Happy Halloween

ready to head out! everybody is VERY excited.

their first house of the night, our next door neighbors.

the great pink octopus.

the lobster, or as abby says "monster"

the great white shark

in the dark of the night in the dark of the night.....

both crashed here with daddy.

So this is coming a few days late. but here it is! we had a great halloween, 60* weather, and no rain or snow. which followed the next day... andrew was a shark, as abby called him, a "sharp" and abby was an octopus. it was pretty cute, andrew was telling people he was a Great White Shark, so abby pipes in, "I'm a Great Pink Octopus!". haha. she is so funny. andrews headstart did PJ day since they dont do holidays, andrew wore his Utah sweats, which looked very comfy... i made bread and rolls and carrot chowder for dinner. jen brought over some sugar cookies, and we had lots of candy. we didn't get as many trick or treaters are i thought we would, so we have plenty of candy still around. however i've been pretty good. yesterday i think i just had one or two pieces. i made cinnamon rolls and bread the next day (because it was raining, and i wanted to see exactly how much of a difference it made. i also added twice the yeast, and it was an improvement. my bread on halloween was risisng for like 3 hours, but never actually rose too much. it did taste good though, and i added some butter to it when i rolled it out, and MMM that did make it tasty. and it did rise enough, it was decent. just not my best...so they say a mother has the strength of twenty men. well i might be getting some of that yet. yesterday and today i attended an early morning (5:45) fitness class. i can hardly walk. i had hardly sit and stand, my legs are SOOO sore.  and last night Isabella despite eating at 7 and 9, wouldnt go to sleep, so i finally fed her again at 11, and then she went down. but i had really wanted to go to bed early so i wouldn't be dragging today. however, i feel so good after getting such a great workout in and being now showered, dressed, kids are dressed, abbys hair is done, we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and its barely 9 oclock and im blogging! im sure soon i'll need a power nap... but i am totally going to this class every morning rain or shine. i will totally be in the best shape  of my life if i keep going. its so hard!!! but i think i really like the group fitness. i haven't ever taken advantage of classes with our gym memberships, because dan likes to workout on his own, so i usually follow him or do my own thing around the gym, but i NEVER workout this good on my own. ever. and having the music and instructor, it makes the time go by so much faster, its actually kind of fun, whereas like running on my own for instance, after 10 minutes i'm already thinking "when will this be done?"... andrew was so sweet when i got home this morning, he opened the garage door when i was pulling in, and had a big smile and waved. i was surprised everybody was up before 7, but thought "hmm ok". i went in and it was just him. he had changed into sweats and was down to greet me. i asked "are you the only one down here?" he was all smiles and said "yep, i heard the garage open, and i knew it was you in our lexus." then he was like "whatcha been doin?" haha. he gave me kisses and hugs, and it made me feel pretty lucky to have such a sweet little guy. anyways, here are some pictures. tonight i'm playing in a volleyball tournament so wish me luck! first off- haven't played in years and years. secondly- i can hardly walk im so sore, and every muscle in my body is killing me! luckily i dont have to raise my arms over my head too much...and hopefully tonight will be a little better. anyways, i better go. only have less than 2 weeks before im 26 now....