Ok, that title just means I'm going to cover a lot of territory in a short time.
Halloween dinner is starting to become a tradition, it happens sometime just before Halloween and it's something "gross". This year we has Sheep eyes (turkey meatballs with olives) and worms (spaghetti that I used black dye on that turned the noodles purple) and we had blood (fruit punch)to drink, naturally.
Jacob gets a spotlight in this post, just because he made me laugh. If you want to see the rest of the kids costumes go to my facebook page. Jacob and Ben got to dress up for Halloween at school for the first time EVER. Jacob couldn't wear his Gorilla costume to school because it has a mask so he found a witch costume in our costume bin. His friends at school didn't even know it was him. Jacob is a pretty confident kid to wear a girl costume to school!
I got all the stuff for this craft and cut and sanded the wood and invited my mom over for a craft day. I love that my mom is retired now and that she's getting into crafting. We plan on doing craft projects together regularly now.
Micah's birthday has come on gone and now I have a deacon (church thing if you're wondering)! I cannot get over the fact that I have a 12 year old 7th grade child, am I really old enough??? This year he requested cake balls, or cake pops. I had made some with my friend Yolawnda a few weeks before his birthday and he loved them. I also made a carrot cake in case the cake balls went to fast, we had lots of leftover cake balls and Micah was happy about that.
I could not get him to just look at me and smile, but that's ok, I got about a dozen pictures similar to the one below, he just kept making all these different faces at me and moving his head.
My sweet mom came over to babysit so we didn't have to worry at all about the kids. Micah (Jacob) usually watches his siblings and everything goes well, but we wanted to be able to have a night to just focus on each other and not have to check in on kiddos. My amazing and wonderful husband took me to dinner at PF Changs, we had gone there for our anniversary a few years back and I loved it but it was too pricey for regular dates, so we saved it for a more special occasion. Then we rushed over to the William Saroyan theater to see Kristen Chinoweth! We were in the VERY back row and could hardly see her but we could HEAR her and that was the important thing! She was amazing and I like her even more now. She has a great personality and is a Christian woman. Great night with my best friend.
Lastly, this has been the big thing in our lives lately. Our little girl got her ears pierced! She was so brave and didn't cry or hesitate at all. Daddy had previously said that 12 would be the age she would be able to get her ears pierced and I thought that was RIDICULOUS, so we compromised and said she could get them pierced when she asked (but I couldn't prod her). She has been asking for earrings since she was 2. I would tell her that she couldn't wear them though because her ears weren't pierced and she would just say that when she was older she wanted to get them pierced. Tyler somehow finally decided that he liked the idea and HE was the one to ask her if she wanted to get them pierced. We were at Fashion Fair Mall and she wanted to go into Clair's and Daddy asked...she was ready and she picked out these cute little Rainbow Daisy earrings. She even lets me do her hair now without a fuss so you can see her ears. Just in time for Santa to bring her some earrings in her stocking!!!
