Fall, Costumes and The Swine Flu

Sooo, I don't know about everywhere but it is finally a cool day outside here in Houston. Hooray, the start of some cooler more favorable weather. A couple of people in my office are from the north and so they think I am NUTS for saying it is cool outside when it's in the 70s but down here that's almost winter, ha!!! I remember last year for Thanksgiving I wanted to put Dalton in this adorable flannel shirt with these courdory pants that I bought him and it was so hot he couldn't wear it or he would've melted. I hope this year it's really cold since we have our house now and we will be putting the fireplace on. When we were building our house I didn't want a fireplace because I just saw our kids touching it and burning themselves but our builder used this new kind of fireplace. It's a gas fireplace but the glass doesn't move. The logs are fake and it's all controlled with a remote control. It's called a direct vent fireplace because there is no chimney and instead there is this box thing on the backside of the house that it comes out of. When we were building out deck outside Chantz had left the measuring tape up on the box and then we lit the fire to show my sister in law at our housewarming party and the next weekend we found the measuring tape MELTED into the box. It was not pretty. Anyways, the glass will not get hot, it's cool to the touch but that thing will heat up the whole house up and downstairs. Last year when we came to the model which is the same floorplan as ours we were switching some stuff on our papers and it was freezing outside and when we walked in it was so cozy and I asked him if he had the heat on and he said no it's just the fireplace we turn it on when we get here and it takes about 30 minutes and the whole house is warmed. YAY!!! I can't wait to use it this year!!! So it better get cold:):) Do any of you have the direct fireplaces?? Another reason I'm ready for it to get cold is I love when it's cold outside and I come home to a warm house decorated with fall colors and smell something WONDERFUL cooking in the crock pot. We usually don't use it alot during the summer cause it makes the house hot and it's a heavy meal too heavy for when it's over 100 degrees outside. I can't wait to use my new crock pot this year. I got this one from my step mom and dad last year for Christmas. It's a 6 quart one instead of the smaller like 2 or 3 quart white one that I had. I can see the difference in amount of food that it can handle compared to my smaller one. I also can't wait to use my new kitchen aid mixer that they bought me.
I've only gotten to use it one time to make my fourth of july cake, and I am so excited to bake cookies this year but Chantz says the oven being on makes the kitchen hot so I had to wait til it got cool outside. But lucky for me it's starting to get cool!!!! My car read 76 today during lunch instead of the usual 89 or higher. The last but definitely not least important thing that I'm ready for is DECORATING!!! I love this time of year with halloween, thanksgiving and christmas. My good friend Destiny and I are supposed to go look for decorations this weekend. Not that either of us don't have enough, but we are overly obsessed with the holidays and decorating our homes, ha!!! Hopefully in the midst of packing and getting hair cuts and Aggie's shots and everything for Florida I will be able to go with her. I can't believe we leave in 9 days. I feel like I have so much to do between now and then but hopefully I will find the time somewhere, somehow :)

We have already starting thinking about halloween costumes for this year. Well I lie we've been thinking about it for weeks now, ha! We can't help it because we just get so excited, well I do, ha!!!! So we decided Mister Dalton is going to be The Incredible Hulk since he always makes his little hulk face when we tell him show us your muscles. This is his costume

We got it for him last Saturday and I will post pictures of him in it as soon as I get a good one right now he just fights with me on wearing the headpiece. So they are all of him yelling or making mean faces at the camera, ha what a character he is. Anyways any suggestions as to what Chantz, I and Aggie could be that goes with the Hulk???

Finally, the swine flu. Dalton's Uncle Aaron, my little brother, has the swine flu!!! Ugh we are so scared for him. He called me yesterday afternoon after getting out of the doctor to tell me. You know I have been telling you about chantz and I being sick lately and it's like we just keep giving it back and forth to each other but Thank God Dalton has not caught anything. Well I wanted to give you guys a headsup on this whole swine flu thing. If someone you know has it and you have been in contact with them all you have to do is call your doctor and tell them and they will prescribe you this medicine called TamiFlu and it should be knocked out of your system within 72 hours. They did that for multiple people in my family since they were all around him. Also, it was said that they will have vaccines out for the swine flu soon. This is a different vaccine then just for the normal flu so make sure you get this one too. I hope all of you have a great holiday season and that noone else gets sick and my brother gets over this sooner rather than later. Please keep him in your prayer as we are all scared for him because he has asthma and this will just make it worse. Oh also it is his high school homecoming this weekend and the poor thing has to miss it now and he can't play in the game either. I know that's hard for a kid in highschool, so it just makes it even worse. We love you Aaron Get Better Soon!!!