Halloween 2014

Happy Halloween from the Allen Family! I hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween and that all your kids made out like bandits in the candy department! We had a fun evening of frolic and tantrums, as I am sure that most parents experienced during the evening.

We started the evening with a visit from one of my students. His family took our family pictures which turned out pretty good. PS Don't stare too long at my WHITE legs, they might BLIND YOU! HAHA! (The draw back to being a fair skinned red head!)

Then we went around the neighborhood to trick or treat with our neighbors across the street. Mason made out pretty well.

We ended up stopping to chat with our newest neighbors. She happens to be a red head, blogger, mommy of 2 and a Team Beachbody coach too! That was pretty cool. I really look forward to getting to know her more.

Mason went to play at his friends house for about 45 min while Matt passed our candy and I went to chat. Collin had passed out in his costume and was napping inside.

Then Mason came back and wanted to help pass out Halloween candy. It was a fun and long night. I love halloween. It is pretty cool to see it from my son's perspective too. He learned that he had to say "trick or treat" to get candy so he was running around yelling "TRICK OR TREAT!" and when he was helping hand out handfuls of candy and as the other kids left he yelled at them, "WE HAVE MORE CANDY!" It was really cute! That was our night.

~I rounded up to 60 squats. Not as many as I thought I would do, that is for sure.~

 ~My little parrot at our church's trunk or treat~

Christmas 2013

I love Christmas. I remember sneaking into the family room growing up early, early on Christmas morning looking at all the gifts that Santa brought. Well this year my goal was to hope that Mason had a fun Christmas morning. To get things started we would have the smell of fresh baked cinnamon rolls wafting in the air. I want him to come walking down the stairs proudly, in his new jammies, and just smile ear to ear with all the presents under the tree. Run to the tree and try to rip all the gifts open, since they are mostly his anyhow. show him his stocking filled with his favorite candy and just be happy as a clam and just enjoy the day.

Did our Christmas morning start like this…HECK NO! It was awful! The cinnamon rolls, decided they didn't want to rise to the occasion. They took twice as long to make than what I expected. But in the end at 10 or so in the morning they were super yummy and turned out really well.

Mason was cranky. he didn't want to get up in the morning. Coming down the stairs he cried the whole way down and even stopped half way to throw a tantrum. We showed him the tree and all the presents but he just feared and threw them back at the tree. It wasn't until about 9:30, an hour and a half later, that he stopped crying and unwrapped a gift and it was a CAR and he was happy. I handed him the other gift that I knew was the car and he was happy. We then told him to go downstairs with us to see his other gift from Gma and Gpa. He didn't want to at first but when he saw the CARS themed wrapping paper he tore that sucker up and was so excited to see his new Cars Land table with track and everything.

Matt and I spent the night before super gluing the track down, the elves needed little extra help this year and sent a little note to help out! Less than a week later the big pieces that were suspended are off the table and we will have to think of another way to secure the track down safely.

Matt got his new tablet and loves it. he got it about a week and a half early. I got a carpet cleaning vacuum that I hope to use soon as our carpets need to be cleaned. BADLY! I also got a new running top that is for pregnancy and some ear buds. but we really did have a good day after all the crying was done and over with. so happy Christmas to us. I hope next year will be the year that all my wishing and thinking would take place.

Happy Halloween 2013

What a day today has been! I had a lovely treat of prenatal yoga, cracked at the chiropractor and a hour long massage! OH HOW LOVELY! Then we went to dinner at Chic-Fil-A where EVERY CHILD was dressed up! And started trick-or-treating in our neighborhood!

Mason was out like a light in his bed at 8, (didn't have normal long nap today due to being out and about.) Now it is just relax time for mommy and daddy! Mason is getting the idea of Trick-or-treating. He loves getting the candy. He will hold his little pumpkin pail and put the candy in there. If he gets a candy he really likes. He will hold on to it and WILL NOT put it in his pumpkin! After he and I went trick-or-treating (daddy was handing out candy) We went and hung out across the street with our neighbors. Mason continued to hoard candy from them and kept handing us some. It was cute!

~Mason telling me he saw a Bane (Plane)~

Mason said a new word today. "ow." It took me a second to figure out what he was saying but he was pointing to the cow pictures at Chic-Fil-A. So he now knows how to say cow. So cute! Still working on grandma and grandpa (GMA and GPA). This kid is growing up fast though! I miss my tiny little newborn (sans crying and screaming but asleep in my arms newborn) Soon enough though we will have a newborn back in the house and Mason is going to be a FABULOUS Big Brother!

Well that's all on this All Hallow's Eve! Happy Halloween everyone! Stay safe and eat tons of candy tonight, and get rid of it TOMORROW!