Oh - one other thing..... last weekend Piper had us worked up too! On last Friday - Piper and another little boy at the babysitter decided to put vaseline in their hair!! YES..... and just to let you know - it doesn't come out very easy at all!!! The first recommended thing is corn starch. (see the above picture) We tried that twice, clarifying shampoo three times and then finally just for shits and giggles..... (as recommended on the internet.... a can of pepsi) and yes that did help it BUNCHES! And then finally after a few more washings her hair looks normal.... I think I might have a Steve Jr. on my hands - HELP ME!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I hope you all had a great day and got to spend lots of time with family and friends. We had a great day. Lots of food and family. We were gone from 11 till 7:30 that night but it was all worth it! Well, until 11:30 that night...... around that time Piper started SCREAMING from her room. As a parent, I knew this was not a normal scream..... I ran in there and she had fallen out of bed flat on her back. I picked her up thinking she was just startled and set her on my lap to which she screamed even harder. After a few minutes, she would not let me put her back in bed. I could tell something was wrong with her arm or shoulder area. I put her in bed with us. She seemed to calm down.

At around 3:00 she started to stir around started to scream again!!!! She was was grabbing her shoulder area again. By 4:00 we left to go to the hospital. After talking to the dr. and having x-rays done.... she has fractured her collar bone! Yep! A small fracture in her collar bone. She is in alot of pain. The rest of Friday we slept pretty much all day. Saturday we made it to the couch and stayed awake more that day. But she didn't want anything to do with being moved.

Today she has rested off and on but she isn't laying around as much. She is eating a bit better today and the pain seems to be getting better. But she still hurts quit a bit. We are going to keep her home Monday and prolly Tuesday just to make sure she is doing ok before going to be around all the other kids! Keep us in your prayers - a 2 yr. old in pain isn't a whole lot of fun we are finding out!!!

But on a fun note - we went downtown Wednesday night and saw the Santa get turned on. Piper thought that was pretty cool. It was pretty cold so we just saw that and then went around and looked at a few lights.

I did get my Christmas decorations put up too. Well, most of them. I did something this year that I have always wanted to do - We put a wreath with a red bow on every window. Its looks really nice. Now per the suggestion of my mom we need to get a couple of spot lights and put them on the front of the house at night. I hope we can get that done - it sounds pretty.

Been a week I tell you...... I stayed up till 1:00 on election night and had to get up at 5 the next morning..... so last night I really wasn't worth a crap! I went out for dinner with my girlfriends. I had a great time and drank a few cold ones - so that made me even more tired! Needless to say, I fell asleep putting Piper to bed and then only moved to the sofa to continue that sleeping until Steve woke me up to go to bed!!! HA!

Not really much going on this week at our house. I was very worried about election night. I did not believe for one moment that Obama was going to landslide win the election. I guess I was wrong, which is good!

Now that Halloween is over I have to get all my stuff put away. That is on my long list of things to do this weekend!

ELECTION DAY!!!! MAKE SURE YOU GO VOTE!!


I am ready for the day to be over already. I am so excited to see what happens tonight. We have spent so many months waiting for this day! I told Steve this morning - what are the political shows going to talk about now!!! And what are we going to watch! That is all we have been watching for months now!