Murphy's Law

You all know the law, so I'll just share the most recent evidence of it in my life. The end of the semester immediately preceding Christmas when loans are running out, presents need to be bought, Disneyland needs to be saved for, and somehow we still need to keep gas in the car and groceries on the shelves and. . .my camera goes kaput! Luckily, I still have my webcam on the laptop. I'm trying to figure out how to use a baby sling to strap the computer to my chest for Disneyland. What do you think???



Example of fantastic camera quality:

One kid is missing but its because another child, who shall remain nameless, told said kid that he wished she had never been born. Most kids would respond with some type of "I'm rubber, you're glue. . ." comeback, but THIS kid has a soft shell and melted into heartbroken distress and was unable to recover prior to this picture. Maybe next time.

I discovered the broken camera earlier after Sully dressed himself. It was pretty much the cutest Sully moment in that hour. He brought me a shirt with tigger on it and asked for help putting it on the right way. Then he disappeared and put his own spongebob underwear on (I told you we are spongebob fans over here), a pair of airplane pajama shorts that actually belong to Guthrie, and his green Walmart knockoff crocks (on the correct feet, thankewverymuch). I wanted nothing more than to snap a photo of this endearing moment to preserve it for all time. Now I guess I just have to settle for the sure-to-fade but no less endearing mental image. In other Sully news, the potty training is over and he's a big boy now. Throughout the day I hear random calls from one of the three bathrooms scattered around, "Mooooooomm, I go pooooop." This is my signal to go help clean up, but I am NOT allowed to flush. Apparently that is his reward for a job well done. He even sleeps all night with his big boy underwear and has not peed in his (or my) bed yet. YAY for the first break from diapers in six and a half years!!! I'm quite enjoying it.

We leave for Arizona three weeks from Friday. I'm super psyched to get on the road and spend Christmas break without too much studying (though Kyle swears he is still going to have to keep up on Step 2 material), some Arizona winter weather, family, food, friends, fun, and Christmas. *Sigh* It just sounds heavenly!

Edited to add: I am also looking forward to Kizzy's jacuzzi - so move over and make room. :p

Halloween 2008

We had a pretty fun Halloween this year. The kids were super excited to get dressed up for school on Friday. For a split second when I dropped them off I found myself wondering if maybe I had assumed they would dress up and they were in fact supposed to be in uniforms. I was relieved to see a ghost climb out of the car in front of us and sent my little fairy and batman off to party at school for the day. (Couldn't find my camera that morning.) I spent the day getting things ready for our Trunk-or-Treat party that night.

We headed over to the party early so we could help set up and then settled in for the night. The kids had SO much fun and were completely overloaded on candy, of course. We hired a taquiza (kind of like a taco buffet) to come feed all of us and we rented a bounce house for the kids. We learned that we have too many kids between us all now and that next time we definitely need TWO bounce houses to accomodate them all.

This is just a random picture of Guthrie and Sully upside down - at the request of G.
Guthrie in his batman costume (sans mask) in the bounce house. There were so many little kids that we kept having to kick the big kids out and he eventually gave up and played Indiana Jones with his little friend.

Addie and her "bestest friend" Halle.

My friend told her husband that he absolutely could NOT wear a beer shirt to the Halloween party because it was a "Mormon church!" He layered over it. She had me ROLLING on the ground when she told me that because my VERY MORMON husband was wearing a Gallo Beer shirt.

This was right after Sullivan woke up from his late nap in the car. He was a little disoriented for a while. It took a couple of pieces of candy to get him in the mood to party.

I can't believe our last Mexican Halloween has come and gone! Our first year the kids and I went home for a little visit and enjoyed trick-or-treating American style. The next year Brooke hosted a great Halloween party for all of our friends here. The third year WE hosted a Halloween party. Rumor has it that it was enjoyable, but I'll admit I was just stressed. This year we learned from past mistakes and picked a neutral location so everyone could have fun. The LDS church worked out great because it actually has a parking lot (rare here) for trunk-or-treating and we had plenty of room to roam, visit and play.

On a different note, I think we finally settled on which hospital in New York we are going to be requesting. Its definitely one of the more expensive areas, but they're all expensive and the difference is minimal. The schools seem to be the best near one hospital and we hope we can talk a few of our LDS friends into joining us so we can maybe have some people we know in our ward. We'll see how that plays out. :)