Halloween Critter Weekend

Our Halloween weekend started on Friday. Chantz surprised us when we got home from work on Thursday evening however I had already put a sick day in because Dalton's babysitter was still sick and I wasn't expecting him home until Friday evening. So we all got up Friday morning and went to go get my psychology study guide that I needed for the class. We got some really bad news by them saying they didn't sell it seperately it was only sold in a pack with a new textbook. Well I had already bought a used book back at the beginning of the semester (this class was a late start class and was only 8 weeks long instead of 16) So now they tell me that I can sell the book back to them for half price and rebuy the whole package. Ummmm no. That's just plain money I'm throwing away. I was scared about taking this class from this teacher anyways because I've heard she is extremely difficult so I decided I would drop it and get my money back for both tuiton and book and just retake it next semester with an easier teacher. Plus then I would know to buy the "whole package". Well I went to go drop the class and then she tells me ok your done and your balance is 0.00 WHAT!!! I'm supposed to be getting money back for this class. She tells me that since it's so late in the semester that I don't get anything back. I explained to her that this class had only been in session for like 8 or 9 days and she said well it's a 7 day maximum with late start classes. WELL THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THAT BEFORE I DROPPED IT!!! Uhhh I was so mad at this point I just threw out the window a whole class and a book now. So my Friday started out really bad....but like always everything always ends good!!! So we decided to go grab a bite to eat and go home and restart the day haha. When we got home I was reading stuff about education degrees and there is a program that I can finish my accounting degree which I am half way finished with and was throwing away a ton of money by switching to education and still be able to teach any grade any subject. So since I didn't need psychology anyways for my accounting degree I think that's the way we're going to do it. It has more benefits by me doing it this way and I am relieved that I only have two classes to deal with now as the best time of the year is approaching. When I had psychology too I just kept thinking omg it's going to be all school work for the next month through thanksgiving and then it'll be ok but now I can enjoy the whole month of November and relax instead of stress!!! After the good news, Aggie and I laid on the chair a little while and Dalton and Daddy played with cars on the floor. He drives me crazy sometimes with jumping and digging but other than that he is just like a big baby and he STILL thinks he is a lap dog as you can see haha. Then we went to go see the progress of Dalton's car bed and it's coming along just amazing. I still can't believe that my grandpa has that much talent. He's still trying to find a steering wheel to put at the end of it so Dalton can pretend he's driving:) After we saw the bed we went with him to home depot to buy some bolts he needed. While we were there we bought new blinds for our breakfast room, staircases for our second attic to be built the next day, some molding and some spray paint. When we got home Chantz installed the new blinds and they look beautiful. Before we had the cheap small vinyl ones but now we bought the big 2" wood ones and it really makes the room look alot bigger. At this point it was getting dark outside so Dalton and I went to go light our pumpkins outside. Poor Daddy's had already rotted AGAIN. Last year his was the first to rot and mold and this year it was the same thing. I told him next year we will pick out his pumpkin for him so maybe it will be different hahaha. So we lit the ceramic pumpkin next to the monster one for him to substitute for the one he carved. The next day "HALLOWEEN" we woke up early and started with the monthly cleaning. When we were done nana and papa were there to start building the second attic. Our first attic upstairs was just too small and that's where the hot water heater was and we didn't want alot of stuff next to it so we put a second one downstairs in the garage now to have more room. Let me tell you this was a very interesting day. I brought Dalton's dresser downstairs from his bedroom to redo it to match his new Cars room and while I was priming it Dalton fell into the primer. WONDERFUL!!! While my grandma was trying to rinse him down in the kitchen primer is going all over my dark cherry cabinets so now there are little white drops all over them and are very noticable. So I went in and took him to the bathroom and cleaned him up really good. He managed to ruin his clothes but luckily his shoes were saved. Now for the critter part of the weekend, after they were done with the attic nana and I were trying to organize the bins that were in the garage so they would be ready to go into the attic. Well when we built our house we were the only ones everything else was fields. Since then the whole street has been developed which means all the little friends that were in the fields are now some place else. Well we have six pieces of glass that went to our coffee table and side tables in our old living room that we replaced with wood for the safety of having a baby. Those pieces of glass are wrapped in the most comfortable blankets that are around. I notice these little pellets around one of the blankets and then some on the floor. I thought oh no we have mice. Well luckily everything else was in bins which NOTHING can get into. We still checked them all just to make sure but they were all perfect. We were finally getting rid of the glass pieces since we realized we have no purpose for them anymore anyways and when we went to unwrap them out fell four little baby mice. I mean they were maybe an inch long. Ahhhh discusting!!! I freaked out and started screaming and ran out of the garage into the driveway. My grandma went over there to kill them and without even thinking I just grabbed a shovel and started wacking them. I know I know, how could I kill a baby mouse. My husband and my mom have both already gave me the sob stories. HOWEVER, it was spur of the moment I wasn't thinking and they looked grose and I just kept imagining them on me in my bed at night so I just wacked them. The bad part of this is we don't know where the mama went. I just hope she doesn't come back to find her babies. We have been letting Aggie in the garage every morning to run around in there just to make sure one doesn't jump out at me or something hahaha. Now I feel really guilty though because I just keep thinking about the movie mouse hunt and how cute that little mouse was. How could I have done that??? Anyways, we got everything loaded into the attic and now we finally have our garage back. We are trying to get this room ready for the pool table/bar that is currently in our upstairs gameroom. When we have another little one that will be moving to the garage and the kids playroom will be moving upstairs to the gameroom so that we still have a guestroom and each baby will have their own room. This is the whole purpose of clearing out all the decor/luggage/baby toys/etc. out of the garage. When we were done it was already time to get ready for trick or treating. Poor Aggie just gave me a look when I told him it was time to get into his costume.

