Happy Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween 2011

Ok so these past few years we really have not done much for Halloween mostly because it was just me and the kids and Dale was working. Well this year Dale had Halloween off so we went all out. We decorated and got costumes and went Trick-Or-Treating. It was a blast and the kids got a ton of candy. More than any year before. At the end of the night we went and hung out with Ryan and her family for a little bit then came home and went to bed. Anyway here are the pics from this years costumes.

this is Cheyenne and Amber. Amber is a witch of some sort.

This is Dj's face. It is painted all red and has white M's on his cheeks.
This is Cheyenne's face painted

This is Elyssa's face painted.

Here is Cheyenne's costume she is a bumble bee with no stinger. Lol.

She and Elyssa coordinated their costumes.

Here is Dj's costume. He was a red M&M. It took us a long time to find a

non scary costume that he would wear.

Here is Elyssa's Costume. She is a lady bug.

Well I hope you liked the kids costumes this year. I know I enjoyed picking them out for the most part. The kids had a great night and got enough candy to last them until Easter.

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Day 13 of RFYLH

Question # 13

What is your personal secret of happiness?

You know a lot of people ask me that all the time and I could never really think of a good answer that really fit the bill until I ran into a friend of mine that I had not seen in a very long time. She was never what you would call a religious person by any means but she was always what I would call a happy person. This time there was something different about her. I asked her about what has been going on with her life since we had not seen or talked to each other in a while. We got all caught up and then I asked her what was different about her. We went through the usual things like hair cloths weight and such and then she told me that she had recently met someone and was very happy with her life. I naturally assumed she meant a man since she was single and all then she said " Well he is a guy but not what you think." That had me. Then she pulled out a little piece of paper from her wallet and showed it to me. I was a picture of Jesus. I was surprised that I didn't guess right away what she was talking about since I am a Christian and all and go to church on a regular basis and have a personal relationship with Jesus myself. But the truth is she was more connected to him than I had been in a very long time and you could see it all over her. She just glowed with happiness. I think that would be my personal secret to happiness. Have a good and honest relationship with our Lord above and you can never go wrong.

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Day 12 of RFYLH

Question # 12

Tell about a frustrating experience that you have had?

Ok so everyone knows that having children can be very frustrating at times, but when your beautiful, precious children become teenagers it becomes a whole new level of frustrating. As most of you know I have recently taken on the responsibility of raising my little sister Cheyenne who is 14 years old. Now I have not been in her life for most of her life. That not being all my fault. But I still found it necessary to take her into my home and raise her. Yes it has been a bumpy ride for all involved but we are getting the hang of things and getting into a rhythm that works for our family of five now. This all being said I now have TWO teenagers and an 11 year old who should be a teenager for all the drama she has. Something happens to these sweet little children as they get older. I like to call it going alien but I know it is just a hormone thing. Either way they seem to change overnight and become very independent and love to push the boundaries of my patients all the time. I wonder sometimes if this isn't just payback for what I did to my parents as a teenager or if this is just the circle of life. I guess we will never truly understand until we are no longer on this earth. My only hope is that I make it through all this with my hair and sanity in tack and pray that what they do to me they will get back at them when they have children of their own. I so look forward to the day when I get a call from them saying something to the effect of " Mom I am so sorry I was such a pain when I was growing up but now I am paying for it with _______(name of child)." Lol oh well I know that is a ways off so no need to dream about it now. It is true that I love them all with all my heart and soul and would do anything for them short of going to jail or getting into real trouble. So to answer the question my recent frustrating experience is a daily struggle with my teenage children. Its a long sentence and well worth it in the end. I hope. LOL

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Day 11 of RFYLH

Question # 11

Describe your favorite birthday?

Well that's an easy question. You know as you get older in life you are less and less likely to want to celebrate your birthday because it means you are getting older. And lets face it who wants to get older or at least admit you are getting older anyway. Well, that's how I felt about turning 30 a few years back and I thought that would be it for my celebrating so I decided to throw a Prom Party for my birthday. With the whole formal gowns and all. It was themed and everything. It was just like being back at prom in high school only no drama or worrying about who was going to ask me to it. I already had a date. Although my wonderful hubby had to work that night he was there in spirit. Of course now I will be doing this on all my big birthdays and so he WILL be at the next one. It was great night with all my good friends. I had so much fun thanks to my girlfriends and so I figured what the hay it isn't so bad getting older if you can have this much fun doing it.

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Day 10 of RFYLH

Question #10

Thinking back, was there a teacher who had a great influence on you?

I aways say I don't remember much about my elementary school years because they were so long ago but one person is still with me to this day. Her name was Mrs. Stone. I don't know if that is still her name or not but I will always remember her as that. She was both my 3rd grade and 4th grade teacher. She always made learning fun. She didn't inspire me to become a teacher but she did inspire me to do whatever my heart desired. I loved having her as a teacher.

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Day 9 of RFYLH

Question #9

What is the most important lesson, message, or advicce that you have learned that you ight pass on to others?

Wow that is a hard question to answer. I have learned a lot of things in my life that I wish I could pass on to my children so that they don't make the same mistakes that I did. As far as the most important piece of advice I could give my children or really any youth at this point in time is when you are old enough and ready to marry make sure that they are really the one. Go to Pre-marital counseling and make every effort to communicate effectively with you soon to be spouse. Talk about everything and make sure that the important subjects such as religion, children and money are all in agreement or at least a good understanding of what you both want. Always be honest with each other and try your hardest to always make it work. Don't let society tell you that just because you have an argument or times are tuff that it is tim00e to give up. I lucked out in life and picked the right guy the first time. I plan to grow old with him and when we have our down times ( which we do because we are human) we work through it.

One more piece of advice that I would give and I think is the MOST IMPORTANT of all is put GOD first in everything you do. From picking your spouse and raising your family to doing your everyday to day outings. If it wasn't for GOD we would have nothing. This is a lesson I have had to learn the hard way but I have come to understand that not having HIM in my life is not a good place to be.

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Day 8 of RFYLH

Question #8

Describe your Sundays as a Mother/Father and a child?

My sundays as a child were off and on as far as going to church. We went on a regular basis until I was about 11 or 12 and then stoped going all together when I was a teenager. I later went back to church when I had my son.

My sundays as a Mother now are good. I attend church with my family almost every Sunday depending on ofcourse sickness and such. I enjoy it very much. While my husband and I don't always see eye to eye on how or what church to raise our children in the one thing we do agree on is that they need God in their lives one way or another. This is something we stuggle with trying to make our teenagers understand. They would rather sleep in and enjoy their last day of the weekend with friends and we don't allow that. It is a day to rest and enjoy spending time with your family. We tend to make it a movie night or game night or just spend the day catching up on our week. We try to solve or settle anything that has arossen in the week and make it a spritual healing day.

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