California Wildfires

I know they are pretty much all done with, but I think it would be rude of me not to mention the California wildfires for a moment.

The pictures have been quite incredible. The amount of land and houses destroyed by the numerous fires is just unbelievable. And the people who actually died in these fires is just heartbreaking. I know plenty of people who live in San Diego and so I had quite a few friends and sorority sisters affected by the wildfires. Fortunately, none of them or their families lost their homes, though so many others did. I did have a friend who's cousin is a firefighter in San Diego, and who was burned in efforts to stop one of the fires.

I could never imagine what the people of Southern California had to go through. The air quality was real bad. Which kind of reminds me of the Oakland Hills fires of years ago. We did have ash in the air, but I don't remember it being hard to breath or anything like that. I just hope those who were personally affected by these fires are able to recover and heal quickly. And God Bless the firefighters and all others who helped and assisted in controlling the fires.

Shorter, and shorter

So I cut my hair, again. I went real short this time. Shorter than I have in a long while. And Katie, I actually like it this time! :) I really do like it. It doesn't look that great in this picture, but you get the idea. It is a lot harder to style than the last haircut, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. It definitely is a lot easier to manage when I don't do anything to it either which is great for those days when I need to shower and go. I think I may have to stick with short hair for a while.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I know its been a while since I've updated my BLOG. Things have been real busy lately. Its funny though, I couldn't tell you what I've been busy with. :)

So, Halloween was this past week. It was so much fun this year because Ethan was really into it. In the days leading up to Halloween, he was asking to go Trick or Treating. I'm really surprised he remembered/knew all of that stuff. Things got real bad when he saw the bags of candy we bought at Costco. All he wanted was to have a piece. Poor kid, Greg and I had to hide it so he would stop asking.

So, Ethan and his cousins were the three little pigs this year. Since they aren't old enough to know they have a choice, us moms get to choose. And yes, we chose to dress our kids up as pigs. :) They were real cute. Especially when it was the three of them together.

The Friday before Halloween, the boys had their "mommy and me" class. So they got to wear their costumes there.

The teacher set-up trick or treating for them, with the kids going to different classrooms to trick or treat. And us moms brought the treats, so there wasn't any candy, just little toys. They loved it. We also got to do a little pumpkin patch in the auditorium with another class. That was fun too cause they got to look for their own pumpkins, little ones.

On Halloween, Aunt Jodie and I got the boys all dressed up in their costumes and took them to my sister's work to show the kids off, and they were definately a hit. How could they not be in these costumes? They each had their bundles, Ethan with straw, Nathaniel with sticks, and Xavier with bricks (paper bricks). They were just adorable. We all met up again in the afternoon at my grandma's house for group pictures.

Ethan and I then went home where Greg, my mom, dad, sister, brother, and brother-in-law all joined us for dinner. Dad and Kimmie helped Ethan make a jack-o-lantern before dinner. Then once it got dark and we had our first trick-or-treaters, we took Ethan out for him to trick-or-treat. The kid just LOVED it. He was constantly asking my sister, who took him up to each door, "We get more?" It was too cute. And he got used to people asking him what he was, meaning what was his costume? But he would answer, "I'm two" thinking they were asking how old he was. Sometimes he would say "I'm two" withouth them even asking.

I'm really surprised how not shy Ethan is. He would chat away with whoever answered the door. Just have a long ol' conversation with them. I couldn't help but laugh the whole night. Here' s a little video of him having one of his great conversations. I know he's hard to understand, but basically, he says the lady with a basket, the one she's using to hand out candy, but he think she's using it get candy. Its too funny.