Please dont mind the woman who may be crying as the kids are trick or treating....
Its the dreaded "1st" Holiday! ok so many people dont count Halloween. That is obvious by the amount of Christmas deco that has been in stores for WEEKS.
But it is secretly one of my very favorite Holiday's. It sometimes trumps Christmas.. ok sometimes.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about it. I have even had the pleasures of hosting a Halloween Bridal shower and a Halloween baby shower (not the same couple lol)
I love seeing all the little kids all dressed up
I love that us adults get to be kids again and dress up.
I love the fun decorations.
I LOVE the parties
I LOVE the crafts
I love all the FALL fun stuff
I LOVE the fun foods.
I love that my kid goes out and collects chocolate for me to eat..WHAT dont say you dont think the same :)
See whats NOT to love?
This Halloween just will NOT be the same. There is a huge hole where our family of 3 should be a 4.
I cant help but look at all the babies and wonder what would we have chosen to dress Korbin up as. I am sure no matter WHAT it was he would have been adorable. I would have wanted something to coordinate Kayla and I am sure Chris would have wanted some football player or something. The deciding vote would have been none other than Kayla.
People very often ask me how I am doing and the truth is we are "doing". Just doing to get by or on or whatever. We have been doing so much lately trying to fit in all the Fun Fall activities and Chris was out of town for 6days (that was ROUGH) its been a lot. Maybe too much b/c i cant even keep up with things around here.
Camp season is over we closed up yesterday. That was sad it was a nice year at our new place. We LOVE it lots of nice people and SOOO many fun activities. They had the last blast of the year a Halloween party Kayla sang ScaryOkee :) It was fun.
Today we went to KI for the last day. I won 2 tix YAY!! Kids had a BLAST.
As the Halloween season comes to a closing and Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner it brings a certain fear for emotions that I will probably be feeling then. As I know how I am feeling now.
I know it has only been 5M but I keep wondering WHEN is going to feel different.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
yesterday marks 5M
So yesterday was 5M since we had Korbin.
Chris had been in Portland, Oregon ALL week. it was the longest he had ever been out of town and it was the LONGEST week ever.
After we picked him at the airport we went to HallZOOween we were had a really nice time. Daddy had been up ALL night catching flights home.
Last night (after daddy got a much needed nap) we went out to dinner to celebrate 3, 40th Birthdays for some close friends. It was a nice time and good to be out with friends and laughing.
Alot of you have asked whats going on with my parents building. This week they FINALLY started the clean up. EVERYTHING in the building had to be thrown out. They brought many dumpsters to clear it out.
They plan to strip the building down to the rafters and rebuild.
We are told this could take 3-4 months depending on weather. Hopefully it will be a painless process since it sounds to be a long one.
This week was an emotional one for me a woman in the encephalocele support group said hello and goodbye to her dear son on Monday. Then on Wed on of my very good friends had her sweet HEALTHY baby girl.
Chris had been in Portland, Oregon ALL week. it was the longest he had ever been out of town and it was the LONGEST week ever.
After we picked him at the airport we went to HallZOOween we were had a really nice time. Daddy had been up ALL night catching flights home.
Last night (after daddy got a much needed nap) we went out to dinner to celebrate 3, 40th Birthdays for some close friends. It was a nice time and good to be out with friends and laughing.
Alot of you have asked whats going on with my parents building. This week they FINALLY started the clean up. EVERYTHING in the building had to be thrown out. They brought many dumpsters to clear it out.
They plan to strip the building down to the rafters and rebuild.
We are told this could take 3-4 months depending on weather. Hopefully it will be a painless process since it sounds to be a long one.
This week was an emotional one for me a woman in the encephalocele support group said hello and goodbye to her dear son on Monday. Then on Wed on of my very good friends had her sweet HEALTHY baby girl.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
..And Just for FUN lets throw in a devestating FIRE!!!
First and most importantly NO ONE was injured!!
Ok so as many of you heard. The building my parents own that we have been operating our family business out of for 11yrs experienced a really bad fire yesterday. What wasnt damaged by fire was COMPLETELY damaged by water. The fire chief said it was @ 60,000 gallons of water to put that fire out. For those of you that dont live close by and didnt see any of it in person. That was THREE fire trucks with hoses on it for over an hour.
Our roof on the bldg is a flat roof ..if you have ever seen one of those it has a wall around the roof. This one is about 4Ft tall...and when they were done it was FULL...the bldg is about 40long and 15ft wide picture that.(like a public swimming pool such as phillips ..ON our roof)
and because the fire was ON the roof there were MANY holes so almost ALL that water went down into the bldg b/c as we all know what goes up MUST come down :(
Right after the fire was out one of the firemen said they would let us in soon to start getting some things out that could be saved...then not even 15mins later the water just started POURING down :( At that point it was not safe so they wouldnt let us in.
