Scary

We had a scary Saturday.  It started off with me being scary and yelling and threatening kids if chores didn't get done.  I am not a happy camper when the house is a mess.  I need order.  Thankfully everyone eventually cooperated and we were even able to unpack the last 2 boxes from the move that have been sitting in our room.  Hooray!


Then, later as we were leaving the house, we had just gotten to the end of the alley and were about to pull onto the street and Jeremy jokingly asked, "Uhhh, is that guy dead?".  I looked up and saw a man lying on the sidewalk across the street.  At first we kind of chuckled, not knowing what to think.  But then I told Jeremy he should hop out and just ask if he was ok.  As soon as Jeremy got close and saw the man, I could tell something was really wrong.  I hopped out too, and ran over to the man.  He was very confused, bleeding, and shaking.  He couldn't tell us his name or address.  Jeremy called 911 and we tried to just calm the man and reassure him that everything was going to be ok.  Jeremy thankfully had the good sense to look at the dog's ID tags which listed the man's address. I hopped in the car and quickly drove over and got his wife.  Apparently he is diabetic and began having seizures when he was walking.  As we waited for the ambulance, he started seizing even worse.  Another woman stopped and had just been to the grocery store and bought some juice.  She grabbed the bottle and we tried to give him some, but he couldn't swallow.  He got really bad and it was pretty scary.  I ran back to the house to grab some towels for the bleeding and when I got back two policemen had shown up and started helping.  A few minutes later the ambulance came.  They ended up taking him to the hospital.  We offered to drive the wife (didn't want her to drive when she was stressed and worried) but she said she was ok.  The whole thing was scary, but we were so thankful he was in the spot he was in- right in front of where we pull out of the alley- and that he got help in time. 

Halloweenies

We couldn't let Halloween pass without carving our pumpkins, so Thursday night while Jeremy was gone, the girls and I got to work.  They loved reaching in to pull out the slimy guts.  I loved letting them do it and not getting my hands gross and sticky...until I had to scrub pumpkin guts off the walls. Haha!  This year I let Shelby do a lot of the work on her pumpkin.  She stenciled the whole thing, then carved most of the design, but saved the tricky part for me so that it didn't get messed up.  It was hard for me to not do the whole thing, but I realized I have to let her do big kid things at some point!

Her crazy hair is fitting.  She is a wild one these days.

Joey had been looking forward to Halloween for along time.  Not just for the trick-or-treating, but because I was able to help with her class party.  She had so much fun going from station to station.  They had a photo booth, painted paper plate pumpkins, ate spider donuts, played with pumpkin pie play-doh, had a spooky treasure hunt, did a cute Halloween experiment, played candy corn bingo, and played ring toss.  It was very cute to see Joey with her classmates.

That afternoon we headed out to the HOA party at the park.  The girls had fun playing and looking at all of the costumes.  Then it was back to the house for pizza and trick or treating.  Lucy LOVED trick or treating,  She wasn't so great at saying "Trick or Treat", but she always said "thank you" as soon as she was handed a piece of candy.  Trick or treating in our new neighborhood is so much nicer than our old neighborhood.  Everyone was out, either walking or driving around on their golf carts, and everyone was so friendly, just enjoying each other.  After we went down our street (and I got stung by a wasp), I brought Lucy home to help me hand out candy.  She might have loved that part even more.  She would race to the door and tell the kids "hi," then scream "BYE!!" when they left.  There was a minor incident when Lucy stood up on a chair to reach some candy and slipped and fell, hitting her mouth on the table on the way down.  There was lots of blood and tears, and now she looks like Bubba from Forest Gump, but it hasn't slowed her down any.

Two Anna's and an Elsa

All in all it was another great Halloween!