Saturday, October 30, 2010

Halloween

I can't believe how fast Halloween came this year. Since the kids are getting older they all want to be different things. Payton had to be Cinderella and I could not convince her to be anything else. She was really cute in her Cinderella costume though. Jaxson and Carter wanted to be something scary so Carter was a vampire and Jaxson was a ninja. Jaxson was a little sad that his costume was not scary, but I told him he could be something scary when he was a little older. Logan was a monkey which fits him perfectly. He was also obsessed with the Halloween candy I think he walked around for 3 hours straight with some form of candy in his hand. The only bad part about Halloween was it was cold and wet which made trick or treating not as much fun. The older boys still loved it so I guess that is what counts.



Chris worked his magic again this year with the pumpkins. Payton loved her Cinderella pumpkin and Carter could not have been more excited about his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pumpkin.

Payton's face describes perfectly how everyone was feeling about trick or treating it was cold, wet and miserable. Payton wanted to go home after the second house and then when we would get to a house where she knew someone she would try to stay it was so sad.

At the beginning of the month all of our family came into town for Jaxson's baptism. It was such a special day and it was nice to be able to share it with family and friends. Jaxson is such a great kid and had been looking forward to this day since his birthday. He was so happy to see all his family and friends that came to support him on his special day. Thanks to everyone for coming out and sharing this day with us.The baptism was a special day but the excitement did not stop there. On Sunday Carter woke up in the middle of the night saying his stomach hurt. He seemed fine when he woke up in the morning and ate and played so I thought the worst was over. He woke again the next night and then Monday morning at 11 he started with a stomach ache again. This time the pain did not go away and kept getting worse till I finally took him into the doctor. It ended up that he needed to get his appendix removed so we ended up having emergency surgery Monday evening. It actually worked out pretty well my mom was still in town to help with the kids so that was one less worry. Carter recovered very well and is now back to his energetic self.