Halloween Overload

It's been Halloween overload here this week. Both girls had parties at dance and Ava had one today at preschool. Since Madelynn's in 3 dance classes this is 5 parties already this week, with a halloween carnival at Madelynn's school tomorrow! Crazy!!! In the middle of all of this I found out Ava has an ear infection and I asked the doctor about her snoring (She's loud for a 4 year old!) She thinks that Ava has a really tiny throat. I said that is interesting, I have sleep apnea and my doctor told me pretty much the same thing, so she looked at my throat and Madelynn's and said Madelynn's is bigger than both mine and Ava's. lol! I guess Ava got those genes from me! Poor girl. I'm taking her to the ENT on Tuesday. Hopefully we can find something out, because I left the pediatrician kind of confused!

Here are a few pictures. Hmm, maybe not, I can't get them to load.

Vent!

I can't wait until this election is over. I am sick and tired of getting emails bashing one certain candidate. Most of the time they aren't even true!!! I hope people are not falling for the b.s. that is spread in them. It is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!

I was going to scan Madelynn's picture in to post, but my scanner is unplugged, so I will get around to it later, or you can see it in your Christmas cards. ;)

Busy Sunday!

We had a busy day today. This morning Travis got up and got the camper winterized, so we wouldn't have any problems next spring when we go camping again. Then he mowed the lawn while the girls and I carved the pumpkins for Halloween! We left one for him to do, as I thought it would be too hard after I messed up the first one I tried! Kim and Jared and the kids came over and Travis and Jared finally removed the old couch from the back deck and took it to the dump! Yay! Thanks guys! I can't believe how much bigger the deck is again. ha ha! We played a few games of pool, which, no matter how much I play, I don't get any better! This weekend was so nice, Travis didn't have to go into work at all!! They called a few times, but everything was able to be fixed from home with his laptop. He was showing Kim and I the mine on it, that was kind of interesting. We got Madelynn's school pictures back. I keep meaning to scan one in and forgetting. I will get around to it eventually. We have a busy week ahead, with all the halloween parties at dance and school, plus Travis' 34th (!) birthday on Friday! I hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween.

Here are some pictures of the pumpkin carving, courtesy of Ava. She didn't want to get her fingers slimey doing the pumpkins. She didn't do that bad, although I have about 15 pictures of pumpkin seeds.



The wolf one is Ava's. I think it took Travis about 2 hours to get it carved! I did the skull one first and the eyes fell out, so they are being held up with tooth picks. The two smilie faces are the girls. Madelynn wanted a cat one, but it was way too hard for me to even try and she made up a song about smiling jack-o-lanterns, so I figured I would give their two happy faces. ;)
Ava didn't want to be in this picture, she took her bike and raced away almost all the way to Madelynn's school without telling us. She knows to stop at the corner, so she got in big trouble from Dad after he sprinted after her.

Boring Update.

I feel like I should say something, but I don't have much to say! We have not been doing much. Friday night our friends, Kim and Jared, came over and we played some board games and had a good time. Saturday Travis got called into work again *rolleyes*. Once he got home, Kim and Jared, and our other friends, Candi and Dale, came over and we played some pool. I had a little problem walking and fell right over into the wall. lol!

Ava's doing well at preschool. Today was picture day and we put her hair in curlers last night to prepare. Her hair looked cute! It's also Red Ribbon Week at both girls schools. Tomorrow Ava has "crazy hair" day, so I put "rags" into her hair. We'll see how it comes out, when I did it to Madelynn she had an Afro. Madelynn had crazy sock day today. She wore fuzzy pink ones with polka dots and blue tie-dyed crocs, topped off with a red dress. Such a fashion statement! She started CCD about 3 weeks ago and thinks it's really fun! I am glad. Being active in the church when I was a kid was a nice thing for me.

Other than that, nothing much going on. I will be sure to post pictures from Halloween trick or treating, and Travis' birthday, if we do anything!

Snow?

The weather has kept saying over and over this weekend that it was supposed to snow. This is the closest we have seen so far and it's Sunday night!

Not a lot going on here. Travis has to go to CO again this week for work. Hopefully the kids will be better for me than they were last time!

Dirty Coal Miner

I'm sure everyone knows by now that Travis is a coal miner. I didn't post these pictures from last weekend yet. Kim and I stopped at a campground to let the kids play for awhile after we took the pictures. Madelynn decided it would be fun to play in the dirt around the camp fire grate. She was putting it all over her hands and face saying she was a "dirty coal miner." It was pretty funny!


Not a lot has been going on here the last week or so. It rained a whole lot on Saturday, and was still wet on Sunday, so the kids were going stir crazy!