Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

I think my favorite comment amidst all of the Halloween activities this weekend was after everything was over:
Grandpa:  "Isa, you know you get to do this again next year."
Isa, incredulously:  "We do?" And then she turns to her mother, "Mama, do we?"
So cute! I also thought it was cute that she was hesitant to believe Grandpa.

Friday, I was privileged to walk with Isa and her class in their school's Halloween parade and then stay for Center time. Later that evening, it was time for carving pumpkins over at Jen & Steve's.












 
This is Grandpa's version of smiling for the picture but actually watching the Laker game...

Thursday, October 28, 2010

New Beginning

It guess it was my turn for a computer crash. So the "new beginning" is having to reload everything. Fortunately we have our systems backed up, but I haven't had time to contact Norton to see how it's done.
I have to say that Dell made this process very stressless. After a 20 minute wait, I spent 40 minutes on the phone with a patient and efficient support tech who arranged for a new hard drive to be sent to me along with a new DVD hard drive. Not only did he send out the new hardware, he also arranged for someone to come to the house to install it! He said it would take 2-3 days for the installation tech to call and then make an appointment, but I received the call the next day and he came to install it the following day.  Not bad, not bad at all.  AND, now I know to call much sooner next time. If you ever get a clicking sound (not a beep code) while powering on or off your computer, call a tech immediately!!

In the midst of the pc problems,  we had a great time at the Night of Hospitality last Saturday. It was a fun table to decorate, but with Christmas coming, I'm glad to now have time for other projects.

Sydney Lee, 2 1/2 months





Sunday, October 17, 2010

Wicked Wire

This little wicked piece of metal caused a change of plans today.  I seemed to have hooked it into my tire on my way home from church. I had Isa and Cade with me and we were headed out to lunch, so it made me a little nervous when I had to stop the car because the tire sounded strange. The first time I looked at the tire nothing was visably wrong, but I only had to drive another few feet to know I needed to stop again. This time I could see the wire sticking out of the tire but it wouldn't budge. Since I knew I had a napping husband at home, I called Jill and Marcus and had them bring some pliers.
After Marcus removed the wire, I drove to a parking lot close by and he took off the tire so we could see if it was losing air. Yep, that little wicked wire had poked its way all of the way through. Since we were already in the parking lot, we decided to go have some pizza at a new place called Slice of Italy before going to get my spare tire aired up.  Yum! Their "creamy garlic combination" pizza was wonderful! Since we are all fans of white sauces instead of red, this one hit the mark.
After pizza, Marcus aired up the spare tire, put it back on, and I drove carefully home (and readjusted all of the dials in my car from little hands that had moved them while waiting in the car. :-)   )
Thank you, Marcus for rescuing me today!!
And thank You, Lord, for your protection and for chosing a great place for lunch and for not letting my mailbox key get stuck in the ignition (more little hands' work)!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Cuter Than...

When pumpkin time rolls around there is always a fond memory that pops up of a dear friend of ours (and best man at our wedding) who had a favorite saying of "cuter than 10,000 little pumpkins". So here's thinking of you, Mike Bentley! Sadly, Bentley was killed in an auto accident a few years after we were married. But if he were here, I'm sure he would be using that phrase to describe my grandbabies!!!

We visited the Banducci Farms pumpkin patch yesterday. Here are some pics of these Cutie Patooties! Since I was focusing on the grandbabies, I didn't get a real good pic of the masses of pumpkins that were there. I'm thinking that there just might have been 10,000 little pumpkins!!