Some SWEEET building going on!

Miss V and her cousin Brianna working on a house together

Rachel who is one teeny month younger than V working on her house........

Kayla, who is a teeny 11 months younger than Miss V working on her house.

Cayleigh the cheesey working on getting her picture taken, instead of working on her house.

Some nice roofing going on here............

Becky and Ben practicing for when they go on their Habitat for Humanity trip.

Ben getting serious about his house.

Smallest builder of all, Emily. We decided she got the prize for most sugar involved. Once she was done putting every kind of candy on, she sprinkled sugar on top too.

Lissa and Rachel, very serious builders

Once again, fun was had by everyone!

If I can find Jim's pictures there will be a end shot of all the finished houses, since once again my camera died part way through all the fun stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

My favorite holiday of the year.

Two little chickies are home, and two more are on the way in the next few days. I hope everyone has a wonderful warm happy holiday.

After the feast I have to gear up and get all my gingerbread houses built so the niece's and daughters and any nephews etc can play with the decorations and create masterpieces.

There will be pictures after Saturday when the massive gingerbread-ing is done~

Marching Band Last Blast

Another great weekend back at college!

Here is the gang that got to go, just missing one kid! Hopefully we'll all get together at Thanksgiving and do some more family pictures.

And the lovely Becky

The senior band members were recognized at the Last Blast concert.

Becky and her boyfriend Ben.

The seniors presenting the director with a neat collage of band pictures and such.

What a fun weekend!!!! A half time show, a band concert AND a choir concert! Does she know how to entertain us or what?

too bad I didn't get any pictures at the brunch she hosted for all of us!

Left overs and a cat

Here's a little Halloween runner I made from some leftovers from Miss V's first Halloween quilt.

Now that she is doing a second one, I have another pile of cute little scraps to play with.

And the cat.

Mr. Big Bones. He seems to need to get up at 3:00 am to go downstairs to have a snack to keep up his strength.

This wouldn't be much of a deal, except now that cold weather is here and the heat is on, we keep the stair door closed. No matter, he just tromps downstairs and bangs on it, which causes loud rattling to echo all over the house. This is what happens when you have a 17 lb cat and old doors.

Random Photo of the Day

Sputnik Cow!!!!

Warning!!! This post is totally UN P-C!!!

I received this in my email earlier in the week, and since I am pretty much NOT PC, (more of a laptop kinda gal) I thought it was funny.
If you are the type to be easily offended, do not read this. There, you have been warned!



A Powerful Message from Stevie Wonder on Michael Jacksons Death
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Deep stuff huh?
It brought a little tear to my eye when he said
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UW Platteville Marchin Pioneers take Lambeau Field

If you are one of the lucky people who get to see half time shows when your stations show football games, the UW Platteville Marching Pioneers are doing half time at the Packer Viking game today!!




I'm a bit bummed because the Beautiful Becky will be performing there, just a hop (not even a skip and a jump) away from home and we won't get to see her. sad face.
Our local stations don't show the halftime stuff, and I have already attempted to drive through Green Bay on a Packer Sunday and I vowed NEVER EVER to try THAT again. We have been through rush hour in Washington DC, and I think I would take that over game day traffic here!

If you get to see it, this is what she looks like up close.
With a trumpet in her hands...........
and that smile always on her face.

This was homecoming last year, just had to remind myself that we got to see her in person that time............

and we are going down to campus later this month for the last blast show. More pictures!!!!

Have a great Sunday everybody and

GO VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!