Happy Halloween

Well as some of you know, October is full of birthdays for us. We start with our nephew Ethan who turned 4 on the 15th, then Craig who turned 3X on the 18th, Jordyn turned 9 on the 19th, and Jake turned 11 on the 27th. My uncle had a big birthday this month as well. So we had birthday weeks, birthday weekends, and several parties to celebrate everyone's big day. This little blurb will focus on our Halloween experience and then I will add the birthday blurb later this week.

We headed up to Green Bay to celebrate Jordyn and Craig's birthday on the 19th. It was a great day because Granny was able to come to Mom and Dad's for a few hours and celebrate with us. It was great to see Granny smile and enjoy the day. Since she wouldn't be coming down to Hartland for Halloween, the kids wanted to try on their costumes for her. As you can imagine, Jake's costume made us all laugh to the point of tears in our eyes. He was going to get some bloody costume that I did not like. Both of us were getting frustrated because that was all that was out there--bloody, violent and ugly. So my mom happened to go into the adult costume and found the blow up trainer. Well he was all excited and I wasn't sure but it was better than the other crap out there. Well once he put it on, we laughed and knew he would have a blast.

Jordyn looks cute in just about anything and wanted her High School Musical costume. I again wasn't too excited because it would not be very warm. I think she forgot we were in Wisconsin and most likly would have to wear long underwear to go Trick or Treating. But I bought it anyway. Well I was right and it was freezing--we actually had flurries--Which is absolutely ridiculous!!! She ended up being a KC Chief fan and wore Jake's Larry Johnson jersey over her turtleneck, Chief sweatshirt, Chief pull over and a Chief hat. And for an extra, she wore her blinking pumkin earrings--we had to have a little of the girlie girl there.

While shopping Jackson saw a Tigger costume. We tried showing him other costumes such as Elmo and Bob the Builder, but nothing would take his mind off of his orange Tigger. It killed me to pay that much for a costume but he loves orange and the minute he saw it, it was clear he wanted to be Tigger. Eventually he found out he had a tail. Well he would swing it and pull it to the front and it was adorable. Then accidentally he found out it came off. I thought he was going to cry but we showed him it stuck right back on. So, of course, that became fun. Then he gave us all another giggle when he pulled it off and stuck it right in the front. Ken quickly said, "Jackson, we don't want to put your tail there." He did look absolutely adorable and it was warm which proved to be an advantage as well.

For some reason we had trick or treating last Sunday night. So we got to experience Halloween in a small town. There were more ATV's and riding lawn mowers pulling trailors of kids than I have ever seen. It made me feel like we were out in the country--oh yeah, I guess we kind of far out aren't we? It was pretty chilly so several neighbors ended up here warming up with hot chocolate, pizza and buffalo chicken soup. Not quite the 80 degree weather we had in KC a few years ago, but the kids had a blast!!! Since the adults were not too big on the Sunday nite thing, and Halloween is actually on Friday--about 30 houses in the hood have decided to do it again on Halloween night and add the adult version so we all can enjoy the spooky night.

A Favor

Hi Gang,

I am writing this with, as my sister put it, a heavy heart. Last week we got a call from my mom and dad telling us that my grandma, otherwise known as Granny, was taken to the hospital. She has been having some issues with her upper leg. She said all along that she was in pain, but I am not sure any of us realized how much. We knew it was getting worse so she was scheduled to head back in. Well on Wednesday, she called my mom and said she could not move and was in incredible pain. She was taken to the hospital, non emergency. They got her there and discovered she had a crack in her upper femur--Can you imagine the pain she was having? She is one tough lady. Unfortunately we also found out that she has cancer. That is going to be the bigger battle. We are waiting for some test results that will give us more information on the cancer. So, I am asking for a favor, if you have an extra few moments, please say a little prayer for her.

As far as the femur goes, she had surgery on Friday and was getting up to go to the bathroom on Saturday. Yesterday she walked down the hall with a nurse hanging on to a belt and has been in good spirits. After having that much pain, it has to be such a relief. The tough little cookie wants to walk again on her own and she is on her way to that. Go Granny!!!

Sooo Elementary

Well it has been a while and this will be short and sweet. Look later this week for another post, but I wanted to put something in so you didn't think that I forgot about my new adventure.

So, as I told you, I started a new position at an elementary school. This is different than the middle school level in many ways. Some good, some could be better and some are just oh so very cute.

So I have this little boy, I will call him Adam. Adam is this little blond cute as a button little boy. He is in 2nd grade and on the smaller side. He walks in my first day and just looks up at me (I had heels on besides). He then says, "How old are you?" So instead of just giving him an answer I ask, "How old do you think I am?" And he responds, "80" If I had false teeth I probably would have dropped them but I don't--since I am not 80. I then had to ask, "Why do you think I am 80?" His response is what I love about elementary--"cuz you must have been growing a really long time."

You have to love what comes out of the mouth of babes.