Snow & Halloween=

Boy howdy have the last 2 weeks been crazy around here!  Clint was in Texas for a training for work for a week and then off to his brother and sister's for a deer hunt for 4 days!  I know, either I'm a saint for letting him run off and leave me with the girls for 11 days, or else I'm crazy!!  {Definately crazy, I know myself and I'm no saint!!}  So, last week I loaded up the girls and visited my Alma Mater {home town}.  We had so much fun eating yummy food at the local Mexican restaurant, catching up with friends, seeing all the improvements and how nice my old house has been fixed up.  I stayed with my friend Rachel and my girls fit right in with her 3 girls and 1 boy {Madi had a blast and was SO upset when we left!}.  It was total chaos but so fun!  When we woke up in the morning, there was 4 inches of snow on the ground just waiting to be played in.  Luckily, I remembered how cold it got there and had come prepared with boots, mittens, a scarf, a beanie, an extra sweatshirt, pants and socks!  Go me!  Madi had such a great time playing in all that white stuff {yes, she's seen snow before but not for a while}.  It was nice to get home though and not worry about the mud that I'm sure followed very quickly after the winter wonderland.  But all that cold got me TOTALLY in the mood for Christmas so when I got home I started up the Christmas music and SO BADLY wanted to decorate for the holidays... but it was only October so I decided to wait... more on that in a later post!  :0)

Now it's time for our Halloween story.  Well, it's actually kinda depressing.  All of our friends were going out of town for the actual holiday, so we had a progressive dinner/Halloween party Friday night.  We dressed all the kids up {so that Grandparents could see their costumes} and let them practice trick or treating.  Michele was so good and had little pens, notebooks, stickers and bubbles for the kids behind the doors in her house!  It was so cute and the kids had a blast!  Thank heavens for that party cuz that was the only Halloween Madi and Keahi got!  I'm not going to go into the whole story here {I don't want to offend anyone or stir up the hornets nest any more than it already is} so suffice it to say that some things happened, some words, ok bad words were loudly exchanged between some people and to avoid a breakdown on my or Madi's part, we instead watched Enchanted at my brother's house.  {Just so you know, the words were NOT between me and Clint, we were on the same team}  It's been over a week now and Madi hasn't mentioned anything about it since Sunday so I doubt she's been scarred for life.  My only regret is that I didn't get a picture of my girls dressed up like Tinkerbell together {yes, they were BOTH Tink, and it was freakin' adorable!!}.  I'm planning on dressing them up again and getting that picture!!!

So there you have it, another chapter in the book that is our lives!  And Clint made it home safe last night around 7:30, for those who were wondering!  :0)  And his girls ALL missed him like mad!