Home fishing

We have a great lake right by our house. The kids have been into fishing lately, so Dave bought some worms and they all walked down to the lake. No luck...but they still had fun. Jenny and me went to Old Navy while they were fishing. I guess 16 year old girls aren't that into fishing :)

Milk

I went to the store today because we were out of milk. So I bought enough to last us till Monday morning. Scary. OJ is another staple, especially for Evan. The store had a sale on chocolate milk, so I had to get it (I love it more than the kids do I think:). The chocolate milk disappeared in a matter of two hours. When did we become a gallon a day family? Dave refuses to drink it...maybe that is a good thing.

Happy Birthday to my sister Amanda. We love you!

Employee of the Month

Yes, you read it right. My sweet hubby was named November's Employee of the Month. How cute huh? They announced it in his briefing last week and he said they talked about it again at last night's briefing.

Here is a quote from the nominating documents provided by his supervisors, "David is always among the first to volunteer for any assignment. He never hesitates to quickly answer the radio when a supervisor requests an officer provide medical transport...."

"David works independently as well as within the framework of a team. He truly understands the meaning of customer service, which has earned him the respect of both coworkers and supervisors...."

"Deputy Schramm motivates fellow employees by consistently displaying a positive attitude, maturity, and a very strong work ethic...."

Is that so cool. The kids think it is really neat that he is Employee of the Month because they see what a big deal it is between SpongeBob and Squidward. Too funny!

Congratulations Hubby. We all know how special you are...now they are beginning to find that out:)

A pregnancy picture

Allright, a lot of my family and friends who live far away have not seen me with my new figure. So I thought I'd post a picture of me. I am almost 20 weeks - half way there!

What a beauty. LOL Truth be told, I am not feeling my sexiest or my cutest. It has been driving me crazy lately. And I realize there is nothing I can do at the present moment about it, but I just had to vent a little. Now...back to the Halloween candy :)

Halloween

Ok, here is the group. (Jenny and Evan weren't with us this Halloween....that is why there aren't any pictures of them. )

Bridgete dressed up as Minnie Mouse, Spencer was Mario and Filippo wanted to be something scary so he got him a bleeding Scream mask.

Nice.

Bridgete refused to smile because she was embarrassed.

Whatever.

Dave took them around while I passed out candy. I went through 10 + pounds of candy in two hours. I had to raid some of the kid's "bad" candy towards the end and then ran outside and turned off the lights and blew out the candles. It was crazy. We get tons of trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood.

Here is Mario! It was fun to put this costume together :)

And here is Spencer with his loot. He was "burning hot" so he stripped as soon as he came in. Oh well.

Here is our sassy Minnie Mouse. Thanks Mom!

And here she is afterwards. She took a nasty fall-bloody lip, scraped hands and chin and a hole in the brand new tights :) They came home after that. Here is Scream.

He made out big time! And he is so much cuter this way, don't you think?