Halloween, A Baby Shower, and Some More

Oh man, I don't know if I will be able to paint my toes next month because boy, oh boy, does it get my acid going. Plus it is kind of hard to breath all bent over. I seriously am more out of breath when I paint my toes than when I climb my four flights of stairs to the doctor office. I just really needed to say that, so that is how this blog is starting out, but it isn't what it is about.

Halloween was last week. The girls were so excited. They got all dressed-up in the morning and then joined their classes at school for their annual Halloween parade. They both looked like they really enjoyed doing that. While they were at school, I went and bought some new living room carpet. It will be installed on Monday and I think it will be really good stuff, now I just have to keep kids from ruining it. No, it will be so great to have a nice piece of carpet in the living room. After that, the rest of the day was kind of normal till the evening. We had our traditional Halloween meal of moldy mac and cheese although this year it looked more like monster hair and worms. The girls ate quick and then we added their face paint to their costumes, took pictures, and then I sent them out with their dad to do some trick-or-treating. They went out for a little over an hour and got a good amount of candy. It is less than previous years, but really that is probably for the best. They also might be eating more this year than previously allowed to, so its going faster or both. Anyway, they had a great time. I stayed home and handed out candy to trick-or-treaters. We don't get that many, so I got a little bored, but I got started on making jammies for Kylee and Tia for Christmas, so it was a good use of time. Once we got the girls to bed, Gaupo and I stayed up and watch Hocus Pocus. It is a great movie for Halloween, but that is about the only time I can do it. That kind of finished up Halloween night for us, but we did let the girls watch Hotel Transylvania on Friday night, so some celebrations got extended. It was a good Halloween. It was a little simple that some, but I feel like things are kind of crazy here, so we got the important stuff done and it still turned out great.

Monster hair, and worms.

My cute witch, Tia.

Kylee the Fairy Cat.

The two of them together.

This past Saturday, I had my  baby shower. Sybrina Stewart, and Jennifer Bigham hosted it for it. We did it open house style, so people could just come and go as they needed to. Quite a lot of people came and it was fun to visit. Quite a few people just stayed and that was fun to. To be honest, if it was one of my friends showers I would have stayed too, just because its a great time to hang with my friends. I got to talk to everyone that came at least for a little bit and that was good. Quite a few people brought something to share, so we had quite a spread. It included pumpkin bread, bread with a spinach and artichoke dip, apples with caramel sauce, mini sandwiches, a super good popcorn, and a brownie taste test. The test was to determine which brownie mix was best. I think Great Value and Duncan Hines were tied for the win. They also held a raffle every 30 minutes and your name got entered into the drawing if you brought diapers, so that was fun. The winners got to choose a gift basket. I wish I had gotten more pictures of that evening, but to be honest I just enjoyed it. People were so generous I am still in awe. I got a lot of wonderful things. The baby shower got over late, so when I got home no one was awake because it had been a long Saturday, so I left everything in the car.

So, the next morning we were all up kind of early because of the time change, and so I let the girls get in the van and bring it all in. Then we pulled everything out. Then Gaupo came downstairs and he helped them opened the back and get the stuff out of the back, and we opened all of that. I had opened it the night before, but everything was still in the bags, so they got to re-open it and they thought that was so fun. It was really fun to see what they loved. They both love these blanket that I got, that are huge. They are probably 45x45, so I swaddled them up in the them and they enjoyed them and the little foxes that came on diaper motorcycles. After they opened everything we had kind of a quicky breakfast and then hurried and got ready for church. It was regional conference, so Gaupo took the girls early to get a good seat and I enjoyed getting ready in peace walking to church by myself. After conference, lunch, and naps, I went through all the clothes and gift and took a picture and organized them, because we had to get the living room so we could use it again. We really need to get the basement done because sometimes we really do need more space, and the blue room is getting kind of full between the baby stuff and the food storage.

Tia and Kylee swaddled.

Foxes and diaper motorcycles.

From the back.

Everything I got from this shower.

We did make good progress though on the basement. We have the in-ground plumbing in and inspected. We are just waiting for the plumber to put a cap on, so we can cover it up and put the cement back in. Gaupo has all the walls he can frame before the cement is in done, so we are kind of making a big push, but I think the cement will be in and the framing done by Saturday or Monday. I bought the cement today and I am so glad that we got it home. We don't have a truck, so I put it in my van and boy oh boy was it loaded. Blessedly, Heavenly Father was looking out for us and we made it home safe and sound. This whole finishing a basement thing is a really grand adventure. There are so many things we don't know and if you do it all the time seem common, so they don't tell us and then we have to just learn. Like that you must be present for an inspection. I figured as long as you have access to the space, they could inspect,  but apparently not if it is in your house. Which I guess is a good thing, but it would have been good to know before I left to take Tia to school. Luckily the inspector dropped back by and did the inspection.