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Issy's Obsession with Mike and his Corvette

So as I have posted before Issy has become a little attached to our friend Mike. Which he owns a yellow corvette. Now of course this car stands out on its own. But imagine if you were a little girl. This car stands out even more. All of us adults know that there is more than one vette ever made. But to Issy she sees a yellow vette..She thinks Mike!

Well we have a yellow vette that lives up the street. It just so happens that everyday when we walk down to get Chelsey from school, this vette is going up the street. So everyday Issy says Hi mike when the car passes by. Which is fine. Until she realizes that "Mike" isn't stopping or even saying Hi back. She now has began to throw fits about it. So today took an interesting twist. She saw the vette coming up. She started saying "Hi Mike" and then as it got closer and wasn't stopping she began to Yell STOP MIKE, STOP. With her hand stretched out to say stop as well. She then began to SCREAM very loudly and stomp her feet. By this time i am telling her its not mike..yet again. Just as it passes it makes a U-turn and comes back. The car pulls over, and I am panicking a little bit. I keep walking the girls toward the school. When the guy gets out and says Wait..I am very curious. He then begins to explain that he sees Issy's tamtrum everyday and everyday he wonders why. Because he notices it starts as he passes and then ends when he has gone up the road. So I explain to him that our friend has the same car and that she thinks that he is Mike. Which makes her sad when Mike doesn't wave or stop to say Hi. The guy laughed with me and said..Poor girl. Told me he would wave Hi for now on to make life a little easier on me and Issy..lol

But of course as she sees this guy get out of the car and talk to us, she realizes that he doesn't look like Mike. This was her response " No Mike.. shrugs her shoulders and walks off. So now it is a test to see if she remembers this..or if the yellow vette will always represent MIKE.

PUMPKIN CARVING TIME

Its that time again...Carving time! Last night we got together with our good friends Steve and Bri and carved some pumpkins. We got one for each girl, one for Justin and I to share and then one for Bri and Steve. For the last two years Chelsey has helped out cleaning the pumpkins. She absolutely loves to squish the guts between her fingers. I know crazy right! Because we all know how GIRLY Chelsey is. Doesn't seem to fit her normal behavior. But she loves it. Well this year we told Kylee and Issy they had to help out. Ky doesn't like it that much. She stuck it out for awhile and picked out the seeds for me, but gave up soon after. Issy was the funniest. She would put her hand in there and grab very fast and then shake it off her hand. The whole time saying "sticky, icky" then she would slowly put her hand in again and yank it out fast. She actually did most of the work. I was quite impressed. After all the pumpkins were gutted we turn them over to Justin to instruct him on how we want them carved. Each one of the girls tell him how he wants theirs done, and he tries very hard to accomadate them.

We had a mishap though on Issy's. She pulled out the eyes for her pumpkin. So now its one big cyclops..lol. Oh well. Maybe that is what she wanted to begin with. So while the Men (Justin and Steve) carved the pumpkins, I cooked dinner, and Bri cleaned the seeds so that I could bake them.

SO now we have some cute, festive pumpkins sitting out on our porch to celebrate Halloween. Here is a couple of pics from the event.


Kylee cleaning out her pumpkin. She is about to flick those seeds on Justin...lol. Some actually ended up inside his shirt pocket.

Chelsey and Issy starting to work on Chelsey's pumpkin. I believe Justin was just cutting out Issy's lid for her.

The boys hard at work.

Chelsey took this picture for us..Thats why she is missing

Again..No Chelsey. We took these tonight, when we had no other photographer and also My kids have all decided they need to take turns taking the pictures. I have some interesting ones..lol

My Pumpkin Heads!

Justin's pumpkin to Me..How sweet!

