Random's

I have been a bad blogger lately, but it has been hard to find the time.  We have been fairly busy with going out of town the last couple of weekends and getting ready for the holidays.  I expect us to be busy into January.  Here are some random pictures of my kiddos!!  I love them so much and they are truly the best blessings in my life.  They make me smile each day more than a dozen times and I can't get enough of them.  So thankful to God.

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we did something that we have never done.  We went to Las Vegas, NV.  We went for a couple reasons, but the main reason was because Jared's paternal grandparents live in Henderson and when Jared's mom told us to go along with them I didn't hesitate one bit since my brother lives out there as well.  I haven't spent a holiday with my brother in about 17 years.  I know, it's sad.  Very sad.  SO with that said I asked my mom to come along so I could be with the both of them.  I remember at one point we were posing for a photo and it took everything I had to fight back the tears.  I miss when I was little and had no worries and was protected by my parents and had my brother around.  

  We love having my mom come along on trips with us because she is a blast and a great help with our kiddos.  It was a nice day being with Jared's immediate family and mine all together.  We went to a restaurant which isn't our usual and it was dreadful in the fact that we waited in line for almost 4 hours to eat, it was crazy, but we made the best of it by acknowledging that we were with our family no matter what.  The next few days we spent shopping, shopping, shopping.  I got lots of good stuff and we got some goodies for the kids that we might not have been able to find here in good ol' Farm town.  I do vote that next year we eat a traditional Thanksgiving dinner though.  I sure did miss lounging around afterwards and then going in for seconds and thirds.  Hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving day.  Lots to be thankful for.

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October

October flew for us, I honestly don't even know where it went.  Halloween was a lot of fun for the kids this year, especially since they got to Trick or Treat 4 times.  Once at my work, once at Jared's moms church, once at Kade's school and then the Trunk or Treat the church put on.  We are not short on candy that's for sure.  We had so much that the night of Halloween Jared and I went through all the candy when we got home and sorted out what we had too much of or just what we didn't like and gave it to the Trick or Treaters that stopped by our house.  It was the perfect situation.  I hate letting candy go bad. 

Jared and I even got to have some Halloween fun.  We got invited to a couple parties the weekend of Halloween so we put on our Vampire costumes that we had laying in the closet from a few years ago and made it work.  It was pretty fun!

A few days before Halloween though we decided to have some of our chibuddies over and carve pumpkins like we have in the past and the kids painted their small pumpkins, which is always fun.  I might start making a tradition out of it and throw some chilli on the stove. 

Here are some pictures of all the action!

  

Library

I would be lying if I said I never feel guilty for being a working mother.  It has been difficult to make a final decision when it comes to working or being a stay at home mom, but if I could choose in my perfect world I would wish to work part time and be with my kids the rest, but the way things work right now, my job calls for full time.  I have weighed and outweighed all scenarios and had numerous talks with Jared and right now it's working out just fine for me to work.  I can say that it doesn't take away from my job as a parent and my kids always and will always come first.  I have basically come to the conclusion that for me personally working does not make me a bad parent, it makes me a better parent.  With all that said I try and find special little things I can do with my kids that I would normally do if I stayed home during the day like small craft projects (more on this later) going to the park, doing a picnic, going to reading time at the library, walking the museum, and other fun things kids like to do.   Hopefully my babies will remember their childhood as being able to do it all even though I worked.

Today we went to the Library and got Kade his own card so he can check books out and maybe attend a movie or craft day from time to time. 

Our trip to the library was so much fun, Kade felt like such a big kid and Taylor was Dora the Explorer with all the neat things she was seeing. 

Kade and his Tractor library card



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