I thought it would be easy to dress him since he was tired but as soon as he saw it he got all hyper crazy and started jumping around. He was batman or supposed to be anyways but the head piece didn't fit him and the outfit itself he jumped right out of so all he wore was the cape. After we were all ready my brother and his girlfriend Lauren and my mom came over to go trick or treating with Dalton around the neighborhood. I was Silk Spectre Dalton was The Hulk and Aggie was Batman so we were the superhero family. Daddy was "the biggest Dallas cowboy fan" haha he couldn't find a superhero costume anytime that we went so he just went in normal clothes because he's our superhero!!! Lauren and Aaron were Army soliders and they looked super cute!Dalton did wonderful trick or treating. Friday we had taught him how to say trick or treat but here's how he would say it "ticteet". I would tell him say thank you when he would get candy and so he would tell them thank you after they would put candy in his bucket. He also waved bye to mostly everyone as we walked away from their doors. We trick or treated first with our family early around our neighborhood.

I would carry Dalton up to the house and then he would walk up the pathways to the front doors otherwise it would've taken forever because he likes to stop and see every single thing going up the driveway and try to runaway and so forth.I think this picture is funny beacuse Aggie is sitting there like I'm not moving and I'm not going to cooperate with my costume I'm going to wear it the opposite way that it goes because I don't like halloween haha.

Aggie kept trying to pull Daddy to follow Dalton and I up to all the houses.By the end Aggie understood to wait patiently at the end of the driveway for us to come back from the door.

My mom had a lot of fun pushing Dalton in the wagon and pulling him up to the garages to get the candy. This was her first year she was able to trick or treat with him and I know she really enjoyed it.

Dalton would ride in his wagon that I decorated with some halloween garland by the houses that weren't giving out candy. Sometimes he didn't want to get back out though because in there he could eat his candy and be pulled around. What a life haha.

I still can't believe how long he left the hulk head on because I really thought he was going to rip it right off. When we were done trick or treating with my mom, Aaron and Lauren we went to our good friends the Trevino's house for a halloween party. Dalton had a great time while we were there. There were so many kids and he loved playing with all of them. Reagan wanted to ride in the wagon with Dalton while they trick or treated around their neighborhood. That is one little girl that cracks me up!!!
Here is Daddy already scoping out Dalton's candy. Hmmm no wonder it kept feeling lighter even though we kept going to more houses hahaha.
Destiny and her sisters and you can't really see but their Dad is behind them he is Zorro and he was hilarious in his costume. In fact he won the costume contest that was at the party!!!

Destiny Me and Courtney posing for a picture in the freezing cold.

The last critter part of the weekend was Sunday night. Sunday we just laid around and were lazy and just played. Well in preperation for Christmas I wanted to get all of Dalton's old baby toys put up so we could make some room in his playroom for the new toys he would be getting. While we were doing this TWO lizards were in the toy room. I didn't know why at first but then I saw that my grandma had brought Aggie's deformed bear that he plays with outside in Dalton's playroom. I guess they were either inside or on his bear when she brought it in his room. Chantz just thought it was hilarious because I of course freaked out again. I just hate things that crawl around and are supposed to live outside and I get freaked out that they are going to jump on me in the middle of the night. Then last night when Dalton and I got home from work there was a cat sitting in our front garden. What the heck is up with all of the animals coming to our house?? The cat of course started freaking out while I was cooking dinner and I could hear it fighting with something through the front window. It was probably the mama mouse. Yuck I just want ONE animal at my house and that is AGGIE. No mice, lizards, cats, nothing just Aggie!!! I think we got a broken dog too because during all of this he was completely oblivious and didn't even know there were any animals in or near the house. What to do, oh my!!!

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!!!