Fudge and Fires

Trevor has been working a ton of hours and Haylie has been sick for a couple of days. We were feeling a bit cooped up (Audra's picture below is a good illustration of this), so we called Grandpa and Blake to ask them to come out for a visit this afternoon.

First thing first -- Blake to the rescue! My birthday balloon got away and has spent the past week on our ceiling. Blake used all of his super uncle powers and got it down....and provided plenty of entertainment in the process!

Next, we decided to get out the little Christmas tree and let the kids decorate it. The girls loved looking thru all of their ornaments and putting them on the tree. Although we were sweating as we decorated the tree (it was 81 degrees here today), the air cooled off once the sun went down. We opened all the windows and lit a fire!

After a yummy dinner (thanks Grandpa!) we made Grandpa's famous fudge. It's quite the science and it was pure chaos with all the little girls helping, but it sure is delicious!

More Pics from Halloween

I have a confession....this is the first year we've ever carved pumpkins. We really only did it because my Mom, Dad and Blake were here and they thought the kids should get to carve them. There are certain things that I try to keep from my kids for as long as possible (because they require work for me) and this is one of them.

So, thanks to Grandma and Unlce Blake, the carving was a success....

Haylie decided that on the actual Halloween night (as opposed to "Truck-or-Treat")

she wanted to be a witch. My BBF Whitney will probably recognize

this dress from when we were in the 3rd grade!

Glad Halloween is over....now we can get on to the real holidays!