Reading, messes, and Turkey

More often than not, this is what you will find Cierra doing. She wants to read all the time. How can I say no to that? She reads on the stairs alot, I'm not sure why. Every night she asks me if she can read for 5 more minutes. Why can't all my kids be like that? It's like pulling teeth to get Kaylee and Connor to read. I personally love to read so I'm glad she does too.
Brooke and Isaac love to play in the closet downstairs and usually they only take a few things out at a time but today they decided all the toys needed to come out so they could play inside the toy box. It was kind of cute. They get a long so well, it is fun to see them play together. Brooke loves to play trucks with him and Isaac loves to play dolls with her.

Tonight for dinner I made a turkey. I needed to defrost the garage freezer and I couldn't fit the turkey anywhere so I decided to cook it. It was delicious. We also made mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits and a veggie. Not quite like Thanksgiving but it will tide us over another three weeks until the real thing is here.

An update on my last post: So far so good on the bug situation. I check about three times a day and nothing has come up. I think we are in the clear. Atleast I hope so. I'm begining to relax a little.

Only Brooke would say this:

On Tuesday I was watching the election on TV and Brooke came and sat down by me and said,"Mom did Ba-dack Odama win?" and I said yes and then she got a funny look on her face and said, "then McCain lossed, didn't he?" How does she know this? I am amazed at how much my kids know from school. They talked a lot about the election at school and Cierra was suppose to watch part of the election as her homework.

Anyways, The other morning Brooke woke up and came in and got right in my face and told me I smelled like a crabby patty? What the heck does a crabby patty smell like?

Everyday when Brooke goes down for a nap she says to me, "Mom, when I wake up, if it is sunny, can we go in my pool?" And everyday I say yes and luckily she nevers remembers when she wakes up because thats not happening for another 7 months or so.

And last but not least, the last few days she has been saying, "Mom, check my hair I think I felt a bug crawling in it!"

Call me paranoid..........

Because I probably am. But that being said, I am freaking out! I found out today that some of Brooke's close friends and some kids from church have lice. I can't stop itching and scratching. I know people get lice all the time and it can't be helped but I really don't want it. I don't think I will be able to sleep at night knowing these bugs are in my house. I took everything it possibly could be on, in Brooke's room and bagged it and put it in the garage where it will stay for 2 weeks. I am washing all her bedding and dress up clothes too. What else can I do? Sit here and wait, checking her hair daily praying that I won't see any moving creatures! I guess you can call me a little bit of a neat freak and I tend to go overboard sometimes but I really don't know if I can handle this!!

Annual Halloween party!

Every year Sean and I get dressed up and go to a Halloween party. The McCombs have been hosting this party for a long time and we have gone for four years. It is so much fun to see what everyone will come dressed up as. We usually put some thought into our costumes and have it ready to go but this year we put it off and then we took off on our trip and the morning of we still had not thought of what we could be. We went to the halloween store and to the goodwill and this is what we came up with. We are gutiar hero/punk rockers/gothic weirdos! Not sure quite what we were, but it was a lot of fun. There were probably close to 200 people at this party and there was such a wide variety of cotumes such as: 3 Sarah Palins, John Mcain, A grown man dressed as tinkerbell, pirates, 4 smurfs, operation dude(complete with the blinking nose) and so much more to even mention.
DONT WORRY! We didn't really pierce our noses.

and the snakes aren't real tattoos either!

We are so serious!

We did have to wash our hair several times and Sean still went to church with a little blue in hair.


Sean enjoying a few games of pool.

The Bjorn's as construction workers.(They had taken off the jackets, hardhats, and sunglasses)

The Green's as Indiana Jones and a baby!

A devil, A homecoming queen, snow white, a football player and a ref.

The Richard's as a magician and the assistant. Notice the saw in her stomach! Oops.

Marci, Kelli, Leslie and me!

Kelli, Jen and Marci watching pool.

Tari as Snow White and Carrie as a 70's chick!

Anna living her dream coming down the wrap around staircase as her date waits at the bottom. She was beautiful as always.

The candy that won't be staying

The kids went through their trick-or-treat bags and picked out some things they would like to keep and this is what we are getting rid of. Sean will take it to his work and share it with whoever wants it. This is a win win situation. I don't have to pay a high dentist bill for all the cavities that the kids would have gotten and I won't gain 10 pounds from eating it!:) The kids were very good sports about it. Now you may ask why we even do so much trick or treating?? Good question. Sean likes the challenge of hitting as many houses as he can and I like the piece and quiet while they are gone so I guess that is why!:)

Hope you had a great halloween!

Halloween-at last!!!

After a long week of Halloween fun, the night of trick or treating was finally here. The kids went to four different neighborhoods(Thanks to Sean encouraging them that they needed more candy-Brooke and I stayed home after we finished ours) They were beat when they came home and they had a ton of candy. We will be going through it all tomorrow and getting rid of quite a bit but I guess it is just the challenge of seeing how much you can get.


Kaylee was having a hard time smiling because her face was cracking!

This is Connor and his friend Aj. We have gone trick or treating with the Downeys for about 6 years now. They are great friends and Kaylee and Connor love to get together with Aj and Ally.

This is most of the group before we left. Kaylee had her friend Taryn come with us and Cierra had Meaghan. Ally also had a friend and then The Conner's, The Ward's and The Grendells were also trick or treating the neighborhood.

I am glad to say Halloween is over and I am going to bed so I can find a costume for Sean and I for the party we are going to tomorrow, go to two soccer games, get Cierra to a birthday party and maybe fit in going to the grocery store! Have a good night!

YMCA parade

Today was the YMCA parade. I took Brooke and we met a few friends there. They got to play in the gymanstic room and then got to go all throughout the Y, trick or treating. Brooke didn't want to leave but we finally left after being there for over an hour.


Brooke and Kaylee

YMCA carnival

We went to the YMCA carnival and the kids really enjoyed themselves. They played games for tickets and then cashed them in for fun little prizes.

Kaylee definitely throws the football like a girl but she kept playing and getting more tickets.

Cierra had the throw down just a tad bit better than her sister!:)

They had a big jumpie thing for kids over 10.(That made Cierra very mad since she was so excited to go on it.) It was actually a lot of fun. Kaylee and I raced through the obstacle course and I hate to admit but she won by a long shot. It was really hard and I was winded when we were done.

When we were all done the kids got to pick out a pumpkin to take home. Connor came right home and carved his and put it out on the porch, Cierra and Brooke used markers on theirs and Kalyee brought hers to school today for her teacher.(she's such a brown noser-lol)

It was a very busy day but it was a lot of fun!