Yard Sales...

I got these handmade costumes for what? $3 a piece-the norm that I've been paying for kids costumes? about $30 each. Peter Pan and Tinkerbell was what I was thinking for this year and it must've been in the cards for them because it was sold at a yard sale last Saturday and Jack looks so stinkin' cute in the little cap!!

As a pre-teen I remember being mortified as my mother would bring home her finds from yard sales. How could she bring home USED clothes, and other misc. items? Didn't she know that someone might see me wearing their "old" clothes or shoes-especially where we grew up and everyone knew everyone. Well, now that I am a mother of two I've changed my entire opinion of yard sales- I LOVE THEM!! The past couple Saturdays I've been able to get up before the kids and go out and get some good deals, it is such a "high" to score on items that I would've spent two to three times more and in some instances even more than that. It's funny as you get older the types of things that you find pleasure in-what a difference 10 years has made.. This turkey plate was just $1-perfect for Thanksgiving!!

This cute bench was $5-which I talked down from $10-yes I actually haggle-but hey it was worth it!!


This is one of the absolute best deals!! I got this for $5-do you know how much these are at the store? At least $80-$90-and the guy who sold it to me I don't even think he had a clue!!

EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The quake was initially estimated at 5.6, then revised to 5.8, but has been since has been downgraded to a magnitude-5.4 by the U.S. Geological Survey. At least 27 aftershocks quickly followed, according to USGS seismologist Kate Hutton from Caltech. The largest were magnitude-3.8. There were actually more than 90 aftershocks after all was said and done.

Hello, all just wanted to say that we are just fine from last Tuesday's earthquake. To be honest I was a little shaken up for the rest of the day. I was at work and when it initally started shaking we just thought it was truck passing by (because at times when a truck passes by it does rattle the doors), but then it continued to get stronger. All of us were okay, only a couple tiles from the ceiling shifted but everything was still intact. I immediately called Viany, who was watching Jack and Alice last week, and I couldn't reach her. This is when I started to get scared and a little frantic. We couldn't make phone calls from either our cells or office land lines. Well, once I heard back from Viany (about 20 min later) Alice and Jack were not even aware of what had just happened so my mind was a little more at ease once I spoke to them.