Pumpkin Carving Party

Tonight we had a special Halloween dinner - Squirmy worm sandwiches, swamp juice, and bat cupcakes.

After dinner, the kids got started carving their pumpkins (with our help).  They came up with some great ideas.  We kept the seeds for roasting.

Savannah's

Griffin's

Trevor's

Next, it was time for showers.  When they were done we had our bat cupcakes, then watched the movie Lady In White.  It was a favorite Halloween movie of my family growing up.  My Mom sent a copy a few years ago.  It did not dissapoint.

It was a fun night!  We are ready for Halloween now!  Tonight we are going to the Spooktacular at Daddy's work.  The kids are really excited about this.

Reason 107 why I love my husband

He's adorable!!  No, seriously.  Ever since I met him, he'd draw these cute little cartoon figures.  When we go out to dinner he often draws with the kids on napkins, cups ect.   I love it.  So, as we were putting away some leftovers from a resturant I was wondering why he got a marker out.  We all gathered around to see what he was doing.  He's so cute, and fun!!  I love him xoxo

Happy Friday!!

I'm still sick, which sucks.  I really hope I'm feeling better by Monday.  Can't have another week like this one.  It's too hard to get s tuff done when you feel sick.  This afternoon I tried to take a nap, but I kept coughing, so I gave up.  I decided to make a quick trip to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  I picked up a special surprise for our dessert.

The kids were thrilled (of course), and ate their beef stew super fast.  They got to try a slice of each one, then another slice of their favorite.  They all liked the Rocky Road one the best.  I liked the Apple Pie one.

Trevor & Griffin are getting ready to go to Late Night At The Library tonight, so it will just be Savannah and I .  We will probably watch a movie together.  I've been really into James Blunt's music latley.  It just seems to strike a cord with me.  My favorite right now is this one.  Hope you've had a great Friday!

I'm # 1

Last week I had an Endoscopy done.  A few days later the Doctor's office called to let me know my Doctor wanted a few more tests.  The first one I did today.  I was the very first nuclear medicine patient at our city's brand new hospital.  Actually, it's not even offically opened yet.  They were joking saying I should get a free t-shirt or something.  I was there for a gastric emptying study.  Since I had to stay at the hospital (with Patrick) for over two hours we got to check out the whole place.  It is beautiful.  We were very impressed with how nice it was.  I'm glad (sorta) that I got to be # 1


On another note.  I'm sick, which made this test the last thing on my list I wanted to do.  It seems Savannah's illness spread first to Trevor who missed school yesterday, then to Patrick, now to me.  Griffin, you're up!!
I hope I feel better quickly.  It's rotten being sick.

And it's over...

The weekend came and went much faster than I like.  Here's what we did.

Saturday- Griffin & Savannah had soccer games.  Griffin's was in the morning, they won! 
Savannah's was in the late afternoon, they lost.  After her game it was time for dinner, so we
went to a nearby hot dog jont called Senoir Dog.  Mexican twist on hot dogs.  They were pretty
good actually.  On the drive home Patrick suggested we go to the movies.  We drove by saw
what was playing, and bought some tickets.  We had almost an hour to kill, so we went home to
relax for awhile.  Trevor started feeling yucky, cough, cough.  He did not want to go, but we made him.
The boys saw Real Steel.  The girls saw Dolphin Tale.  Both groups loved their movies.  We were out
till after 10:00pm  (crazy)!   

Sunday- We slept in.
We took our time getting going.  Decided to skip Church.  Spent the day cleaning out the garage, and
decorating for the holidays, yes, both Halloween and Christmas.  That's how we roll.  Actually, most years
it is WAY too cold by the time we want to put lights up.  Patrick always makes a big deal out of it.  So, this year I thought we should put them up now, so when we are ready all we have to do is plug them in.
The boys got to help on the roof for the first time ever!!  They thought it was so cool.  I worked on  making a special Halloween spider web, and boards for our windows.  We were busy all day, and did not have dinner till 7:20pm.  It was a long day but, we got a lot of stuff done.

Eyeball Pops

Griffin's class does a performance every six weeks called Open Mic.  Today was their first show.  It was really cute.  There were skits, jokes and music.  The kids all did such a great job.  I was happy to be able to watch it.  Parents were asked to bring a special treat in to share.  I made eyeball pops, found the idea here.

Cute Griffin after the show, eating all the goodies.

Another day...

Today has been just like all the other days this break.  Laying around.......
Savannah had a rough night, so this morning I took her to urgent care.  The strep test was negative, but when the Doctor looked in her throat she said "it's nasty in there, we have to treat it."  She is now on antibiotics for Tonsillitis.  Her fever is back this afternoon and after her nap she looked so sad laying on the couch.

I decided to make some suckers with the boys to cheer her up.  They did a little and tasted good too.

She'll stay home from school tomorrow, then I hope she's much better after that.

Fall break

The kids have been out of school since Wednesday at 12:45 for fall break.  We actually have not done much of anything until tonight.  When I picked them up from school Wendesday, Savannah was crying and I felt her, she had a fever.  All day Thursday and Friday she did too.  During the night last night she woke up crying saying her throat hurt.  Then this morning the same thing.  She did not have a fever anymore though.  I made her "tea" water, lemon juice and honey heated up to drink this morning and some advil.  She seemed ok today, so I decided to let her go to her good friends birthday party.  When I picked her up, the kids and I went straight to the Balloon Fiesta to meet an old friend of mine who is in town.   It was fun and for the first hour or so Savannah really enjoyed it, then she started getting cranky.  She was tired and cold, and her throat hurt.  By the time we got home at 9pm she was in tears.  She says her throat hurts and she can't sleep alone.  I feel bad, I thought she was on the mend.  I may need to take her to urgent care tomorrow.  So, lots of movies and wii games this fall break.  Only one night out and that seemed to be more than enough!

Family Adventure

Last weekend we decided to spend the whole day as a family.  Since we had some free tickets
to ride the train from the Zoo to the Botanical Gardens, that's what we did.  After over five years
of living here we had never taken the kids on this train, we felt like it was about time  :)

After hanging out at the Zoo for awhile, we grabbed our picnic lunch and got on the

train to the Botanical Gardens.  The train ride took about 30 minutes, it was fun to

see stuff we've never seen before.  Once there we found a spot to have our lunch.

I made some yummy chicken salad sandwiches.  After we were finished eating we

walked over to look at the minature trains.  Just after walking over there we heard 

Griffin crying hard.  He came running toward us.  He had been stung by not one,

but two bees, poor kid.  This was his very first time being stung  :(

We had nothing to help with the pain since our car was at the zoo.  Patrick luckily

had some band-aids in his pocket, so that helped.....a little.

  

We enjoyed the Gardens and aquarium, then took the train back to the Zoo.  We looked at a few more animals, then headed to Corvettte Diner for some yummy milkshakes and one malt.  It was a great treat.

On the way home we decided to make one more stop.  There is a trail near a wash that we had heard about.  There is all kinds of art pieces cemented into the walls.  We found it, and the kids LOVED it.  We enjoyed the evening walk, looking for different objects in the wall.

It was a fantastic day as a family!!