Barbie Box Halloween

Brad and I didn't have a Halloween party to go to this weekend, but I had one at work on Friday for the residents and staff. Let me just say it was incredible to see our youngest resident, 62, to our oldest resident, 98, dress up. We had so much fun laughing and becoming our characters. Last year I was George Washington and the residents loved it, so I felt like I needed to do something even crazier this year. After weeks of research and debating over Rosie the Riveter, Ameilia Earhart, and Scarlett from Gone with the Wind, I settled with my best childhood friend, Barbie.


I bought a wardrobe box at U-haul, spray painted it pink, cut the front out and replaced it with a clear shower curtain, put wrapping paper on the inside, and Brad made the logo and mattel logo.(Brad was a lifesaver here he did so much to help me - despite all of the school work he needed to do) We put handles on the side so I could walk with it and attached a piece of pink yarn to the front, through the handle and inside so I could hold the front door closed as I walked. Or course I decked out in as much pink as possible and put on blue eye shadow and hoop earrings. The residents loved it just as much as me! Unfortunately, I couldn't talk Brad into being Ken. He had too much going on.

The top 3 winning residents at work were: 3. The Devil Wears Prada costume. One resident carried a Prada handbag and wore a long red silk coat over black. 2. A Bag Lady with a robe, shower cap, and slippers. and the #1 was a sweet sweet sweet lady in her late 80's who dressed up like a Waffle House cook. It was out of this world!

See you all in a week!

happy halloween from the duncan kids!

4 days and counting....

Just sayin'

:)

GIRL!

Hi girls,

I put pictures and a couple videos on the Yordy blog :) Thanks for your prayers today! All went well, and she's healthy, which is the best part :)

Love, Kelly

Ultrasound tomorrow!

So let me begin by saying, again, sorry for taking so long to post! Still can't find the right cords to get our home computer up and running (I'm sure they're in a box somewhere), but finally figured out a way to get pictures from our camera onto my laptop. ANYWAY, I will post more later :) In the meantime, wanted to let you all know that we have our ultrasound tomorrow! I'm 20 weeks today. We're so pumped to see this baby for the first time, hopefully he/she is healthy, and can't wait to find out if it's a girl or a boy!!! Please pray for our time tomorrow...I think I've realized this time that the biggest part of this ultrasound is to check on a healthy baby...last time I think I was so focused on finding out the gender, it didn't really occur to me that something could be wrong with the baby. So I've been thinking and praying a lot more about that this time, and have probably been carrying around some additional anxiety because of it. Anyway...

Here's me at 20 weeks now:

And here was me at 20 weeks with Max:

So interesting to me to see the difference! I definitely started showing earlier with this one, and I'm carrying it much higher - basically I feel pretty much normal below the belly button, and totally big above the belly button. Weird, especially since the uterus is actually low. Ha. Anyway, thought you would like to see :) Although I get to see you all in person NEXT WEEK!!! So stinking excited.

Anyway, I'll text you all tomorrow after we find out, and probably tomorrow night I'll get the ultrasound pictures up on the blogs.

LOVE you all.

~Kelly

Family Mad Gab

Have you guys played this game? Basically, the way it works is there are a bunch of words on a card that sound like a popular phrase. For instance, "Ace Tray Taste Who Dent" would be "A Straight A Student". It's been a Spier family favorite in the past and on family vacation back in September, Rachel and Shane really wanted to play it our first night there. We were a couple of rounds in when Rachel was holding up the cards for Kirk, who was reading. The card that Rachel was holding looked a little different but Kirk read it anyway. The words were:

REAR LAUGHING A PAY PEE.

Say them out loud a few times. Do you get it? WE'RE HAVING A BABY! This was the way Rach and Shane let us know that they are expecting a baby in May!!! Needless to say, we were all thrilled! Finally it is public knowledge and I can share with you all!   It will be so fun to have 3 cousins all born within a year of each other and 5 cousins born within 3 years! 

Blast from the Past

Okay, so every time we're at the Mall of America I wonder if we'll happen to run into any famous person. Before yesterday, the closest we came to any star spotting was seeing a convention of Elvis impersonaters. But yesterday we saw CONSTANTINE from American Idol! Remember how creepy he was when he sang...attempting to seduce the audience with his squinted eyes. Well, we did make eye contact...I was kind of staring at him trying to figure out where I knew him from. He was actually pretty pleasant, even saying hi to us as we walked by.

