FHE- Pumpkin Carving

Kendra loves cats, so she came up with this neat pumpkin idea. Each child draws the face, and then the big kids make it come to life. It's pretty fun.

Kollen's First Halloween! He sure does love his grandpa!

Austen and Craig really helped out alot tonight with the kids' pumpkins! I really do appreciate their efforts.

I have to admit it, things are going a little better for me than they have been the past week. I am not sure what the change is. But maybe it's all the prayers in our behalf. Tracy doesn't feel good, he woke up in quite a bit of pain. We still don't have an appointment for treatment yet.

The kids were so excited to take out costumes today and try to figure out what to be. WE are still not sure on everyone, but we have a few so far. I have costumes that are 24 years old, and the kids still enjoy them, just for fun to try on and run around in. Oh how fun.

I like adding one or 2 a year, if I find a great clearance. :) That way, when one is totally worn out with love, we can trash it too.

I have known that Ethen's allergies are very bad. He is almost as bad as Craig, and as he gets older, I am wondering if his are even WORSE than Craig's. This is hard to imagine, but...tonight, Ethen wore rubber gloves to clean out his pumpkin, just because we have them, and he didn't want to get too dirty. Anyways, it wasn't long before he was in bad shape. Screaming that he couldn't see, etc. I had him take a shower. That didn't help much, but at least the pumpkin is off of his hands. I guess it's time for an allergy test for Ethen. His throat got swollen last time he ate Watermelon too. So we are finding more and more than he cannot handle. Oh my. I gave him everything I had tonight. Poor little kid. He is hurting actually. And Tracy is too.

My poor little boy. He was normal when the night started.

We got the kids a flu nose spray today for the H1N1. I worry if Tracy could get that. His lungs are not quite full capacity, so an infection could knock him out for good. He cannot cough very well at all. And he never feels good these days...for no good reason.
We miss our nurse Robin. She is my only break. My only relief, and she is gone until Thursday. That will be a week. Oh my. She drove one of the town missionaries HOME to New York! What a sweety she is. I sure do miss that lady! I cannot even WAIT until she gets home to do that one job for me. She gets paid after all...right? So I don't feel too bad about needing her.

We had fun carving our pumpkins tonight for Family Home Evening. Austen, Kayla, Kollen and Craig came down. We had lots of fun. I am glad we did it now, and not rushing to do it closer to Halloween, as this week is going to be quite busy.