My Naughty MOMS Club!

No, no, no, not that kind of naughty (shame on you if that's what you were thinking!!)...the sneeky kind of naughty!


Our monthly meetings are held on the first Friday of every month and this month was my last meeting. My MVP said she scheduled the speaker, I called her the day before because I didn't even know the speaker's name to introduce him, so she gave me the info. Jessica calls me the night before the meeting to tell me that the church that we hold the meetings at is having a meeting and we cannot get in until 10! Our meetings start at 10 and she and I get there at 9:30 to set up. Well, you know me, never on time, I show up at 10 on the dot. Everyone is there! The room is set up! There are balloons and streamers and the all yell, "SURPRISE!" I'm a little confused (well, okay, a LOT confused) and ask Jessica if the speaker has arrived yet - there's NO speaker, my awesome MOMS Club mommy-friends have been planning a surprise going away party for Alex and me, complete with a snowflake theme - haha!

Here's Jessica and Rachel playing "Jonnelle" trivia:






One of our members baked two HUGE delicious cakes for us








Sneaky Jessica has been planning this in her mind since the day I told her we were moving and she was to take over the Presidency!! She ROCKS!!!! And those of you who know her, know that she is the MOST talented scrapbooker ever...well, she made us a scrapbook of our life in Edmond and with the MOMS Club. She asked the moms to each make a page for the book with pictures of their family. It's SO incredible - the BEST gift ever!!!! I've looked at it a million times and will look at it millions more!!


Then after yummy cake, we went to CiCi's pizza, as planned, so it was THE best day because you know that's Alex's all-time favorite restaurant!! And to make the day even better (I know, it's almost impossible), Jessica brought all three of her girls over to hang out with us and have dinner while she went to work (sorry you missed all of the fun Jess!). Maddy got to stay the night, but Vinod came and got Tabitha and Abby. It was great!


We had awesome weather yesterday, so all four of the kids had a great time playing out back - we're going to miss those Joshi girls SO, so, SO much!!! Alex and Abby are starting to hug on each other for 5 minutes every time they leave each other, it's so sweet, they all treat Alex like he's their brother.


Sniff, sniff...it's going to be hard to leave Edmond....

A tisket, a tasket, there's a Tabby in my cabinet!

I got to watch Tabitha one night while Jessica worked - we had such a fun time! She goes straight to my cabinet that has Alex's cups, bowls and plates and starts handing them all to me, saying, "tank you". She's just THE cutest little thing, I could just eat her up!!!

Baaaaaad, bad blogger

I am the worst blogger, it's November and I'm just now updating, sorry!

We were busy the week before Halloween with so many fun things - the first is that my mom came to visit, so nice to have another adult around. We had a great time having her here and of course the time flew by.

Soooo, where to start....

MOMS Club Fall Party: super fun, lots of yummy treats and TONS of cute costumes.

What a coincidence that the only other Ninja Turtle is another Alex! Alex Trant is on the right in the blue and our Alex is on the left in the red.

Reagan and Harrison were the CUTEST 50's couple - complete with Reagan's poodle skirt, saddle-oxfords and Harrison's leather jacket and black penny loafers!! Cute, cute, cute!

They set up a photo shoot area (clever idea JDJ!) and of course Alex didn't want to take time out from the festivities to pose with mommy, so this was the best pic we could get (little stinker!).

My friend Kristi came as "Smartie Pants" - yes she is!!! She's so creative! (she pinned smarties to her pants!)

The crowd waiting their turn at the pinata!!

Pajama Day at school: Alex's school had Red Ribbon Week and one of the days was Pajama Party! Of course we had a little cold snap and he's grown SO much that we were running up to Kohl's an hour before school started to get some pj's. He chose Spiderman and had to have a spiderman little figure from the toy section to go with it (yea, mom's a sucker!).

This is Alex's teacher, Mrs. Jill (she's SO sweet!)

Storybook Forest: At the lake here in Edmond, they make up the coolest Storybook Forest for the kids, it's not scary, but oh so fun, especially since they get to dress up (I'm definitely getting my money's worth out of this year's costume!). Our MOMS Club went and it was great.


This is at "Little Miss Muffett" - Alex is checking out the big black spider!


"The Sword in the Stone" - Alex gave it his best tug!


Okay, this kid is not part of our group, but I just had to take his picture - can you guess who he is??? This costume was his idea, not his parent, what a cool kid - he's Homer Simpson!!


After seeing all of the stories, going on a hayride, playing some games, we roasted some marshmallows - YUM! (and yes, that's grandma in the background!)




Spending time with Grandma Patti!!


We had a little craft time - Mom decopauged a basket with scrapbook paper (yes, craftiness runs in the family!).



Alex wanted to carve pumpkins, but with Daddy not here, I was not willing to go there, so I gave him some paint and his little pumpkin and he decorated it up - very cute (plus the paint washed right off his hands, arms and no one lost any fingers this way)!



The finished product...





Story time at Barnes & Noble:
This was a huge day for us, Alex actually participated in the story time. I've been taking Alex to story times at the library, book stores, MOMS Club since he was 9 months old and he NEVER sits still for the story. Well, today, he did - YAY! The guy that leads story time at B&N is great with the kids and we knew he'd be dressed up for Halloween and he was, as the Cat in the Hat!






When they took a snack break, Alex sat up on the stage to look at some of the books that were up there and when the story time resumed, he just sat there and enjoyed a front row view of the book!













TRICK-or-TREAT, smell my feet, give me something sweet to eat!!

Happy Halloween, Dude!



Alex and his trick-or-treat gang, our neighbors: Jillian the cat, Aaron the OSU football player and Gavin the Thomas the Tank Engine.












As if we didn't have enough sweets, we headed over to Reagan's house afterwards to roast marshmallows for samores in their fire pit - FUN and yummy!!


Roasting the perfect marshmallows!