Thursday, November 20, 2008
80's Party!
Our friend Brian turned the big 33 this month ;-) And he decided to celebrate with an 80's party! He pretty much threatened that you wouldn't be able to get through the front door if you weren't decked out 80's style! It was a lot of fun! We got all dressed up and everyone looked great. There were some classic 80's treats like gummy bears and Reese's Pieces, there were Garbage Pail Kids cards out, a crimper for your hair and Aqua Net hair spray. We also had some 80's TV theme music trivia, we took the Coke/Pepsi challenge and there was a hot game of Ms. Pac Man going most of the evening. Oh, there was also a Rubik's cube and the electronic game, Simon! So classic! 
Aidan's 4th Birthday Party!
Aidan's birthday is the day after Halloween! This year we got to have his party on his actual birthday, Saturday! We decided it would be fun if everyone came in their Halloween costumes! Everyone wants to wear their costumes again, don't they? It was fun to see everyone, especially those we didn't get to see the night before on Halloween... oh yeah, that was 2 parties, 2 days in a row at our house! :-) I can't believe my little boy is 4 years old!! We got him a bike with training wheels and it took him about one day to learn to ride it and now he is a pro and loves it! But watching him on it just reminds me that much more how big he is getting! Although, not THAT big... at his checkup with the doctor he only weighs 30 pounds! He is in the 5th percentile for height and weight. While we were at the Dr.'s office the nurse went ahead and weighed Alec and he also weighs 30 pounds! 
Halloween!
As usual we had so much fun on Halloween! It is our annual tradition to gather all of our family and friends at our house who don't have their own trick-or-treat plans or as awesome of a neighborhood as ours to come over and trick-or-treat all over our neighborhood and then come back to our house and eat chili and yummy artichoke, garlic bread and pig out on candy!! This was a our biggest year yet! We actually ran out of two pots of homemade chili and had to open a can or two!! My mom and Ty and Lisa, Torin and Trace, dad and Christine, Scott, Johanna and Jakob, Kody, Brian, Macy, Drew and Evan, Julie, Anthony, Faith and Mikayla, Matt, Ann, Antonia, Maddie, Noel, and Dylan were all here and then Pastor Mike and Kim stopped by with Taylor and Jason and Elisa were here too with their brood of Halle, Braedon, Ella, Lola and Jaellyn! I think the total was like 20 adults and 20 kids INSIDE our house at once! We are used to that outside for parties, but inside it was a bit crowded! Let's just say the kids had fun upstairs in the bonus room and no adult dared enter until the end of the night when everyone had left... I think it took Anthony almost 30 minutes to get everything squared back away... this is for a job that on any regular day takes about 5 minutes! It was nuts! I don't know what those kids were doing! But oh well... for most of the night they were happy and so were the adults!
Aidan dressed up as a Pit Crew guy from the Cars movie. Alec was Darth Vader! He was so funny too... he kept the mask on for a really long time. He wanted to wear his baseball helmet with the costume too! He had a light saber and everything. I was a pirate... Ruby, the Pirate Beauty to more exact (that was actually the name of the costume!). Anthony didn't have the time or inclination to dress up... he was just DAD... someone needed to stay sane anyway!
OCTOBER!!
I took the kids to Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center with our friends, Stephanie and her kids David and Kaitlyn, Julie came too with Mikayla. It just isn't Fall without a trip to Bates to see all the pumpkins and go on a pony ride! 
A Little Bit of Drama
I am so behind in my blogging! I think it has a lot to do with getting totally hooked on FaceBook and so every time I sit down at the computer intending on doing something, like updating my blog, I get completely side tracked by what is happening on FaceBook! But here I am, inspired by Tami who just threw up a bunch of posts... so here goes!
The last few months have had a bit of drama for us. While my mom and I were on our cruise in Mexico we got a call that my grandmother passed away (my mom's mom). That put a slight damper on our time at sea, but we still managed to make the most of it. However, when we got home there was much time to rest before spending the next few days up in the San Fernando Valley getting things squared away for the funeral. While it was a sad time for our family it was also full of blessings! My grandmother is no longer in pain, no longer trapped in a body that wasn't really functioning anymore and no longer prisoner to a mind that had stolen her ability to communicate the way she used to. Plus, we were reunited as a family... my brother from New York, his wife and their 2 daughters, one of whom we hadn't met yet, came all the way out, Tami and Craig and their girls were here from Spokane, my Aunt and Uncle from Colorado were there and we all got to spend some really neat time together.
On top of the emotions of dealing with a death in the family our church went through a major split right at the same time. It was so emotional and a really difficult situation for us to deal with. We had been going to Riverview for over 6 1/2 years! But after everything came out and our Pastor announced that he was going to resign and leave the church we really felt the spirit guiding us away from Riverview and the people that had manipulated the situation that had been unfolding for so long. We are really excited though because our Pastor decided to start a brand new church in our community! We have heard his vision and we have prayed about it and it is already so fulfilling and great to be a part of something that will touch our community in a real way. So we are now a part of Inland Hills Community Church! There is definitely still some healing and broken realtionships as a result of the split in the church, but we are trusting God to renew them with time.
The last few months have had a bit of drama for us. While my mom and I were on our cruise in Mexico we got a call that my grandmother passed away (my mom's mom). That put a slight damper on our time at sea, but we still managed to make the most of it. However, when we got home there was much time to rest before spending the next few days up in the San Fernando Valley getting things squared away for the funeral. While it was a sad time for our family it was also full of blessings! My grandmother is no longer in pain, no longer trapped in a body that wasn't really functioning anymore and no longer prisoner to a mind that had stolen her ability to communicate the way she used to. Plus, we were reunited as a family... my brother from New York, his wife and their 2 daughters, one of whom we hadn't met yet, came all the way out, Tami and Craig and their girls were here from Spokane, my Aunt and Uncle from Colorado were there and we all got to spend some really neat time together.
On top of the emotions of dealing with a death in the family our church went through a major split right at the same time. It was so emotional and a really difficult situation for us to deal with. We had been going to Riverview for over 6 1/2 years! But after everything came out and our Pastor announced that he was going to resign and leave the church we really felt the spirit guiding us away from Riverview and the people that had manipulated the situation that had been unfolding for so long. We are really excited though because our Pastor decided to start a brand new church in our community! We have heard his vision and we have prayed about it and it is already so fulfilling and great to be a part of something that will touch our community in a real way. So we are now a part of Inland Hills Community Church! There is definitely still some healing and broken realtionships as a result of the split in the church, but we are trusting God to renew them with time.
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