An Attempt to Organize Chaos: Past few weeks

I know it has been forever since the last time I posted. We have been really busy with some with big things like my in laws 30th wedding anniversary, but mostly with little things that just add up and take so much time and energy.

The weekend of October 20th we threw Ryan's parents a surprise party to celebrate their 30th Wedding Anniversary! It was a lot of fun. We invited a lot of friends and family and Linda and Vince were completely surprised. To be ready for the event, we had to get most of our home in order. So we completed Reese's room and the living room and hung pictures all over the house. It is beginning to look really good and it is feeling like home.

Surprise!

Reese hanging out with her 2nd cousin Drew

The week after the party Turner was sick. If you have kids you know how fun it is to have a sick 2 year old. Then Reese ate something Turner gave her that she was not supposed to so I had to call poison control ( she is fine!). By the end of the week I had the pinched nerve in my neck and could barely move. The neck problem is still there but slowly getting a little better.

Reese petting Tayer

Turner learning to ride his tricycle.

Hey Mom, I'm backwards!

Turner being cute!

Our house in the fall!

Last week was a lot of fun. On the 30th, Ryan and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary of being together. We usually celebrate this one more than we celebrate our wedding anniversary because: 1. Turner was born 4 days before our first wedding anniversary and that overshadows it, and 2. We have been in a committed relationship for the past 8 years, and even before we said our vows we were committed to one another for life! It is hard to believe that it has been 8 years!

Then Halloween was the next day and it was soooo much fun. I took the kids to see all their grandparents over a couple days. Then we had a neighborhood party to go to that we have heard about since we first moved into the neighborhood. After the party all the neighbors sit out front drinking and giving out candy. The neighbor that has the party even gives out beer to the parents of the trick or treaters. We were out front until after 10 drinking and have fun with our next door neighbors, Marge and Dave. We always have a good time when we hang out with them.

For Halloween, Turner was a baseball bat and Reese was a Ty Beanie baby- a guinea pig. When we decided to make Reese a beanie baby I had look up her name for the ones Ty already made and it turned out that it is a guinea pig. Ryan almost died when I told him! My grandmother made the costume and I made the tag for it. As you can see it was sooo cute! Their friends, the Klein twins, were thing 1 and thing 2! They were also really cute!

Cute Baseball Bat!

Again!

Reese's First Halloween!

Turner and the girls!

My guinea pig!

One out of four isn't bad!

Reese has also had fun getting to know the new little boy in the neighborhood. Marge and Dave adopted a little boy from Korea and he arrived early in September. They named him Ryan, and he is sooo adorable. Apparently Reese thinks so too!