Movin', movin', movin'...

So again I don't have much for the coffee crowd! I am trying to think of my 5 moments for Brenda, but I have to go back and read if it was for this last week, or 5 moments ever. (I do realise that I could simply click the mouse twice and than know, but I am really, really lazy ladies!)
We are living in a mountain of Boxes yet again! This is getting all too familiar. You know you move to much when your kids don't even bat an eyelash at the prospect of moving to a whole new house in a brand new town. I am sure I am setting them up for years of therapy somewhere down the road...but I need a dishwasher, so they'll have to deal!
I am Jealous that Tara is in Charleston right now! I want to go on a pontoon boat ride and eat cupcakes from a shi-shi bakery too!
We did take a time out from moving to celebrate my husband turning 35, and to go to Lancaster. I have to toot my own horn and say that I made my husband a Delicious cake! For those of you who don't know I am a bit baking/frosting obsessed! I made him a devils food cake, which I brushed with an espresso simple syrup, filled it with fresh raspberry filling, and frosted it with a french mocha buttercream (as in no powdered sugar in sight)! It was sooo yummy! Someday we will have to all meet for a girls weekend. Brenda can bring her Pumpkin muffins and her barbecue sauce, Amy her Cheesecake and Oreo balls, Tara her onion brie puffs, and those Chile pepper things, Laurie her mango salsa, Michelle can bring her specialty, and I'll bring the cake! We would probably all go into diabetic shock and gain 10lbs. but who cares...it would so be worth it!!! Oh and Brenda, I totally want your pumpkin muffin recipe!!!
So anyway by this time next week I will be posting from my new house! Yay!
I promise to post my 5 things later, I just need a lot more coffee before I am in an appreciative mood! (trust me it would not be a pretty list at the current moment)

Forget packing...

We had a blast at Dutch Wonderland and Cherry Crest farm! We were expecting DW to be great, but we had no idea Cherry Crest was as great as it is, we are already planning a trip back to both! Lancaster is such a fun place to visit, if you ever get the chance to go, you definitely should! I have loads more pictures(of course) and will post more of them for you family types later! I just wanted to make sure Grandma had some to hold her over until then!

Jacob is a little Princess hog, every time she started to walk away to visit some other kid he would call her back over!


We opted to go on the wagon ride through the corn maze rather than try and walk it. They say it takes the average person over 3 hours to complete! Ummm...three hours with my children in a corn maze with no way out...I think I'll pass!

Jacob decided climbing out the top of the hay tunnel would be more fun than climbing through it!

I have to say that I thought we had picked every type of food available at u-pick farms, but this was absolutely the first time we had ever picked our own popcorn! It actually pops on the cob! Z is saving it for when A comes to visit in November.

This was the highlight of the whole trip to Z, she loved holding the baby chicks!

Mom this is a movie, press the little triangle button to make it go!

The whole day was sooo much fun! It was a nice break from all the stinkin' moving stuff!

Is it Thursday again all ready????

Wow this week has flown by!
I really have nothin' for y'all this week! I have been packing and schlepping boxes from my house to my friends garage (thanks Laurie!) all week! I am very excited about the fact that gas is now only 2.54 a gallon, because I am doing all that schlepping in my big gas guzzling SUV.
We are going to Cherry Crest farm and Dutch wonderland soon. Cherry crest farm has all kinds of fun farm activity's that kids can participate in and a ginormous (5 acre) corn maze for them to get lost in! Z wanted a farm birthday so we thought it would be an appropriate place.
Dutch Wonderland (think Disney for the under 10 set) is having a Halloween evening, and is in the same area as Cherry Crest, so we are headed for some roller coasters and a trick or treat trail after our farm chores! It will either be a ton of fun, or just way too long a day for my kiddo's! We shall see!
We are moving into our new house in less than two weeks!
I can't wait to wash dishes in a dishwasher again!!!
Dinner at my house this week is going to be whatever I can make in the pot and skillet that aren't packed!

Z Turned Six!!!

We are taking her to Dutch Wonderland and Cherry Crest farm

but we wanted her to have a family shin-dig too! Here are some

pics. of last nights events (mostly for Grandma and Grandpa)

In our family on your Birthday, you get a meatloaf cake

for dinner!

Yay Meatloaf!

The "cake" is turkey meatloaf, and the "frosting"

is mashed potatoes. We used beet juice to dye

some of the potato frosting pink.

I made her a Scooby Cake of course!

According to Z, you don't turn another year older until you blow the candles out!

The top cupcake was all hers! MMM...Swiss buttercream!


