At Levi’s school they have a tradition of having “Market Day” a few times each year.  Basically, the kids bring in things they want to sell to the other kids and they are encouraged to make items not buy them.  Each kid gets an envelope of Island School money and sets up their own store, sets the price for their items and sells away.  Levi decided to make 10 paper airplanes to sell at his table and sold them for $1 each.  He sold them all and said “The kids love these things, they are really flying out of here”  We each came home with many treasures (the grown ups get money to buy things as well).  I got a great ITunes mix cd, a caramel apple, a brownie, chestnuts to plant, a Bionicle magazine, Magic Treehouse Book and a couple of action figures for each boy. 
Hooray for Island School and Market Day!

How did we celebrate Dee’s birthday?  By watching a marathon of Saw movies, of course!  Thanks to Nana and Papa for having a sleepover with the boys while we had friends over to watch the first three Saw movies with us.  We stayed up way too late, drank a little too much and paid the price today but what fun we had.
We are so blessed to have the friends we have and love that we got a little bit of time with only the adults and nobody “needing” anything. 
We also said goodbye to our good friends, Steve and Mary Hohl, who will be heading down to the sunshine for the next few months.  Always sad to see them go, but glad we got to have a nice lunch together before they left.  They’ll be home sooner than we know!
Looking forward to getting some rest this week…next week is our Halloween Party and a Pumpkin Carving party at Gay and Rob’s.  Always busy this time of year, but I love it!

Dee’s birthday is officially tomorrow but we have a standing Monday night “family dinner” with Mary and Alice and now our friends, Rick and Michelle.  Since Rick and Dee share a birthday, we had a special early birthday celebration. I found some cool Halloween cakes and the kids really got into singing.  I was telling Trey and Carlos’ teachers that tomorrow is Dee’s b-day and Kathy said that Trey had told her that we already celebrated, but she didn’t get any presents.  Poor Dee!  Presents come tomorrow!

You know who you are and I thank you!  Got the nicest compliment today from someone I haven’t met yet.  She said I have the best blog on the web.  How sweet was that?!!  To be honest, I see blogs all over the place with tons of comments and I rarely get any so, I’m just glad that someone’s actually reading it.

We’ve been camping…and today, since it was going to be nice weather, I thought it would be good to rally the troops (and shower, of course) and head down to the beach for some family pictures.  I’ve been wanting to do some for Mary and Alice for awhile and here was a great chance.  We got a cool few of our crew as well and Monica brought the girls to play and got some great shots of all the kids.
No more talk…here are the pics!  Now it’s back to the campground I go!