Halloween

Halloween day this year was spent at Grandma and Grandpa E's. Russ(Jason's dad), Colton and Sadie came down from Colorado for a few days. It's always fun to see my little brother in law.

It's fun to see his confused expression when the kids call him uncle. He corrects the kids with 'my name is Colton'. Sadie wasn't feeling well on this trip. She's 11 yrs. old and a beautiful well behaved very clean dog. She truly is spoiled and she knows it too. We hope she gets better soon so she can chase the kids around.

The kids taught Colton how to throw a frisbee. He did it except kinda backwards. It was cute to watch.

We had a light dinner and went trick or treating around the cul de sac before going to Kati's.

Halloween night we spent at Kati's. It's a fun tradition we look forward to each year. We had dinner and went around her neighborhood for some candy. The kid

s always stock up very nicely. We had six adults and 5 kids this year. The odds were in our favor. After we got settled back at Kati's the kids ran around like crazy from all the sugar and at this point we confiscated the candy.

We brought Ethan home with us for a sleep over. They fell asleep right away...a first for this crowd!

Wizards of Waverly Place

Disclaimer; Unnecessary to read. Won't miss much if skipped!
  It all started with Maddie having a tummy ache on Friday night. She complained early in the night but I didn't quite get how severe it was until she threw up...not at our house but at someone else's house during a Halloween get together. Surprisingly I wasn't as mortified as I thought I would be due to the circumstances. I'm becoming quite mellow lately maybe I'm realizing I can't control everything and I'm slowly starting to turn to Jason's was of thinking. She was sick for the rest of the night. I claim every 20 minutes but I've been corrected that it wasn't that bad the entire night. Compromise... It was every 20 at the beginning of the night until 12 and then once more at 2(that's when I blanked out for the night) and then one last time at 4(when Jason fell asleep). We took care of Maddie together so it wasn't as bad as it could have been but still a sleepless night shows the next day. Jason slept on the coach Maddie on the floor with me on one side and a garbage can on her other. Korbin woke up early and refreshed the next day since he feel asleep on our bed.

No pictures could be included in this post some things are better never to be seen. 

On Sat things didn't get any better for Jason and I, we both got sick but not as bad as Maddie. Korbin was a great helper all day long and managed not to get sick. I still quarantined him once Jason and I got started to get sick just in case. Yesterday was full of red Jello, frequent naps and the Wizards of Waverly place October marathon. Jason and I like to watch kids shows which sometimes shock people but we enjoy it(we sometimes even catch ourselves watching them when the kids aren't around) but we might have reached our limit yesterday.
Today was clean up day. We feel much better today and did almost the same things as yesterday except there was more food,showers, and fun movies. Maddie lost her 2nd tooth and we had fried ice cream for dessert. Tonight was a much better night. I'm counting this event on my 2009 'Redo days'.

Halloween Prep

Costumes...Costumes...Costumes... I'm glad to say costumes are almost out of the picture. I'm glad Korbin has decided he wants to reuse his Power Ranger costume from last year(in the long run this has been a big help since we're not home very much right now). Working on only one costume has been a nice break. Maddie's costume was somewhat easy to make once I got a few kinks out of the way. I couldn't find a pattern for the skirt I wanted to make so I had to try and make it using Mad's and my imagination. It's not exactly what I had in mind but very close. She loves it and that's all that matters anyway. The puffy underskirt was the challange but I sought some advice on how make it from a few sewing experts in our ward (older ladies are very cute and patient). Can't beat experience! The shoes we found @ the GAP in Park City last Friday. Cute silver flats. They didn't have her size but not to worry a few phone calls yesterday and voila there in the mail coming all the way from Colorado. I love silver(flashback... Jason had a red rose spray painted silver once for me. It was really neat)! Maddie will be a cute Minnie Mouse and Korbin a cool Power Ranger this year!

Note to self for next year: After posting this and spending a little bit of time this afternoon with Tosha M. and Tammy B. I have found this is the second year in a row either one of them has the costume my kids want to be for Halloween. I'm bypassing stuff next and seeing what's available up the street first :) These two ladies crack me up and are great examples to me to want to be a better person.

Spousecation

Jason had his last vacation for the year last week. It's a very well deserved vacation and a nice break before it gets crazy with the Holiday season. It's a blackout from now until the second week of January for us. The only thing that will keep him at home now would be the swine flu and I'd rather him go to work than have that or if his shoulder keeps bothering him (he tore a muscle a few weeks ago and it's been a bit sore since then but the doctor said it would probably be ok if he takes it easy at work and stretches his shoulder out everyday). He is spoiled and I will admit it is very nice to be spoiled with 5 weeks off a year. We spent almost every day together except for a few things. We found some cool Lunch deals while we were out for every day of the week except Monday. We went to Boston's on Monday. I prefer never to return there again. Even the salad was gross. We've decided Chilli's is our official favorite place to eat. It's just plain good food. We tried a few other new places like The Pita Pit. They have a great and yummy Wed deal. The rest of the week was filled with shopping,errands,pack meetings, movies,other meeting, more stuff and a few fabrics store. Handcock fabrics included a 23 minutes trip inside . This was not one of Jason's favorite pass times of the week but he was a good sport and was patient with our purchase of less than one yard. Picking out the fabric took less than 10 second the wait in line to have the fabric cut was very very long. All in all it was a very nice and laid back week!

Aunt

My Aunt Eva passed away tonight(my aunt on my mom's side). She was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago. The last few months have been rough for my mom's side of the family. My aunt was at a recovery facility when she passed away. Everything that could have have been done was tried but the cancer was spreading too rapidly in her body. My aunt would always tease all of her nieces and nephews to always think outside the box when it came life. She found joy in giving us advice probably because she wasn't able to have children of her own. I am grateful for the opportunity to have spend an hour with her last week before she passed away. She talked to my mom on the phone while I paid my last visit and it has left me with such a fond memory of my aunt smiling/laughing while talking to my mom. My grandparents are coping the best they can with the loss of their daughter. We'll all miss her very much but we know she is in a better place now free from the pain she was suffering from.