whopping $12.00 this year! And I am a little bummed this year because my 2 older kids cant wear their costumes to school:(

Here is Ms. Riley as bat girl she cant wear her costume to school but she going to her first Halloween party/sleepover!




I think I get a A+ for making the Bat Man logo!



And here is Mr. Trent as a Army man he is so excited he wants to be a soldier when he grows up! And he thinks his friends are going to be jealous because I found him Army issued camo!



Here is Maddie the witch I did not make the skirt for this costume but it is really cool!

And Shelby is a a pumpkin this is not a very good picture it will look better on Halloween!



And here is Laurie Girl She is also a witch!





And last but not least my Jordie Bug the scarecrow!

Pizza and Beer

This weekend Tom the kids and I went over the mountain to buy a new suburban (not a brand new one just new to me!) but when we got there the one I wanted was sold!:( I was really sad for a minuet then I remembered that my car was paid off!:)(And that makes happy!) So since we were in town we went over to see my mother-in-law,we did not stay long because Tom wanted to eat at his favorite pizza restaurant. I think this place has the most unusual decorations hanging form the ceiling!



Every holiday they do this, they take fake flowers open them up tie a ribbon to the stem and thumb tack to the ceiling.



It is just not something you would see in a pizza restaurant, it is more like what you would see in a nursing home!

And the bathroom.....I wanted to take pictures of it but Tom was wanting to crawl under the table, I don't think he was appreciating that I was sitting right next to him taking pictures of the decor.

And the last picture reminds me of going to church! Not pizza and beer;}


Hey Babs can you guess where we were???

Halloweens of the past!

My Friend and I use to make our own Halloween costumes and try to win big at the Halloween costume contest at our local casino. (The haunted Hon Da Casino I knew you would love that babs!) We were the Flintstones! We had Fred and Barny but that is another story!


The next year we were saloon girls. We were waitresses in a little restaurant called cowboy cookin' so it only seemed fitting!



And we added one more saloon girl to our tradition! And you would think that some one would have said Hey lady in the middle pull up your corset! your boobs are sagging!


Here is saloon girl 1,2,&3 and our friend Harrison! And still sagging boobs!


This was before we left for the casino see boobs not sagging! It was a fun tradition but now I just make costumes for my kids.

Only in Hick Town!

I was looking threw my pictures today and I found the pictures from our little towns 4th of July parade. My husband had to work that day and all of my girls were gone visiting their other parents. So it was just me and Trent. We left early and went down to the local feed store and set up our chairs. We sat there so long I fried in the sun. Because stupid me I always forget to bring sun screen! I took pictures not of my son enjoying the parade or him running for candy, I took these interesting pictures! Our parade had no floats just these interesting characters!

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This is an Apache Helicopter we don't live any where a Apache Helicopter would need to be... They flew right down main street!

2.
Camels???? We are in the mountains in Arizona and there was not a circus any where near here!

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This is more like the hick town I live in!

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This is really cute but I swear everyone here has one of these little carts and a little horse! I am not sure what the fascination of letting a little horse pull you around is but whatever!

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I love this one it is just to funny for words!

And now for the grand finale!

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I'v been tagged!

I was tagged by Melissa the Careful Wisher! So here are my 7 weird things about me. Most of the things about me I don't think are weird but my husband and my mother think they are!

1. I am obsessed with reading obituaries it is not that I am obsessed with death it's just I like to read about how people lived there lives and all of their accomplishments.

2. I love shooting guns I have 3 of them.

3. I hate swimming in a swimming pool but I will swim in a cow tank, creek or lake.

4. My feet were turned in when I was born and I had to ware leg braces. My husband likes to call them my run forest days.

5. I can pinch, dial a phone, and pull clothes out of my closet all with my toes!

6. One set of my grandparents last name is Lemons and the others is Butts.

7. I hate socks I will wear flip flops until the snow flies!

I have no idea how to link anyone yet so I am just going to post my tag as it is! Thanks Melissa for tagging me!

I HATE WAL- MART!

