Halloween, Lucy's Birthday

Sunday Penny and Tyler had a musical number to sing while I played the piano ("I Know my Savior Loves Me"). Both of them woke up congested but I was determined to get this done so to church we went. Our musical number went ok- Tyler's voice had some issues with the congestion but I think he was on key for a majority of the song. After sacrament Tyler was subbing in as Primary Chorister and I had helped him prepare songs and activities. Lately my brain has been a little crazy and when he started to go off script, I felt compelled to go up and take over. I don't know why I couldn't have just let him do his own thing. Sometimes my brain goes crazy and I wonder if perimenapause is beginning for me.

Monday was kind of a lame day for us because the girls all had runny noses and weren't feeling well but we did manage to make it outside of the house for some Burger King with Poppy. 

Tuesday while the girls were at school, I took my dad to see "Regretting You". It was a heavy movie with death and cheating and love...Poppy liked it and I got some good cries in. I am grateful mom watched Ruby for me so we could go. It was really nice to get out to a movie- it had been a really long time.

Tuesday night we were supposed to go to the temple with my parents to do sealings (it would've been my first time back in years) but life had other ideas. Apparently Poppy did not bring his temple clothes (there was some miscommunications) and our temple does not have rentals. And Tyler was sick and coughing. I thought it would be awkward for just my mom and I to go to sealings so I cancelled. Hopefully I can do a redo with Tyler sometime soon.

Wednesday night Lucy had her first volleyball game of the season. Her games are now at the lousy time of 8pm so I stayed home so I could get the sick Ruby down for bed. Unfortunately I missed Lucy rocking it out on the court. She had 4 volleys in a row between the other side and in the end she scored on them. I'm sad I missed that. It was a good confidence boost for her though (her serves aren't always so great) so she seems to be feeling more excited about the season.

Thursday while the girls were at school, Ruby and I went with my parents to the mall in Auburn Hills. I helped my mom look for some wide leg pants and she actually found a good pair- she is so hip ;). Then we had some Panda Express while Ruby played at the play area. Ruby who can be quite mean, was actually nice and allowed another little one to sit by her on the play boat. Usually she yells at people that get too near to her so I was glad to see her playing nice. After we ate lunch, we stuffed ourselves silly with some pretzels and then headed back home so I could put Ruby down for her nap.

Thursday night was Ben's soccer banquet. The invite said it was from 6-9pm but I was sure it would not last that long. It absolutely lasted that long. They don't have a very good system for handing out awards and they called all 22 varisty played up like 5 different times to hand out various awards. Ben was given a "paper plate" award of "most teachable". I like that award for him. I had been dreading the awkwardness of sitting by strangers that night because last year we ended up by people that were not very easy to socialize with. This year we got lucky and sat by one of Tyler's co-workers and I chatted with his wife for a bit. She works in education so we had some common ground. Then I met the other 2 couples at the table who had freshmen that were bench warmers like Ben and they had big families as well so they were easy to chat with. It was nice that this year we had good people to chat with at our table. Also exciting, Poppy had bought a raffle ticket and he won a $100 giftcard to a jewelry store. Not sure what he's going to buy with that but that was still lucky of him to win.

Friday was Halloween. We homeschooled in the morning and then Poppy took us to Burger King. After Burger King we ran to Kroger's to get a few things and it was insanely busy. Every line extended out into the aisles. Not the greatest but we survived.

We didn't do anything extra special for Halloween. I wasn't feeling ambitious in that way, but it was still a nice day. I grabbed pizza for dinner and Tyler and my parents went and visited Steven at Taco Bell. He apparently got to take his break while they were there and ate with them. After dinner, the Mays came over and everyone went trick-or-treating. I went down one street with Ruby and then let Tyler take over. I walked back home alone with my butterfly wings and I am pretty sure people were weirded out by a dressed up adult walking down the street alone, lol. I came back to pass out candy but Caroline had taken over and didn't seem willing to relinquish. I was kind of bummed because I actually enjoy passing out candy and seeing all the fun costumes.

Saturday was Lucy's 13th birthday! I can't believe I now have 3 teenagers. She woke up and followed tradition by opening her gifts and eating Lucky Charms. This year she got from us: a silly shirt, a Dr.P hat, skin care products, a jewelry holder, film for her camera, press on nails and a spa headband. My parents got her a jacket and $$. 

After her birthday morning celebrations, Tyler and I did a Costco run with Ruby and then I went to the Dollar Tree with the girls. It turns out all these places are pretty empty the morning after Halloween. It was really nice.

At noon, Lucy's friends came over for her birthday party- Geli and Claire. She had invited two other friends but they couldn't make it. For her party she went to Taco Bell, came home for cake and ice cream and then went skating at Riverside Arena. They skated for almost 2 hours. It was a long time and super loud and I was a bit overstimulated but I did get to read some of a book and people watch (there are a lot of interesting people at a skating rink). It was actually a really easy party and all the things Lucy loves so it was pretty perfect.

For dinner we all went out to Culver's with the grandparents. It was nice to have everyone together and the food there is always good.

That night Ruby needed a bath but was not very interested in taking one until I told her that baby Chad would take one with her. She was very funny with him in the tub- putting bubbles on him, having him play with her toys, washing him- she makes a good skeleton mom.