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We had Arabella's birthday party on Friday. She decided to have a slumber party this year with 10 little girls. Yes, I've entered the crazy zone. They had so much fun. It was so girly and giggly. We started out painting picture frames and later decorating them with sequence, jewels, and glitter glue. She decided the menu would be chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese and fruit salad. What else would any 6 year old want? We had birthday cake with ice cream, opened presents and then the dress up began. There were 2 rubbermaids of dress up clothes followed by LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of makeup. I've never seen so much makeup everywhere. They all looked beautiful though. They fixed their hair, did their nails, their makeup and dressed up. We finally got them to wind down, put on pajamas, watch Tinkerbell and have some popcorn. This managed to settle most of them down. I put all of them in the empty dining room with their sleeping bags. Most fell asleep before midnight. There were a few who were still up around 2 am when I came down the stairs to put them back to bed. It was so much fun. I may have to rethink this as the next birthdays come. It reminds me of all of the nights staying up with my friends and talking till the wee hours of the morning. Those are the times we'll always remember. Happy Birthday baby girl!!!

Yesterday was the Thanksgiving Feast at Hayden's preschool. We got to sit at the table with our wonderful friends The Bakers. Here's Hayden and his best friend Cannon and a few other pics from the dinner.

Okay, so what is it with kids and their momma's bras. All of my kids have loved playing with those silly things. Not to mention how boys are with their momma's boobies. It must be the natural attraction that men have with them. Mine are well on their way. Sorry, I had to post it. It was just too funny. The best toy ever. So a couple of Fridays ago Arabella was out of school and Hayden had chicken pox and didn't go to school either. Of course on a day with all the kids at home it poured rain ALL day long. So to keep them out of trouble and give them something fun to do I set our camping tent up in the dining room. We haven't bought furniture for that room yet so it's just a big empty room. It was screaming for that tent. They dragged their sleeping bags and pillows in there and I set up the portable DVD player for a movie. We ended up leaving the tent up for a week. They and all of the neighbor kids had so much fun playing in it. Here's a few pictures from our tent adventure.

It's been a while since I've updated the blog. Thus, there are quite a few pictures. The day before Halloween we carved pumpkins with the kids at Chesley's house-our neighbor and good friends. The kids enjoyed the ooey-gooey insides of the pumpkin. We stuck to the simple jack-0-lantern but the Bakers were a bit more ambitious doing a bat and a scary face. Thank goodness for neighbors when the hubby is gone. There are also pictures from Halloween. Since then Curtis has finally come home and my parents came for a visit. We had so much fun with them. We had a girls night out, with dinner and shopping, the Holly Day Craft Fair, some football, playing cards, High School Musical 3 movie and dinner out for me and Curtis. Oh, did I mention Hayden has had chicken pox for the last 2 weeks? I have no idea how it happened or where it came from. It started with a scab on the head. He has had the vaccine and somehow so far we've managed for Arabella and Tate to not get it. Anyways, it's almost over and we're gearing up for Thanksgiving. We're so excited to be going to Gatlinburg to the Smokey Mountains, to stay in a cabin with our great friends, the Lloyds and the Millers. There will be 8 kids there, ranging from 4 months -6years old. It should be crazy but tons of fun!

We started Halloween out with an All Saints Parade at Hayden's preschool. The classes gathered in the santuary and sang a bunch of songs together, complete with motions of course. Then they had a parade through the courtyard for the parents followed by pizza in the classrooms. They did a great job singing. Unfortunately Hayden was right in front of the choir director and I was unable to get many good photos of him. Here 's a few from the day.

My girly girl. Arabella's wearing a dress we had made back home. I love all of the cutsie stuff. I know it's not going to last much longer. She wants to wear more of the grown up looking clothes. It sure is fun dressing a girl. I don't need another one or Curtis will be broke. Here's pictures of the kids dressed up for Halloween. Hayden and Tate are Tom and Jerry. Through their daddy, this has become their favorite cartoon. They love cuddling up on the couch with Curtis and watching it most nights. Arabella was Hannah Montana. She had a wig, but her hair was so close to the wig, I just let her go with it. She of course loved putting on makeup. They had so much fun. We did our trick or treating back at our old neighborhood of Biazza Ridge. They had so much fun with all of the other kids. The crew of kids from Biazza Ridge.

After trick or treating we went back to our friends, Teresa and Tom's house for a Halloween party. Of course the kids dived into their candy. Teresa also had all kinds of good food for the "big kids." We had so much fun visiting with all of our old friends from Biazza Ridge. The kids all had a blast playing with each other again.