Halloween Fun or Something like that!

ok, ok since this is my 4th post of the night, I think it will be my last, since Halloween just ended I figured I better try and get this one in tonight!

Halloween this year was not the funnest, but we tried to make the best of it. Monday night before Halloween Saige came down with the Swine flu...Yuck. She has such a high temperature that would not break, poor little thing she was devastated that she could not go to school as it was red ribbon week and the week of Halloween. The Dr. said that she couldn't go back to school until she had been 24 hours with out a fever. Lucky for her it broke late Wednesday night and she was fever free all of Thursday, so against my better judgement I let her go to school on Friday for the Halloween parade, she was so happy and she hasn't had a fever flare up again, however it left her with a horrible cough.

Wednesday night I came down with it and Thursday night Hayden got it. Travis is so lucky I wish all of us had an immune system like his, he never gets sick (knock on wood. We always carve pumpkins a few nights prior but since we all felt like crap I didn't want to, Travis however talked me into it Friday night. I'm so glad he talked me into it, event though it completely drained me it's always been a tradition of ours and I love doing it and my kids love it. They turned out so great this year!



Hayden picked the castle, Saige did the Mummy, I picked the Witch and Travis of course has to pick the hardest design the scarecrow

Because we weren't feeling well it took so long to get them done, but we did it and Hayden and I crashed afterwords.

Halloween morning we all woke up feeling ok, not feeling great but better than we had. Grandma and Grandpa Harris called and asked us to just try and come to at least their house, I don't really like the thought of spreading this illness but I'm not 100% that Hayden and I had the same thing Saige had as we didn't have as severe a fever as she did. So again against my better judgement we went to trick or treating to Grandma's & Grandpa's. Both kids were so excited to just get out of the house.

Saige was a Geisha girl and Hayden was of course Buzz light Year!





Hopefully we didn't spread the H1N1 to anyone else. I hope I don't ever have sick kids or myself be sick on Halloween again it is not a good one to be sick on.

Quick House update

I'm trying to get caught up so I am doing a few post tonight, so hopefully you will be able to look at them all, the last 2 were pretty long but hopefully this one won't be so long.
They are moving so quickly on our house, they are scheduled to be done before November 30th so that we can close prior to the 30th to get the federal $8,000 first time home buyers grant, so excited because then I will be able to get new furniture Yeah! I'm not sure how they are going to get it all done so quickly, its a pretty tight schedule. I'm just excited to be in before Christmas!!!

All of this has happened within the last 3 weeks

Pouring of the foundation



Framing



Almost done framing


The last time we were out at the house it was to dark to take pictures, but they had finished shingling the roof, the drywall had been delivered, most all windows were framed and set in. As of today they were starting on drywall and the outside inspection was set for tomorrow, so they will start working on stucco and rocks. The packing process has officially started, We are so excited!

More About Saige and a little bit of Hayden!

I'm doing a few post tonight to try and get caught up because we have had so much go on. We always do birthday pictures and like eveything in my life, we had these taken pretty late after Saige's birthday, Amanda took them and she is always amazing, I love having such a talented sister as a photographer....

Here are a few of the pics we had taken of Saige in her baptism dress, they turned out great, I love what a contrast the black dress is to the weeds.




My mom loves this picture, she says it looks like Saige is walking into heaven, while I know she meant that as a great comment, I don't like thinking of Saige walking into heaven at such a young age. The picture is great though!


Here is a few pics of her in casual clothes, this outfit went so perfect with the field, it was great...





This is such a fun picture!


Of course we always have to try and get pictures of Hayden as well, Saige is such a great little model, but Hayden you have to get him in the right mood which is never, Amanda was still able to get some great pics of him.






Everyone says that Hayden and Addi could be twins so we always try and get pictures of them together as well, however it nver turns out so good. They both did not want to get pictures taken.


He try's so hard to help her its so cute.

This is my favorite pic, I love how Addi is just reaching out for someone to save her and Hayden just sits there picking his nose, what a boy!

All about Little Miss Saige

Saige turned the wonderful age of 8 this year, this post is her Happy Belated blog birthday post...This post is really late and I feel horrible that it has taken me so long to do this, its also going to be a long post, so sorry to those that hate long posts.

Saige was born on May 3rd, 2001, I never could have imaged how much you instantly love someone, it was one of the most wonderful days in my life. Our Family is truly blessed to have her special spirit with us.





It is so amazing how quickly time flies, I can't believe she is 8! This year her birthday was a hard one, her birthday fell on a Sunday, Travis had to work and since he works graveyards we decided to do our little family stuff prior to him leaving for work, and then we would just go up to grandma's house for our regular Sunday dinner. Saige was so excited because she would get to see all of her cousins and be able to play with them on her birthday. So we opened presents, sent dad to work and went up to grandma's and Saige waited and waited for her cousins to arrive, unfortunately not one person showed up, which is extremely odd as generally everyone tries to come to grandma and grandpa's for Sunday dinner. While we were eating dinner Saige turns to me and asks "why doesn't anyone like me?" as a mother this not something you want your kids to experience, ex specially on her birthday. She was heartbroken, luckily I have amazing parents and they were able to help me get her mind off why no one came up on her special day and focus on the great things turning 8 means.

Saige made the decision to be baptised and I could not be more proud of her for making that decision, while I struggle to go to church and do what is right in my life, I always have Saige here to remind me what I should be doing....

She was baptized on June 6th. Saige's Uncle Dan baptized her and her Grandpa Harris confirmed her.



This day was such a hard day and such an amazing day! While I was so disappointed in my family and so very pissed off at Travis family, Once again Saige is there to show me no matter what Christ loves me and I should not dwell on the bad but only the good of this day.

There was supposed to be 6 kids baptized, however for some reason they all had to back out at the last minute because of family not being able to make it in town. So Saige was the only one from our stake to be baptized that day. It was such an amazing baptism, all of the talks that were spoken were amazing. However my favorite part of the baptism besides Saige being baptized was the opening prayer, It was like she was talking straight to me, the spirit from her was so amazingly strong.

I am so thankful to those that took the time out of their busy schedule to be there for Saige on her special day, it meant so much to her and to Travis and I.






We are so proud of you Saige, we love you so much!