To shop or not to shop?

I was wondering about the people that get up at 3 a.m. on the Friday after Thanksgiving to sit in the cold outside of Target (or some other store)and fight the crowds (apparently they aren't the only crazy ones) just to get a good deal on something. As someone who used to work retail, I hated working the day after Thanksgiving, partly because Friday is just as much a holiday in my family as Thursday, and partly because a lot of the customers were not morning people. But I have sisters-in-law that sit down on Thanksgiving, ads in hand, and plan their attack. It just isn't for me, no deal is worth waking up that early for (I am not a morning person either, maybe if they had midnight sales, hmmm...) and I really don't like being shoved around. What about you? Are you a shopper or a sleeper?

An Emma Do

So ever since I first saw "Emma" with Gwenyth Paltrow I have studied the hairstyles to see if I could master any of them. They are so intricate and so beautiful. You can ask my younger sisters, as they were the poor souls that sat through some rather frustrating attempts. Well, I think I finally figured at least one out, or at least as close as I can come without being able to get up close and study it. So this one is for Alissa and Stephanie. Luckily my 4-year old was accomodating on this day. She calls it her "Fancy Nancy" hairdo, which works too. It may or may not be too grown up for a 4-year old but it was beautiful. Start with extra curly hair. I convinced Lorelei to wear foam curlers to bed, so her hair was nice and curly. Then starting from the bottom of the hair, pull the hair into at least three ponytails. You start from the bottom to hide the parts. Then just start pinning the hair up until it looks right. I left a little down because that's how Harriet is wearing her hair at the end of Emma while they are in the greenhouse. Then just take little ribbons and tie in some bows or whatever else pretty you have. If the ends of your ribbon stick out funny just use your curling iron to curl them. She loved it as you can see in the last picture.

Halloween Pictures

So here are some pictures of our very fun Halloween. We had a pixie, a princess, and a paleontologist (a scientist who studies and finds dinosaur bones). Aren't they adorable? I have to say we had the cutest kids out trick or treating. I hate the gory scary costumes that little kids wear these days. Just give me a princess, a clown, or a scarecrow. They had a lot of fun until Jacob started complaining that his bucket was getting too heavy, a sure sign that it's time to go home. The best thing about living in a small town is that they don't have a lot of trick or treaters so they give you a handful of candy instead of just one piece, which means, fewer houses, more candy. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Hope you had a good one too! Oh by the way, Jacob and Lorelei drew the faces on the pumpkins (Greg cut them out of course), I think they did a pretty good job. Lorelei's is the spooky one and Jacob's is the happy one.