Halloween!

Today was so much fun. Mikaeli got to go to school dressed up in her Halloween costume. They had a parade of the Kindergarteners, where all of the morning Kindergarten classes were able to parade around the gym showing the parents. Mikaeli dressed up as Catwitch. Catwitch by Una Woodruff, is her favorite book, she loves it because I gave it to her. It was my favorite book when I was her age. She was going to be a rain cloud for Halloween but I didn't want to make that costume more than once given we had to use balloons. Also she wouldn't have been able to sit down in the car, let alone in class. So she was going to be a rain cloud to Trick-or-Treat and be Catwitch for school, but we (THANKFULLY) simplified things.
Kaleb was a Wild West Sheriff with his trusty horse "Fluffy" (he named it himself). For the 2 weeks leading to Halloween he wouldn't take the horse off... when we got to the church to go Trunk-or-Treating he didn't want to wear it anymore... so I made up a story that he couldn't get any candy if he didn't wear his costume.... He put it on. haha
Kaerli was a teddy bear. She loves it. She still begs me to put it on her! After Trick or treating was over she didn't want to take it off. She fell asleep with it on, where we then took it off. She was so sweet.
I was a Tornado. It was an interesting costume, but I had fun doing it. I got lots of comments on it. It was fun.
Dan unfortunately wasn't able to come with us, he had class... so for Halloween he was a nursing student!
After Trick-or-Treating Mikaeli wanted to go to a Haunted House. Yeah I know what you are thinking, she doesn't know what she was getting herself into. We went to one West of Burley. We told Mikaeli that if she gets scared, or if people try to scare her to turn it around and say "BOO" to them. It worked the first 2 times... but then she really got scared and started crying andwouldn't move. Thankfully one of Dan's previous co-workers (was one of the workers at the Haunted House) saw us and yelled "Code Pink" (which means that basically you walk through without anyone doing anything). Some of the workers listened... Others didn't they went all out and scared her even more. When we got downstairs she was screaming and crying so bad that one of the workers grabbed a flashlight and took us the rest of the way. Not that that worked either, people still tried to scare her. I ended up having to carry her out of the Haunted House because she was so terrified she couldn't walk. Needless to say that when we got out... I had a few, not very nice things to yell at the people.
She is ok... on the way home we sang children's songs, and she got to talk to daddy and he made things all better... I think it helped watching mommy chew out the workers. I know that is what they are there for, but come on! When someone yells Code Pink because a child is scared to death, you gotta honor it!
All in all, Halloween was really fun.

Mikaeli's Birthday Party

I can't believe that my baby is 6!! I know she isn't a baby but... SHE'S MY BABY!


For her birthday Mikaeli wanted to go BOWLING! She got to invite friends and she had a blast! This was her first birthday party where she was allowed to invite friends. She was so excited. The little girl (other than Kaerli) in the picture is her friend Jenna Blacker.


She did so well in her bowling game. She actually bowled 300!!! I have proof... true she had bumpers, but that is beside the point. Even with bumpers I have never bowled better than a 118!


Mikaeli had such a blast. In her words she won the Jackpot! Haha. She got to have a party at school, and she got to have a party with the family. Boy was she excited.


It is so hard to believe that Mikaeli is 6 years old. She has begun to tell people when asked her age, "I am almost 7" AAAHHHH and so the age lying begins... Hahaha.

The flood before- New kitchen after

We were kind of forced into this. We got to remodel/redo our kitchen floor. The pipes behind the sink and dish washer decided that they wanted blow and the floor right in front of the sink decided it wanted to cave in. YEAH FOR US!!!