Trunk or treat!

Our ward had a trunk or treat on Wed. night. Since Justin was at work, and I still don't know many people in my ward, I asked my parents to come with me. I'm SO glad I did.

Evan was an angel, just sat and watched everyone around him. Kyleigh on the other hand was OUT OF CONTROL!
I know, look at that little face...
I don't know if it was the excitement of the holiday, (she had a Halloween party at preschool earlier) or what, but I could not get her to calm down. She was running all around the place, wouldn't hold hands in the parking lot, and I'm not one to blame excess sugar for my child being out of control. I hope that after Halloween, she will calm down a bit. If my parents weren't with me, I would have been crying in the corner not knowing how to wrangle my child.

It was fun, and I'm glad Kyleigh had fun, she just had so much energy I don't think she could control herself. We will let you know how our night goes tomorrow, hopefully a little better!

I got tagged!

Kim from Good, Bad, and Crazy tagged me with a "random things" tag.

The Rules for playing TAG:

*Link to the person who tagged you
*Post the rules on your blog
*Write six random things about yourself
*Tag six-ish people at the end of your post
*Let each person know he/she has been tagged
*Let the tagger know when your entry is up

1. I have to take a bath every night. I love baths, they help me unwind after the kids are in bed. I read or think about everything else I should be doing, but I don't care, I have to have my bath!

2. Right now I am obsessed with trying to sell my junk on craigslist. I just think how nice it would be to have it all out of my house, and I won't mind the extra change in my pocket.

3. I like watching kid shows, and listening to kid music. It has never really bothered me to watch kid shows with Kyleigh, and I even enjoy it. I know WEIRD!

4. I am a very nervous person if I have to teach preschool/church or whatever. Anything that requires me in front of a group of people, even 3-4 year olds, I always feel inadequate.

5. I love to gossip. I know we shouldn't, but lets face it, who doesn't.

6. I can't stand my teeth. One day I will get braces and get them fixed. They are crooked, and I can't stand them. I will admit that my mom was right when she said I should wear my retainer, but only about that! :)

I tag...
Carly, Lisa, Sarah W., Sarah B., Shannon and Jamie (Sorry everyone!)

The pumpkin patch!

So we finally made it to the pumpkin patch this year and the weather was perfect. When Kyleigh was done with preschool today, we decided at the last minute to go before Justin went to work. Because it was during the day and in the middle of the week it was empty, we practically had the patch to ourselves. The kids went for a ride in the wheel barrow down to the pumpkins and then we sent Kyleigh off in search of the perfect pumpkin (for her that meant one she could pick up). All I could do was follow my kids around trying to take pictures, Kyleigh wanted none of it, but since Evan is still not walking I could prop him up on a pumpkin and snap away. This was his first year (obviously) so he was very curious about the pumpkins and the vines around them. Kyleigh then told us she has to go potty, so that was the end of that. We walked back up, tried to go potty (she didn't need to anymore) paid, and bought some ice cream for a treat. It was a great day, and the kids had fun too!

Strep throat!

So I went to bed Sat. night not feeling so good, but just thought I was getting a cold nothing more. In the night I was FREEZING, but sweating, so I thought maybe the flu or a really bad cold. I woke up on Sunday and my throat hurt so bad, not on fire hurt, but sore hurt. All of my joints ached especially my neck. I asked Justin to look at my throat and his reaction was, "uh, you have strep throat." Great, so now I have to miss church again for my 5th week in a row, nope not inactive just sicks kids and conference. So I go to the walk in clinic and sure enough strep throat. I beg Justin not to go to work so he could watch the kids. I'm contagious for 24hrs. so I don't get anyone sick, if I haven't already (sorry Lothyan family, I really didn't feel bad when I was at the party.) I'm upstairs, but I can't sleep because I am so achey. Justin walks in after about an hour and says, "sorry, but we have a problem." In comes a somber Kyleigh. Justin tells me that as he was putting Evan down for his nap Kyleigh kept coming in the room being noisy, so he asked her to go downstairs for just a minute. When he came downstairs what did he find?

Kyleigh had drawn a beautiful picture on the wall, lovely. Then Justin tells me that before this happened, he was "laying" on the couch and Kyleigh yells to daddy that Evan is getting it. Justin jumps up to find Evan digging into Kyleigh's tomato plant with dirt all over the floor. (It's inside so I doesn't freeze outside). Anyways, he cleaned that up. I told him next time to take a picture first for our blog, he didn't think that was very funny. We all know that this stuff happens to everyone...right? Needless to say Justin wasn't complaining when he walked out the door for work today. Thanks Justin for watching the kids, making dinner, cleaning up, and most of all letting me rest, you are the best.

The gun range

So my hubby has to qualify with a hand gun for work, so what does that mean...time at the gun range. He invites his brother and dad and thinks it would be a great idea if I went too. Me, are you kidding?! So yesterday it's off to the range we go. It's loud and cold, and I'm thinking what have I done, this is crazy. Oh well, I can act calm, there are guys everywhere I don't want them to think, what's she doing here. Anyways, I say I want to shoot at mullet man (sort of a Dog the Bounty Hunter look alike). So they start loading their guns and begin warming up. Did you know that a ball of fire comes out of the gun with each shot? I didn't. Standing next to someone else you can feel the shock from the gun. I was TERRIFIED. My hubby says it's my turn. I walk up, a tear or two came to my eyes, I couldn't do it, it was so scary. I can handle a shotgun, but a handgun was so different to me. I took a step back and watched. Finally I went up to try again. As I held the gun I slowly, by slowly I mean I took about 5 min., pulled the trigger. I hear my bro-in-law say, "You hit it!" I hit inside the black circle on the target. I'm done, I didn't like it. I hand the gun back to my hubby, and off I go inside to comfort myself with some peanut butter cups, where it's warm, an not so loud. I give props to everyone who enjoys shooting handguns, me not so much. I will leave that to my hubby!

Our tree frog!

A couple of days ago, Justin and Kyleigh were in the backyard and they heard a frog in the bushes. They searched for it but they couldn't find it. Today while Justin was mowing the lawn, (payback for ditching me to do all the applesauce by myself, heehee) he and Kyleigh came knocking on the slider. He had caught the tree frog! Kyleigh was so excited, she gently touched it, and then asked if she could hold it. Then they went down and let the frog go. She was so happy to finally see the little frog.

When you have apples...

We have three apple trees in our backyard, and we were looking forward to making applesauce this year with them. We picked two boxes full, and the trees were still full of apples. I just couldn't stand to let them go to waste, so I have started dehydrating them. YUM! I can't keep up because we eat them so fast. So today Justin and I decided to make our applesauce before he left for work. Let's just say, we got started and finished one batch when he had to get ready and leave. So, Kyleigh gets to watch LOTS of TV today,(I already received my mother of the year award!) and Evan gets to eat a lot of crackers and spend lots of time in his highchair. Evan crying, and Kyleigh zoned out to the tube, I'm trying to cook the apples, strain them, add the cinnamon and sugar, put them in the jars, and then can them by myself. Evan NEEDS to be held, so he go for a ride on my hip as I strain the apples. My kitchen is a disaster, but finally I finished. I even have spare apples to dehydrate, applesauce left over because I ran out of jars, so now I'm trying to make apple fruit leather. I don't know what has gotten in to me, but I think I'm almost appled out!