since Randy's been gone...

We have kept pretty busy since Randy left in October. Thankfully that has really helped to pass the time a little faster!

• we attended 4 birthday parties (5 if you count a old person one, haha)
• participated in trunk-or-treat
• trick-or-treated on Halloween
• decorated for Halloween
• undecorated for Halloween
• rearranged the 'dining area'
• attended at least 2 soccer games (could be more but I cant remember when it ended)
• went to a soccer pizza party
• had a great ladies game night!
• decorated for Christmas
• Pulled off my first ever (and fairly successful) FRG event for Thanksgiving
• Stuffed ourselves on Thanksgiving
• attempted (not all were successful!) at least 5 crafts with the girls
• and of course done loads and loads of misc stuff constantly.

Some how my to do list is still untackled

Fun things happening!!

So excited for the upcoming weeks and thing that are going on!
This week I'm getting some much needed photo lessons from a friend, yay!
On friday the post is having it's tree lighting with a small festival sort of thing. The girls and I are especially excited about the free horse and carriage ride that night! And of course Santa will be there as well!
Saturday, Kaitlyn has reindeer games with her girl scouts. Then next week Randy will be home!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not only is that exciting all in itself but that means we get to go and let the girls pick out a Christmas tree! I simply cannot wait to see what silly looking tree they pick (they are not quite the same as America's!)
Then, the following week I start my college classes again! only 5 classes to go! I'll be starting with the psychology of health and algebra 2 (hahaha).
And then on the 17th we are all going to participate in Corri Babbo Natale Corri, or "Run Santa Run" in downtown Vicenza.

Fun times! ooooooh, I almost forgot it's our turn to bring a 'creative' snack for girl scouts next week... this is what Kaitlyn picked out...

This is how ours turned out (a lot of fun to make and the kids loved eating them!)

Just use food coloring in cream cheese, spread on your rice cakes and add your fish! so easy!

go me!

I havn't been able to do as much working out as I would have liked to while Randy has been gone, but, I have made progress! Anytime I forget that I like to take a look at this website (that I love and have been using for almost 2 yrs now!) http://www.physicsdiet.com/ It's awesome because even if you are a slooooooow loser like me, as long as you input your numbers you will see you are still going down! (the chart always makes me happy)

and of course I love looking back through pictures of me because that really makes me smile!

This was in August....

This was a few days ago! Obviously from the picture its clear I still have a ways to go, but I'm getting there!