Tage is ONE

Mark and Tage came over to visit. Since Shandi lives in a small town about thirty miles from us, driving clear to Boise with what little time Mark has with Tage, would eat up an hour of the 2 1/2 hours that he has with him. So we will now get to see lots of Tage. Before now we only have seen him 3 times in his first year. Laura came over and so did mom and dad.

Halloween

I'm bummed that I didn't get better pictures of the kids Halloween pictures.
By the time Halloween had come around the kids had already worn them a bunch, I didn't even do their makeup like I was going to. Ash was a Vamp, and Brenn was a Ghosty so he could say BOOOOOOOO!!!!

We went to Ash's carnival, our ward party, a party at a friends, a party at Paul's work, Aimee's work (our city, does a big trick-or-treat around the down town businesses), The Parent's ward party, to the hospital (for our traditional reverse trick-or-treat, and to Paul's parents.

The kids started a savings account on Halloween also, with a $. Fun stuff!!

Frustrated Incorperated!!!

So who knows this line from a song? Anybody? One brownie point to who ever gets it.
It was the motto of my week when Paul was out of town.

The week Paul was gone to Florida was a little hectic for me...to say the least.
I had a rough draft due for a paper. Each week in the History class I'm taking, someone takes the lead on teaching the discus ion;it happened to be my week. Ashlynn-Marie was student of the week, along with getting special classroom privileges, she also had to do a state report (she drew South Dakota, not only is there not so many interesting things about S.Dakota, all the words associated with the highlights are really hard to say.), and a presentation on herself.
Wednesday, Brennen screamed off and on from 3pm to 1am. He ended up getting a funky toe infection in his right baby toe. I orig anally thought that it was an ingrown toenail, but it wasn't. They think that he damaged his toe some how, it tried to heal itself, but didn't couldn't or wouldn't with out antibiotics (which he is allergic to all of them). They put him on a special med to help fight the infection. The Dr. was really concerned and glad that I had taken him in, and glad that the infection hadn't started traveling through his blood stream. So we soaked it every few hours for several days.

I was origanally going to take a mental health day, but ended up having to take Brenn to the Dr. again for them to check on his toe. Also it was the day for Ash to give her report. With mom's help I finished the kids costumes, because there was a trunk-or-treat/carnival at Ash's school. I was in such a hurry that I locked my keys in the house. My neighbor climbed the roof to Ash's room to get me in the house. Meanwhile Ash was having a fit because we were missing the party. I also was put in charge of a carnival game (the sucker tree) for 1 1/2 hours, and didn't eat of get my kids any dinner, because I was virtually by myself.
Right when we walked in the door, when we got home, Brennen threw up (Sorry for the picture, but It was just such a great climax to my week, NOT!).

Also I had a primary program practice, ward trunk-or-treat, party at a friends, and the Primary Program last week.

To say the least I was glad for that week to be over.

I don't know how single parents do it!!! Gotta hand it to them.

Paul working REALY hard!!!

Darn, Paul just had to go to Disney World for work!!
He did have to walk about a billion miles through a bunch
of hotels!!! None of them we could ever afford to stay in,
even with his discounts.

Ash's Rebreak Surgery

They ended up putting a pin in her arm. Yuck!!! she didn't like the choices of colors they had at the surgical center (she wanted orange for Halloween). She didn't want them to put a needle in her arm, so they had to put her completely out (which took her forever to wake up). When she finally did, she cried for two hours about her cast being ugly. They had to slit it, because they had to cut her arm open (I don't know what that looks like yet), to allow for swelling.

Pumpkin Shirts

We found this cute activity in our FamilyFun magazine that we get. Ashlynn just had to do this. granilani help Ash, Brenn, and the neighbor's granddaughter Maddie Tye dye the shirts. Then the next week, I helped them color them with fabric markers. They just love them. They wear them all the time.

Harvest Party- Berry Ranch Pumpkin Patch

Every year our friend's the Dalbey's have a harvest party. This year it was earlier than usuall, put we basically got the first pick of the crop of pumpkins. This is always a fun time.