Harvesting Sunflower Seeds!
Halloween Party
I already posted Saturday's pictures of us meeting Addy-Lee. There might be a few repeats here. It was a wonderful feeling seeing her.
SUNDAY - James and the girls left around 10. We had a quiet day with scripture stories and Veggie Tales. These were some cute pictures.
MONDAY - We carved pumpkins for FHE. Scott's was amazing and Levi's was well, much easier to do. :) We had fun doing it and he designed it himself. He was cleaning out his pumpkin rather slowly and so I dug in and pulled out a TON in comparison to him and he exclaimed, "Wow, you must have done this before!" I had to laugh as I thought of the very first pumpkin I carved with Shiloh 21 years ago. Yes, I have definitely done this before.
TUESDAY - I had to dress her up in the very dress Shiloh wore. She looks SO much like Shiloh did. It was definitely a blast from the past.
WEDNESDAY - We just hung out, dressing-feeding-blowouts-bathing-dressing-feeding... You get the picture. It was wonderful!
THURSDAY - Grandma had too much fun with a photo shoot. I couldn't help it, she's just so dang cute! And it didn't hurt that I'm the one who did her dress. Picture Perfect!
Friday - Shiloh and Levi had a fun day together. They cooked and played and enjoyed a taste of the good ole days.
SATURDAY - We were glad to have James again and this time with Ali and Becca. We went to a nature park just a few miles from Shiloh's house. It was a nice walk after a wonderful lunch with Susan and JA. The kids fed the ducks, played, and got some fresh air. I on the other hand, got too much fresh air. I was freezing by the time we got home. Addy was snuggled up in her carseat/stroller and never made a peep until her hat slid over her eyes. We had a great time.
We got the kids dressed up and went to the ward Halloween party. It was cute to see all the young couples and their 1 or 2 children all dressed up. They all looked so young and James jokingly said, "You know, Any one of these little girls could totally marry Levi and probably be too old for Jet. And at least one of these couples will make their way to our stake." Then as if on cue, a couple asked where we were from and when we said Spokane, they said they were hoping to be in law school at Gonzaga in the Fall and would love to live in our ward. It all made me feel this fake sense of timelessness until James did the math for me and I realized that when Levi married their little girl they would be my age and I would be like my mom's age. That whacked me back to reality in a hurry! - No offense Mom. :) Anyway, it was a fun night.
SUNDAY - What a beautiful Day. Addy was so sweet and it was so weird to have Scott get up and take the baby from me when it was time for her to be blessed. When James got up he kissed me on the cheek and whispherd, "Shouldn't I be the one blessing the baby?" It's so hard to let go of those days even though we love being grandparents. I think it's because we have so enjoyed being parents that we would be happy to be doing it forever. I realize we will be parents forever, but I mean I think we would always be happy having little ones in our home forever. So, that said, we better always have our grandkids under foot!! Scott gave a beautiful blessing and I must admit that when he said "Amen", I knew Addy would always be with them and it would be okay. :)
For Halloween this year we did a family pizza and movie party. I don't know why I didn't take any pictures. The best part of the day was when I went to the school dressed up. I have never done that before. I wore a velvet gypsy dress and a long jet black wig. It had bangs and I pulled it down just over my eyebrow. I did black eyeliner above and below my eyes and dark brownish purple eye shadow. I wore red lipstick and darkened my eyebrows to almost black. When I saw Koli he didn't really look at me. When I said his name, he didn't really make eye contact. Finally I asked him if he knew who I was and he said, "I think you might be my mom, but maybe not." It was great. When i started laughing and said of course I'm your mom, he lightened up a little but he was still a little nervous. When I went to Ryan's class his classmates guessed who I was before he did. The same thing happened in Katie's class and Becca gave me the look of "I can't believe you left the house like that". Even James didn't know who I was. When I pulled up in the car and honked to get Tony he looked a little concerned when he got in the car. I rolled down the car window and said hi and he said, "Wow, I didn't know that was you". And of course I don't have a picture to prove just how disguised I was! Anyway, it's good to be home and we are finally back to a little normalicy - until tomorrow. :)
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