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1. It's been a while. Yep, I have been slacking on the blog mainly because I have busyed myself with doing other things. Remember, I said that I'm doing a few parties and well, one down and three to go. Three in one month! Next up is a baby shower (which the theme is A-DORABLE!) I'll post pictures later. Then it's Brennan's 1st birthday party. I'm trying to cut corners on costs and I have done pretty good because just about everything I've bought has been on sale. That's the BEST way to save money is to plan early what your theme is and slowly buy stuff on sale. I have hit up Michael's for weeks in a row with their 40% and 50% coupons. Also, Hobby Lobby with their sales on fabric and scrapbook paper. Everything is panning out well and I'm glad for it. And lastly Brennan's Halloween Party. I've thought about this but I have planned in detail about anything. I need to get at least one of the other parties out of the way first before I can make any plans about this one. I just think it would be soooo much fun to have other kids Brennan's age over and take some fun pictures of them all dressed in their Halloween costumes.

2. Number #1 reason it ROCKS to work part-time. When sick, you don't have to call a sub and use a sick day. I've felt pretty crummy this past weeked with a cold, sore throat and a cough. So bad that I had my in-laws take the babe Friday night (Brad was out of town on a fishing trip) and I had the mother of all headaches. I didn't feel right dosing myself up on heavy meds and being alone with Brennan all night by myself. Saturday I woke up headache-free but my sore throat and cough was still going strong. Almost everytime I have a cold of some sort I always end up having asthma once the cold is on the bend. I cough NON-STOP. I coughed well until 3 am this morning. I seriously thought my husband was going to strangle or smother me! I called the other teacher in my room and she so sweetly said she could work today. Thank the Lord for working with an awesome partner! I slept until about 10:15 this morning and I've felt better today but still I have a cough (not nearly as bad) and I bit of a sore throat and I hoarse. I do plan on working tomorrow though.

3. I have pretty much thrown 75% of the items in my house AWAY. (One of the reasons I have not been blogging!) Well, not away. But the majority of it has been moved to my mom's house because we are going to have a yard sale soon. I swore I would never do another yard sale but here I am. I just really got into the mood to de-junk yet again. I feel like such a hoarder sometimes. I keep stuff that I rarely or have never used again. Well, NO MORE. If it hasn't been used in a year it's getting the boot!

4. We bought Brennan's Halloween costume the other day and I am trying so hard to NOT put it on him EVERY DAY until Halloween. It's hard because he is SO GOSH DARN CUTE!

5. I took some pictures the other day for Brennan's birthday invitation and I think I did an pretty awesome job. The black and white one at top is just one of them. I'll post more once I get more edited. I tell ya I think I'm getting better at my editing too. (I'm seriously trying not to brag but pretty proud of myself for accomplishing this because I have been working hard at taking and editing good pictures. Or at least ones that are frame-worthy. :)