Halloween 2009

Halloween was very busy for us this year. We decided to sell our house ( I guess be a bit, okay a lot spontaneous). We have been VERY busy packing and getting ready for this since we have 2 weeks to get it done. This brought us to deciding whether or not to decorate the house for Halloween. We started that tradition 2 years ago. The neighbor kids expect it and we couldn't let them down so on Friday afternoon we started half the set up and finished the other half on Halloween.
Halloween was great. Jared's sister and brother in-law came down and our friends, the Amparans, came over that night. We had a little homemade rootbeer, hot dogs, and chili, then got the kids ready for a night in the neighborhood. Bailey was a witch, Tayler a princess, Makenna a chubby tourist, and Berek was a monster. They were spoiled with chocolate, lots and lots of it. It was fun having family and friends here to celebrate one of my favorite holidays.

Bailey's Halloween party at school
Singing Halloween songs

Our monsters

A little bit of the house. I wish I would have gotten the whole

thing in :(

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So I have been really bad about keeping up on my blog lately and posting what the kids have been up to. So starting back the first part of September, Berek and Makenna had a joint birthday party. We rented a swimming pool at a hotel for 3 hours and they just swam, ate pizza, and had cake. It was one of the easiest parties I've ever done for them.
We also attempted a camping weekend over labor day on the Oregon coast. which only lasted one night. It rained the first night and then come the second night the wind was blowing so hard it broke 2 poles on our tent and blew it down. We quickly packed up and headed to a hotel ( 1 1/2 hours away).
Last but not least, Bailey started preschool. She loves it. It is only 2 days a week which is not enough for her. It has been good for her to have some fun time with friends.
Now hopefully I will be better from now on but I'm not promising anything. Maybe I will just assign it to Jared :)