We had a lot of boo hooing going on around here, coupled with lots of sneezing. Unfortunately, our family was hit with the flu as I mentioned in the previous post. Lex had it the worst of all, it had her home from school the entire week! We hope that she doesn’t ever get that sick again…it wasn’t fun for any of us! Lily, Olivia, and JT also took a turn and I was found quarantining them to their bedroom to get a handle on the germs. It was quite a challenge for me to take care of that many sick kids and keep up with the rest of a busy week that didn’t want to stop. The day of the quarantine I took the meals on trays downstairs to the girls and had them eat on the beds. By dinner time Olivia was fever free and fine to be up with the rest of us, but she informed me she would take her dinner downstairs :). I think she was enjoying the pampering – who wouldn’t?
Luckily, from Lexi’s perspective, she mustered up enough energy (thanks to Kenzie and Haley) to make an appearance at her highly anticipated first Junior High Halloween Dance. She has been helping plan it for over a month and would have been very disappointed to have missed it. There might have even been a little boo hooing about it. How fun it was for her to take her cousin Haley and booogie down!I will leave the rest of this dance commentary for her to blog about…
We were excited to have John and Michelle’s cute family at our home for a visit this weekend. Hopefully they escaped our home unscathed and germ free??? We are glad they braved it out and came for Quinn’s baptism. It was fun to be able to get the whole Parker Family together for a quick mini reunion. At his baptism the bishop talked about "cousin power" – it really made me reflect on what a blessing cousins are to my little family (Baldwin’s and Parker’s). There is definitely some "cousin power" happening.
This year for Halloween I was in a sewing mood and made skirts for the girls. Olivia was very set on being a witch, and I talked to other girls into being 50s girls…I think they(the girls) looked so cute if I do say so myself. Mason was super excited to wear his Uncle John’s Air Pilot outfit and JT made a cute frog. Stephen and I ended up going to our ward Trunk or Treat as runners, because we didn’t get a chance to shower after our Trick or Treat Half Marathon from 10:30 am. I’m sure it wasn’t a treat for any of our fellow ward members to smell our stench, but what do you do? I hope this will let you know how darn important that candy was for me to eat out of their bags (he he).
Also pictured in this blog is Stephen’s latest invention…you know his motto "GO BIG or GO HOME". He made a gigantic food dehydrator! Out of a sheet of plywood…I would love for him to blog about all of the things he has made from a sheet of plywood since we have been married! It has been A LOT trust me. Anyway, it is making us some tasty apple (fruit) leather right this instant.
By the time we came home from the trunk or treat we were pooped! We decided to turn off all of the lights and hide downstairs to watch a scary movie…Stephen and I chose Alfred Hitchcock’s, "The Birds". So, I knew it was kinda freaky, but NOT that freaky! We ended up turning it off before it was too scarring for the children…what was I thinking? Stephen and I turned on a different "fun" show to clear their minds of any worry and then put them to bed at 9 pm. We forgot about the time change until after they were in bed and counted it as a bonus to be hopping in bed at 8:30 pm on Halloween night. We finished watching "the Birds" and I’m happy to report that Stephen didn’t even try to cover his head in his sleep.
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Comments:
Anne said…
Way to make lemonade out of lemons. Not to fun to be sick when so much is going on. (I am with Lily, Maybe next time I am sick I will have to be at your house and be quarantined, hee hee) The costumes were all great. Loved the cute poodle skirts you made. Way to go on your trick or treating challenge. Happy Halloween!
Monday, November 02, 2009 8:58:38 PM
Magan said…
Love the skirts for the girls, I need to put my name on the halloween costume list.. By the way I love my apron
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:54:42 PM