Halloween

Look at me, so on top of things. So here's our Halloween.

Natalie was a witch, and Hannah a fairy. I'm happy with this picture (the only one of them both smiling) but I wish I had thought to change the orientation for it!

After that things got a little wacky. Natalie DID have green face paint, but earlier this week we went to the Hatch Halloween party and she didn't like how it itched, so she didn't want to wear it to the ward party. Oh well.

Our kids have frequent meltdowns if we are out too late, and added to that the extra stimulation and excitement of Halloween=super meltdowns. Mark and I are trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel. In case you can't tell what my shirt says, it is a bump sign as seen here:

hahahaha. Mark is Clark Kent. He looked kinda handsome with black hair, I have to say. It was soooo messy getting it out though. Our whole bathtub was stained this gross gray color till he scrubbed it out this morning {bless his heart}. We decided it wasn't worth it to spray it again.

We attempted carving pumpkins, but once Natalie realized you actually have to TOUCH the goopy stuff {mommy can I just use the spoon?} she was outta there. Hannah solemnly ate a candy corn and refused to be part of it. So we have a hollowed out pumpkin with no face. Hey, I wasn't going to finish it if it was all by myself! They both went to the living room to play.

All in all it was a fun Halloween with lots of treats made, crafts created, and smiles shared {please excuse my President Monson-esque sentence in passive voice}.

I'm glad it's over. Bring on the Christmas music starting first thing Monday morning!

A busy day

Since our days usually aren't that busy I wanted to document our busy day yesterday for journaling purposes.

5:30 am: wake up, get ready, wake up kids and head to mom's for garage sale with my sisters

6:30-9:30 sell stuff, go back and forth from the house (where the kids were) to the yard a bazillion times, run to the grocery store

10:00 Primary rehearsal for program on Sunday. Even though I know Natalie will not want to go up, I wanted to let her see how it kinda goes so she might want to try.

10:30 leave. We didn't get to the part when the kids all say their part. Oh well.

10:35 get home, eat early lunch, put Han down for early nap

11-12 Prep for dinner and clean house

12:30 wake up Han and get kids ready to go to Mark's cousin's baptism

1:00-2:30 baptism. It was really great and special. Loved seeing the family, sitting, and showing Natalie all the stuff we had learned about at FHE this past week.

2:30-3:30 hang out at the cousin's house with family and friends, enjoy visiting, kids melt down just as Mark arrived. Drive home with screaming kids.

example of one screaming kid

4:00-5:00 Calm kids. Clean house and make dinner

5:20 dinner guests arrive

6:00 head to the church to have homemade ice cream with other ward members

7:30 go home again with screaming kids.

8:00 kids are asleep. Rest. Read a book. Ahhhhhh.

It was crazy, but I was blessed with energy to last the whole time. The kids were mostly good and I was please with only two major meltdowns. I thought there would be more.