Halloween Costume Ideas

I love dressing my son up for Halloween and have so much fun thinking of a creative costume. However, I do not want to make it! It stresses me out enough to try to think of something cute and unique- I just want to buy it.

I put a contest out to my e-newsletter friends asking for ideas. I realize this is the LAST year I can choose my son's costume, and from here on out, he will likely be Superman/Spider man/Batman. So I am feeling the pressure to make this one count. For my sake and love of cuteness.

So, here are some I am thinking about. Do you have a preference?

(I realize the last one looks silly, but I was thinking it would be cute to put real working Christmas lights on him and "boy' it up a little....)

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Calling all SUPERHEROS!

I now have adorable new superhero invitations and thank you notes for BOYS and GIRLS! (girls not shown here).
I wanted to draw something universal- a graphic that could be used for any superhero type party. If your son likes Batman and his friend likes Superman and the neighbor likes Spiderman, you don't have to juggle and pick a favorite!

If you are giving a superhero birthday party, here is some wording I really liked:

• Fly on over for some hero fun, Super Justin is turning one!
• Calling all superhero's, get here in a flash! It's Justin's 4th Birthday Bash!
• Come save the day, and help Kyle celebrate his 5th Birthday!

Cuteness! Happy birthday to ALL the superhero boys and girls out there! :)

Punk Rock and Pearls

How adorable is this idea?
My creative friend works as a Girls Minister, and is doing a "Punk Rock and Pearls" event to introduce the new 6th graders into the ministry. She specifically requested an invitation with a *PINK* guitar and a strand of pearls. I think this is such a cute idea and I am sure all the sweet girls will look so adorable dressed up as ROCK STARS!

And my favorite part is that she is having a cake designed after the invitation. My work, in cake??!! Um, yes- two of my favorite things!
Of course, I will post a picture once it is here!

Get a $25 meal for .75 cents!

Okay, guys. I am so pumped and want to tell everyone how to score this awesome deal.
I just got a $25 restaurant gift certificate for .75 cents! HA!!!!!! Can you tell I am a coupon nerd?

Here's all you do.
There is a website that you can rebates through stuff you buy online called Ebates. I use it when I buy anything online and in a couple months made $14. Just free money.

1. So, first you sign up here: (when you sign up you will get a $5 bonus for using this link...) So, really you actually are MAKING $4!

http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=pINBPIAi8ZGRGoEovFZNUQ%3D%3D

2. After you join Ebates, go to Restaurant.com (through Ebates, which will give you 15% off your order).

And here's the great part-- restaurants.com is offering NINETY % off when you use the code NINETY. They just added Primos, and have tons of restaurants in Dallas. Just add whatever gift card you want, and you will get it for $1, which with your 15% rebate from Ebates your final cost will be .75 cents! Is this nuts or what!?!!!!!

The special is just through Sept. 13. I have never seen restaurants.com so cheap-its really fun!

I hope you score some great buys.

Feel free to link to this info to your savvy friends- I want everyone to get to do this- it will be so fun eating for $1!

For all the people with this kind of boss...

Happy Labor Day. :)

I heart health.

I work a couple of days a week at a Pregnancy Resource Center. Our biggest event of the year is coming and I am pretty much in charge of it. And whaddya know, I get Strep Throat this week, with the event coming in just days.

I am glad my friend/boss nagged me to go to the doctor, b/c what I thought was allergies was Strep. I found that out after I tried to work and went sick, then got her sick. (What's the lesson there-I am a horrible friend, but great employee? Hmmmm.) Anyway, thankfully, I am back on the mend and almost back to normal.

Isn't health an amazing thing? I take it for granted day in and day out, but when I don't have it, the world stops. Email doesn't get returned, the phone doesn't get answered, Sonic trips are not taken, all in the efforts to just get well. I thought about all my little cells in there fighting the strep so hard and making me so tired, and it really is just a crazy thing that our bodies work so often without us doing anything. Pretty darn cool.

So, I think we should all say, Thank You God for our health! Its amazing.

In non-health related news, the event is on Thursday, so please send a good thought my way. We have 600 people coming to downtown Dallas to hear more about our ministry, and it is really exciting to have such a wonderful turnout! And oh yes, it is a western-themed event, and I will be donning my cowgirl boots. My borrowed cowgirl boots, but oh yes, they will be on these cowgirl feet.

Happy weekend and Happy Labor Day!

I had to include this picture. I was looking for a cute nurse picture, which I found above, but also saw this one. Isn't it so creepy? I think it is from a medical school in Thailand, but the fact that they are masking a dummy-man makes it so creepy. I think it should be on the website of a Nursing Horror Movie (which sounds extremely horrifying) instead of a medical school. Why are there so many crowded around? Why are they wearing nursing hats from the 50's? Why do they all look 13? Why is the dummy man so ill that he needs nursing attention? I have many questions.