Gearing up for Halloween

Becca and I took the kids over to Burlington today. We have kind of started a little tradition of carving pumpkins and decorating sugar cookies at Mom's every year for Halloween. We are doing it today since my mom will be gone all weekend to go to state volleyball. I am not sure why we carve pumpkins because we all just pretty much do them for the kids at this point. They enjoy seeing them when they are finished though and hopefully we'll be able to keep up the "tradition" until the kids are old enough to enjoy carving the pumpkins themselves!! Anyway, Becca and I came over early this afternoon and tried to take some pictures of the girls... They weren't real cooperative, but we got a few good ones. I've included one and will put more on when I get a chance.

We have had a very busy past couple of weeks! Craig's grandpa Vic passed away on Oct. 8, so we had a very busy week that week. Craig had already planned to take some time off before that so it was very nice to have him around so much. We really enjoyed spending time and visiting with family that we don't normally get to see. I really enjoyed listening to everyone sit around and reminisce, they really had some great memories. Vic was a great man! The services were really nice. We will really miss Papa Vic, but we are happy that he is in a better place. Hailee got to spend lots of time with the Winterholler's and did so good with all of the "strangers." I was really worried about it because she normally doesn't handle that kind of thing very well, so I am glad that everything went so well! Between all of that and volleyball I feel like we haven't been home in two weeks! There were a lot of volleyball tournaments and regular games going on these last few weeks so everyone was busy. I made some good money though so that was nice... except for the part where I had to get new tags and registration for the car and pickup, so I didn't get to spend any of it :( Oh well, I am glad to have that out of the way.
We are ready for life to slow down. I just hope we don't go crazy being home so much!! I am really a "goer" and Hailee seems to do well "going" with me. It will be nice to have some down time and have a chance to catch up at home though.

Billings...

Becca, Mom, all of the kids, and I went to Billings today. It was the grand opening at Kohls so we figured we would go check it out... Well, we didn't go there until very last, so we were pretty much all toast by then. We went to Target and then the mall and had lunch. Hailee fell asleep in the mall, so I packed her around. Needless to say it wasn't too much fun. Good thing I wasn't looking to do any shopping. So, we got out of there and went to the car auction place to see the suburban that Eric got for Becca to drive and headed to Costco after that. I went to get Hailee out of her seat and decided I should change her pants before we went in there and decided to do it at the suburban real quick... well, she had pooped out of her diaper. I am not talking just a little seepage there was poop everywhere! I pulled her pants of and it was all down her legs, on her socks, and before I knew it all over the front of me. Oh the joys of motherhood! Being the treasure that she is to change lately it took the three of us like 20 minutes to get her cleaned up. Poor kid. I had to run into Shopko and buy myself a new shirt. Once we got out of Costco I rode out to Montana Muffler with Eric (he didn't know where is was) and mom and Becca headed for Old Navy and Kohls. Once Eric dropped me off at Kohls both of the girls were asleep, so we wandered around for a little while and decided to just hit the road. What a day!! Never a dull moment. I swear Hailee always waits until she is sitting in her seat to poop, it never fails!! It's a good thing she is so cute.