Where does time go? No seriously! Time eludes me all the... well all the time! Ideas for posts pop in and out of my head, mostl never to be written. Precious 'blogging time' is taken up with equally important things like potty training, refereeing toddlers, hiding candy canes from small sticky fingers and vacuuming. Lots and lots of vacuuming! Blogging (and lets be honest, just about everything else) gets pushed to the wayside when you parent small children. And I'm ok with that.
So let's see, where did I leave off? October, Halloween, Birthday, Thanksgiving!
October is a very busy month for our family. We have my birthday, Uncle Tony's birthday, Auntie Jessi's birthday, Grandpa's birthday and the twins birthday. Plus there are pumpkin patches to visit, suckers to be eaten, carving to be done and Halloween to be celebrated.
October is the gateway to our family's holiday season and we start with a bang!
The twin's second birthday was a hit! We celebrated at a favorite pizza parlor (where Erik and I had our rehearsal dinner!) with family. Everyone was sick but celebrating Yo Gabba Gabba style was fun none the less. There were rainbow cupcakes to be had and crummy pictures to be taken.
It's hard to believe three years has already passed. My babies are growing up just too darn fast!
Halloween was as anti-climatic as ever. I worked my hiney off for weeks to get their cute little costumes done in time for the big day only to have three sick kids.
We packed up the sick, costumed children and hit the yellow brick road. Or the highway... whatever.
We trick-or-treated in Grandma and Grandpa's neighborhood, scored loads of candy and saw the Ghostbuster-mobile.
Fun was had by all and yet again crappy pictures were taken... ugh!
I'll start my summation of Thanksgiving with a disclaimer: crappy pictures! Ok not really crappy, I just didn't bring my camera and had to scavenge pictures from my talented sister. For the past several years my sister's and I have had to spend this (and most other) holiday split between families. It's stressful. It's exhausting. This year we decided we had had enough. The families all came together and rented a hall.
There was food,
there was family, there was crazy dancing.
All in all, it was a great way to spend the holiday. We aren't sure what we'll plan for next year but being able to spend the entire day as one giant happy family was a blessing we'd love to repeat next year.
Well now... that was exhausting. I think this little blog is up to date!