There are drains up there but of course they were clogged with Debris. It was much to dangerous for the fireman to try and get up there to clean it out since they couldnt see the roof (the water was to dirty)
It was all so emotional going from OH no we've lost EVERYTHING, to ok its really not THAT bad we're going be ok, to its not safe you cant go in and losing EVERYTHING again.
I really think I aged 10yrs yesterday I kept thinking all day this CANT be happening this has to be a dream.
First I want to say that The Fire Dept of Delhi (and other dept volunteers) were AMAZING yesterday. I didnt make it there til the fire was almost out. But they did an amazing JOB as some of you saw the pictures on TV the whole roof was engulfed in flames it was BAD!!
They believe what started the fire had to do with the heat process the roofer was using to put on our new roof. They said something got too hot underneath the new roof where they were using the torches and just smoldered all night til it finally took off in flames.
The guy felt so bad and stayed all day to help with whatever he could.
He kept saying you guys are so calm I would be so mad at me.
I looked at him and said "accidents happen! Stuff is simply that just stuff. If you knew what my family has been through already this year you would understand as devastating as this all is it is MINUSCULE compared to that."
The year of bad luck started last year when my parents dog drowned in their pool. Then my mom was hospitalized with Pneumonia and shortly after that she was mugged at walmart where her purse was stolen by some thug.
That all happened in Oct of 2010. I am PRAYING that our year of bad luck is coming to an end
I know they say God only gives you what you can handle but man as some friends said yesterday he either is testing us for sainthood or has some REALLY big confidence in our family!
I would like to look back in 10, 20yrs and have this be the year we can say our family outshine..not just survived. That we persevered above all the darkness and made it b/c we STUCK together. That it will be a story we can tell our grandchildren of how with LOVE and FAITH you CAN make it through ANYTHING.
There have certainly been downs but we have had some up. We have a LOT to give thanks for. We have had more family and friends show love and support this year than most people see a WHOLE LIFE TIME. And there is not enough "stuff" in the world that could over value that!
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things
Colossians 3:2
Ok so as many of you heard. The building my parents own that we have been operating our family business out of for 11yrs experienced a really bad fire yesterday. What wasnt damaged by fire was COMPLETELY damaged by water. The fire chief said it was @ 60,000 gallons of water to put that fire out. For those of you that dont live close by and didnt see any of it in person. That was THREE fire trucks with hoses on it for over an hour.
Our roof on the bldg is a flat roof ..if you have ever seen one of those it has a wall around the roof. This one is about 4Ft tall...and when they were done it was FULL...the bldg is about 40long and 15ft wide picture that.(like a public swimming pool such as phillips ..ON our roof)
and because the fire was ON the roof there were MANY holes so almost ALL that water went down into the bldg b/c as we all know what goes up MUST come down :(
Right after the fire was out one of the firemen said they would let us in soon to start getting some things out that could be saved...then not even 15mins later the water just started POURING down :( At that point it was not safe so they wouldnt let us in.
There are drains up there but of course they were clogged with Debris. It was much to dangerous for the fireman to try and get up there to clean it out since they couldnt see the roof (the water was to dirty)
It was all so emotional going from OH no we've lost EVERYTHING, to ok its really not THAT bad we're going be ok, to its not safe you cant go in and losing EVERYTHING again.
I really think I aged 10yrs yesterday I kept thinking all day this CANT be happening this has to be a dream.
First I want to say that The Fire Dept of Delhi (and other dept volunteers) were AMAZING yesterday. I didnt make it there til the fire was almost out. But they did an amazing JOB as some of you saw the pictures on TV the whole roof was engulfed in flames it was BAD!!
They believe what started the fire had to do with the heat process the roofer was using to put on our new roof. They said something got too hot underneath the new roof where they were using the torches and just smoldered all night til it finally took off in flames.
The guy felt so bad and stayed all day to help with whatever he could.
He kept saying you guys are so calm I would be so mad at me.
I looked at him and said "accidents happen! Stuff is simply that just stuff. If you knew what my family has been through already this year you would understand as devastating as this all is it is MINUSCULE compared to that."
The year of bad luck started last year when my parents dog drowned in their pool. Then my mom was hospitalized with Pneumonia and shortly after that she was mugged at walmart where her purse was stolen by some thug.
That all happened in Oct of 2010. I am PRAYING that our year of bad luck is coming to an end
I know they say God only gives you what you can handle but man as some friends said yesterday he either is testing us for sainthood or has some REALLY big confidence in our family!
I would like to look back in 10, 20yrs and have this be the year we can say our family outshine..not just survived. That we persevered above all the darkness and made it b/c we STUCK together. That it will be a story we can tell our grandchildren of how with LOVE and FAITH you CAN make it through ANYTHING.
There have certainly been downs but we have had some up. We have a LOT to give thanks for. We have had more family and friends show love and support this year than most people see a WHOLE LIFE TIME. And there is not enough "stuff" in the world that could over value that!
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things
Colossians 3:2
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