Random Happy Moments

I love when I get a random happy moment with one of my children.  As always, my children were playing way to loud and way to hard in the house while I was making some dessert after dinner.  All of a sudden Kayla comes into the kitchen, very sad, and said that everyone was being mean and no one would play with her.  She was devastated!  Since I was just done making whipped cream I said to her, "I guess you get to lick the bowl then".  She got the biggest grin and was so happy to be all alone, not competing with anyone for whipped cream.  She was so content just to sit there by herself and keep me company.  And being the sweet Kayla that she is, she saved some for them, as if they were never mean to her to begin with.  I love this girl.

Happy Halloween!

This year we went to my Mom's house since Halloween landed on a Friday.  Mom wasn't there (she was in AZ with my sister), but James, Mark, and Grandpa John were. I am so glad that we got to experience some one on one time with them.  It made my heart so happy to see Grandpa John go trick-or-treating with the kids.  He would do it with us from time to time when we were kids and I was so happy that he got to do it with my kids.  I think it made him equally as happy.  We spent the whole weekend there, so he got some good quality time with them.  They baked together, and played outside together, and he got them coloring books.  And I got to spend some quality time with James and Mark, which was nice.  It was a good weekend.  The kids looked oh-so-cute this year.

Pumpkins

We had heck of a time this year.  For some reason, our pumpkin patch was out of commission.  Granted, we went later than usual to pick pumpkins, but certainly not so late that it shouldn't have still been up and running.  They had some in a box and were small, but since we had no other pumpkin patch to go to, we got some small ones and the kids loved it!  They were just their size to carve.  We helped, of course, but the kids really got into it this year.  It really was fun.  I usually am not a fan of carving pumpkins, but the smaller ones weren't too terrible.