Real Housewives of Storm Lake Heights

Yes that is what we call ourselves, what dorks! Not really, I live in the best neighborhood ever! There are 6 of us that live in Storm Lake Heights and one honarary member Jeanne :) We started hanging out last year every Thursday to watch Greys, but it has turned into much more then that. We take turns hosting usually with wine or margaritas coupled with lots of food! We have done fondue, baked brie, lots of cheese, chocolate, candy, nachos just to name a few.

When Greys isn't on we still try to get together and either go out to dinner, usually Mexican and Margs, or stick close to home and just chat, we can chat foerver, all of us are quite different so our views, comments and ideas make for great conversations. We have 4 stay at home moms and 3 working moms, a lawyer, a teacher and a PR vice president. There is always someting to chat about. It may be neighborhood issues, politics, kids, husbands but we always have a good time! When the television season was over we didn't quit, we would then have backyard BBQ's, movie nights, jewlery parties and fiestas, the fun never ends.
We also started celebrating everyone's Birthday, begining with Mel. We all pitch in and get whatever suits them. A gift card, gift basket, magic bullet :) or a night out!! That was for my b-day, oh boy, I think we thought we were 21 again, looonnng night, but we had a blast, thanks again to Nancy for being patient and driving us around :)

Here is to many more fantastic Thursday Nights ladies!!

October

Where has October gone? I know it is only 1/2 over, but this month more then others is packed with events, Birthdays, soccer, the pumpkin patch and oh our new puppy!

October began with our neighborhood annual trip to Craven's Pumpkin Patch. There are a ton in Snohomish to choose from, but this one is close and full of fun stuff for families. The girls are old enough to remember past years so they were very excited and so was I because I also knew that it meant hot chili and wine at the Clarkes after picking out our favorite pumpkins!

Josh and the girls went straight for the pumpkin launching, Chloe rememberd last year that she wasn't old enough, but they got to do it this year, I think Josh enjoyed it most! Then they were off to the patch while I "yapped" with friends, whats new...they got a wheelbarrow and went searching. With Noah, Hannah and Paityn's help they threw a few big ones in! Little did we know how big and expensive they were so while I kept the girls busy Josh substituted Maddie's big one for one a bit smaller :) That was it , it is now officially Halloween season.

Every weekend we have two soccer games, Chloe plays Friday nights and Maddie with coach Josh play every Saturday so our weekend events our planned around that. We have a ton of fun watching them play, Chloe has no fear whatsoever and goes after it, hard! Often times we need to remind her not to take the ball away from her teamates :) Maddie has really improved, last year she was just too polite to take the ball away, not this year. She has scored in every game and can really hustle! We are hoping one year they can be on the same team so our schedule can lighten up a bit.

10-10~ended up being a weekend full of Birthday for Josh. We got home late after Chloe's game on Friday and had tacos at home. Along with some great company (Bowles - even Jason!, Thirsks, my mom and brother) Josh had a great night. Our plan Saturday was to go pick up Lola, our new puppy, but plans changed. We got to go visit and pick her out of 11 puppies, but were told it was best for her to say at least another week to be with her mom and have her 1st round of shots. The girls handled the news very well. After a long day, we decided to just stay home and have Taco leftovers. Sunday we were off to the Phinney's new home and celebrate again! Darold's Birthday is also 10-10. We had an awesome brunch and got to hang out with Dylan and Ellie too. Josh then headed to Echo Falls to get one last round of golf in before it gets too cold, overall a fun and busy weekend, Happy Birthday Josh!