Happy Birthday Codes!!

Today we are trick or treating early because my mom and Ruben are spending Halloween in Cabo. Yeah, I feel bad for them too. Maybe one of these days we'll make it back there again.

We spent the morning at Desert Ridge. We went there to meet up with a friend of mine and let the kids play. It was fun.....until Owen discovered the splash pad water fountain and got soaked. He was having the best time laughing and playing all by himself. It was cute, but he was wet.

Sunday was spent at Cody's Birthday Brunch. The first of several parties planned to celebrate the big 3-0. Crystal put on a really great party. It was good food, good people, and overall a lot of fun. Its always nice to meet and hang out with his "other" friends. He doesn't usually bring them around that often, but we will all be together again for his next party on Friday night. We decided to play a mean trick on him and shove his face in the cake. I don't think he thought it was that funny, but the rest of us did. Its nice to make fun of yourself every once in awhile and I think he realized that once he got over the initial shock of the whole thing.

Helen and Hal sent a nice Halloween package to Owen the other day. It included a wonderful police motorcycle that he pushes around the house and it also has a button that when pushed blares a police siren. It also says "Stop! Police!" in German. That has been his number one toy for the past two days and I'm about to hide it. I need a break from the siren. They also sent a quiet toy in the form of a soccer ball and he's been kicking that around the backyard.

Malia will be here this weekend along with her ever expanding baby bump. She found out on Monday she's having a boy and she's excited, although she really thought it was a girl. I think she thought maybe they made a mistake. We're going to get her registered this weekend and I hope she's not too overwhelmed. We'll see.....

Happy Halloween!!

My most pressing problems of the past week have been solved. I bought a flight suit for Owen at a thrift store in Pinetop last July and completely forgot about it until Brooke found it in the back of his closet. He's going to be a pilot for Halloween and he loves it. If he's happy.....I'm happy.

After continued correspondence with a very nice and polite woman who, of all things, custom makes horns and masks from her home in Oregon, she has agreed to make me three unicorn horns in a color that isn't even offered on her website. She promised to finish them this weekend and send them out priority mail on Monday, which was yesterday. So, I'm happy to say that they should be arriving any day and they did NOT cost an arm and a leg.

The only thing I have yet to accomplish is my new computer. Believe me, its driving me crazy.

I need a unicorn horn!!

I know, I know.....I've been way behind on my posts. October has just been such a busy month for us. And November is going to be even worse.
The weather is finally starting to change out here. It's been so nice and super comfortable outside. There is definitely a sense of fall in the air. Wherever we go, we are bombarded with Halloween decorations as well as pumpkins and other fall related items. It reminds me that Christmas is just around the corner and then all the wind is promptly knocked out of me. Another year gone by already.....almost anyway. I don't remember the years going by this fast when I was younger. It's probably because I was in such a hurry to grow up.

I have been going back and forth about what Owen should be for Halloween. At first, I wanted him to be a turtle, but then the costume looked a little too babyish for him. I mean, he's a big boy now, right? So, I found him the cutest little cowboy costume and he wants nothing to do with it. And I mean nothing....I tried to put it on him to make sure it fit and he was literally kicking and screaming the whole time and yelling "NO NO NO". He keeps saying he wants to be a monkey, which is what he was last year. I know he has a good memory, but I seriously doubt he remembers he was a monkey for Halloween. Who knows....stranger things have happened I guess. He is really excited to trick or treat. I think we'll just take him over to Uncle Kevin's and Gram and Tata's house and maybe the next door neighbor's. But he already knows what he's supposed to say on Halloween and he knows this holiday has something to do with scary stuff. We carved a pumpkin last night (sorry Crystal), and now this pumpkin has become his best friend. We haven't put it outside yet. Its actually sitting on the kitchen table. So he sees his pumpkin when he eats and he says hi to it periodically throughout the day. The pumpkin patch we went to is right off the 51 and Lincoln. It was really nice and they had a huge selection. Its a church that's raising money for people to go to Mexico and build houses for the needy. Anyway, we got there at about five minutes to seven and they close at seven. The woman running the place (quite clearly volunteering) was nice enough to let us take our time and pick out the perfect pumpkin, as well as take pictures, etc. When we went to pay for it, she told us that a few minutes before we got there, a man came through and bought a pumpkin and he paid for it with a counterfeit fifty dollar bill!! He bought a four dollar pumpkin and she gave him $46 dollars change. Isn't that horrible??!! Can you believe someone would do that to a church fundraiser? That man just bought himself a one way ticket straight to Hell.
Cody is celebrating his birthday on Halloween so I have to come up with a really good costume. I think I'm going to be a unicorn, but the horn I wanted is sold out. If anyone has any idea how to make a unicorn horn, I'm desperate for suggestions.

I've been reading the Twilight series and I have to say, I don't know what all the hype is about. I mean, they're good books, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure I would recommend them to other people my age. I'm not sure I would recommend them to my teenage cousins either, for that matter. I have about two hundred pages left in the last book so I guess I should reserve my comments for my formal write up.

Today is the big day for the new macbooks. We're going to take a trip to the apple store after dinner and hopefully my next post will be from our new computer. Keep your fingers crossed!!