The Past Few Weeks....

So it has been a while since my last post so I figured that I better get to writing things down before I forget.

This year for Halloween, we went to out ward's Trunk-or-Treat. Ethan was a pirate and Ryan was Tinkerbell. Ethan and I picked out a top and bottoms from Goodwill and then before the party I cut them and made them look ragged. Stew put some of my dark brown eye shadow all over his face to make it look like he was dirty and then used some mascara to give him a beard and mustache. We were given Ryan's costume a while ago and when I first tried it on her a couple weeks before, I though for sure that I would have to find something else for her. The costume is 12-18m and she is wearing 24m-2T. She was able to wear it just that one time. She let me put on some purple eye shadow on her eyelids and a little blush on her cheeks. She loved every second of it! Because of the junk food they had that night, the next day and the day after they both had sick tummies.

Nov. 1st I started P90X again. The first week I did AWESOME! I worked out everyday and even though I was super sore, I felt like my self esteem was going up a bit. The second week (this past week) I did not do so well. I struggled a lot with wanting to do my exercises and then while I was doing them I was hoping that the kids would fight just so I couldn't finish them. I have been so tired lately and just haven't wanted to do anything but curl up on the couch with the kids and watch a movie. I am looking forward to a better week coming up.

We (the kids and I) are missing Stewart. He has started staying late to study for Finals that start on Nov. 29th. I know that Stew is looking forward to Thanksgiving Day... He told me that he wouldn't study until the kids were in bed. I am looking forward to spending time as a family that whole day. Normally we would be putting our Christmas Tree up that day, but we won't be doing that for a while. We are planning on getting a real Christmas Tree this year (unless it is too expensive and then we will get a small fake one). So instead of putting up the Christmas Tree, we will be putting up the other Christmas decorations and also making some decorations! I am SO excited to have an "Old-Fashioned" Christmas!!! I also want to keep our tradition going of watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. We are almost done with getting the kids presents...... I think all we have left is their stocking stuffers. I have a few things for Stew and I am getting even more excited to get him a few more things, plus his stocking stuffers!

Anyway...... Until next time...