Tricks And To Many Treats

We started of our Halloween day by baking cupcakes for Andrew to take to work.  After all of our hard work in the kitchen we gathered all of our Halloween books from our book collection and spent a good portion of our morning reading. 

 

 

 

 Emmett was a little spider this year for Halloween.  He loved his costume and even got use to the fangs on his hood being in his eyes.  Most people thought he was a dinosaur, or a monster.  To us he was a sweet little tarantula!

 

He spends the majority of his day packing around his giraffe blankie that his Grandma made him.  The past few weeks he has become so attached to it, and throws huge fits if he has to leave it behind.

   After naps we went to the costume parade in downtown Rogers.  Brinlee enjoyed all the complements she received on her amazing dress and sweet hair.

 Emmett got a tootsie roll and he was in heaven

 It is so different not having to bundle kids up to stay warm on Halloween.  The weather was perfect and we were even a bit hot and sweaty after our adventure downtown.

 After the parade, Brinlee finished making some cupcakes for our neighbors.

 It is a tradition to have a pumpkin shaped pizza on all hollows eve. 

Pizza is Emmetts most favorite food.

 

 

 After dinner we had a fun time dressing up the cat.  Brinlee bought her Baria bear (the build a bear) a Marida outfit.  She gets coupons in the mail every month from Build A Bear workshop and every once in a while we take her to pick something out for her bear.  The Brave costume for her bear came with the dress and wig.  We striped Baria of her Brave outfit and put it on Jenna.   It was a perfect fit!  Jenna could care less.  She was just excited to be included. 

 The time came to go Trick or Treating

Sorry for the blurry pictures, but my phone is having a hard time.

 Emmett just spent his time following his sister and dragging his trick or treat bag behind him. 

 Andrew met up with us after he got home from work.

 And perfect for Halloween:  Emmett is working on getting his vampire teeth.

 All of the festivities made fore one tired buddy boy.

After we put the baby to bed, we did our tradition of laying out all the candy and playing board games.  We eat as much candy as we can physically stand, and then some.  Its the one day where we allow this.  Tomorrow, no candy will exist.

 

 



Countown to Halloween

 

 

I love my little pumpkins!

 

 

 Andrew and I heading to a murder mistory party.

I was Janis Joplin.  Andrew was Elvis Presley.  He would have made the king proud.

 



Bums

I can't get enough of this guy!

 



Civil War Buff

One of the most beautiful places I have seen here in Arkansas is Pea Ridge Military park.  I knew that it would be a good place to take Grandma Bailey because of her love and knowledge of the Civil War. 

 

We had so much fun there.  It really was such a beautiful place.   



A couple of weirdos

 

As I was growing up, I noticed that I seemed to be a bit different from others...

Marched to my own drum perhaps? 

 

Things that were so funny to me, no one else laughed at....

There were always funny things to me.

 

My sense of humor is a bit different, maybe off. 

 

 

As I grew older and I started to date, I noticed that not everyone shared my sense of humor.  My idea of a good time, or a funny joke was not shared with them.

 

And then I found him..........

 

 

 

He gets me.  He always has.  I knew it from the moment I met him, interviewed him.  He laughed at all my dry sense of humer jokes.  As we began to date he listened to me.  He really listened to me.  I knew he was the one for me when my stomach constantly felt like I had the best abdominal workout from laughing so hard with him. 

I know that there is nothing that I could ever do to make him change his mind about loving me.  That is the best part of our relationship.  I know that he will love me no matter how I look, talk, or the mistakes I make.  He doesn't just tell me, he shows me.   

He is always up for an adventure.  He is always up for a party, hanging out, scrabble game competition, or Wii bowling tournament.  We always have a pretty good time.

One of the hardest things that I have ever had to do is live a year apart from this guy.  Although he wasn't with me in person, I never felt alone.  He was there for me everyday.  He made me feel just as loved, and he also made me laugh just as much.

I know that we might be a bit strange.  We tend to be shy in crowds.  We act immature at times.  We still have the "baby of the family" mentality.  But at the end of the day we are in love.  We have come so far in our marriage together.  We have learned how to work hard to accomplish your dreams and take care of your family.  We have learned how to communicate with one other. We have learned how to deal with stress and illness, and balance a budget.  We have learned how to love one another through our short comings...His: not being able to repair things around the house.  Mine: being a back seat driver.  His: not covering food when he puts it in he fridge.  Mine: Leaving my water bottles all over the house.

What I want my children to remember is this:  Love isn't perfect.  It doesn't matter how much money they make, or if they keep a perfect house, or have perfect grades.  All that matters is that you feel like you can be 100% yourself with them, and that they will love you always.  You need to feel nothing but love and support from them.  If you have that you can fix all the other stuff with time.  Sometimes lots of time....But in the eternal perspective those things are not important.



 

And to Andrew:  Thank you for being the best.  At times the worst....but I am grateful for those times when we are less then endearing to one another, because they have helped our marriage to grow.  Thanks for the good times.  Thanks for helping me forget the bad times...

 

Now hurry home from work so I can kick your trash in Scrabble!

Fall According To My Backyard

We have the coolest back yard.

28 big, full grown trees

 

 

 

As Brinlee would say "it's raining leaves"

 



Its Beautiful, but its probably going to take three boxes of industrial size garbage bags to clean them all up.

But at least the kids had fun

 



And of course, some dirt eating.

 

 



 It reminded me of all the times when Brinlee was little and I had to clean the dirt out of her mouth.  She would make mud pies, and forget that they were "mud" pies and eat it.

Which is why she was probably such a support to him in the clean up process.

 

They are the best~

 

 

HAPPY FALL TO ALL