What the???

That is how my life feels these days. Honestly I am not sure if I could pack more things into my day. Having said that I did have a fabulous weekend with great friends one of whom flew in from Denver and so 4 of us girls chatted, shopped, and ate the weekend away forgetting that we had 4 bazillion loads of laundry, dinners to cook, kids to tend to, husbands turned babysitters, oh and that little thing called sleep, all waiting for us to return. It was so great to see you Kristin, Denver is calling our names next year.So now I have come back to reality and what a reality it is. This week has been non stop some of which was my own choosing. Like the cooking show I went to where I thought I would learn great and wondrous things along with receiving some samples of great food. Alas, it was not to be. I did get some good tips but they ran out of the bags with the cookbooks and have promised to mail me some (we'll see) and then not one morsel of food. I along with friends were starving so obviously that warranted a late visit to BJ's.

Thankfully this week is coming to an end. All we need to do is visit teach, give piano lessons, attend Ethan's first Pack meeting, go to craft night, have the boys birthday party, keep Ashton off of every counter and table in my house, also keep him from throwing anything he can get his hands on in the trash, and last but not least clean the dirty dwelling we are residing in so it can be called home again.

The craziness that is also known as the holidays is upon me. Pray for us as we attempt to take pictures of our kids and if we are really lucky a family picture as well. I really need to stick to what I say at the end of every year, "Next year I am going to keep it simple and not stress myself out". I think I need a support group for this. Anyone else need to join?

Halloween 2009

I love Halloween although I do not like getting ready for it. It seems like so much work and it stresses me out. I like to have a theme for my kids costumes (this is probably why I am stressed out). This year my kids just told me what they wanted to be and I said okay. Even though I didn't have a theme they kind of picked a theme. This year was "Classic Halloween". I decided to make all the costumes again this year. The prospect of getting to be creative and come up with ways to make the costumes look great is always so enticing to me until the day of Halloween when I am scrambling to get finished and make sure they look good. I did finish and we went to our usual trunk or treat and then made my way around my parents neighborhood. Now onto next years theme.

Chloe and Mackenzie at their school costume parade

Ashton's was the only costume I didn't make and he looked pretty cute in it.

Ethan, Tanner and Landon

Ethan's costume turned out better than I thought it would. He was pretty happy with the result

I think every year I will make Mackenzie's costume out of a tutu. They are so easy and there are so many cute costumes you can make.

Landon wanted to be a Ghost. First the Charlie Brown Ghost, then a Ghost with a hood, then a chain and the list went on. This kid is so hard to please. Of course there were no chains to be found so I had to make one with duck tape and rope. It was pretty ghetto. I also put some really cool make up on him and he was looking good until he decided he didn't like the makeup and wiped it off with a rag 2 minutes before we left. I can't talk about it without getting mad.

My niece Chloe was a 50's girl. I loved her costume(again made out of a tutu). Actually I think I just love the fact that she wore those glasses the whole time. She looked so cute in them.