Pumpkins!

We carved pumpkins tonight. They all turned out awesome. Cody didn't like sticking his hand in the pumpkin, but it was hard to capture his disgust on film. I LOVE my McCain pumpkin. I carved out VOTE on the back, so it shines on the wall behind the pumpkin. I can't wait to light them all on Friday.

However, I may have to shovel off 2 ft of snow to find an area to put the pumpkins! We are getting snowed on big time right now. Looks like a delay for school in the morning, if not a cancellation. Hopefully it doesn't stick around too long!

Credit

Oooppss! Forgot to mention in my last post that Chase made an AWESOME tackle in the game. The pass was intended for Chase, and was intercepted. The kid took off like a flash. Chase was the only one there, and ran the kid down and stopped them from scoring. SO...if Chase hadn't made that tackle, and the team scored, the Beavers would have lost. Hmm.. Chase saved that game!----Is that a biased mom or what?!!!

What a day!

Whew, what a day! Chase had football in Alexandria Bay tonight. The drive up was beautiful (1 1/2 hours), but it was cold! The game was a real barn burner. The Beavers had control most of the game. In the 4th quarter, it was getting dark, and the opponent scored with 23 seconds left, leaving the Beavers trailing by 1 point. We got the ball, and our running back ran a 70 yard TouchDown with 7 seconds left!!!! It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. They had lost thier last two games, so this win was important. Only one game left, then straight into wrestling.

On the way home we stopped and got Chase some wrestling shoes, and picked up a pizza. He remembered at this point that he had a lot of homework that was left at the school. We had to be there by 8:00 before they lock the doors. I got a call on my cell phone, and pulled over to talk. A law in NY that I rarely obey. 15 minutes later, I was off the phone, and back on the road. We weren't going to make it by 8:00. So I might have been going slightly over the speed limit. Slightly. But it was important to get that homework.

Oh No. I'm getting pulled over.

Yep, caught speeding. NY police in this area are known to be "anti-military". Oh great, a speeding ticket, plus whatever else they can add on. Oh No. I found the one and only Military Friendly cop in this area of the state! He didn't even bother to run my license. I got off with a warning. As he put it "Alayna, I'm going to give you a break. Got to look out for my military families. Enjoy your husband coming home, tell him thanks for me". WHAT?!! I've never heard of anyone giving a warning here. I felt so lucky I wanted to stop on the way home and buy a lottery ticket!

And as luck would have it, the school was still open at 8:23 and Chase was able to get his homework!

Now the bad news: We have a storm warning. 8-12 inches of snow between Tues. afternoon and Wed. morning. NO! I don't have all my leaves raked yet, or the table put away, or the snow blower out!!!! ha ha. Hopefully if it does snow, it won't stay. Praying it won't stay. Although it could make for a fun final football game on Saturday!

Getting old?

Ok, I need to find something else to talk about other than leaves and football huh? Seems to be all the occupies our timree as of right now. Well, we're plenty busy, but it's all rather boring. I re-caulked the shower this morning! See what I mean.

Cody and I had a fun afternoon today raking and burning leaves. I was VERY careful. My firepit is rather small, so I think I bagged more than I burnt, but it kept us occupied. Cody loves to run and jump/slide into the leaves. And he is very helpful with his rake and shovel. And by helpful, I mean he likes to take my piles and rake them back into the area I just cleaned up. You know, 2 year old helpful!

The BEAVERS won again on Saturday!! 34-0!! It was a great game to watch, I felt bad for the other team a few times, it was just too easy. Chase got lots of play time. I think he played every play on Defense, and every other on Offense. Only older kids played this game, and they were spent by the end of the game. We needed to run a few errands in town after the game, so he rode home with me. He got in the car, WHEWW. That kid smelled! I had to drive home with the window down. I later got in my car, and his gear was still in the back. It smelled so bad, I couldn't figure out what was smelling SO bad. Then it dawned on me. I later re-enacted the Febreeze commercial! :) Love ya Chase!

Chase is in Mexico (the town) picking apples today. I told him not to bring any home. I ordered like 15 pounds from the school. I didn't realize how much a "bussell" was. Opps. I'm searching for applesauce recipes! Apple pie, apple cobbler, apple bread, apple muffins......

Watching airplanes

Cody LOVES Gary Allan's song "watching airplanes". I don't know why, I don't know how. I personally like the song, but don't listen to it all day everyday. He just started singing it the other day. Everyday the performance gets better and better. Incase you can't hear him, this is what he's saying "I'm sittin here watching airplanes, take off and fly, figuring out which one you be on, and WHY you don't LOVE ME any MOOOORRREEE".


Beavers football won again on Saturday!! 30-8! I only was able to stay until 1/2 time, at which they were losing, so I was very thrilled to hear they won. They injured the QB in the first quarter, and the opponent never recovered! Do what you have to do I guess :P