This is the entry I wrote and forget to post on Halloween... sorry, my life is so crazy...

Halloween was a lot of fun, the kids really enjoyed it and so did we. Hayden has always loved Halloween and all day kept saying “I can’t believe it’s Halloween! I can’t believe it’s Halloween!” Danica thought trick or treating was pretty fun but was confused at first and kept trying push pass the person at the door and go into the neighbors houses! She actually said trick or treat in her cute little voice.

We are finally starting to settle back into “normal” life after all the chaos of last week. My sister was planning to visit me last week and flew into my grandma’s house about an hour from here before the fires broke out. So her visit was delayed a bit but when we were able to get back into our house she came and stayed with us for a few days. It was fun to have her but I felt bad because we couldn’t go outside due to the air quality. We had all these fun plans and instead we just hung out in the house, pretending to have parties everyday (Hayden’s idea of course). We even played pin the tail on the donkey, Hayden drew it.

Tuesday night before Halloween we had our ward Halloween party. I am on the activities committee, there are only three of us and we are all brand new to the committee. We were going to do a joint activity with the Rancho Bernardo ward but because they lost so many homes in the fire and such we decided to take over the activity and just invite them to join us. It was a very busy and hectic night and we learned a lot about what we can do better next time. The hardest part was the fact that Tom had duty on Monday night and didn’t get to the party on Tuesday until 7:00. So I had to take all three kids around to do all the shopping for food and decorations. I was quite the sight with my cart over flowing with supplies and rolls at Costco. I was just about to completely loose it when Tom finally walked into the party. Hayden was bored, Danica was clingy and Alyssa was crying because she was hungry all at the moment I was supposed to be starting the costume parade. I’m just going to have to arrange for them to be with different families for the Thanksgiving dinner because Tom has duty on that day. I just can’t do it all!!