WAHOO for Halloween time!

So for the most part I'm fairly modest... except for the occasional low cut shirt or tank top in summer, ha ha but this year I really decided I was going all out for our Halloween party, no matter what the costume! So The Watchmen coming out this year was a pretty big deal because I think that it is a bad ass comic book/graphic novel. So I searched high and low for a Silk Spectre costume and after many days of shopping I FINALLY found one and was pretty pumped for it, however... it was like a black pleather spandex kinda fabric that I knew was going to be scary for me! Ha ha, when it came down to it however, I wanted to be Silk Spectre bad enough I threw my inhibitions to the wind and went for it! The wig was nuts and totally hard to deal with all night, there was hair EVERYWHERE, my hot black boots were a nightmare trying to get them fixed in time for my party , and the costume really was like NOTHING i've ever worn before! ha ha but I loved it. Tory and Amber threw the party at their house and went crazy on the decorations, it looked awesome! Haley was a trooper and let her husband pick the costumes this year so they came as the COOLEST Ninja Turtles ever! (Minus the pizza boxes!) It was an awesome Halloween for sure though! Chalk that up for another hella good time at Tory & Ambers!Haley and I rocking our super hero attire, we are totally ready to beat bad guys up, can't you tell? ha ha those little swords came in real handy for her all night! ha ha

It's an old fashioned stick up! Like I said, the girl loved her swords!

Haley and Kylers wicked cool costumes! Haleys mom never dissapoints in the costume department!

Tory and Haley. Tory went as the Beastie Boys in the Sabotage music video, he's missing his mustache here. Haley was ready to kill for sure!

Me and Dustin. He was "too cool" to dress up for the party, but lets be serious he's adorable so he didn't have to!

Just a small part of our party mess... it was crazy!

Shand and I. He went as a independent film producer... or a drunk, you decide! ha ha

Oh ya... Now I remember... I use to blog!

So my parents decided to FINALLY after 8 years get a new computer! Most of you know how big of a deal this is, seeing as YES I still live at home and trying to do school, blog and have a healthy facebook life is next to IMPOSSIBLE without a decent computer... I'm really hoping that with access to the new computer I might actually get around to blogging more often:) Its been MONTHS since I have and its actually been a pretty eventful year so plenty to blog about.. please be patient cuz I really do promise there is more to come!

Elder Ringo "Z" George Boots aka Zane

I have to admit that I am one of the luckiest girls when it comes to brothers. I am the only girl smack dab in the middle of two brothers that are 14 years apart (my parents planned well!) I feel compelled to tell you about my little brother Zane. Although he is known by MANY nicknames, for example: George (my mom has called him this since the day he was born), Ringo (because when he grows his hair out he looks like Ringo Star), Boots (because for like his entire 10th and 11th years of life he would only wear these horribly ugly old cowboy boots) and my most used for him "Z" because its short and to the point. Zane is your typical 15 year old boy, full of life and attitude, but under this self proclaimed "red neck" is seriously the sweetest kid ever! I just have to give you some examples of how great this tough exterior sweet interior kid really is. Last summer, a autistic boy in our neighborhood wandered away and eventually the cops were called because no one could find him.

Now Zane being the "doer" that he is, immediately went searching

for him. As he was cruising around on his 4-wheeler Zane got the overwhelming feeling to head up the mountains toward the old water tank in Elk Ridge. This area was totally out of the way and would have taken anyone a while to get up to, so it seemed highly unlikely this child would head up there. Sure enough, Zane was definitely inspired to go up there. After a little bit of searching in the area Zane found him. When he got back down, he told us that he "just knew he had to go up there and he would find him." This to me totally explains whats magic about Zane, he really does have the roughest of exteriors, all man... all about "killin stuff" and hitting on girls, but when it comes down to it there is the sweetest most endearing young man within him; he is the type of kid that it doesn't matter who it is, he will ALWAYS HELP. He really has no idea what kind of an example he can be! One time we were at Blockbuster checking out some movies when he noticed that an older woman had a flat tire and was struggling to change it herself, I had no more of pointed it out and Zane was dashing over to help her get it changed. My mom and Zane were once pulling into Barnes and Noble on a winter day when as they were parking they saw this elderly man slip and land really hard on the pavement. My mom hadn't even stopped the car when Zane sprinted

to assist this older man. Zane got him into the store and waited with

him to make sure he was okay and well taken care of. Zane has a way

of always knowing when something is wrong with me and the first

person to ask what he can do. Zane has this magic about him when he is dealing with elderly people; he has such patients and love for them and doesn't have the slightest discomfort in rest homes, when many 0f us cringe at the idea. Knowing that my liberal views rarely are agreed with, Zane always defends me to his friends when they start to criticize my stances. But on top of all this greatness there is the funniest stinkin' kid you've EVER met! One night my mom and I came home to an old broken down office chair fastened to our four-wheeler with what he expressed very confidently to me "7 ROPES MADDIE! ITS SECURE!" ha ha and sure enough I jumped on and it was!

He is full of nonsense and can be totally inappropriate, not to mention he rarely, RARELY stops talking about cars! He thinks swimming in ponds at golf courses is proper and that Mikey from American Chopper is the greatest man on earth, ha ha but the kid really is amazing! I am so lucky to have Zane in my life, my parents accident has really made me such a better person and I am so incredibly proud of him!

Giving This A Shot...

This will be the initial "blog cherry popping" post where I give this whole blog thing a shot. Truthfully, I'm not completely sure why me, of all people, is adventuring into this whole world of blogging; I don't have adorable to kids to show off (no kids at all for that matter), I have no hot husband to show off, (not one of those either) and I have no awesome home that I'm busy remodeling or decorating to show off (AGAIN, no house or home of my own, only my private little room in my parents basement.) Seeing as I'm missing these crucial requirements to blogging, I simply feel the need to warn you all. This blog will likely be full of random stories of times my mom and I think we are funnier then we actually are, lots of stories about how my nephew (soon to be 2 nephews!) is cuter then anyother, what movie I recently saw and how much I hated it, and any other random and likely uneventful things to happen to me. I guess you could say I'm doing this blog more for myself than anyone else. Truthfully, I miss writing. In high school and my first year of college, I always took multiple writing classes and made a point to be involved in extra curricular activities that required writing. I've always enjoyed expressing myself in this form. Truth be known, I'm really not very good at it, but I do feel a certain sense of satisfaction in documenting things through writing. To make this more exciting I will likely exaggerate mediocre stories about myself to make them sound like the most incredible thing to ever happen, and will most likely bring you into my imaginative mind so you can get lost in my fantasies with me. All this being said, I'm sure you've already been scared away and the only people to continue following this blog are my beloved co-workers that have nothing better to do the hour or two before they clock out for the day. So to you, I say enjoy! La Fine'!