HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Post #1

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!! Tonight I am going to post some pix from the official Halloween costume. Tonight I dressed up for my students and had a blast surprising them with what I looked like. My students who stopped by loved my costume and so did the neighborhood and all the families that came by for Trick or Treating. By the way Matt refuses to dress up for Halloween but he was my modern day Prince Charming. Archer agreed to dress up though. We even ran out of candy before all the kids were finished coming by. We ran out of 3 and a half big bags of candy.

Couple of funny stories. I was the Bell of The Ball. Little girls were in awe as they saw me and I could hear them from across the street, "Can we go to Cinderella's house?" Or I was sitting on the porch with Matt and I stood up to hand out candy and one little girl said, " Oh my, she is real." It was very cute. One little girl saw me from the sidewalk and just ran up the grass yelling, "Cinderella, Cinderella." with her arms open wide and gave me a huge bear hug, while her parents and grandmother took pictures. I also went to a local restaurant to sigh up for a costume contest and see a friend, and I was getting my pix taken for the contest and little girls started lining up to take a pix with me on the bench. I had like 6 girls sit next to me and get their pix with me and their parents said I actually looked like the "real" Cindy. Everyone was impressed that I made my costume. It was a very good night. Tomorrow we are going to an adult neighborhood party and I will be a veggie vampire with honey colored eyes and pale cold skin and Matt will be the helpless human that falls in love with me. Ring a bell anyone?

Without further delay here are some pix of my costume as the beautiful Cinderella. **One little note. I did have a little mouse named Lisa help me with the dress. If it wasn't for her the dress would not look anywhere as beautiful as it does. Thank you Lisa for helping me and teaching me how to sew.**

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS?!?

As of last night I "officially" have 26 students! That's right 26. I am so excited. I am actually going to, for the first time since I started teaching, start a waiting list. I feel so blessed right now because I had been hoping to get just a few more students, and WHAMO! In the space of 24 hours I get 3. AMAZING!

Friday is Halloween and this year I actually had a hand in creating my costume. I asked one of the parents of my students to teach me how to sew and we made my costume. I am dressing up as Cinderella. I got it last night and it looks amazing. I even have "glass slippers." There will be pix posted of the costume on Sat so look forward to them then. The dress looks so good the seamstresses at Disney would be impressed. And Sat night we have an adult party in the neighborhood and we are required to dress up. Well I am too afraid to go outside in my Cindy dress so I decided that I was going to dress up as a character from my fav book, Twilight. Super easy costume. All I had to get were honey colored contacts, easy and dress in regular clothing. Matt is going to be the helpless human that fell in love with me. He just has to wear regular clothing since he hates to dress up. I am going to draw a crescent mark on his neck though, just for fun. Anyhew I'll have pix at the end of the week!

What the Hey with the Hay?!?

It is that time of year in the subdivision where the contractors are hunkering down for the winter by putting Hay on every speck of dirt. Well this is an allergy that I learned about last year when we were here, and I think I have known it for a while cause I usually felt like crap after hay rides when I was a kid, but boy howdy my body does not like hay. This year my adverse reaction to hay has been scratching. I woke up this morning looking like I tried to strangle myself cause I have this huge scratch mark across the front of my neck that itches like a mad dog. It is so bad that I am having to cover it with makeup to try and hide it. I even had to wear a sweater to keep myself from scratching my arms and hands. Try being the word of choice as my students asked why my neck was all red. I also won't stop sneezing. Not a very fun day at the Allen House, its been my own personal Hades.

My new Fav!

I think for the first time in my life that I have a favorite band. I usually liked soundtracks so I never had a fav group growing up, but this band I love their songs and I could and have listened to them for hours. Paramore. It is a relatively new band from TN, but I love the styles of their songs. So I added a bunch of the songs to my play list, unfortunately the place I use didn't have all their songs or some of my more fav songs but maybe sometime in the future. Hope you enjoy!

Out Of The Mouth Of Babes!

I already told you how much I love this fall season. Here are a couple of more reasons why. I love the crisp feeling in the air when you wake up, and I love the fog that is rolling on the open fields just after dusk . Last night I was driving home from a lesson and there was this fog all over every open field off the side of the highway. It seriously looked like something in a movie where they used a fog machine. It was really eerie but beautiful at the same time. I love the way it looked with the moon lighting it and just how everything looked.

Also I love decorating my home. My mom and Matt say that I am "nesting" but I am really just having fun because I love this time of year when all the holidays just come one after another.

I have to tell you about one of my decorations that is getting most of the intention by all who come in my house. My mom made a quilt for me and I love it so much! The quilt is called The Witch's Wardrobe. The quilt displays everything that a witch might wear in her every day life, including bras. I was showing one of my student's mom and explaining the quilt and my student came over and said, " Why is there a bra on that?" I told her what the quilt was about and she replied," That is just silly." That's right my young performer, it is a very silly quilt and that is why I love it so much! It is defiantly a conversation starter but I love how whimsical it is, and it just fits my moms personality to a tee, (sorry mom but it is true you can be rather silly some times. LOVE YOU!) Anyhew now that I have embarrassed my mom enough here is a pix of the famed quilt. Oh another little tidbit of the quilt, there is even padding in the bras on the quilt. When my mom does a project, she does it correctly!

Ours

Well after a week of hearing this same melody in my mind and then Matt telling me that I was stupid if I didn't write it down. I have finally finished my first composition. That's right folks, I, Rebbecca Allen, have actually written a song and I just finished putting it in to my computer and it actually looks like a real song, instead of my chicken scratch writing on manuscript paper. The title has been shortened to Ours cause Matt loves it and encouraged me to actually write it down. I am not sure how to put it on the computer and I probably won't until I get it copyrighted or something just to make sure that it would be safe, cause I actually did write it and I want full credit for it. Anyhew, if you want to hear it, call me and I can play it on my piano for you as I have already done from my parents and Elizabeth. Anyhew just wanted to share the news with you to let you know what I have been up to. Hope everything is going well for everyone!

I Shall Try

Ok on Sept 11 I started reading the Twilight Series. Today being the 25th I have read through the entire series twice, including the 263 pages of Midnight Sun. I know I am crazy but I read online that the author suggested that the second book be read twice to fully understand what happens without being too bias. So I figured if I have to read that twice why not read my favorite, the first book, again, and it just kind of took off from there. So I will force myself to take a break from the series, cause I could probably read them again, but no I won't. So I will do a compromise, read a church related book and some other novel, then I will allow myself to re-read the series. I know I am crazy.

Other than that not much else is going on. Matt gets back today from training and being gone for pretty much 2 weeks. I was going crazy without him for only 2 weeks, not sure how I will handle 4 months, anyhew that's all folks.