Simpsons

Well, I finally got all my pictures off my camera. Either my computer or my memory card is not working. I had all these pictures on there and they would not load on the computer. I thought I was going to have to hunt down the USB cable that is somewhere in this house to get the pictures off. I thought I would give the card one more try and wallah it worked and I got all my pictures off. So I thought I would take one more picture and see if it worked again. Unfortunately it did not so I will be unable to post the picture of all my Tai Pan treasures which I am sure disappoints so many of you. We will be getting a new camera, a way better camera and a new computer in the next few weeks so hopefully nothing exciting happens that I need to take pictures of. Scratch that Halloween is in a week so jared now has a tighter deadline and for those that know him well decisions take him longer than anyone I have ever known so today I will become the nag until it gets done. Moving on though......

Mackenzie had a bike parade at school to end their transportation unit. It is very funny to watch this parade. You have the kids that zoom past with no problem, then you have the kids that are a little shaky and you hope they don't fall off and you are nervous for them, and then you have the kids who are really not sure about the flow of bike traffic and end up somewhere they shouldn't. Anyway, it was very cute and mackenzie was very excited to take her scooter to school

Of course Fat Boy was there and having a good time as well.

Later in the month we took the kids to the pumpkin patch. They have this great pumpkin patch about 5 min. from our house. It is a family that turns their small farm into this fall setting with pumpkins everywhere and corn maze. They have the cheapest pumpkins around. We loaded all our pumpkins into the little wagon and then took them up to the front. I think we had about 9 or so pumpkins in all different sizes. She counts up the pumpkins and says let's say $20. I love that pumpkin patch. It's close, cheap, and very cute for pictures.

Amazingly enough we actually got a shot of all the kids together with everyone looking in somewhat of the same direction and no one is crying.

Like I said before, on Mon. I headed down to Tai Pan. They told us that all Halloween stuff was 50% off. So my mom and I loaded up on stuff and then checked out. For some reason the registers were not ringing up all the Halloween stuff at 50% off. The lady ringing me up said I will just have to input it manually. No problem. She tells me my total is $98. What? I have never left that store spending that little. I thought it must be that some stuff was half off. We drive home and my mom left her receipt in my car. I start looking at it and think why is her total more than mine I actually got more items than her. So I lay out all the stuff I got and start adding up. My total should have been much higher. I look at my receipt and start to look at what they charged me for the items. When I was watching her scan the stuff all the totals were coming up right. The very last thing she scanned was something Halloween and she had to manually give me the 50% off. Well in doing so she gave me 50% off all but 3 or 4 things. I kind of felt bad about it but realized that they had forgotten to put 2 mugs I bought into my bag. So I didn't get 2 of the .97 cent mugs I paid for but I think I got way more in return.