Saturday morning FUN

Tomorrow afternoon is my "soon to-be sister" Ali's shower. She and Tyler are going to get married on December 27th (our same anniversary) so the wedding is right around the corner!

The theme of the shower is a vintage tea. My sister assigned myself to make the scones...hmmm...wonder why. Who really LOVES scones? Not me. But anyways, this morning I made two kinds of scones

1. Butterscotch-pecan scones

2. Orange-cranberry scones

They tasted pretty yummy out of the oven, so hopefully with a little cream tomorrow, they will taste ok. This was a picture of my kitchen. What a disaster!

A glimpse of the finished product!

And since Jimmy is golfing on this GORGEOUS Saturday, I'm left with the pup! I think he is annoyed that I'm home because he is used to quiet days....that or he wants a scone. :-)

And lastly, this is what is parked outside of our house. Since Jimmy started working for Herr's, he brings it home each night and leaves SUPER early in the mornings from our house. Ha ha. It's HUGE. Sometimes we have competitions (of course we do) inside. Jimmy will tell me the number of a kind of chip (each type of chip, flavor and bag size has a number) and he will time me on how long it takes for me to find it. I know...we're kind of lame. But I love to win.....and hate to lose.

Have a happy weekend!!! SO SO SO close to MN time! I am SUPER excited!

Love you!

Omaha Steaks!

My parents sent Brad and me the best package! Omaha Steaks... (thanks Sean Hannity- he does commercials for them all the time). steaks, pork chops, chicken breasts, gourmet hot dogs, twice baked potatoes, stuffed sole with scallops and crabmeat, hamburgers... sheesh! Our freezer is stocked. I wish some of you lived close so I could have you over for dinner. I was going to go to the grocery tonight, but yay! I don't have to.

Strawberry Pillow

I had to work this past weekend so I got to take today off and I get tomorrow as well!

Well... I have decided that I am going to try and make enough cutie pie baby goodies so that I can sell them on Etsy (a fun website of handmade things - if you have never been on it you should right now!) I am knitting more and more and today I worked on two strawberry pillows for a little girl's room. I probably won't start selling stuff for awhile. But once I have enough products and practice I am going to share them with all.

This is one strawberry pillow I made (I got the instructions from www.purlbee.com. It is an awesome website for knitting and sewing) I made a pink one too but I have to put some finishing touches on it tomorrow.

I am also in the process of knitting all the little ones in our circles a little surprise. I am hoping Darla got her's last week for Clara. And I will give the rest out at the reunion.



Anyway I had a fun day off.

Ooops!

Sorry about that! My student by accident posted on OUR BLOG!!!!! SORRY!!!


CONGRATS Darla and Brian!!!!

Cant wait to see more pics of precious Clara and hold her in 4 weeks!!

Love you!

Justin's Post!

Mrs.Herr was very, very, very nice on Wednesday.She let us write what ever we wanted in our chit chat jounal. I wrote about the future. The Phillies won the World Series!

-justin

Art Show

Brad had an art show tonight with the printmaking MFA majors. He had 4 pieces in the show tonight. It was called "Suite...(and something else I can't remember) but they decided to do a play on words and have a sweets buffet for visitors. I volunteered to bake, because I am enjoying it so much lately. I was able to take a day off of work which I needed and baked baked baked. I made mini pumpkin cheesecakes with homemade whipped cream, fig and ginger dark chocolate truffles, pecan chocolate chip mini pies, fried nutella ravioli, and red velvet whoopie pies with homemade cream cheese filling. I started last night and worked all day today and enjoyed myself. Here are some pictures of the goodies.






These are pictures of the gallery and some of Brad's work. I am proud of him for following his dream. He has a lot of opportunities coming up to showcase his stuff.






P.S. Atlanta has 4 out of the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America. Really nice, ya'll want to come down here for the reunion next year... hahahaha not!!!

Shameless Plug

Hey Girls, I've entered Elijah in the Gap Casting Call contest for a chance to win a lot of really cool stuff. I'm obsessed with BabyGap clothes and I would much rather win the clothes than buy them! Plus, Elijah would be a perfect BabyGap model in my humble, unbiased opinion. So anyway, vote for E if you have a minute :).

http://www.gapcastingcall.com/GapCastingCall/EntryDetail.html?id=169725

ps. if this seems like I am heavily favoring Elijah to Leah, I'm not. Babies have to be six months old to be entered :). She is just as cute!