Wonderful Weather

Its good to have my other half home. Its so much nicer having someone else for the boys to bounce off of! The kids are doing good. Zachary has had a playdate every day after school. We've been taking them to the nearby park. The weather has been so perfect this week. Mid 70's, dry. Well, as dry as it can be! Today the humidity is 37%. Caleb and I had a fun play date ourselves with my friend JoAnna and her 2 year old son Christian. It is so nice to be able to play outside. Caleb did this back and forth about 20 times! What energy! I'm so glad my child knows how to use the slide correctly.... Mikey mowing listening to his IPOD. I got a haircut yesterday. First time since I was 15 that someone I didn't know has cut my hair. I was nervous. But I think it looks OK. Although I think she should of gone a little shorter in the back, but I'd rather this than feeling bald! So what do you think? Boy, do I need a color or what??? Andria, fly out and visit me and my hair!! While Mike was gone he bought us all presents. Caleb likes his box better than his present. Tomorrow we are heading to Universal again. They took out the Back to the Future ride and are changing it to the Simpsons Ride. They are also taking out Earthquake and putting in Disaster. And Harry Potter park opens in 2009! Have a great weekend everyone!

A Week WithOUT Mikey

Where or where has my hubby gone??? Sheesh! We have never been separated for sooo long before. The last time I saw him was at 5am Oct 29th. He then flew to San Francisco for what was supposed to be 1 day. Uh-huh. That was 1 week ago. Long story short, the part he ordered to fix the camera came from Canada. Well, someone in customs didn't do their job and file the correct paperwork. The part is sitting behind the counter, 5 feet from Mike, and they wont release it to him. Not only is he having to waste all his time, but the hospital had to cancel thier patients for the entire week! The part? A Circuit board. Yep, thats it. The only good thing that came out of his waste of time, and missing Halloween, and being gone from home for no reason, was that he got to fly up on Friday and visit with his family. His mom had been in the hospital due to a gall bladder attack. They removed it, and she is much better. She didn't know that he was coming in, and was very happy and surprised to him! So he got to spend the weekend with his whole family. How great is that! Oh, and while he was waiting in San Fran, he got to visit with my brother, sister in law and their baby, Elektra. (lucky!) We have not been doing too much. Yesterday we spent a few hours at the mall. I know Christina loves to go shopping, but taking the boys and expecting them to be into it, and behave is a joke. So I can only last so long chasing after them. They all got something new. Christina got new under garments, and High heels, (yeah! new shoes for me to wear) Zachary got new shirts size 5-6, and 4 new books that are Chapter books. Caleb also picked out 3 books. I love it that they enjoy being read to. Caleb lasts about 1 1/2 books and Zachary about 2 books or for the Chapter books, about 2 chapters. Christina got her report card: Biology.....B World History.....B Excellent Conduct/Attitude Geometry.....C Shows Strong Effort Aerobics.....A English.....B Entrepreneurship.....A Yeah Christina!!! Good Job!!! Zachary's school does report cards TRImesters. Not 4 semesters. Weird. So his doesn't come out until the end of Nov. He is doing well tho according to his teacher. He is right where he needs to be. His speech is going good so far. He enjoys speech days. I do wish they had uniforms. I cant believe I just wrote that. But its so true! Every morning he cant decide what to wear. And most of the time he keeps trying to wear Calebs clothes. That is why I bought him 5 new shirts. He picked them out, so he will wear them. He is more pickier than his 15 year old sister! I think my hubby will be home tomorrow, at least that is what I am hoping for. Then I wonder if I can go on a week long trip by myself? LOL

Halloween

The kids had a good Halloween. Here's the boys with their ham and cheese sandwiches. Here's our Halloween dinner. Spiders, Fingers, Eyeballs, Hair, Ghosts, Pumpkins, Cut-up Heads, and Slime. Or rather, Crackers w/cream cheese pretzels and raisins, Carrots w/ almond slices for fingernails stuck in ranch dip, Meatloaf cupcakes stuffed cheese tomato sauce sour cream and olives on Angel hair pasta, Garlic bread cut into ghosts and pumpkins, Artichokes, and Kiwi juice w/ sprite and lime sherbet. There were soo many children trick or treating, I couldn't get over it. I guess we have always lived in neighborhoods that were still being built, where as this one is established. Most parents were out as well, with some of them having their own parties in the driveways. One house was cooking the parents hot dogs and hamburgers and passing out soda and water. How cool! They collected 3 pumpkins full of candy! Yes, I carried an extra pumpkin, but it really was only supposed to be for my keys and phone. The first few houses, Caleb wasn't quite sure what to do, so he just quietly followed Zachary. But after that, he was the one running ahead, asking "Can we go to one more house?" The only houses he wouldn't go to were the ones that had any red eyes glowing "I am scared of those bloody eyes." But Zachary went up to every house! Christina came along with us for the first street, she didn't wear a costume or trick or treat. Then she found a friends house, and ditched us! I was worried about the rain since it had rained most of the day. But it didn't, and it was beautiful outside! It was a bit windy tho, and Caleb's Woody hat kept flying off, so we gave up, and I just carried it. Caleb keeps asking me to go Trick or Treating again. Constantly... Like he needs any MORE candy! I have all 3 pumpkins hidden. Or they would devour it all in one day.

When Mikey gets home (still no idea when..) he is going to have the boys trick or treat in the house. The boys will put on their costumes, then he'll go behind the doors, close them, and have them 'trick or treat'. How cute.