Great gift ideas

Today we went to a Halloween fun time here called Monster Mash. It is an event put on every year to benefit the hospital. It was sooooo fun but I am pooped because before that we had Halloween brunch with friends... that was super cute if I do say so myself. :)  
On to the gift ideas...

Lesbians!!!!!

O.K. so anyone who knows me knows that I am totally on board with the campaign for everyone to be able to get married to who ever they want to regardless of the sex of the two people. I want to give a shout out to KY right now... yeah the company that sells sex products. I just saw a commercial for their stuff and it had two women on it! Together, holding hands, and in bed! I am proud that they stepped out of the box because I know that they will probably get a lot of negative attention after that. I would like to say that just like every other couple on their commercials the two girls in that one totally looked fake lol. I sat there with my mouth open for a minute because I think that is the first time I have ever seen that!! Good for them and the rest of the people in the world who think that it is not any ones place to judge or say who can do what, when or where they can do it because it is not their life!!! WOW that makes my heart sing. I can not wait for the day for everyone to be equal and stop hating or judging each other.

Attn: Coupon friends...

This weekend is the big one again. The first weekend of the month! That means the P&G coupons will be in the newspaper! Those are the super good ones! Go get your papers on Sunday!!! It is also the end of the month which means that there are a ton of coupons that are expiring so make sure that you clean out your binders of all the old ones to make room for your new ones and also remember if you want to you can mail your coupons to "Coups for troops".

Halloween brunch on Saturday.....

Ok for our brunch menu tomorrow morning I have a little list to give you of the fun ideas I have. I have pumpkin pie with ghost poop (marshmallows), tortilla chips (I made them with cookie cutters shaped like Halloween fun stuff) for dipping guaca-moldy, we have vampire guts (oysters in cocktail sauce), eyeball pancakes (blueberry) ear wax covered mold (smoked Gouda cheese) with crackers, epidermis (bacon) and spooky fruit (red grapes, black plums, and blue berries. I think that is it... I also have hummus in the fridge so I'll prob put that and my home made salsa out too... We will have bad blood too (bloody marys)! I hope it is all a hit! I'm excited!

Free card to our Troops

Ok go to Tiny Prints on Facebook and "like" them. Under their profile pic they have a tab for military click that and it will tell you exactly how you can send a free card to a troop during the holidays without moving away from the computer! I just made mine and I decided to leave out any personal info just a little very close to home note and a merry Christmas from the mr and mrs. I didn't think Rhett would like me putting our info out there to a stranger. lol anyway if you want to then I recommend doing this one for sure it only takes 2 minutes

Halloween brunch on Saturday

We are having a few friends over for brunch on Saturday and I am excited because I have looked up some fun recipes. I will be making guacomoldie... lol I love the name and I will make little pita chips in Halloween shapes. The guac I am making will have black beans too so it looks pretty gross (I think I will only mix a little bit first and taste just to be sure) As the drink I will be making Bloody Marys of course... I found some stickers at the Dollar tree (4 of them for a dollar) and they look like labels, actually I wish I would have gotten more for next year, but one looks like blood is splattered all over it and it says "Bad Blood" and so I will mix them up and put in a water jug with that label. I am also thinking of making "finger toast" which is just french toast sticks I may put some food color in the syrup to make it a little more creepy, possibly green lol. I am also thinking that I will get a pack of oysters and mix with cocktail sauce (we all love raw oysters) and put them in a cool glass container and a little sign that says "goblin guts" I will have bacon with a sign that says "epidermis" and a few other really clever ideas I saw online I hope I can get all the ingredients I want. I shopped today at a local grocery store that I have never been into and everything was soooo expensive I left only with a few bottles of wine that were at prices I could not pass up. They had three clearance buggies and a lady that worked there told me that the wine in there was stuff that generally everyone didn't like. I said well for 3.00 a bottle I am willing to take that risk lol. I got like 6 bottles for our wine cooler so we can try and restock it. I had it filled up before Rhett got back in December but since he has been back when we had company a few bottles at a time would come out and now it is empty :) That makes my heart happy lol. I think it will be fun to restock again I told Rhett everything in there was off limits for a while until we get some more back in it. I am sure on Rylans birthday party we will empty it again with all the guests we are planning to have over. Anyway back to the brunch I will try to remember to take pics of our spread so that you can see how it all comes out.

Breakfast with Santa

So this morning I went to a meeting for the parents that wanted to help with Breakfast with Santa in December. You would think this is the biggest event of the year. This whole thing from what I gather used to be put on by the school and was in the most recent past years a day that is taken on by the parents instead. There are 5 crafts to be made by 150 pre-k children and a parlor to be decorated for pictures with Santa. Oh and there needs to be breakfast for 150 pre-k kids and their families. I am not going to lie when I heard all of this I almost got up and left lol. There was a huge packet of things that need to be donated and so when the craft came up for Christmas bird feeders and it listed only one thing... a Large box of cheerios... I jumped on it... I said Oh our class can do that!! lol. Then when another project came up that seemed to have a lot of parts I said oh our class can get the cotton balls lol. I was not in the mood to volunteer up a bunch of stuff just in case no other parents in our class wanted to help I did not want to be responsible. I was surprised at the response though when I sent out an email today asking for items on the list that were needed... I almost have everything covered already in 12 hrs! I will let you know how all of that goes lol. We are going to be so busy for the next few months as I'm sure you can already imagine. With all of the holidays plus we have Rylan's 4th birthday in the middle of Halloween and Thanksgiving....Wish me luck! How is it that I did all this while attending school and working full time last year? Please remind me because I feel like I am going crazy lol

Pumpkin seeds

I spent what seemed like all night separating seeds from pumpkin guts last night. Today they were drying from being rinsed. This evening I split them in half and mixed half with 2T butter and 1/2 cup sugar and 2T cinnamon. I baked them for around 15 mins at 350... can you say delicious?! The second batch I made with 2T olive oil and 2T low sodium soy sauce and 2T "whats this here" sauce as we call it in our house, with a few sprinkles of salt. I did the same bake at 350 for about 15 minutes, those started to burn on the outside because I forgot to stir twice while baking, well I didn't forget I was being lazy... anyway they are still tasty (the ones that are not burnt) you should try it!

free movies!

target.com use coupon code TGT75HFN to get 5.00 off any purchase. Choose a 5.00 movie and pay shipping, the next movie to choose is a Sony movie for 5.00 well actually 2 of them because right now they are offering 10.00 off 2 Sony movies making that 3 free movies with about 3.00 in shipping... so go find yours now!!  http://adventuresofacouponista.com/2011/10/2-free-dvds-from-target-com-hurry/ here is where I found a list of all the 5.00 Sony movies that were available but they are going pretty fast so hurry :)

Today

I have a little more cleaning up to do then I will go get Rylan from school and I will put all my coupons away from yesterday. I hope to start addressing Christmas cards in the next week so I can put them in the mail as soon as the date comes when I am ready to send them. I also need to decide if I want to use the store bought invites I got for Rylan's birthday or if I want to finish making some online. I have a list a mile long that I need to do so I need to get off of here and start scratching stuff off :)