Trick or treat

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a great night in our new neighborhood! Baxter even got in the action with a banana split costume. He hated the hat, but tolerated the suit on his body.

Emily and Josh were characters from a video game- Mario Kart, and Sydney was a veterinarian. Didn't get a chance to make costumes this year as the sewing machine stuff is still boxed up.
Josh loved saying trick or treat- and he follows it up with I want some candy. Less cute. He did thank everyone and tell people they had cool costumes!!

We only did a quick circuit o the street as it was fairly cold! Thankfully no snow!

30 days of gratitude

Day 1 -
Saw this idea a few wars ago, so I think I will give it a shot!
I am grateful for safety and warmth in my home! I am grateful we were not affected by the storm and we are
More prepared should another stornm or power outage come our way!

Unpacking

Josh has been sleeping on the floor since we left Suffolk-first on a foam bed in the hotel, then on his mattress on his room because we could not ind the hardware for his bed.

After a nearly a month in the new house I finally found the hardware for his bed-logically located in a box marked kitchen. Yeah!! We no longer have to wait 6 more weeks for the replacement pack from the manufacturer! It annoyed me enormously that they never ordered the first time I called in and had to get the order three weeks later processed via the nice neighbor who works there, he also got me a set of instructions!! It is a 4-8 week order period too! So I am beyond thrilled we can assemble his bed tonight!

The next box I opened contained a real treat- a bag of onions. After a month in storage and a month in our house they were beyond nasty. Who packs that??? Lat week I pulled our my bread basket to find a moldy loaf of bread inside. I don't do mold well!

A beary good time

I hit record on these two. Josh and Sydney and their bears were having a fun time chatting, which turned into an all out jumping on one another/giggle match.

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Packing mayem

Why bother having one of us identify boxes at the truck and give locations to one crew member only to have them dump the box by the door for someone else to move without passing on the box destination. Hence box ending up in the wrong place!! Kids clothes in our room, bedroom stuff in the kitchen. Argh. I really hate moving. The towers of boxes are getting to me! That said I am enjoying surfing Pintrest for home remodeling ideas.

Panic on the horizon

I just want to run around like a chicken with my head cut off screaming. We move in two weeks!! That doesn't seem real. I probably wouldn't worry so much except after the 31st we are homeless. I truly hope we can find a nice place that likes pets to temporarily stay in while we wait for a home.

That set at aside- my kids are pretty great about this while thing!!

Sydney just got baptized this past Saturday, Emily got a medal at her first Tae kwon do tournament and Josh is being spiderman when he isn't getting too worn out with his week of camp.

2 player tennis

Josh really prefers to have a partner for tennis, but when the girls are at camp or busy and I can't sit and play with him, he came up with a new approach- two player tennis!
He wiggles both remotes wildly and hits for both sides- best part- he always wins!