It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!!

Erica had her baby on Monday. :) Aeris, a beautiful 8 lb 8 oz girl with brown hair and blue eyes. I've only seen one picture, but of course, she's a beautiful girl. We thought Emily was going to have to deliver Tuesday night, they thought she was leaking amniotic fluid, but I guess it was just a false alarm. They sent her back home. She's got a stomach virus or something, because, from what I hear, she's been sick nonstop. Her due date is in about 2 weeks, so pray that everything goes smoothly for her and baby Cole!
I went to Walls yesterday after my appointment for an ultrasound (which, they found nothing, thankfully) and went crazy buying stuff. Mostly Christmas and birthday stuff, but I got such good deals on everything I couldn't resist!! They had a LOT of clothes, which, it was tempting to go through it all, but I spent all my time going crazy in the toy and Halloween section. :) I got Lily a purse for 30 cents!! I got her a beautiful trunk for her playclothes, for Christmas, for $23, and I got Seth a snap together Batmobile (or as he says "Batman-bile" heehee) and some Super Mario Brothers dominoes for his birthday. I also got Lily a Cinderella alarm clock (something she's asked for) and I got a couple of t-shirts for some upcoming birthdays. Oh and I found some sleep pants for Seth which sell for $10 at Wal-mart...I got them for $2.88 apiece! I was so excited. This is my life now, excited over sleep pants! Ha! This weekend I'm going shopping (good grief, I better just leave my purse at home!) with my sister and nieces for school clothes. Then Sunday is a birthday party for one of them. I have no gift f0r her yet...I ordered it, but it hasn't arrived, so...I don't want to go empty handed!! Why does money have to infiltrate every aspect of my life? Seriously, its like, whatever you want to do, it involves money. I'm trying to lose weight, I want to know how much I weigh, but my scale's broken. I thought it needed new batteries, so we bought them, but that didn't work. So a $20 scale is broken, the $4 batteries are useless, and I'm still scale-less. Another gripe..(just one more and then I'll stop!)..we have a leak somewhere b/c apparantly our water meter is going crazy but we can't find the leak. How do you find a hidden leak?? Of course, I have no idea, but I do have an idea of what the water bill is going to come to this month and I'm frightened!! Ah well, that's life, I guess. Other than those annoyances, everything's pretty good. Halloween's on the way, I'm excited about that. Our workplace is decorated, and it looks oh so cute. I read a devotional today that said Christians shouldn't celebrate Halloween. I just think..its a fun holiday. Kids dress up, eat candy, have fun, families spend time together, you have fun little parties and pick pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and have harvest-y decorations...it's fun. I, for one, do not celebrate it with any evil intentions and I doubt many other people do either. Is it wrong? Who knows. I don't see the harm in it, because all I am celebrating is having fun together. Well, enough of that!! Good Thursday to all!