Council Run

So like I have said, one of Justin's hobbies is to modify his car and go show it at car shows. It's a hobby that releaves his stress as well as giving him some male bonding time. We all know that he needs that.. So this last weekend we got a friend to watch the girls so that we could get away and attend Council Run. For those of you who don't know what this is..let me explain. Council is a bunch of the car clubs in So. California that get together once a month for meetings to talk about previous and future shows, charities, and other events. Its away for us all to come together and see the different types of clubs and just overall have more friends. Every year Council puts together a 3 day run. We go and camp out, one day they have a car/truck show and the rest of the time we just hang out and have fun. Now of course these runs are mostly made up of "mini truckers" so things tend to get a little crazy..lol. They play lots of games, usually some sort of drinking game..Its fun to just stand back and watch these people and laugh at them making a complete fool of themselves..lol. Justin and i had so much fun, it was relaxing to get away and leave all our stress behind. Something I have been needing for awhile. Justin also walked away with 1st place in his class which is 4-door compact. We were very happy to receive our trophy and the recognition it brings to Justin and his hard work.
While there I tried very hard to make myself known and not just as Justin's wife. We have been apart of Council for a couple years now, and these people seem like an awesome group. But everytime I am present, I tend to shy up and just cling to Justin. This is one of my short comings that I wish I could change about myself. I wish I had the same self confidence as my husband has. Just to be able to walk into a group and talk to whoever and say whatever without worrying about what they think of me. I idolize this about my sweetheart. So this weekend I really tried. I still spent most of the time next to Justin, but when listening to people and the different conversations I did really try to join in. I came away from this weekend, with more friends, people knowing ME and not just as "Justin's wife", more knowledge on the workings of a "run", and also more knowldege on clubs and their tradtions. That is one thing I have came to realize. The different car clubs become a family in it self. They carry their own tradtions, rules, and they are very charity driven. If one of us was to get hurt or something bad was to happen, there is not one person in this car scene that wouldn't come help. Even though we are all made up of different "clubs" we all join together and make a big family. Of like every family there is some rivalery..lol. There are certain clubs that you keep at a distance from others..better that way..lol But all in all we had a good time. Our camp was one of the littler ones. There was Justin and I sharing with our friend Bryan and his lil Brother Tyler. But we spent a good amount of time hanging out with some good friends in another club, and also with the Council Officers. Here is a couple pics from the weekend. Oh..before I forget..Justin has never been a camper. This was basically his first experiance "tenting it" and might I say..I was very proud of him. He acted as if he had been camping all his life.

Chilling around the campfire saturday night. Jason, Mikey, Justin and a lil bit of Bryan.

Bryan and his lil Bro Tyler goofing around while cooking some lunch for us

Packing up to go home..Love my cold weather outfit.
We are happy about our win, and ready to head Home!
Justin receiving his 1st place trohpy
Our camp
Setting up Friday night in the dark...Not so Easy!

Halloween havoc Part 2

Steve, Bri and I
My love and me chilling at the car show!
My Isa-boo and I posing for the camera
My Batgirl being all prim and proper. She was sitting in the car like this and I just had to snap a picture of her. It was funny, because while trick or treating there was a batman there. He came up to Kylee and said " hey batgirl I'll catch you later" and then his brother said "see you found your girlfriend..lol" Kylee was just all smiles and laughing about it!

Halloween Havoc Car Show

As some of you know Justin loves to modify his car and take it to car shows. Well last night was Halloween Havoc car show. We love to take the kids to this one. Because it gives the kids another chance to wear their costumes and trick or treat around to all the cars. Some of the guys really get into it and make their car all decked out in Halloween decor. Its crazy! This year my girls all chose not to be disney princess's, which I was totally shocked!. Well ok Issy was a pirate princess..lol. Chelsey chose to be a pirate, Kylee came across a batgirl costume and loved it, and Issy chose a pirate princess costume. She has a cute hat, but she wouldn't keep it on...darn! The girls had a blast. Our friends Steve and Bri came out and supported Justin and I. It was fun to walk around see all the different cars and trucks, and also let the kids trick or treat. Here is a couple pics from the festivities!

TRICK OR TREAT!!
Aarghh! Matey..lets trick or treat
Bat girl found herself a spider ring!
If this skeleton moves, Mom you will need to change my pull-up! Stay still...please stay still!!
The girls enjoying their candy while posin' with Uncle Steve