After Holiday Catch Up

Well, where to begin! Halloween started off the festivities this year. We had a difficult time trying to figure out a family themed costume that included my pregnant belly. Danny was then asked to help with a spook alley at our Church's Trunk or Treat. With this it meant only Austin would dress up. That was our other problem. Deciding what to dress him in. We were on a budget of zero dollars so it made it really tough. My Sister and Brother in law had a couple costumes from their kids and they mentioned they had a horse costume that was about Austin's size. Austin makes a very good horse sound so we ended up using that. Of course the head was a hat and Ausitn did not like wearing it a all. He is not a fan of any kind of hat right now. He said trick or treat please, and thank you to every one. I thought it was pretty good since he was only 17 months old, and wasn't quite sure of the whole Halloween thing. Now every piece of candy is called a trick or treat.

Thanksgiving was next. We spent Thanksgiving day with the Kowallis Family. It was a welcome event since November was filled with a lot of bugs for the Kowallis family. Norm and Linda's house buuying fell through at literally the last day when they were supposed to be filling out all the paper work and getting the keys to he house, Danny's Grandma Kowallis passed away, Norm went into hospital for a couple days recovering from a spout of Global transient Amnesia, Norm's memory has recovered but he is on leave from work for a month, both Linda and Norm have been sick, some of the grandkids (luckily not Austin) had Pneumonia, and Austin got 1 of his 2 year old Molars. So the feast of Thanksgiving was a welcome for the end of November. With it being tough on them, it makes it tougher for us. We were looking forward to having a house  to ourselves. Not that we don't love or appreciate my in-laws, but we have been here a long time, and having a second baby here is just not going to work. It already doesn't work with just 1 child.

Then comes Christmas! One of my favorite times a year. My only complaints for KOwallis Christmas Eve, was that Present opening started way too late, and the way they do gifts is the grandkids open one gift in turns youngest to oldest. Which is ridiculous for young children. It just takes too much time, especially when you have 5 grandkids and grandparents gave them at least 6 gifts each, and they had Santa come and gave them each a couple more. Also, that the adults have to open gifts one at a time too. Its just too much spotlight and it takes too long to get anywhere. But Austin enjoyed playing outside. Great grandpa Kowallis was able to be here. Food was good. We got stuff for our 72 hour kit. that was a bonus since we have been trying to get that stuff together so once we had money to start it we could. Now we have a bag to hold our stuff and flashlights.
Christmas at my family was at my grandma's. We got stuck in traffic on the way there due to an accident so it put us way behind schedule. It would have been ok since I thought Austin would get his entire nap with the traffic, but he kept waking up and ended up with a 45 min nap, and 15 minutes of trying to sleep but not really getting there. So he ended up geting pretty cranky much earlier than I was hoping. It was ok that we were late because dinner wasn't ready on time. Luckily they had my ham and fruit salad. the two things I miss at Kowallis holidays cause they only do fried turkeys and they don't do fruit. We didn't give gifts this year but I did make some breads and cookies gift bags for all of our family. We did not join in on the secret santa's so we didn't want anyone to get us anything since we couldn't reciprocate.
Austin also got his 2nd 2 year old molar in. I hope he gets them all in before his baby brother is born cause then I won't have to worry about moving (hopefully), getting austin adjusted to his own room, getting him adjusted to a new baby, and soon after his big boy bed. I don't want to have to add teething in there as well. It's a lot for my little man.

New years is next. We shall here about that later. Here is to 2012!

Hope you all had a great holiday season!