you really should , turn your porch light off if you dont want Trick or Treaters

When I was a kid on Halloween.. It was a race to the next house , while trick or treating. Skipping the houses that had their porch lights off. If your porch light was off , it meant you were out trick or treating with your own kids. Or just a jerk and didnt want to be cool and liked getting your house rolled/egged.. Tonight after taking my kids trick or treating im assuming many have forgotten that little rule of thumb about Halloween. People werent home with the porch light on , or you could see they were home, but just didnt care to get up from the football game .. which is fine. I get some people dont or cant hand out candy .. but to them I say ... TURN OFF YOUR PORCH LIGHT most people know that and wont send their kids up there .

but my goofy rant aside I thought I would share a couple pictures of my kiddos in their costumes.. My 3 went as the Mario Gang , We even roped my mom's Lhasa Apso/Terrier into it as Toad .. People loved them

Mario and Luigi

Our Mario has moved on from Plubing and is venturing into small engine repair

His motto is... If you cant fix it .... just kick it

Luigi

My Mario Gang : Mario , Luigi,Princess Peach and My mom's dog as Toad

Nephew as Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba

Basically a Nephew  , as Bruce he also had a little Nemo he was carrying around

Niece as a garden gnome , but for trick or treating she was a butterfly... you know when they are that cute it's hard to pick just one costume lol

Nephew and Niece as Monkey and Vampiress

So that was my weekend.. Friday , Saturday and Sunday all had activities that required the kids to be dressed up , which was a blast for them im sure lol but for me keeping up with Mario and Luigi's hats, dealing with overalls on potty breaks and the many costume malfunctions of Princess Peach lol ... I am ready to be done and relax... for a whole 3 weeks that is lol.. G is already talking about decorating for Christmas lol ....


What were your trick or treaters?

9 Years in the making

So A is our first child. She was our tester of sorts, i can honestly say she never had candy until she was over 2 years  old. She stopped using a bottle by 10m old , walking by 11. Using a fork and spoon by age 1 , Prided ourselves on her manners. Was never whiney, asked to NOT have pop when going out to eat , even when we werent with her. She was that hypothetical child , that people talk about . " Oh when I have a kid they will only do this and this never that" .That's what she was to us.. 

Well since then... a lot has changed. It's not that we love the boys any less , at all. When G was a baby , life was different for us. We were older , had more adult problems. I think most of his issues stemmed from the anxiety that was in our house as general. But he was a child that was NOTHING like A , NOTHING we did with her , worked for him .He needed a lot of attention and basically flipped our house upside down.

Then when D came along we were already "grown up" and he just fit it , so much more like A was in the beginning , and now as a toddler , he and G are best buds and they are partners in crime.

I guess my point is.. On October 22 2001 , A was born. Tomorrow she will be 9 , If it hadnt been for her I wouldnt be the person I am today , If I hadnt had such a sweet and patient child to start off with , I may not have chose to have the boys lol , not that I could ever imagine my life without them , but I am thankful to have had my easy baby first :). 

I sit here being all sappy about it, when Im actually pretty excited for A , she's really excited about her birthday, and should be. She's been working really hard on saving her money for a digital camera. she's over half way there. and is hoping to get some birthday money to get the rest. But she doesnt know that we have already bought her one . I will be taking her shopping Saturday and cake and ice cream here at the house on Sunday. I also made her cupcakes for her class tonight. and as she would say , Made them with love ... here are some pictures of her cupcakes. As they came (back) to life

Obviously these are the naked cupcakes  , strawberry

Cream cheese frosting , dyed pink and green

Each Zombie got a bugged eye.. to give him some character these were made with fondant

some completed Zombies , I know wish I hadnt given them all the same bugged eye , but Im sure the kids wont mind. teeth and other eye are mini marshmallows

Cant have a Zombie attack without BRAIIIINS!

AHHHH here they come !!

Well, there they are , and my corny description of the pics :) Hope you enjoyed....

Would it be too much?

I wonder daily. 

I wonder, Would it be too much to let the cat be herself? she does have legs and they work great and you KNOW she doesnt like you carrying her around all the time. Even though Im sure she does love your sweet tone when you are singing "tits OH tay titty" over and over and over , then only to stop with "NO NO NO NO bad titty" and then right back into your little song. But seriously , put the cat down.

 But I think he gets it honestly, almost like our family hosts some weird gene that even though a cat is scratching your face off, DONT LET GO! .This is my niece doing basically the same thing earlier this spring.To my special cat , Joplin. Love that cat , and as my niece said."I like catz"

Then as I have posted about before. Would it be too much to ask for a normal picture? While my Grandmother , Dad and his wife visited in August you can imagine, There were alot of pictures being taken. While going though some of the big family shots. I noticed my 4 year old and my 3 year old niece who were sitting on the ground next to my grandmother's chair. I saw their faces and once i quit laughing. then thought to my self , DANG there goes another family picture.

Please excuse the quality , as these were edited out of the whole family shot to just show them .. I just wonder, seriously , What were you thinking?

Soo... If you knew me when I was a child. Was I just such a bad and crazy kid? That this is my payback? That i need these crazy kids in my life. Although I wouldn't trade a single one for anything, but man. I sure would let someone borrow them for a while. So i could have a break .