Clearly the cake was the most exciting part of the evening for Mr. J!

Thanks A!

Of course the most exciting gift was from Grandma and Grandpa!

She will be the cutest trick or treater in Dutch Wonderland! Good thing it's warm as it's supposed to be a balmy 40 degrees the night we are headed to DW!Now the boys have to figure out how to put everything all together!

Pumpkin Patch!

We went to the Pumpkin Patch this weekend! The kids had a blast!



Oh! Look at those Muscles big boy!




Off to find a Pumpkin

Look at those crazy drivers!

Z and J in the huge combine/swing/slide/tunnel!

You'd be surprised how fun a huge box o' corn can be!

We did not buy that pumpkin...Showoff!

Hey! We grow our own too!

Proof that boys don't ever grow up!

What a big Boy!

She could just barely lift it!

Jumping on the giant pillow thing

Ahhhhh! It's the children of the corn!

What he lacks in height he makes up for in Personality!
So Big!

Imagine all the Knee socks!

So I have huge exciting news this week....
Big!
Are you ready?????
While I was at our local Consignment shop (my favorite place to hang) one of the ladies who works there was casually asking how our move was going. I was half in the conversation and half drooling over a pair of boots when I heard her say-
"You know they are building a new Target over there" (there being near where I am moving)
Of course I snapped to attention right away "what? They are?"
"Yes" she said ,"and not just a regular Target......a multi level one!" (I could tell by the reverence in her voice that this was a woman who has frequented their wonderful dollar bins)
OMG!!!!! I didn't even know such a thing existed!!!!! I swear saw a heavenly beam of light shine down and heard a Chorus of angels! (Tara can you imagine how many adorable pairs of knee socks they can fit into multi levels...Oh and they have grown up leg warmers there!)
I now have an Ikea, a Costco, and a soon to be Multi level Target near my house! It's the Holy Trinity(thanks Jen Lancaster for giving it a term), all with in a short drive (whole foods and Trader Joe's are nearby too)!!! Now I just need to figure out how in the heck to get wealthy from a Coast Guard career so that I have money to spend. I know it sounds like the impossible dream, but until recently a multi level Target seemed like the stuff of Fairy tales too!
So that's my big, look at how unbelievably shallow I am, news! A Multi Level Target! (which almost makes up for parquet floors)

The rest of my week will be packing and planning for Z's birthday!
Oh and I got gas for 2.95 a gallon last night!!!! WooHoo!
I also want to add that as far as the Knee Socks are concerned, Tara called it First!

These are a few of my favorite things

Ok so I was thinking about Amy' Ricky shed, Tara's taupe walls, Lauries fab lake view (umm...Gorgeous!), Brenda's wrap around porch (and pacific northwest room), and Michelle's....well the only thing I have seen from Michelle's house is a nail polish covered couch...(congrats. by the way on getting it out! I think that Magic Erasers are Gods newest miracle on Earth. I have the feeling that Bibles in the future will say "Then unto man he gaveth the Magic Eraser, and spaketh to the Mommy's saying "Cry no more over Thy Crayon wall.."

Anyways one of those websites on the side bar (tip junkie?) has people send in pictures of their favorite things, and I think we Coffee Girls should do the same! For this week I think we should post pictures of 5 things from our houses. It does not have to be part of your actual house, just the stuff you stash in it or outside of it! (Nobody better post a picture of their husband or family either! This is the time to be selfishly braggy not all righteous and sappy thank you!) Maybe we could do this from time to time, and post 5 different things!

Here are my current Faves. (they change frequently)
This is my messy Ikea bookcase...I love it!
I have a smaller one in my living room that my TV is on, I love hiding all my junk in those wicker baskets!


This is my box o' scrapbooking ink. I don't actually ever do anything with it, but looking at all the neat little boxes of pretty colors makes me smile!

This is the view from my front porch. Nothing fancy, but oh so peaceful! I'll

miss this the most when we move!

This is my brand spankin' new Halloween tree! I got it from our local consignment shop for only $2! If we ever post our 5 favorite places that shop would make my list!

This is the first thing I would grab if my house were on fire! I made so much fun of my cousin when he bought one, but when we moved to the land of Dunkin' Donuts coffee (the coffee of choice 'round here) I knew I needed one! I can make a latte to rival Starbucks (9bars of pressure in 25 seconds thank you) right in my own kitchen! (but lets not get carried away, I would totally trade it for a coffee hut within' 5 miles of my house, there is just something about those darn huts!)

I threw this one in because I believe in thanking the Lord (or is it proctor and gamble)for his everyday Miracles!