Here fishy, fishy...

When we moved to MN, we brought the whole gang, fish included and since we just have the tanks, no stands, the bigger one is sitting on the floor. Sparkles loves playing with the fish (we had to move the tank away from a dresser where we caught her on the dresser one day about to fall into the open tank to get those fish!).

(and if you were wondering don't I have anything better to do with my time, well I probably do, but I'm not only using my blog to "chat" to friends and family, but I'm also using it as a "journal" for when I finally get to scrap these pics and know what the heck we were doing at the time)

House for rent, cheap....

For rent: perfect one room starter home, the walls might crumble, and the roof is so decorated that it might just slide off, but it was built with love by my "future chef".

Alex just had to have this hat/apron set when he saw it today at TJMaxx (the one here rocks!!), although the hat is a little small he still looks stinkin cute:

One for the roof, one for my mouth:

This is the point that he abandoned to go play the deer hunting game on tv with Daddy:

But I think he was pretty patient and did a great job with those little balls, although if they rolled away, the were "dirty" and needed to be eaten.

The finished product (totally staged pic, but going to need it for the scrapbook!):

Now that I've got it on film, I'm sure that it will start to "lose" some decorations, but that's all part of the fun!! Off to watch Boston Legal - nite.

Loomin...

I've had a couple of people ask me about the scarf that I was making, so here is the link to see what the tool is that I use (no crocheting or knitting for me): http://www.provocraft.com/products/catalog.php?cl=knifty%20knitter&scl=looms .

It is a loom, SO super easy. I make the scarves on a 12" rectangular loom. I also have the set of four rounds to make hats on, but I haven't got around to using them yet - my sis has and she's whippin out hats for her whole family! She's a scarf / hat makin maniac (and it's only been a year since she started!!).

So, check it out, it's fun and easy!!

I forgot to add this when I posted this morning:

Happy Birthday Krista (bff!) and Earl (bff's super-cool dad!)!!

Sorry I missed the celebration, but I had a foo-foo drink at dinner in honor of your special day! 9 years ago yesterday, I was able to share their birthday dinner with them in Mount Zion, GA (a suburb of Atlanta) at our fave restaurant, Carrabba's - such a fun night, especially since Krista was timing her contractions (false alarm) the entire meal (she was about to pop with her son Ashton, who's birthday is this week). Good times, good times!!

Holidazzle & Hard Rock Cafe...

So now that we've found a house, the fun has begun! Now we can go do the fun things around town to check out the area.

Last night we went to downtown Minneapolis - this was the view as we drove in:

Stunning!

Andy wanted to walk on a skywalk:

We actually walked across half a dozen before the night was out - so great that you can walk around the downtown without ever going outside thanks to the skywalks (but had to walk through Macy's and two malls in doing so since we're not familiar with the shortcuts - didn't hurt my feelings;).

We happened upon the Macy's Holidazzle Parade that we watched from a Skywalk:

It was SO cool how the light turned red, here came some floats, the light turned green, here came the traffic - Alex's favorite part was when a bus came right under him!

After the parade, we headed to Hard Rock Cafe!!

It was my first time going to a Hard Rock and I loved it! Alex and I loved walking around looking at everything (not to mention it made the waiting for our food to come time pass quickly, so he didn't get antsy!).

On our way back to the parking garage, we passed the Macy's windows - they were beautiful, but this was my favorite:

Have a happy Monday...we're off to Walmart to buy ice scrapers (silly us let the movers pack ours, like we wouldn't need them in the land of snow and ice???? HA!) and to get a tray/platter to build our gingerbread house on (you know I'll post pictures of our creation!!).