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So the only down side to absentee voting is that you don’t get the coveted “I voted” sticker. I always feel a little left out when everyone else has a sticker and I don’t because I voted a week ago! So this year I made a little badge for myself and wore it proudly at work all day.

Now, because of the unsubtleness (yes not a real word but whatev.) of my badge I had a bunch of kids asking me who I voted for today. I obviously can’t discuss things like that with the kids so instead I asked them who they would have voted for if they were 18 (I love the double standard hee hee). Of course all this really did was show me who their parents voted for…I had two highlight answers to share from today:

#1 from a 5th grade girl
girl: I would vote for Obama
me: Why is that?
girl: because he’s totally cool and awesome.
me: Oh, is that all you need to become president?
girl:Well, I’m not sure, but the president has to be totally awesome.#2 from a 2nd grade boy
boy: McCain totally, we HAVE to vote for McCain!
me: Why is that?
boy: Well, you can’t vote for Obama because then he will have prop. 8 and then we have to marry other boys!! [the rest of the boys were then uneasy in their seats and agreed they would vote for McCain too]
me: Well, that’s not entirely true…
boy: Ok everyone, so tell your parents that and vote McCain

I absolutely love hearing how kids completely misunderstand their parents’ opinions and politics in general. It gave me a good laugh though 🙂

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Today’s the Day

So after all the campaigning, bickering, fighting, and arguing, the day has arrived where we actually make a decision. Say what you want about all the drama, but the idea of voting is so cool! We all have our chance to vote for who and what we want. If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain because after it’s all said and done, it’s at least fair. We’ve all had our chance to study the issues and learn about what is best for our country and we get to decide together, as one country. So even in the frustration and the certain people you can’t discuss politics with, at least we all have our chance to voice what we think. Of course I care about who and what I want for the country but I’m only one person and at least I did my part and voted…Happy voting!

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Happy Halloween Part II

So here are some photos from our annual Halloween party on Saturday!! A lot of people went all out this year and that makes us happy 🙂

First, here’s my girls Bible study crew, well most of them…

Then the gentleman’s brother and sister-in-law as Goulet from SNL and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The F fam as a sheep and Bo Peep. We found pieces of hi’s costume all over after the party.

The Q fam as a cowgirl and either terrorist or anti-terrorist, I don’t think we ever found out the answer to what he was. But I do like how you can pretty much only see his eyes and mouth!

The V fam as Moulder and Scully from the X-Files of course!

Another F fam as the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

The B fam as Suzanne Sommers and Richard Simmons, complete with thighmasters!

And us as Joy and Earl Hickey from My Name is Earl. And now you can see the finished product with hi’s facial hair. YIKES!

The V fam as Mario and the Princess!

And The P fam as Juno and Pauley Bleaker from Juno.

Awesome costumes this year! There were more but I guess we didn’t get photos of them, sorry guys!!

Happy Halloween!!

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Happy Halloween!!

For the most part, Halloween had been pretty anti-climactic. The group of people I work with (support staff) chose to be the “Reading Ropers” this year as our “hero” for Halloween. (Schools don’t celebrate actual holidays so ‘dress up as your favorite hero’ is what we do) Anyway, it kind of sucks when other people decide how you will dress since I didn’t have anything western. So off to dad’s house I go! I borrowed a cowboy hat and a bolero tie but didn’t have any boots. So I wore my rainbows and figured I’m more of what you would call a Californian cowgirl. Plus I’d take flip flops over boots any day.

Aaaaanyway, the day definitely got better when I got home from work. We started on the gentleman”s costume for tomorrow’s party. He’s been growing out his beard and tomorrow I’ll post pictures of the final product and our costumes.

But here was the process of the de-beardification or whatever…

first, the before picture:

Then the first stages of buzzing:

Then the full goatee:

Then the partial goatee? I don’t know what you’d call this:

And then the handlebar mustache:

He finished it after this but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see the rest!!

I bet we make our parents proud.

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Off you go!

I thought this video was hilarious!! A little comic relief as we look forward to the election:

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easy and not too bad for you 😉

Cresent rolls are one of my favorite inventions. They can be used in so many different ways! I found a really great recipe once where you put two of the triangles together into a square, put a little cream cheese or nuftatel cheese mixed with sugar in the middle, then blueberries and pinch the corners together and bake = instant danishes!

After that I decided to try making other things with them like spreading out a whole roll of them and putting basil, pizza seasoning and fresh parmasan cheese to make my own version of crazy bread. You can also fill them with cream cheese and chives to make yummy filled rolls.

Then I tried making them into dessert by putting cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg and a slice of apple in the middle to make mini apple pies.

So finally we get to the picture above. The other night we kind of wanted some dessert but didn’t have anything around the house and didn’t want to go buy anything. We did have some cresent rolls so I tried something new again. This time I put cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg in the middle and baked them. Then I mixed up some powdered sugar, water and vanilla to make a little glaze frosting and frosted them. The inside sugar gets all melty and the buttery flavor of the cresent rolls (I buy the lowfat ones) makes them extra delicious. Very yummy and used only things I already had around the house!