Snowy & Cold, BUT Absolutely Beautiful!!!

It has started to snow here and get very cold - it definitely feels like winter and the stove is sooo cozy! It snowed most of the day yesterday, but this is the morning we awoke to...just gorgeous. The girls have had so much fun sledding and playing in the snow. We just love it here.

Mark's Birthday

Today was Mark's birthday and the girls had so much fun making him wait for his surprise dinner and gifts until tonight! We had homemade Lasagna and Chocolate Cake with Rocky Road Ice Cream and Neopolotin. It was so good and we are all STUFFED! But it was so yummy. I thought it was cute, it's hard to see, but the girls carved a message into Daddy's cake.

Having Fun in the Fall Leaves

Samantha and Sophie went out to help Dad rake up all the leaves in the front yard and made a big pile! They decided to jump in it and I took some fun pics of them.

Beautiful Sunrise

I can't complain about getting up early when I get up at 5:30 AM and get ready for work and head off at 6:30 AM and get to see this....isn't this absolutely amazing. I was in awe at how beautiful it was. It was a great way to start my crazy day. We got H1N1 in at work today, had 1000 doses and it was gone in 3 hours...talk about hustle!!! Anyway, I love it here so much and this is just even one more reason that I love it even more!

Lisa Makes the Front Page Today!

I was out doing a clinic earlier in the week and the Herald Journal was there....never thought I'd end up being front page news - LOL...

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/11/01/news/news01-11-01-09.txt

Halloween 2009

The girls had a great week. Earlier in the week they were invited to a Halloween party and had a great time. Last night, their school did a Witch's Brew Fall Festival and we all had such a great time - it was a fantastic fundraiser for their school - the girl's loved it! Tonight, it has become tradition that Mark and I go trick-or-treating with them for awhile and this year they wanted to go out on their own as well. We figured they are big enough now and we live in a pretty safe neighborhood now that they could go out with their friends and trick-or-treat the neighborhood. SO, we went out for about an hour and half with the girls, took them to the trunk-or-treat and then came home and they are out with their friends now and having so much fun. I can't even begin to imagine how much candy they are going to have...

Samantha's 1st Piano Recital...

Samantha has been taking piano lessons since this summer and really seems to enjoy it. She had her first recital this week and had memorized her piece. She did a great job and we were so proud of her. She was so nervous and was not sure she could do it, but she did awesome!