Happy Fall!

I am really an awful blogger... Oh well, I try! (kind of)

Halloween was weird at our house this year. I stayed up way too late the night before working on my new website (refreshdesignnow.com- check it out!), and Christian and his friend stayed up until like 4 in the morning... So we all kind of slept in on Saturday! I made scary jack-o-lantern face pancakes with chocolate chips (yum), and by the time we got our yard work and stuff done, it was time for Conan and Christian to go with friends down to Annapolis for the Navy game. They had a great time, even though Navy lost by 3 points...

Just about the time that Elizabeth got her costume together for trick-or-treating with friends, it started raining!!! NOOOOOOOO! It was reminiscent of our Halloweens in Seattle... So, she went with her friends (three of them as 80's girls- scary, and 3 in pajamas) and Emma and I went to McDonalds! (New tradition, I guess). Emma got her bumble bee costume on and we braved the weather armed with umbrellas! Since Emma had just gotten over her week long stint with the swine flu (icky), she was pretty tired after about the 4th house! She braved it out for two whole streets though... "must get candy"... We came home, changed out of our soggy clothes and watched Food Network- haunted house/cake and candy competition! So, no pumpkin carving this year which was totally out of the norm! It was so laid back...

The biggest news is that a fabulous friend of mine and I, after talking about it for several months, took the plunge and started our re-design business! We are so excited about it! She is super talented and amazing and I am just compulsive about design, so we fit together perfectly as business partners! We have one client lined up already, and one potential client! It's a little scary, but also just feels right, for both of us. We were delivering post cards on doors on Friday and looked at each other and cracked up... like, "what are we doing?"! It's great! So, on to new challenges and an adventure... I'm in love with the fall leaves, by the way- breathtaking here in southern PA!