Rock the Vote......

And we did!!!!!!!

Ghosts, Goblins, and a bit of CANDY!!!!!!!!

So we started off the Fall/Halloween season with a Fall Festival at Mom and Dad's church!

There was a cool magic show, then lots and lots of games and prizes for the kids!








Then came the dressing up!!! Gunnar chose to dress up as Thomas the Train....BIG surprise, right?! :) We headed to Lancaster on Thursday night with Sister, Mom and the kids!






Then Thursday night, Charity and Shane had a Halloween party for the adults...Lyon and I decided to go and made up costumes at the last minute....he was Jeckyl & Hyde and I was quite obviously, a witch!




And finally, came Trick or Treat in Bremen!!!!!!






Jory won a costume contest at school with his awesome costume.....


So, Happy Halloween everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's Catch Up on Life, Shall We?

So, in general, life has been pretty busy for the Georges'! I'll start with the most recent family happenings and work my way back.....

As you see from the previous post, we had a week in Hell, but we're back on track with life....Lyon and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary on October 18th, 2008. Here we are on our anniversary, shooting a wedding for our friends, Shane & Charity Gaskill!


Miss Kenna Jane is now 4 months old and Miss Adyson and Miss Rhyan are now 10 weeks old! Sister and Belle brought the girls over for a visit.....oh how I LOVE these three little girls....



The Fairfield County Fair was just a couple weeks ago!! Gunnar and I spent a lot of time there.....he had a GREAT time on the rides this year.

I didn't over-indulge in food, but did get some fried pickles, fries and a cheese on a stick!







The four of us spent the day on Saturday of the Fair with Megan, Jan & Aria....complete with food, games, rides and fun!







And finally, we can't forget about the traditional Bremen Oktoberfest (the formal name this year and the past couple years is "Bremen Oil Derrick Days", but I will forever refer to this festival as the "Bremen Oktoberfest")

The four of us headed down on Friday night of the festival and had some food and fun!







And on Saturday, of course is the Grand Parade!!!!!

Things that make you go hmmmmm.....

Let me just say that I generally have a very postive and great outlook on life. When Lyon and I come to roadblocks, we deal with them with smiles on our faces and continue down the road. I truly belive in the saying "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" and "Tough times don't last, tough people do." but when will this string of not-so-happy happenings end for us?!

This started with our washer....semi-flooded our laundry room so we have been doing the laundry mat thing now for 3 weeks or so.....no big deal, right? Right. I can deal with that.....

Last Friday I came to the conclusion that our alternator is going bad on the van....so, we planned on fixing that this past Monday...BUT.....

We were at Shane & Charity Gaskill's wedding reception on Saturday night.....we had had a great time, it was our 5-year anniversary so we celebrated there for awhile, said our goodbyes, headed to the van so we could go out together and what do we find?! Our driver's side window had been smashed and my purse was stolen.......new problem. This problem moved the the 1 spot.....my Driver's License, gone.....my check book (both my personal and business), gone....pictures of my kids, gone....etc., etc., so on and so forth. We file a police report, gather ourselves and head to McDonald's for our anniversary dinner because we had only enough money for McD's.

We get home from the wedding and what do we have?! NO HEAT IN OUR HOUSE......we tried turning it on a few times and said forget it....we'll deal with it tomorrow......

Tomorrow comes, still no heat, we're down to one car again, and I have the pleasure of dealing with the aftermath of having the most personal thing a woman owns taken from me. BLAH.........I get through that, close bank accounts, open new ones, buy a cute new purse (not nearly as cute as the one that was stolen), and we're good.

We're still out of heat by Tuesday, so Dad comes to check out the furnace situation.....the problem? We need a new motor.....ok, so thanks to my wonderful parents, they find us one for a really great price, but it won't be ready until Thursday - being today! Mom and Dad come to the house, Dad and Husband work on the furnace, get it fixed and wah-lah!!!! We're back in action with the heat!

We're heading out the door today for the gym and I was meeting with two customers....Husband goes to start the car, the battery is dead....or so we think. So he jumps the car and we're off! About 4 miles down the road, the speedometer drops, the dash lights shut off, the car starts to sputter and what-d-ya know......THE CAR DIES!!!!!!!! Are you flipping kidding me?! We find, after checking under the hood that a belt has broken. So, I call Debbie - THANK YOU DEBBIE FOR SAVING US - she rescues us and now Lyon and John are on a mission to AutoZone for a new belt.

THANK YOU SARAH BORAH FOR BEING SO PATIENT....I have been attempting to meet Mrs. Borah with her wedding album for a week now and have been unsuccessful thus far. I WILL be meeting her tomorrow, come hell or high water!

So, here I sit, bawling like a baby and ready to snap.....and I wonder.....why? I guess we wouldn't be dealt the hands we're dealt if we weren't able to handle them, right?! And I know, "everything happens for a reason" and that "it could be worse" and so on and so forth.......but I just HAD to get it off my chest.

Thanks for reading and caring.....I feel 100% better about my crazy week in life! And now back to your regularly scheduled life!!!!!!!!!

:)

Gunnar & Cam's birthday party!!!

This is only a fraction of the pictures, but I wanted to share a small part of a very big day for two very amazing little boys!!!!!!!

The cakes....made by Kelly Brison!!!! Aren't they CUTE?!



The Birthday Boys....chowin' down on pizza!!!!!


We can't believe they've turned 3!!!!!!


Happy Birthday Boys!!!!!!!!