Ok so here is a little catch up for the past couple weeks.. The week before Halloween we or at least the kids got swine flu all but Austin.. Allie was the first to start with fevers of 105 and nasty cold symptoms then it spread to Jessie and Logan and finally me, but by the time it got to me I think I just got the cold symptoms of it.. I never got a fever or the body aches and pains just the good old cough and congestion and runny nose.. It was a very long week.. each of the 3 girls missed a week of school.
Logans idea of not having to blow her nose so much during her rough week of flu.. Alas we all got over it just in time for Halloween. Remember you can click on pictures to get bigger view.
Here my little pioneer girls are wanting to help me make some homemade bread. They had a field day helping knead the bread..
A little oddly shaped but they came out tasting so good.. I was very happy with the taste and texture.
Here is logan almost everyday about 2 hrs after she gets home from school.. school days are long days for her still..
Family Home Evening Pumpkin Carving Time!!
The Master Carver!! The kids and I clean the pumpkins out and Steve does most of the carving.. Austin actually did most of his pumpkins carving this year.. Dad is always so miticulouse.. It's usually a several hour job.. I forgot to take picts of the finished work but they were awesome...
The week of Halloween was dress up days for the kids at school. So by Weds finally everybody was well enough to go back to school and it was Wacky Weds. So we did the kids hair all up crazy and had the girls wear their clothes backwards and inside out, and Austin wore a dress but ended up taking it off shortly after he got there because to many kids made fun of him.. I swear kids are so mean these days.. All week he was made fun of for something.. I felt so bad he came home and said they did this kind of stuff all the time in Utah and everybody did it and out here all they do is tease you and make fun of you.. I felt so bad.. He was so looking forward to these days of dressing up and now it's totally ruined for him..
The kids had a Halloween parade at school so I was able to get a shot of each of them with their class.. Here is my little vampire girl.
Our little Pioneer girl or Laura Ingles as she would say.
And our Ozzy Ozbourne.
Getting ready to go trick or treating.. Out here there is a law that all kids have to be in by 8:00 PM so we had to get an early start.. Plus it was really windy and cold thus the gloves so the kids tuckered out pretty quick.. I kind of like the idea of a curfew for halloween night.. I think its alot safer for the kids.... It was really strange though because like in Utah I would buy like 6-7 bags of candy and be out withinn 2-3 hrs and have to end up shutting my lights off and turning kids away.. Since this was our first Halloween in MI I wasnt sure what to expect.. I bought like 6 bags and ended up only having like 7-8 trick or treaters and that was it so i have all this left over candy ontop of what the kids got.. And man oh man did they score out here.. Our neighborhood has alot of nice big homes in it and everyone was giving out like full sized candy bars and kittles and starbursts and bads of chips it was crazy... The kids made a hauling..
I didnt get to make a big halloween dinner like I was wanting too but I did get a recipe for this worm jello I just had to try and it turned out to be a pretty good success almost to much because my kids wouldnt eat it because it looked to real I guess.. I was a little dissapointed with the purplish color. Next time i think I will do red jello instead I think it would have made it more real looking. But I think they turned out pretty good if I do say so myself..
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