Happy Halloween!

There are somethings I loved about Halloween being on a Saturday night.

They are as follows:

1. You have plenty of time to prepare for the festivities.

2. You are not worn out from dealing with hyper, costumed children all day at work.

3. You know you don't have to go back to work with children in sugar induced coma, and try to teach them.

4. You don't have to worry when children that are too old, ring your doorbell late and wake up all of your small children because even if it happens you have time to get them back to sleep.

5. You get to let your children sleep off the sugar!

There are some things I hate about Halloween being on a Saturday night.

They are as follows:

1. On Sunday you have to listen to your children beg for candy ALL DAY LONG!!!

2. They still feel it is necessary to live in their costumes.

3. They beg all day on Saturday to wear their costumes and go trick or treating.

4. They beg all day on Saturday to wear their costumes and go trick or treating.

5. They beg all day on Saturday to wear their costumes and go trick or treating.

6. DID I MENTION THAT ON SATURDAY THEY BEG TO WEAR THEIR COSTUMES ALL DAY LONG, AND WON'T QUIT ASKING TO GO TRICK OR TREATING?

For the most part it was a pretty good day. Then kids got dressed early in their costumes and ran around our house like that all day long. It was easier than fighting with them. Around 5 we started to walk them through the neighbor hood and they made a pretty good haul. I was very proud of Janey and Trenton because they used very good manners, always remembering to say thank you to when given a treat. :)

After trick or treating we went to Wal Mart because they set up trick or treating booths around the store. Trenton had a blast, and Janey was a bit scared of the tents they kids had to go into to get candy. So, she and I skipped those while Trenton and Dylan went in.

The one disappointing event of the night was that a good friend Wendy had made special Halloween treats for the kiddos. She texted to let me know she had left time in the mailbox. When we got home our mailbox was open and the treats were gone. Our mailbox is on our house and sits up over my head, so who ever took the stuff out had to be taller than me. My guess is big brothers or sisters taking out their younger siblings. Unfortunate!!!

Hopefully everyone had a great Halloween with all your monsters and goblins!!!

Charlotte Irene's 1st Birthday

In the days leading up to Charlotte's birthday I was getting kind of sad. You see Dylan and I have always taken personal days on our children's birthdays to spend the the day with them. In light of all the sickness spreading around, we decided that we better not take a day this year and celebrate in the evening or on the weekend. I felt guilty about it, but with swine flu spreading through our schools, I knew it was the best thing to do.

Then on the 28th we woke up to SNOW, and quite a bit of it. The forecast was predicting up to 15 inches of snow by the morning of the 30th. Could it be possible that we would get a snow day?My superintendent, and Dylan's as well does NOT like to cancel school, so I wasn't banking on it, but I was praying for it a little. Could I really get to spend the day with my girl Charlotte? By Wednesday I received a call that we were going to have a late start. So, I figured I should just be happy getting to sleep a little extra :).

Thursday morning came, and I went down to Charlotte's room and pulled her out of her crib as she smiled at me. I kissed her sweet, little face and sang Happy Birthday to her. I told her how grateful I was that she was a part of our family. I took her up stairs and put her in her high chair with some cereal. While she ate and jabbered at her daddy, brother and sister I went into the shower. I got out and started to put my hair in pigtails (we were having our Halloween party at school). I had just finished my hair and put my make-up on when I got the call I had been hoping for, we had cancelled school :)! God had answered my prayers. I pulled down my hair and went into the other room to love on my baby because now we could spend her special day as a family.

We opened presents and Daddy had to make her cupcakes because her cake from Safeway was snowed in at Denver (we ended up having 2 cakes). She got to play and be with her mom and dad on her first birthday, which I know doesn't mean a lot to her now, but I did to her dad and I. God answered my prayers and I got to spend the day with my beautiful Charlotte Irene.

Thank you for joining our family Charlotte, you bring sunshine to us even on the cloudy days with your bright smile and dimples. I love you baby girl!!