Halloween sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!..........

....at least this year anyway... Porter ended up being sick. (Following in my footsteps.) We don't know if maybe it was something he ate or if he really is sick (flu). The poor little guy was up all night last night in and out of the bathroom. ...bluh...

We had spaghetti for dinner last night, and I'm fine, so I know it wasn't from that. He didn't have school yesterday, so he stayed home (at his Mom's) while she was at work.. (she just works at a salon right down the street from their house). I asked him what he ate yesterday and all he said was "candy". Great. All day, ALL he ate was candy. Maybe that's what made him sick. TOO many sweets.

Anyway, we were planning on taking him trick-or-treating. That didn't happen. Will went out and rented Transformers 2 and a video game, so we just stayed home and relaxed.
We did manage to carve pumpkins last night before Porter got sick. Well.... I made dinner and Will and Po did the carving. They turned out really cute. Hopefully next year will be more eventful and none of us will be sick....

Halloween at Work...

We celebrated Halloween at work today, because we have a night crew who's hours are M-Th 12pm - 8pm and are off on Friday's. So, we did it today in order for everyone to participate. I had no freakin' clue what to dress up as. One of my friends from work sent me a list of easy-to-make homemade costumes:
1) Get a roll of orange yarn and a few bags of roasted pumpkin seeds. Glue them all over a cheap orange sweat suit. Go as pumpkin guts.
2) Wrap yourself in a roll of orange felt. Cut armholes and put an orange ski cap on your head. Go as a carrot stick.
3) Throw a white sheet over your head, and cut a hole for your head to come through. Wear a yellow hat and paint your face yellow with make up. Go as a fried egg.
4) Dress like a mailman. Get a stuffed dog and sew it's mouth to your pant leg.
5) Get a large box. Cut a hole for your head and arms. Wrap it with gift wrapping paper and put a big bow on your head. Make a large gift tag out of construction paper that says, "To: Women, From: God." This year, you can honestly say you're God's gift to women.
6) Get a bunch of Barbie dolls and a black sweat suit. Attach the dolls randomly all over the sweat suit. You're a babe magnet.
7) Wear a black sweat suit and randomly attach single socks all over your clothes. You're the sock thief from the drier.
8) Paint your car or bicycle tires with black paint. Lay old clothes front-down on the street and drive over them. Let them dry, put them on and go as road kill.
9) Tie a sneaker to the top of your head, wear all pink and paint your face pink. Go as a piece of gum.
10) Dress as a dog and put a cardboard cone around your neck to keep you from scratching for fleas.
11) Get a rubber pig's nose and wrap yourself in a blanket. Go as a pig in a blanket.
12) Plaster yourself with name tags, using a different name on each, and go as a someone having an identity crisis.

Well, as I lay in bed last night... all these ideas were running through my head. I decided on #9.A piece of bubblegum stuck to the bottom of a shoe... You can't really tell, but it's a flip-flop fastened to my hat. (I didn't want to have to wear a heavy shoe on my head all day...) Everybody got a kick out of it. (I didn't win the contest, but it was still fun.) There were quite a few interesting costumes. One of the teams at my work has one guy and five girls, so they came as Warren Jeffs and the Sister Wives. One of the girls is actually about eight months pregnant, so it was pretty funny.
Another girl came dressed as a box of Franzia wine. (wine included) She made the box herself and it was actually pretty cool. One of the owners was a Samurai and the other was Sponge Bob. There was another group of five who dressed up as One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. REALLY CUTE. Medusa and a bunch of others....
Will has his work Halloween party tomorrow... His team is doing a group thing too. They are going to be the 'Rock of Love' cast... (with Brett Michaels from Poison) and Will was assigned to play 'Big John', Brett's bodyguard on the show. There are only two guys on the team, so all the girls get to dress up like skanks, I guess. LOL!

Anyway, it freakin' snowed on Tuesday (10/27) and it snowed bad. All day long! Redick has never really been out in the snow, so of course, we took him out. I don't think he liked it too much. He probably didn't know what to think of it.

This is a normal 'meal time' around our house. The boys always have to be right in the middle of everything. Have to know what's going on and what they might be missing out on. Dorks. They sure are cute dorks though.

Halloween is coming.........

