The Things We Do For Kids!

Of course this past weekend was all about kids. Halloween, a baby Shower, a costume/birthday party and sickness!

Friday night we started out getting ready for the Fall Festival at the church. I was busy as usual multi-tasking, ironing a sequin thing to Chey's costume, baking cookies, checking my email, answering the phone, feeding the animals... so I had another baking dilemma, I burnt the second batch of cookies! So instead of having a plate of brownies and a plate of cookies for the cake walk, there was just one plate with a little of both on it! I was told later by Larry, I should not multi-task and cook at the same time...LOL.

The Fall Festival was fun for the kids, they got lots of candy, played on the inflatable slides and did the cake walk 1000 times until they both won something... My niece Katie was so funny she kept running up the slide bouncing on her butt at the top and it would almost throw her to the bottom, cat ears flying off, then she would get up, put them back on and run to the top to do it all over. Here are a few pics from Friday night.

Then on Saturday morning I went over to my BF Rhonda's house to help her get ready for her daughter's Costume/Birthday party. We made caramel apples and ghost cookies. Since the party was kinda my idea, I volunteered to help out and Jordan said she wanted the adults to dress up too...

In between all the fun of the party we went to Sloan's baby shower, which was so nice. They had it decorated the cutest and she got so much, I dont think she will have to shop for that baby until she's 20...

Back to the party...we rushed home to get ready. Cheyenne was going to be an 80's girl, Brant, Mask from Tap Out, Larry a giant Roach and me the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz. Now first I have to say that Larry really didnt want to be a roach and I didnt want to be the lion. We borrowed the costumes so we didnt have to spend the money on buying them...so we took what we could get...If I had my way I would have been Goldie Locks or Little Red Riding Hood and Larry something cool and manly...all for the love of kids...we wore this...

Me The Lion, Rhonda was the Cow, Beth a Cat & Susie an Angel

Mason was The plumber, Rob was Batman and Larry the Roach!

I just have to tell you guys soemthing ...My husband is such a good sport, he really did not want to be that roach and when he got out of the truck at the party, he got the tentacles stuck in the truck door! I thought I was going to wet myself laughing so hard!

Needless to say the men had the costumes off within 45 minutes, the kids all had theirs off a little over an hour later and the only ones left dressed up were us four ADULT women!!!! What fun it was though, the kids had a blast and so did we!

They had a sleepover for the girls so Cheyenne stayed there and Chase came home with Brant, but at 5:30 a.m. Rhonda called and said Chey was sick, she had thrown up...so I had went to pick her up, I got her home and she slept until 1:30 p.m. the new time (2:30 the old time). She didn't feel well when she got up so she laid around the rest of the day. We went to mom's and ate dinner then back home and back to bed for her.

She went to school yesterday and felt a little better until today...I got a call from Brant's school at 9:45 to come pick him up, then at 11:45 I got a call from Chey's school...They are both home now...poor Brant is very sick throwing up and Chey has been laying in bed...oh I hope they feel better tomorrow and no one else here gets it! Keep us in your prayers!

One Proud Mama

On Friday, We had a sleepover for Brant's Birthday. Our first one ever...

There were 3 boys from his baseball team, 1 best friend from school and my best friends son Chase who spent the night... Of course Cheyenne was here and Jordan stayed to keep the boys straight for a little while. They had lots of fun playing football, running an obstacle course (which included putting on a dress and running around the house)riding bikes, skateboarding jumping on the trampoline, roasting marshmallows and did I forget to mention playing XBOX 360 all night long!!!

What is a sleepover without staying up all night? I remember those all night sleepovers when I was young. They were good though, Larry only had to get up once at 4:30 a.m. and tell them to quiet down and which they did. They may have slept for an hour around 6 they said... but I was up at 7:30 waiting for Jordan to come back. They were up and ready to go some more, they played again all morning and we took them to the Oxford park for a little while! They all had such a blast! He had a great 13th birthday!

Below is a pic of Larry & Brant playing football and Chance (our puppy) wanting in too!

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Now this is why I don't bake! I asked Brant what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he said yellow with chocolate icing. I'm thinking no problem, I can do that... yeah right!!!

I baked the cake no problem, so I go to turn it over into a cookie sheet to put icing on it and when it landed on that pan it looked like an earthquake hit it, there were cracks through the whole thing... So I decide to "cover it up" with icing...wrong answer...I didn't let it cool, so it just melted into all the cracks...I thought "Those boys will never eat this cake!"...here is a pic of it!

Thankfully,a very dear friend of mine, Mrs. Tammy, came to drop off her son. I showed her the cake for a good laugh... She saved the day! She told me to put the cake in the freezer and let if completely cool, then spread cool whip on top, shave a Hershey bar over it and drizzle Hershey's chocolate over that! It was awesome! Much better than just plain cake. She is such a lifesaver, I don't know what I would do without all her great advice!!! Needless to say, the boys still didn't eat it, they only wanted ice cream, but that's OK because the adults liked it! Here's the after pic!

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Today I got to shop all day! How great is that!?! We don't really have extra to spend, but it was really nice to go and hang out with Janet at Hobby Lobby, looking at all the things I would love to decorate my house with... Fall is definitely creeping into my thoughts! We had great conversation and I enjoyed not finishing cleaning my floors to spend the morning with her. We will have to do that again soon!

Then this afternoon, Brant & I went back to Ocala to the mall for him to spend his birthday money. Cheyenne had dance tonight and went to her dad's, so he and I took our time and enjoyed being together...

He surprised me (and made me cry tears of joy)...while we were in Inland Ocean I pointed out a car sticker of a sun that I thought was pretty...so we paid and walked back out into the mall, he asked me for some of his money and said he had forgotten something, he went back in the store and came out beaming and handed me a little bag... he had bought me that sticker and said "Thanks mom for bringing me shopping today"...my heart melted and I teared up...that boy knows how to make a mama proud!!!