Happy Awesome Halloween

Some of the Party Animals

Diva's

The Boys!

Girlfriends

Gram

What an awesome Halloween had by all! We have been blessed with awesome friends, awesome food and best of all awesome weather!!! We were all able to visit outside while the children played and it was fabulous! The evening started with trick or treating and ended with playing in the yard with the trampoline, soccer/football, the air jumper and the awesome haunted trail that Brad made up for the kids- how much fun!! Thanks Brad!! I think everyone will sleep good tonight!! Enjoy the pictures and I will try to get a slide show up soon!!

My beautiful little girl with her natural color glasses- PINK!!

Brielle got her glasses on Sunday. She could not wait to get them and now on day 3 of having them dreads putting them on- go figure!!

It seems like there is magic in the glasses though- she has become an avid reader over night- Thank God!!! She finds anyone who will listen and reads them a book. Tonight Brady was her pupil as she read him "Swing, Swing, Swing". Hope this love for books continues!!

A blessed day with Friends

Charles R. Swindoll: Quotes: Friendship-I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

The day began with taking 5 little people to the Homcoming Parade. We gathered on Broadway in front of the Marquette Building to take part in an ADPi sorority reunion. It was awesome to see old friends. The kids loved the parade and gathered enough candy to feed the needy!

We went home for a fun filled day of playdates. They enjoyed playing the woods (thanks brad for making the trail), riding the gator and the infamous game of kickball.

As I was leaving the driveway to run to the store for spooky halloween snacks I see my friend Chandler (or rather Amy now that her son's name is Chandler!) and her husband and visited with them for a bit before my other friend Amy and her children Taylor, Ty and Tori stopped to say hi!

We ended the day with an awesome Halloween party at the Fisher's. Just a little intimidating now to have mine. Thank goodness Heather can't come- I won't feel as much pressure to match her entertainment!

Highlights of the week

monday i took brielle and blake to the eye doctor to find out that brielle needs glasses to read. tuesday was a semi annual trip to the dentist to find out that brielle needs sealants on her new molars and to think about an orthodontist we will need to see in the near future- all i am thinking is whether it is too late to trade her in for a cheaper model.

so anyways, after the dentist visit we went looking for glasses. i asked her what she had in mind as far as glasses went and whether she wanted pink or purple- her immediate response "no mom, i want brown and black- you know- natural colors"- uhh sorry- didn't know we were going natural at 7 years old. so i informed her that we were going to look at 3 places to see who had the best price and go from there. the first place we went was the private eye doctors where she would only try on the brown turtle shell frames and picked out a really cute pair for a possibility. so on to sears where again she was adament that she wanted "natural color" glasses- she found a cute pair of turtle shell again and the dr there explained that i could get 2 pairs of glasses for less than getting one at the previous place- doesn't take a mathmetican to know that this was a good deal so we settled on the initial pair she found here at sears- that was until she realized she could get two pairs. i asked her if she wanted two of the same or two different- needless to say we left with 2 pairs of hot pink- i guess that is the new natural color (lol)

on wednesday brad took brielle and blake to swimming and that allowed time for brady and i to hang out. we took a long walk and talked about everything in sight. when we came home i gave him a bath and settled in to do laundry. unfortunately brady had other plans- first he found a pair of blakes sports underware and put it on his head like a hat and ran around the house like a crazy man- couldn't help but to laugh which only encouraged more entertainment. When he finished with the "hat" he decided that the piles of clothes that i had created while folding the laundry would make awesome tunnels for his cars and trucks so as i folded the clothing he drove his cars through them- as long as he is entertained i don't care to fold the clothes mulitple times- huh!!! (pictures to follow once the computer decided to cooperate!!)

brielle is having her first girlfriend sleepover tonight- i couldn't believe it they asked to go to bed at 9:00- i hope this trend continues for future sleepovers

tomorrow we are going to the homecoming parade and each of the big kids gets to take a friend- i am looking forward to the fun!!!!

i will post more later...

Fall Happenings

Lost without a computer

The electrical storm hit the day after the concert. I was walking through the foyer of my house when I saw/heard a bolt of lightening hit my outside lights, soar through the house setting off the fire alarm, shutting off the storage lights downstairs and finally stopping at the fuse box. Unfortunately, not only were the outside lights fried (and still are to this day) but the computer was affected also- so much for a surge protector!!!! So while my computer decides whether it wants be fixed or not I will use Brads.



Much as happened since the awesome night at the Rick Springfield concert that my friend Heather.

• Blake went undefeated playing Jackson Kindergarten Soccer


• Blake was on the Chaffee Homecoming court as Junior King


• Brielle asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up (I told her I was certain :)


• We attended our first Chaffee home football game


• Brad had a birthday with an awesome surprise party


• We went to Beggs Family Farm


• I was blessed with a sinus infection and lost my voice- entirely!!

The Rick Springfield Concert (or was it Bruce???)