Final two hours everyone! I am so ready to plow into that bed.

For the first time in awhile, after this night is over, I will have nothing on my schedule for several days. I can't believe it! I don't know what to do with myself!   Kind of nice to be clear.

Doing a little online "window shopping" to stay awake. I did discover that the Hope Ball doubles as a great medicine ball. I got in about half an hour with that- maybe not the smartest thing. Now I'm really tired... but hey, not much left to go. I'm pretty proud of how far I've gone so far :) I honestly thought that after having two children 16 months apart I would never be able to pull an all-nighter again (at least not one by choice!), but it wasn't so bad. Next year, I definately want to do a better job preparing for this. A lot of bloggers had great, creative ideas and I was totally tapped by the 4th hour or so!

3 hours left and I am SO bored! Everyone is out cold, there is nothing on tv and I'm too tired to even try to exercise.  It seems like the last of the carnival is gone finally and I'm hungry!!!!!! I don't think I can stomach another banana, and if I eat one more Rainier cherry I'm going to eat the whole bag, and I really should save them for Ohana. I think it's PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
:D

(Does anyone else see the dancing banana?)

Everyone is asleep, here is where the boredom is going to set in... I think between posts I'll get in some exercise.
How is everyone out there keeping themselves awake? I've tried two strategies and I'm not sure which is best- conserving energy on the couch with a movie (and risking falling asleep of boredom) and exercising to keep blood flowing (and risking passing out)

Which is working for you out there? Or are you using a different strategy?

I can't believe there are only 4 hours left. Yay! I'm not really tired, but I know I will be once the kids are up and around. My son is really restless. He has come running out to the living room twice now, and he's stirring again because of the carnival. They're banging things around, taking down the rides and starting the trucks to haul them off. I can't wait until they're gone! I always wanted to live next to one as a kid, but now as an adult I would settle to live "near" one and not 15 feet away!

We're almost done everyone! Hang in there.

I'm going to Paul McCartney's concert!!!!!! Just got an email that the tickets are on their way. We wanted to go so badly last time he came to Dallas and couldn't. This time, we'll be there!

Just saw something creepy... it seems if a mouse is hungry enough, it will do just about anything to get to food. We live next to a large field and sometimes see mice. So we have a trap set. We just heard it go off and checked it, and found nothing. But about a foot away, there was a mouse that we assumed was "playing dead". We stared at it for a minute, and as we were watching another mouse darted in and dragged the first one off! I guess it had pulled it out of the trap to get to the food. GROSS! Can't wait to mooooove!!!