Hope you all had a wonderful FALL day today and

We don't do Halloween. Instead we go to our church and have a blast at the party thrown there. Lots of inflatables and games and food and CANDY. We always get more candy here than we did the few times my dh decided the kids HAD to trick or treat. And the kids have way more fun playing in the nice warm church than out in the cold.

Here are a few pictures of the kids. Enjoy!

This is a costume I bought 3 years ago when we were in Germany. She wore it then for a party she attended of her best friend. This year it actually FIT so she wore it again. It's too bad the shoes didn't fit though. They were so cute. I bought white satin house slippers for her last night at Wal-Mart to use as shoes. I don't think she had anymore slippers anyway so it was time for a new pair. doesn't she look gorgeous???



I bought Emily's costume on eBay last week. She looks so adorable in it and got tons of compliments on it. She's shy (can you BELIEVE that???) and finally got so upset about all the attention and hub bub that she melted down toward the end of the night. She refused to play some games if the "host" tried to speak too much to her.



Seth went as tigger this year. Tyler did his make-up as best as he could in between the tantrums, crying and hysterics. Not gonna to do make-up again. EVER. But he looked cute anyway. He had a blast tonight!



Tyler and Garret went as 80's rock band members. LOL...



This is Tyler and his friend, Nick, playing on one of the games. Tyler LOVED beating his friend every single time. LOL

Just some thoughts...

I just read a friend of mine's blog. She's lost two very dear members of her family recently, her daughter and her grand-daughter. The pain evidenced in her "voice" breaks my heart. I, too, have lost a daughter..but I never got to meet her, to hold her, to know her. I can't imagine what my friend is experiencing...but I am familiar with her heart-wrenching grief. If you are reading this, my friend, KNOW that I am praying for you. You asked if it gets better...sadly it does. One year I "forgot" my little ones anniversary of her death...and I cried...I cried so hard...just as hard as I cried the day I found out she had gone to Heaven. Why? Because HOW could I as her mom, FORGET HER? How could I? Then I was able to realize...I forgot temporarily because I was healing. Healing from the toughest grief I had ever known. You WILL heal, my friend. I doubt that you will forget your gorgeous daughter like I did, but one day you WILL wake up and find it's not so painful.


For those of you reading this, please hug your children. They are PRECIOUS gifts of God. Yes, even when they are bickering for thousandth time that day with one another or arguing with you about something you need them to do. Hug them, love them, enjoy them.

CT Scan results and 2 LO's

Well an answer to prayers-my CT Scan came back normal, as did my TSH and GLucose. Thank you to all of you praying for me! we will be treating my migraines with meds-one of which I cannot take now unfortunately because I am still nursing Emily. The news on that front is she seems to be self weaning-she's not come for her morning milk for the past two mornings. We will see how she does tomorrow!!!

OK below are two new LO's. One is of Tyler taken in my MIL's backyard June 1st and the other is some pix from 2006. Thanks for looking!





Other news here is I DO have a LSS close by-THREE of them. Who knew....LOL! Ironically I discovered one of them from someone on the Making Memories Forums who lives in Lebanon. The other two are in Rolla, MO. One is Treasured Memories which I knew about but couldn't find the last time I tried-drove right to it, well basically...had to turn around once. The second one was called ????? (LOL) and it took TWO phone calls and several missed turns and driving in circles before we found it. Was it WORTH it-you bet ya!!

Tomorrow Bobbie and I are heading off to Springfield, MO for some more LSS hopping and Hobby Lobby too!

Two of my babies were baptized

I know-I meant to get these photos up sooner. I just needed to take them off the camera. I nver got around to doing it either!! So today I uploaded the pictures to my computer-well because I wanted an empty car for later...LOL!!!

I love it when He hears our whispers...

Don't you????? Today Pat got hold of the head honcho at housing and we have until MONDAY to get this house up to par for our inspection. Praise the LORD!!! Thank you all of you for praying.

As far as the real whispers....still no voice but I don't feel badly. I feel fine in fact, just like there's a coating on my throat but it doesn't hurt. :D

And I made it to the SG meeting and back just fine. I enjoyed my solitude. Normally I take Tyler and Emily with me and leave them at a friend's house. We stay gone for a few days and then come home, but this month I don't have a baby-sitter AND with this move I couldn't stay gone for that amount of time.