I Won the Prize!

Soooo I love Halloween and I love to dress up! This year I scored big went to the thrift store and got a sweet Leather vest, some ugly brown bell bottoms, a sweet paisley shirt and platforms for $11.37. I was way stoked! In usual fashion Stephan refused to dress up which is always a source of contention for us :) I know sounds pretty trivial. But I just love dressing up. I won best adult costume at our Ward Halloween party pretty big event for me as my life consists of allot of barf poop and a sassy 3 year old. I'm always up for new Halloween costumes. I like to be a person. Like for a couple of years I was Mary Katherine Gallagher "Superstar" and one year I was Sher so if you have any ideas for next year let me know. This year I can't put an exact name to who I am but I'm thinking a cross between Dolly Parton and that bible lady on TV? Can't remember her name. Or I could be the Happy Painter Guy "Happy Trees" well maybe his wife? Anyways enough about me. Samantha and Hunter were a Caterpillar and a Butterfly. Of course I left Sam's wings at her Grandma's house. Cause I was so self involved but luckily they came later. Samantha loved Halloween and had a blast at the ward party and trick or treating the next night. Hunter was not so amused and was quite annoyed by his costume but he sure looked cute!

Pumpkin Carving!

Poor Max between Graeme and Samantha he has to practice alot of patience. Sam loves carving pumpkins (Well watching her dad). Stephan takes his pumpkin carving very seriously and I had to keep reminding him that it was Samanthas Pumpkin!

Samantha had a blast making Sugar Cookies for Halloween. She took it very seriously.

So I thought I would try out "mobile blogging" and see if I can't increase my posting frequency. More to come later if all goes well!

Sam and her new kitty Max

So I mentioned in an earlier post that we have a new cat named Max. Here he is! As you can see, Sam thoroughly enjoys having him, can't say that Max really enjoys her as much but he is very patient with her. The other day she gave too much food in his bowl and when we asked her about it, she simply stated "Max needs a lot of food because Sammy loves him sooo much". That makes for a nice kid and an overweight cat!

A quick update on Hunter. He had his akiles tendon on the back of his leg cut to allow the doctors to pull his heel down and continue to shape his foot normal. He will have this cast for another 3 weeks and then that will be the last of casting hopefully. He will then wear spacial shoes with a brace in between them to encourage his foot not to turn in. He will have this on indefinite until his foot does not turn in anymore. This will be a long-term commitment for us but we feel blessed that this is the only major problem he has! This is illustrated when we walk in to the Orthopedic office and see so many other kids with more severe problems than him. We count our blessings.

In the mean time, I am preparing to sit for a section of the CPA exam this coming winter. So that, plus work keeps me out of trouble. Amanda's life is pretty much being a Mom and keeping things together. She does a great job and I am proud to have her be the mother of my children.

That's all for now, I will let Amanda post the rest. Peace and love to all our family and loved ones!

A quick entry since it is late

Since it's late, this will be a short posting.  This past weekend we adventured out to Jordan Lake on our 1st camping trip with the kids!  To be honest, I didn't know if we were going crazy of having fun!  We'll I think we were having fun, at least Sam had a blast eating smores.  We forgot half our food, good thing we were only like 20 min from our house.  One of the things we love about Carolina is that you can do stuff like this pretty close to home.  Two beautiful lakes, only 20 min away.  In two weeks, we will attempt the ward campout at Falls Lake.  We should be pro's now that we have gone camping once...right?

I must be crazy!! (by Stephan)

This past weekend we brought a new kitten home for Samantha!  She has been wanting one really bad so we told her for her birthday (November 1st) that she could have one.  Of course once that was decided, it was all over, Amanda was on Craigslist searching all over the triangle for the "perfect" one.  We found him, according to her, and brought him home.  Sam is so proud of her new kitten and even named him Max.  For those who have known us for a while will know that when we first got married we had a cat named Max who died.  But Sam loves to listen to bed time stories about past pets so that's why we have Max Jr. now.  He is a orange tabby and only about 6 weeks old.  I will try to get a pic of him up soon.  

Life goes on with it's interesting twists and turns.  Hunter is doing way better and is much more delightful to be around now.  I saw that Amanda mentioned that I am 30 now, yes I am an old man according to her!  We went out to dinner with a few friends and that was about it.  Birthdays are not that exciting when you get old!   Graeme tells me that I am actually a 45 year old stuck in a 30 year old's body.  I promptly told him that he is a 16 year old stuck in a 25 year old's body, we called it even!  The funny thing is for those who know me fairly well they will tell you that Graeme is pretty much right on, oh well!  


We did get some fall pics taken of the kids, I will post more online and send invites to those who want to see them.  Peace for now, more to come later.