It's not a parent's responsibility to have godly children. It's a parent's responsibilty to make sure their children have godly parents.

She was unsure of why there were so many people staring

a sign of what was to come...

Don't let that smile fool you

oh yes, this is more like it... the "trying" two's

Little man

Squeakers

So excited!!

Guess which two kids were very well behaved during the Alice play? Guess which one had to be taken out TWICE? Why must Madi be so trying at times? She must have gotten that from Ricky ;)
All in all the play was a success. It was really good and I was amazed at how talented those high school students were.
It was a pretty busy weekend with the homecoming game on Friday night and the play on Saturday. Sunday I took a really long nap. It was awesome! Actually, we all took a nap and when we woke up we made a trip to Toys R Us. We wanted to get some final Christmas present ideas. We have decided to get the kids three gifts each this year. There are a couple reasons behind that... Jesus was brought three gifts, one by each of the wise men and the other is because the kids have so much stuff, and I want to keep the reason for the season focused on what it's really about, the birth of Jesus. It's painfully hard to keep the three gift policy at times. Especially because I had already started picking things up and have realized that we already have one of the girls completely done and need one more gift for the other girl and two more for Brody. Ricky of course wants to buy them the world and that might be due to his less than childhood mixed with his giving heart. Anyway, it's hard to keep to the rules. I'm even almost done with their stockings! Ricky and I usually don't buy each other gifts at Christmas but we are this year. We are also sticking to the three gift rule. Luckily I know exactly what I'm getting him for Christmas but our anniversary is coming up in a couple weeks and I'm not sure on that one.
Speaking of stuff, Ricky got his CHL a couple months ago along with a 9mm handgun. That was the first time I shot a gun but didn't like the recoil. I kept having these dreams about people breaking into our house and have been freaked out (we have a monitored security system but still) so Ricky said I should probably get a gun too. I wasn't going to but I did this past week. We went and shot both our guns on Thursday while the kids were at school and I love it. It's a very good stress reliever and we just might have a hobby. What's a hobby? Well, it's something to do other than kids stuff, kid stuff, kid stuff. And I'm a pretty good shot!!
I'm excited for Thanksgiving this year. We were planning to go out of state to Colorado but with Gracie's surgery, Ricky is out of paid time off. Instead we are going to have Thanksgiving here at the house. I've started to plan our menu already. It'll be simple but the best part is the leftovers. Can't wait for that. I think we are going to go to the Thanksgiving Day parade that downtown has every year. I think the kids will love that.
The kiddos have their fall party at school today. They could go dressed in their costumes but we aren't sending them in theirs. The teachers have to take all the kids costumes off after their little parade and I don't want to cause that much more work for them. The girls have a cute Minnnie Mouse shirt and Brody and Mickey Mouse Halloween shirt. They'll be fine.
The next update will probably be with costume pictures. We've got another busy week... our normal but our normal flies by and before I know it, it's Friday afternoon.

Krista