Have You Thanked a Veteran Today?

I have a whole heck of stuff from this past week to catch up ya'll up on, BUT first things first:

I remember seeing this commercial a few years ago and thought about how simple and poignant it is this and every Veterans Day.

So if you know someone who is or has fought for our Country, be sure to thank them for their sacrifice and willingness to serve in order for us to have our many freedoms

Halloween Wrap Up

I'm a little exhausted from the events of the weekend, plus I had a "gift" day off -- spent catching up with the 100,376 million things I needed to get done today (and no, I still didn't get around to vacuuming).  But I did manage to make Mr. Bama a killer, all-be-it very Al-dente, shrimp pasta dish for dinner.

Soo, drumroll:
Quick recap the events from Halloween weekend:
 Saturday:
the "Louisiana Myths, Legends and Famous People" Halloween Party

its hard to tell, but we're Bonnie & Clyde

The Trashy Diva Crew

Rocky, the VERY poorly taxidermedied racoon, modelling my
 Bonnie wig & beret

umm, babe, thats not me.

Sunday:

Halloween / Bear's First Birthday Party

the pupcakes pre-peanut butter frosting

applying the all-important peanut butter "frosting" to the pup-cakes

voila! de pup-cakes est fini!

Bear says: Thanks for the Birthday Pupcake Mom & Dad - nom nom nom 

Now time for spooktacular Halloween fun!

the house all spooked-out

Mr Bama carving his masterpiece

what's to come

guess whose is whose

the birthday boy waiting for trick or treaters

and the piece de resistance:

the Headless horseman's horse!

needless to say we had an awesome Halloween weekend - we actually ran out of candy Sunday night (wow!) so I'd say things went very well.  Onward to November!