Baby It's Cold Outside

Just seen the first flurries of the season fly by my office window today.  It sure has the kids stirred up.  There is definitely excitement in the air at EPS.  The kids are crazy.  I think it is a combination of Football Playoffs tomorrow NVC Volleyball championships Friday and Halloween and Snow.  Eric is headed off to Montana today and I hear that they have Blizzard warnings up there... BE SAFE ... Jeslynn has started CCD so she has that tonight.  I hope it goes well for her.  She seems really interested in the learning aspect of it, but wishes that there were more kids in her group and of course that I would give her more time to play on the playground before and after class with her friends.  Never enough time is there.  I guess that starts as little kids.  You never have enough time to play in the park, haven't been to the swimming pool enough times and so on.  Now it is never a long enough weekend, never enough money, and certainly Never enough time with the kids!  I think I will enjoy the evening with the heater working hard and some warm comfort food perhaps I will bake up those apples on the counter and enjoy some pumpkin spice coffee.  Cuddle Up..

Taylor's 4th Birthday

Sunday we celebrated Taylor's 4th birthday.  I was really nervous at 2am Saturday night that it may be a bust as he was up with the stomach flu and I was up with him and dreading the morning of cooking and cleaning.  He decided to watch cartoons at 4:30am and was up from then on.  After a few tense moments Sunday morning everything settled down and all of the guests started to arrive.  Taylor is such a caring little guy.  He said, "Mommy I wish it was your birthday today too".  I just love him to pieces.  His one request was to have a green cake and the only thing me and Jeslynn could find was Frankenstein.. I was a little nervous about whether he would like it or not, but when I showed it to him he was so excited he just couldn't wait to eat it.  Pass!!  Eric did some Traegering and I did the inside cooking and the meal was pretty good if I may say so myself.  Taylor got just what he wanted for his big day.  He got a new working chute for his farm, some baby calves, a JD shirt, puzzle, pickup and horse trailer (Chris took him to Bomgaars to pick out) some play dough and some real dough $.  He was so excited and appreciative of everything he got.  It was really nice to have everyone together during a busy fall.  I hope he realizes just how special he is to all of us.  Happy 4th Birthday Buddy!