I have to go to wal-mart every 2 weeks because I live in Mayberry. We only have a Bashas and a Safeway and a few dollar stores here! So I have to make the 80 mile round trip to wal-mart to do my grocery shopping and any thing else we need! I try to leave my house to go to walmart hell as early as I can I left at 7:45am this morning. I got all of my coupons which are a pain in the a#* to keep track of you have to make sure the coupon says to buy one or two to get that 35 cents off! And the people in the store O lordy! To start it all off this woman and her 3 children are in front of me in the isle her kids were screaming at the top of there lungs and she is letting them lay under the cart and dragging them down the isle....grrr... I am not saying my kids are the best but I have 6 of them ages 11-4 and they never ever scream or miss behave in public so this just pisses me off when mothers act like they are so overwhelmed to control their children! (My 4 year old said shut them kids up!) And second the the store is about 15 miles from the Apache reservation and the county that the store is in is the #1 county in the united states with the highest meth problem. And the pay day for the Apache tribe and the welfare checks come out on the 1st and the 15th of every month so everyone and there dog is in that wal mart! And of course that is when I have to go! Third the employees apparently hate their job and wake up in the morning and have to say to themselves my goal for the day is to see how may people I can piss off! They stock the isles during the day. My question is why do we need to stock during the day when we are open 24 hours a day! They stock the isles and by the way it takes 6 of them to do the job of 1 or 2 so they are blocking the way! So buy the time I get thew all of this it is time for the dreaded check out! I try to make the cashiers job easier by putting all of my can goods together cleaning cold food etc. And have my coupons all together. So I am standing in line and there is this mother with a little tiny baby checking out she was 1 person in front of me. She was using her wic checks and this takes time. I don't mind waiting I once had to use them and so I know long it takes to go thew every idem. So she pays and the the woman in front of me want to barter every thing in her cart. That's OK I just wait patently. So now it is my turn I get all of my groceries in the belt. And help the casher who I think was the only wal mart employee that liked her job. And the woman behind me starts to complain very loudly that she was sick of standing there and had better things to do. And when I pulled out those coupons she screamed Christ o mighty! So I turned to her and said sorry I have to use my coupons I have 6 kids and ever little bit counts,and I just drove 40 miles just to do my shopping! So then I pissed her off even more I had a few thing that I wanted to pay for separate o lordy the look she gave me! So after I loaded my cart back up grabbed a bag of ice to put in the ice chest so I could keep my cold food cold for the trip back across the mountain. I get out to the car start loading the back of my car with the mountain of groceries. This man stops behind me and turns on his blinker he apparently wants my parking spot. The parking lot is filled with parking spots but he wants mine! So I just told myself I am going to take my time. I got the car all loaded took the cart back to the cart corral and got in to my car and took my time. I went thew my purse and found my sun glasses plugged in my i pod searched for my pod casts manic mommies or diva cast hmmm manic mommies i guess, put my seat belt on checked my phone for misses calls and that was about as I could find to do. I thought maybe he would get tired of waiting but guess what he was still sitting there holding up traffic with his blinker on wanting my spot! So anyways I am back in Mayberry enjoying that I am not in wal mart hell!

Well now I can post my pictures of the fall leaves!

Home Work

OK I am having a hard time getting my 9 year old daughter to bring home her homework. She is getting a D in math only because she will not bring home her homework. I have grounded her (only for a night) taken away her Brats, no TV and nothing works! I am so sick of saying home work is call home work because you do it at HOME!!! So today I made her go to school with a paper safety pined to her shirt saying I will bring my homework home! I am hoping the humiliation of being treated like a kindergartner will get her back on track, but I have a feeling that the note came right off when she got to school. But I have spies in the school her brother who would just love to tell on her and her step-sister who likes to quietly spy on her and rat her out!

I blogged about this morning and now she is home and WOW it worked (for today) she brought her home work home. I asked her what her teacher said about the kindergartner note pined to her, she said she just laughed. I hope this works I am running out of ideas!

The trampoline

R.I.P. Trampoline!

The tramp seeing better days!

Every summer my kids complain that they have nothing to do. So this summer I told them to pitch in and we would get a trampoline. So my hubby and I paid half and the kids paid the other half. What a deal when you have 6 kids! So me and the husband loaded up and went to the big city to get the tramp. We live about 40 miles from the nearest town that has any good stores we just have a few small stores here in the big valley. We brought home the trampoline and set it up while the kids were gone for the weekend. Setting up this thing was a chore first we got it all put together and realized we put the middle on upside down! So here we go taking it all apart and starting over. We finely got this silly thing put together right. The next day I went to pick up the kiddos, when we drove up to the house they were so excited! Well as the summer went on no one wanted to jump on it, with the excuses it's to hot! WHAT! You now have something to do and it's to HOT! No one will jump with me... she jumps me to high.... and on and on. So now the weather is changing and it is getting cold and of course they want to jump on it....kids (shaking my head) Well last Saturday night we had a storm front come in and the wind was blowing so hard. The 2 older kids were doing dishes and my son started yelling the tramp just blew away! I came in the kitchen and said yeah right the tramp is still out there! I went out on the back porch and yep the tramp was gone!!! So my hubby went out in the dark and 70 mile an hour winds to find this thing. Well he found it, it went rolling down the street in to the neighbors yard! It was a crumpled mess! We pulled off the middle of the tramp and saved the springs for reasons I don't know understand! But now I have 6 kids they are sooo sad that the tramp is gone. I told them next summer we will get another one. I guess it dose have a good out come I don't have to take down the tramp for winter!

Patch Work Of Leaves

The leaves are changing up on the mountain! I took my Mom up top to see the most beautiful place in Arizona! Up 9,700 feet! I truly am blessed to live in such a beautiful place. And i was going to post pictures but nothing will up load so I guess I will try tomorrow!