A Wonderful Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend and it all started with bunco on Friday! The kids headed off to Greg's mom's for the night, Greg worked on wedding pictures from the wedding he did a couple weeks ago, and I had ladies night playing bunco! The October bunco hostess wasn't available to hostess at all this month so my friend Jessica (she's become our permanent bunco sub) stepped in and offered to hostess for October. However she is without her house right now so I offered for her to have bunco here. That's what friends are for, right? I was more than happy to have it here so it was no problem. She decided on "Cocktail Bunco" for the theme so everyone had to bring something to do with cocktails/drinking/alcohol, you get the idea. Unfortunately, many of the regular hostesses couldn't make it so we had to work to find a lot of subs. Maybe it wasn't so unfortunate though because there were many who came that hadn't played before and some who I didn't know so it was a night to make new friends! We ended up with 12 players which hasn't happened in a long time so it was really fun. The more players the better! We had a fabulous evening and after many left my new neighbor Kate next door, Jenn & Christine from down the street and Jess, and my friend Brenda, and I all hung out chatting it up. Good times and good friends makes for a great night! Thanks so much Jessica for hostessing with everything you got going on right now! It was much appreciated! Thanks to everyone that came too! Love bunco night even when I don't win. I had five baby bunco prizes at one time, but walked away with none. :( Oh well, it happens. Still a fun night!

Saturday we had to pick the kids up so we met them and Greg's mom at Sawyer's Pancake house in Lansing. We'd been there one time before and it was super good so we thought we'd go back. I love their peanut butter banana French toast... yum-0!!!! All the food there is organic. Thanks to Greg's mom for watching the kids and for breakfast. Here's a picture of the yummy French toast. (I know it's not the most healthy thing in the world, but it sure is tasty. They give you a lot which you can't even finish.)


The rest of the day we pretty much vegged out watching football. It was one of those days. The Spartans played at Northwestern, and it was their first game out of the state this season. The first half was going much like the Illinois game the week before and MSU looked horrible. I was a little worried and new if they were going to win the game they'd have to rally together and half and step it up a couple notches in the second half. It was an ugly game, but somehow they were determined to win and came back to mark another "W" in the books. Dantonio pulled out another trick from his bag on a punt and faked it. "That's what we call the Mouse Trap," Dantonio said at the end of the game! Love love love the "Little Giant" and now the "Mouse Trap!" So proud of my beloved Spartans and their 8-0 record and now ranked #5 in the AP Poll and #5 in the BCS rankings. They've got a tough game ahead of them this week at Iowa. Hope they are practicing hard this week.

Sunday we were gone all day. We went to Greg's uncle's farm in Olivet and dug, lifted, and hauled rocks. We wanted to make a border around our deck where the mulch meets the grass. Instead of having to buy a bunch of rocks his uncle said we could come get some from the farm. We borrowed Greg's Uncle Bud's trailer to haul the rocks, and his mom, aunts, uncles, and cousin all helped us. We got a trailer full of rocks, got them home and got most of them put around the deck. We still have some to do, but at least we got them all here. I'll have to post a picture when it's done. It was a long day and a lot of work, but at least the weather cooperated and it was a beautiful day. A big thanks to all Greg's family that helped us. It was much appreciated because otherwise it would of taken us a lot longer to do our big rock project!

Here it is Monday and it's the last week of October, can you believe it? We've got a busy week and can't wait to have our Halloween fun with a few festivities this week, and see the kids dressed up in the their costumes! Enjoy your week and any beautiful weather we may have. Today was awesome with another 70 degree day. I know they're coming to an end soon, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed we can go two more weeks with some decent weather!