Nickerson News

I’m glad the election is over.

Not happy about the results, but we have to move forward and pray our future President helps make this country a better place.

After we told Abel who the next President was going to be….


Ok, moving on. Not talking about the election any longer!

Wow, there is some serious snot in that picture! I am SO OVER green snot pouring out of his nose and it is only early November!

On a completely different note, some of you were wondering how did Seth keep that brush on top of his head? This was a tough one and had us scratching our heads too. First, it took FINDING something that looked like a tooth brush. Sure enough, good ole Target had some type of cleaning brush that was in the shape of a toothbrush for only $2.50. (Both of our costumes together only cost around $3 and Abel’s pirate costume was only $1. Thanks to my sister Kate, for picking that one up at Target’s after Halloween special last year.)

wow, I sure know how to get off the subject.

Anyway, Seth finally decided the only way it was going to work was if he taped (duct tape that is) the brush to a broom stick (an old broom stick without the broom that I wanted to get rid of YEARS ago, but he told me we may need it in the future. No organizer wants to hear this and sure enough we needed it. I won’t hear the end of that one.) He then tapes the heck out of the broom stick to a tight t-shirt that he is wearing under the black shirt and there you have it my friends…that is how my dear hubby was a toothbrush. (or as Kelly & Ryan said a Power Ranger who was a dentist!) ha!

I’m done for the night. My carpel tunnel has been acting up AGAIN, so it kills to type right now.

I don’t really ever get political on my blog, but tomorrow is a VERY important day.

I felt lead to post this video on my blog. This is an issue dear to my heart since I have volunteered at Crisis Pregnancy Centers for many years now. I have seen firsthand the babies whose mothers “thought” they wanted an abortion, but decided to choose life!

I’ll probably lose some blog readers to this, but that is ok.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA&feature=related

So yes, GO MCCAIN!!!

Fall Festival 2008 was super fun, as always. The time goes by way too fast, but I must say we have one of the coolest churches. They spend all week decorating the place, have candy galore, more games then you can imagine and EVERYBODY goes all out on their costumes!

It is always slightly stressful trying to rally my crazy, Italian family to get the ONE group shot we need. Every year it is a MUST to get everybody together and take a picture, but why it is always so hard? Every year it is so difficult. (Why is the Colgate shining so brightly? Must be because I am the new & improved sparkling whitener.) hahaha!

Thankfully, we pulled it off, but it was kinda hilarious right before this pictures was taken. We were all suppose to meet at the “Harvest Photo Spot” at 7:30, but one person was missing so another person would go to look for the missing person and then the missing person would show up and then we lost the person who went looking for the missing photo! It was madness! But here we are all thrown together for our annual family photo.

You might be asking yourself how did we come up with being a toothbrush and toothpaste. If you are, it all happened about 3 weeks prior to Halloween. The super planner (me) was bugging the procrastinator (Seth) to help with costume ideas for this year. Seth is a HUGE procrastinator! I will, however, give him mad props because he does his all time best work under pressure. This is where we are SO SO different!! As usual, I was bugging him for ideas about what we should be for Halloween. To get me off his back, he blurted (totally joking) “how about a toothbrush and toothpaste”. But I took him seriously and we ran with it.

(ignore the awful shadows)

Sure enough, 2 days before Halloween we were trying to figure out how we were going to mount a huge toothbrush on top of Seth’s head. The genius in Seth came up with a brilliant idea (he will tell you the drive to the Festival was very uncomfortable).

It was WAY past Abel’s bedtime, but he THRIVES on people and activity so he was having the time of his life! Here he is taking bowling VERY seriously! Oh my goodness, I love this action shot of him! (I will say, we wanted Abel to top off our costumes by being a TOOTH, but we knew he would never go for it.)

However, once he was given a new car, the world stops and he was extremely focused on his car and nothing else matters at that moment.

Sadly, this was the only family photo we could get.

Enjoy some other Halloween photos.

These two are trouble when the are together. I’m curious as to what antics they will pull when they are older.