10 things on halloween night: saturday

1. kaylee dressed up as a 50's girl with her daddy. i wish i had thought this outfit all the way through and gotten her a pink shiny jacket. {her skirt, socks, glasses and scarf from this etsy shop}

2. we didn't even go around our neighborhood. no lights were on and no kids were out. we headed over to my brothers house and managed to hit about 9 houses before kaylee called it quits.

3. it was cold and she was up numerous times the night before with a stuffy nose and earache. {we're thinking the earache is from the pressure from her stuffy nose or blowing her nose too hard} she ended up falling asleep in my arms tonight at 7:30. of course 2 seconds before that, she said she wasn't tired.

4. mike's parents left hours ago, mike and brent are at bdubs watching football, kaylee is asleep and who knows what havoc ham is up to but i'm enjoying the silence while i can.

5. i bought over 300 + pieces of candy and only had 8 trick or treaters show up at our house.

6. i posted a yummy recipe for pumpkin pie bars on my other blog- bites. taste like pumpkin pie but much easier and its in squares. i will need to post my italian beef recipe that i made tonight. it was yummy.

7. no call from oprah show yet.

8. at my brother's house saw an old swim mate of mine. found out she moved down the street from our old house around the same time we were moving out. weird.

9. i see i have more visitors and from different parts of the world. super cool! now if only they would leave me a comment or their blog to check out...

10. hello? anyone out there....*silence*

i LOVE...

totally in LOVE with the outfit especially the dress! {via the sartorialist}

j crew

would having 4 striped shirts be too many? {love the buttons on this one!} {via a room somewhere}

10 things slow rolling: thursday

halloween 2009 {play group}

1. i have a feeling today's going to be a ssssllllllooooowwww day. got to sleep in till 8am till my nose got caught of some "fresh" air and started sneezing.

2. in need of going to the grocery store for some steaks + potatoes via ham's request for dinner tonight. he says he's sick of pasta. he would eat meat + potatoes every day.

3. the house needs cleaning desperately. found cow webs in a few corners.

4. mike's parents are coming over for halloween on saturday. hope the weather's nice and warm so we can do a fire-pit.

5. i helped with kaylee's class yesterday and one of the teachers told the class to "thank mrs. buss for helping." kaylee's buddy, katie, looked at me all confused and said" i thought your name was kristi". via michelle-katie told her that my name has now changed to mrs. buss. {i guess i cant be kristi or mrs. buss at the same time}

6. i would love to curl up in bed with warm blankets and watch this movie again. {mr darcy. hubba hubba hubba is all i can say}

7. two weeks ago after ham got his haircut and before we left the salon, i asked him if his hair is short enough. he said yes. he's been complaining ever since that its too long on top. got him in today to fix it. hope they don't charge me an arm and leg or else ham will be missing one arm and one leg.

8. tuesday at play group one of the mom's mentioned a drink would of been nice to have at that moment. reminded me of desperate housewives. then the question came as to who would be which housewife. i think i might favor susan just because we're both a little ditsy + clumsy.

9. i'm craving a fruit smoothie and some pizza right now.

10. i'm currently wearing my 99 cent t-shirt from old navy and i have to say its the softest t-shirt ever. might have to go back and buy some more {i bought their fourth of july t-shirts to wear to bed}

10 things right now: wednesday

1. i tried to bring out my inner bakerella and made brownie ghost pops for our halloweenie party for our play group yesterday. while not really bakerella worthy still think they turned out nicely.

2. ahhh! life will be good tomorrow. no school thursday or friday for either of my kiddo's. that means i get to sleep in!

3. i signed up for tickets for oprah's show next week. fingers crossed they call me to be part of her audience. and i hope that i get a chance to sniff oprah. according to nienie she does smell really nice. {remember my post about dooce wondering if she smelled as good as she looked?}

4. today's my last day to be volunteer mom for kaylee's class.

5. ham had to get up by 6am this morning and off to school by 7. he said he had an airplane to fly for one of his classes.

6. found out that once again my mom leaves out my kids. she took 5 out of 9 grandkids to breakfast last saturday. took some christmas shopping for clothes too. we never got any one of those phone calls. {she's taken them to the ft wayne zoo, had them stay over for movies + slumber parties...ham is too old but kaylee? she would love it!}

7. is it too early for a nap?

8. i rearranged the furniture in the family room- all two pieces that's in there. i like it but its just showing that i need more furniture. maybe a love seat or two chairs but i love how big the room is this way.

9. on my neo counter yesterday it emailed me multiple times that i finally had 1400 visitors visit my blog. 1400!

10. really wanting to paint my bedroom. {still got old projects to finish up first. wish i had a "nazi" over here}

hate it when i do this!

totally kicking myself for not getting a few of these mugs from anthropologie! {cant even find them on ebay :O( }

i LOVE...

dwellstudio! besides their own website they can be found via design public- one of my favorite places to shop and target-my other favorite place to shop.

i'm loving their scribble kit. it comes with paper and 4 crayons. great for long trips or for taking along when dining out. kinda pricey {$36.00} but still super cute and a super gift idea.

and i'm thinking about getting kaylee one of these cute aprons for her birthday or christmas. {how cute is that paper doll print?} she loves wearing mine when we bake and i think she will get a lot of use from it. she can wear it while baking or painting one of her masterpieces. i was going to make her one but decided for $22 i can take the lazy route plus my sewing track record isn't so hot. {still need to finish my mom's from last christmas!}