Our Day, Today.

It started out pretty good,

I cleaned and the kids entertained themselves really well.

If you would have asked this morning,

I would have said everything was swell.

And by this afternoon,

the day still seemed just fine.

It had actually been quite lovely,

The kids had barely whined.

So here we are cleaning the truck,

I was determined to make it the cleanest in the land,

Morgan found a marker

and colored every inch of both her hands.

I kept my cool and let it slide,

tried not to be a nay sayer.

I bit my tongue until I tried to put in a cd-

Yes, those are pennies in the player.

Alright, I will admit, 

I kind of flew off the handle,

I got a little impatient,

and sort of began to ramble.

Morgan started crying,

-after all her mom was freaking out-

When she rubbed her teary eyes, I started laughing.

She didn't quite know what that was all about.

But, somebody, anybody please,

tell me if you could still be mad,

when your daughter's tears met her marker covered hands,

and she looked so very super-hero clad?

Halloween Festivities!

I have been actively trying to spend more time with Morgan doing good things, and Halloween was the perfect opportunity to do all sorts of things! I saw the idea of making a "Halloween Tree" online, where you take a fallen tree branch (or in our case, since St George is still so stinking warm that no trees had lost their leaves, let alone any small branches/twigs, you have to find a neighbor who recently trimmed their trees) Anyhow, you take a  leafless branchy twig and make some Halloween ornaments and hang them from the Halloween Tree. So, we made some salt dough and went to town making some ghosts, spiders, witches, and bats. (Morgan even made a Halloween caterpillar!)

 (Does anyone else feel a little ill when they see how old Morgan looks in this picture?)

This year it was so fun to let Morgan draw the face on her pumpkin for her jack o lantern! 

And then, the TRICK OR TREATING!

We went out on Saturday night with Morgan's cousin Celeste. They were both Princesses, Celeste was Belle and Morgan was Princess Peach from Mario Brothers. 

I was Mario and Ian was Toadstool

I was supposed to be Luigi and JD was gonna be Mario, but he ended up having to work :(  He did end up getting home with enough time to trick or treat with us for about a half hour, so that was good!

This is how all my Halloween pictures of Morgan turned out this year. She is always just running away from me.

Except, of course, when she would randomly sit down in the middle of people's yards. Who's kid is that anyway?

By the end of the night Ian was super tuckered out!

Morgan too! :)