And the winner is... with a sick twist

Well as I sit here sipping my 100th glass of Emergen-C, trying to shake this, I think, flu that I have had now for two days, trying not to bad mouth blogger at this very moment while it continues to try what patience I have left in me because it keeps downloading all my pictures in the wrong order!! (I am pretty sure that was a major run on sentence but who cares! work with me here!) Thanks to everyone for your input on the whole owning your own business thing, we are definitely going to take everyone's opinions/suggestion into account. I appreciate them all! We have a long road ahead of us, but it's going to be a fun/scary ride! Wow! I must say, what a weekend!! It started with our friends costume/scavenger hunt party Friday night. Oh.my.goodness. We had a BLAST!! They amped it up this year! On this hunt we only have an hour and a half to get this stuff. You can not pay for anything, and you have to take pictures of things, and get people to give you things. In other words look like fools around your town pretty much. But oh the fun! Thanks Dina and Bently for hosting this awesome party!

So here we are last year:

(Dog and Beth Bounty Hunter)

And here we are this year:

(Heath Brown Electric electricians)

Yeah, we definitely couldn't beat last years, but this one was pretty original huh!?! (and MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE!!!) We had shirts made and on the back it says "Heath Brown Electric" with our little guy symbol and heath's phone number. Now Heath can wear them as his work shirts. Pretty nifty huh! :)

Anyway, here are just some of the pictures from my group on our scavenger hunt...

YMCA in a laundry mat

picture of us in a shopping cart

in front of the Chick-fil-A cow

dancing in the back of a truck Now here are some of Heath's group: (they had 4 guys and one girl...poor Dina!) (I copied these off of someones pictures so that is why they are so small...sorry!)

picture of everyone forming a triangle in front of a bank sign...I think the guys got a little confused on their shapes!

I had to stick this in here...I can't believe he could fit in the front of the cart...ugh! forming a pyramid in the downtown court square

walking through a drive thru

picture in front of a restaurant that starts with a "Q"

Some other things included in the hunt that you don't see pictured are: picture with a pizza delivery person, fully dressed firefighter, in a cop car, blow up Halloween thing in a yard, us in Burger King hats, in an elevator, someone from our group wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy, in a boat, in a porta potty, at Wendy's, on a pay phone, and a few others. But there were LOTS more tangible things we had to collect. One of the hardest things was to get a receipt with $1.37 of gas on it. I, dressed in my nasty electricians outfit, got some guys to do this for us! YaY! You couldn't pay for any of the things we got and you couldn't steal anything...it was hard! But there were prizes to be won!! Guess who won!?!

We did!! Woo hoo!! Gift cards to WalMart...can't beat that!

Ok, look how tall this guy is! He is double some of us girls heights! He is 6'8" and YES he played basketball!

The crazy guys! And the silly girls

Then Saturday morning/afternoon we headed off to Sterling's gymnastics. My grandmother is in town and my mom brought her to watch. Well, let me just tell ya after three weeks of trying to get him to go/participate in the "big kid class" we will be joining Owen back in the 2 year old class! He doesn't want any part of this class. He literally just sits there and cries for the whole hour. So, back to Tuesday nights it is.

After the fiasco of gymnastics, we go home and rest up before heading to our annual pumpkin carving contest.

Claire and Sterling getting ready to carve. See, Heath hallows the pumpkin out, and I do the rest. I am a little anal when it comes to the carving of my pumpkin. It has to be perfect!

This is one of MANY attempts to get the cousins together for a picture. It just wasn't happening!

And this was as good as we could get! Poor Owen was sick and wasn't able to be there. Then they tried something new this year...a hayride! Boy did the kids love it! Heath in heaven on his four wheeler!

Now if you read a few posts ago, you will remember me telling you that there is a contest every year, and we always seem to come in 2nd place with our pumpkin. I will list the winning pumpkins 1st-3rd place in order:

1st place...Bert and Ernie...how cute is that!?!

2nd place: Casper 3rd place...skull and cross bones

Can you guess which one we were!?!?

You guessed it....2nd place!! We won a $50 gift card to Copeland's restaurant so I can't complain! :) (my family can stop laughing now!=) ) We had so much fun with family and friends though. Here is the other competition:

The kids pumpkins...too cute!

But as the night progressed I started feeling not so good. But we had live entertainment to keep my mind, somewhat, off the achiness that was starting to creep up. That's right, Heath and Chad provided us with some live entertainment with their guitars and voices. They were actually really good!! :)

Happy Fall!

Oh, Saturday night about 2:30 am, we awoke to Sterling sounding croupy again and since I was sick in bed (I was miserable by this time) Heath had to take care of both of us. It was a great night, let me tell ya! Heath and Sterling slept outside and in the living room on a palate for the rest of the night. So needless to say, we missed church yesterday morning and our annual Fall Festival at church. But thankgoodness Sterling is still too young to realize that he missed it. I hate that we missed that, but less candy for me to get ahold of, and better for you cause now you'll only have to suffer through one halloween costume post! ha