Yesterday Crystal called me and asked if I would walk up to the clinic with her to get her prescription. It was a nice day and the day before had been so nasty and rainy, so I said yes. We got the kids ready and headed up town. When we got to the clinic she discovered that her prescription cost $10 more than she thought, so we just decided to go to the park which is located behind the clinic.

The kids LOVED it. Gabriel and Serena were content in the baby swings for the first 30 minutes or so. Mariah wanted to help push, so that kept her busy as well. Then we went to the slides for awhile. Gabriel went down a couple with me, then I took Serena down some. Mariah went down all of them about a million times. After awhile, the younger ones started getting cranky so we came back home and they went down for a nap.

Other than that, I haven’t been up to much. I had an interview at Best Buy the other day for a customer service position. Hopefully it went well… I think it did. Better than my EZ Money interview anyway! Last week a lady called me and asked if I could come in that night for an interview. I said I wasn’t sure if I could make it that night because my husband had the car and I couldn’t be sure when he would be home. She said, “Well, I’ll schedule it for 6:30 and if you can be in around that time, it’ll be fine.” So I agreed and ended up making it there at 6:38pm. 8 minutes late after I WARNED her that might happen. Well, what does she do? She tells me that they have a POLICY that if you’re late at ALL for an interview, its canceled. I told her that I TOLD her on the phone I might be late. Her response? “That’s not my problem.” Excuse me?! I was so freakin’ mad. I’m STILL mad. I told her I wasn’t too worried about working there after that and walked out.

I’m currently waiting for my Vonage router to arrive in the mail. I signed up when they had a deal going, so I ended up only paying the S/H for the router. The first month was free, the router was free and some other fees were knocked off, too. I can’t wait to try it. It makes more sense then the phone service we currently have (about $40 bucks a month AND we don’t have unlimited long distance. we have to pay for it). $25 dollars a month for unlimited long distance? Sounds good to me! The only suck is that Vonage didn’t have our town prefix available so I had to get one that will be long distance to our family and friends. However, all of them have unlimited long distance so that won’t be a problem.

Some photos from the park:

Gabriel swinging. He kept putting his foot like that. He’s so weird.

Serena swinging. So cute!

Mariah pushing Serena on the swing.

The rest can be found here.

This past week, my mother-in-law stopped by wanting to know if we’d go to the pumpkin patch with her. My friend Crystal was over, so it was quite a full car with two carseats and three adults! We headed to Ontario to an Amish farm. There we got about a dozen pumpkins, half big and half tiny (baby pumpkins, Mariah says). Gabriel enjoyed crawling amongst the piles of pumpkins while Mariah chased after a puppy. When we finished there, we headed to the Bent ‘n’ Dent where I found two awesome sippy cups for Mariah for a $1.00 a piece. One of them is goblet-style and the bottom has a Dora in a snow globe. The other is a regular sippy cup but you can stick a colored picture in the inside of it. Mariah loves coloring photos to decorate her cup with. Then we went to Linda’s so Mariah could see her grandpa for a bit. She fed the cows plenty of apples, one of her favorite things to do.

After that, we headed to Jollivette Family Farms to get some apples. I also grabbed Peach Butter, caramel for the apples, peppers, nectarines and some frosted pretzels. Two days after that, Linda taught me how to make apple crisp from scratch. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it’d be! And delicious. I can’t wait to try my hand at peach crisp next. For some reason, I’m just in the mood to bake lately. I want to make cookies, crisps, cakes, you name it. Must be the holiday season that’s approaching…

If anyone has any good baking recipes (especially holiday-themed ones) send them my way!

Here’s some photos from the day:

More here.