Halloween - Trunk or Treat

This year The Bug was a frog for Halloween. I really need to move on from green costumes...last year he was a little red/green dragon.

Since Halloween was on Sunday this year, our ward with the Sterling ward had the annual Trunk or Treat on Saturday night. This year they had a chili cook off before the trunk or treating began. It was actually pretty good...if only I was feeling a little better. The morning sickness is still refusing to completely subside...along with insomnia, I'm having a great time! :)

The Bug however, loved going trunk or treating. Except for the guy next to our car dressed as a gorilla. He was NOT a big fan of him. The pic where I'm holding him on my hip and laughing is b/c of his reaction to the gorilla. It was pretty funny.

I also took a couple of pics of the Hansen and Swanson kids. Love Logan in his dragon costume mowing down on a sucker...too cute!

Shayne unfortunately was feeling a little sick, so didn't have much chili, and offered to hang out in the car and hand out treats while I took The Bug around.

Next year though, we should have two little monsters to take Trunk or Treating! Yeah!!

Whew...

So, just an explanation as to why I haven't posted details of our exciting announcement...b/c it's not for lack of desire. I REALLY want to post this story...I'm so excited to share it.

But...between being tired and sick, (It's all I can do to wash dishes...forget about vacuuming, while watching/playing with a two year old. I have been sicker this time than with The Bug...whoopee.) and substitute teaching, I've been busy.

A teacher I used to teach with had an unfortunate emergency in her family and I have been teaching her classes since August 30th. She did start coming back two days a week for the last 5 weeks, but still...I've been teaching pretty much full time for the last 7 weeks. I was hoping to finish up Oct 8th, but they've had some more issues in her class, so I'm helping out for another 2 or 3 days this week. I soooo don't need to have a full-time job outside of the home. I'm so grateful I have a husband with a job that allows me to stay home.

So...I'm exhausted and sick after teaching all day, and I still need to give my sweet little monster attention and try and keep the house from being run over with dirty dishes and laundry...again...forget about the dirt and dog hair...it's amazing what you become more tolerant of when you feel like throwing up all the time.

And...on top of this, I'm still the Ward Nursery Leader with (no joke) 20 kids, and was just recently called as the Stake Young Women's 1st Counselor. I'm also helping lead our ward choir, while our choir director is out of town, and I'm coordinating a Stake Youth musical number for our Stake Conference in about 3 weeks. Oh yeah...and I've agreed to be the Co-chairperson for our local Imagination Library and had a two day conference in Anchorage this last weekend for training.

Have I mentioned I'm EXHAUSTED and NAUSEOUS?! It's way worse than with The Bug...I just hope it ends in about 1-2 weeks like it did before. Please let it be done soon.

I'm not sure how my mom coped with throwing up every day, multiple times a day, for 9 months and 6 kids!

So...I'm hoping I'll have all the fun little ultrasound pics scanned in and I can tell the wonderful miraculous story of this pregnancy this weekend.

But...I make no promises.

P.S. Can I just say...Shayne has been awesome through all this. He empties my dish washer whenever it needs emptied, and then fills it again. He also tries to find things for me to eat that I don't gag over...which is so nice. He also knows he's The Man when he's home with The Bug...so I can get a break and lay down. Even though he feels bad I'm sick...he's sorta glad at the same time, b/c it means I'm still pregnant. He refers to it as..."I'm taking one for the team." Really? As long as he's emptying my dishwasher, I don't care. :)

Fishing...sorta

The Bug loves his fishing pole. It's the pole Santa brought him his first Christmas. It's a little long, but he's figured out how to use it...in some more unlikely places.

Since we are pretty much done taking him fishing, he's decided to come up with his own solution. Hey, you take the water and fishing where you can get it right?

He thought he was pretty smart, and I have to agree.

We'll see how long he keeps up this sort of fishing...I'm sure the dogs are thrilled to be sharing their water with The Bug and his fishing pole. :)

Race Cars

The Bug got his birthday package from his Grammy & Papa Pond and he was ecstatic about what was in it. It's a little race car track with two little jeeps that run on batteries that run around the track. It's pretty fun for him.

He loves the jeeps and the fact they go on their own. In fact, if they come off the track they go all over the place...it's sorta like having little bugs driving around. But, The Bug thinks they are so funny and loves to catch them.

The little camera wasn't working the best, but I think you get the idea how much he was loving this birthday present!

The Bug's New Shirt

The Bug just got this new shirt today.

Do you like it?

We do.

It's pretty much our favorite t-shirt...ever.

P.S. More details will follow as the morning sickness subsides. :)

Fall Flowers from little Bugs

Because of such an incredible fall we've had, the flowers have been hanging on longer than normal I think. It also helps to have snap dragons and pansies which handle the cold weather better.

Anyway...The Bug went out to play, and I was hanging out on the side of the house while he wandered toward the front where I have some flower pots. He shortly showed up with some pretty flowers for me. How sweet huh?

It brought back memories of when I picked some pansies for my mom. However, these pansies were buried under snow, yet still alive and blooming. The snow had protected them from the frost. I thought I was so smart for picking my mom flowers in the middle of the winter. She didn't think I was nearly so smart. I got in trouble for picking the flowers b/c pansies aren't perennials really. They are more an annual, and she didn't want to have to replant the pansies. I remember I felt bad for picking the flowers, but I felt worse she didn't appreciate my gesture. I can't remember how old I was...but I understand a little better now.

Anyway, when he brought me these flowers I knew he didn't know any better, and I was just glad he thought to give them to me. So, I followed him back around while he picked some more. Next year we'll have a conversation about wh/ flowers are ok to pick and wh/ ones aren't.

But for now, I'm just happy to be getting flowers. :)