I'm excited for Halloween. (have no idea what we're dressing up as yet...) But I LOVE Halloween! This time of year is just fun. The cool air, the pretty colors, and the warm clothes. Now... if we could just find a way to keep winter away for a little longer.... hmph.

I haven't wrote much about this summer.. (we haven't had the internet..) so, it's time to play "catch-up".

Will's parents came home the end of June and left again the middle of August. We spent some time with them at the cabin (Bear Lake) and here are some pics...

This is the cabin at sunset... The boys didn't dare to go down the stairs, so it was perfect!We went down to the beach for a few hours... Porter had fun with his cousins... (Po is in the goggles)The boys learned how to swim (their first time in a lake) Red LOVED the water. Cecil hated it..Will took Reddick out on the lake quite a few times on this raft. He had so much fun. And we went to dinner with Will's parents the night before they left (and one of their friends). Well, that's all I have the time for now... I'll write more soon!

Loosing Teeth & Playin In Leaves

We had a pretty eventful weekend. Porter dressed up as a vampire (again.) He wanted to wear his costume again because it still fit. He didn't have school on Friday, so I had to leave work around 2 to pick him up. As we were on our way to the house to pick up Cecil, Porter started messing with his loose tooth. It was ready to come out. So, I told him to keep messing with it and it would come right out. Sure enough, it came out! He was so excited! It was his first tooth that he lost! So, we called his Dad and he told Will all about it. That night, the tooth fairy came and left him $1.00. Porter really wanted to keep his tooth for some reason, so Will talked to the tooth fairy and asked her to make sure to leave the tooth so that Porter could keep it. He's a funny kid.

He had his school Halloween parade on Thursday, because of 'no school' on Friday.

So, after he pulled his tooth out on Friday, we were both dressed up, so we got Cecil and went to see Will at his work. Everyone loved our costumes. Tiffany wanted to take Po trick-or-treating, so we took him up to her at the salon around 5:30. They went trick-or-treating with Cooper (Po's friend) and Cooper's Mom and 2 sisters. They had a lot of fun. We got a call from Tiff around 8, saying that Ashley's (Cooper's Mom) car wouldn't start. Tiffany had left her car at Ashley's house, and they all road in Ashley's... So, Will, Cecil, and I went to rescue everyone. We went and picked up Tiff, Ashley, Po, Coop, and Coop's 2 little sister's (I don't remember their names...) and took them all to Ashley's house. We hung out for a bit and let the kids play, then it was time to go home. It was our weekend, so we took Po home with us.

Saturday morning, I woke up pretty early with Po and Cecil. I couldn't sleep... So, we let Will sleep, and went into the living room to play. Cecil and Po were wrestling and I was watching and laughing. They make me laugh pretty hard. Po gets him so riled up. Cecil will bark at him, with his little barky voice. It's pretty cute.

This is the aftermath of the wrestling... He's pooped. So, he comes and cuddles with Mom.

We took Cecil on a walk on Saturday evening, and he loved it. He was going crazy running through the leaves. He's a crazy dog. He had a lot of fun. He got running so fast, the leave would fly up behind him.

Halloween is upon us.....

Will and I went to 'The Broderick Halloween Party' this weekend. It was soooo much fun. We dressed up as the Scarecrow and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. I borrowed the Scarecrow costume from my Aunt Jacque.. she made it years ago, and it's a pretty cool costume. Will looked really good in it. (I don't think he realized what I got him into when he agreed to be the Scarecrow...) We had fun. It was nice to dress up together. I really liked my outfit. It came together well!
I think I'll wear it to work on Friday. The firm pays for the employees to go to lunch and bowling at Fatcats. It's a lot of fun. And most people dress up.
A few famous faces were at 'The Broderick Halloween Party'... we had "Fire & Ice" from
'Blades of Glory'.

There was David Bowie from the 80's movie "The Labyrinth"... Here he is with Camille Toe - feeling the burn... and another picture of him with Billy Ray Cyrus.

(You'll see more of Billy and his daughter later...)

...We had 'Camille Toe'... She's famous for her "Feel the Burn" video... Mannah Montana and Billy Ray were there ...











There was escaped convicts, a spider, a couple cops, vampires, a pimp, Lil' Wayne, a laughing tootsie roll, a mummy, etc, etc...