HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS

Ok, so I just have to tell you about our Halloween this year, needless to say it wasn't all happy. In fact, I would even go as far to say it was quite a frazzled mess. I was trying to help my neighbor and watch her two little boys for the morning because she just had a baby. Everthing was going smooth and we were almost done with lunch and the little one falls off the bar stool. Which might not have been quite so bad except he landed on the toy gun he had in his hand and cut his chin. Thankfully he ended up being ok and a trip the doctor's office fixed it, but yeah, I felt so horrible.
Then we had to pack everyone up at rush over to Emma's school for her halloween parade. Which in and of itself sounds harmless, but with my two kids and an infant in a big ole' baby stroller, I feel nothing but frazzled truckin' our way through the school. (and pretty sure we look nothing but frazzled).
Then we are waiting for Matt to come home for trick-or-treating EARLY at 6 p.m., at least we thought it was early, but little do we know that our ENTIRE neighborhood starts trick-or-treating at 4 p.m. I don't think I have ever been trick-or-treating so early in my entire life. So at 4 p.m. I am frantically trying to pass out candy, get costumes on, and feed Parker his afternoon bottle. Now do you see why I say FRAZZLED? Needless to say that half of their costumes are missing, for example Emma was a witch but didn't get her hat, Brandon was a phantom but didn't get his staff.
The kids ended up trick-or-treating with our neighbors and Matt was sad he missed it all and got a little taste of what it is going to feel like years ahead when you are no longer the most important people in your kids life.
So, at the end of the day I was never so thankful to say it was the end of the day and drop into bed and blame these Halloween happenings on nothing but good old fashioned bad karma.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

At our ward halloween party even Parker got to participate in some face painting!

Doesn't this picture just make you want to smile?
Caitlyn was a bride, Emma went for the classic witch, and yes that is Brandon as a phantom (random!)

Parker's Aunt Tara and Alli made me buy this lobster (random) costume for Parker before he was born. Although we should have bought it about two sizes bigger because I went to put it on him Halloween night and it wouldn't zip up around his head. He gets that from his dad. :)