Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all and may you eat lots of food!

What could be better about Thanksgiving? We are having a quiet

Thanksgiving at home this year with just 3 people other than our

brood coming for supper. Ashley has been cooking up a storm (can you believe

how much I don't do?!) He has made the dressing, prepared and cooked the turkey,

homemade wheat roles (he ground the wheat also before he made the rolls),

sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, collards, pumpkin pie, crock pot mac and cheese and he is currently

working on the giblet gravy. What have I done you may ask? I cleaned the

house-- which I haven't been keeping up on lately and I did all the shopping for

the food. I made deviled eggs and kept the kids busy while he cooked.

Today I am making mashed potatoes (out of potato pearls--ha ha) and helping

get everything in and out of the oven. Really, what good am I? It is just hard for

me to do everything when I am pregnant...

I love my babies ever so dearly, but being pregnant is such a hard pill for

me to swallow. I become this different person that I don't really like

very much. I am sick (most of the time) and extremely tired, but sometimes

I can't sleep. That I can actually live with-- it is the emotional havoc it reeks on me that makes life so difficult. I am paranoid (really paranoid about everything!), really, really sensitive about everything and manic

with my mood swings! If you doubt it ask Ashley. He will just grin and say,

"I love my wife!" One minute life is grand and I am grateful for all that I have and the next

I am crying uncontrollably and don't want to have anything to do with anyone or anything. Social situations can be almost painful for me when I am pregnant-- family or not!

Does this happen to anyone else? I know

I must drive that poor man (Ashley) insane and he really doesn't need anymore stress in

his life currently (come to think of it I don't either!)

Wow! I didn't expect to tirade on this beautiful day to be grateful for all that I have

been given-- because I have been given so much! BUT, through pregnancy I have

learned to be grateful for what little mental health I have ;) when I am not pregnant!

I am grateful for energy and my wonderful husband who does more than he should

and NEVER complains! I am also grateful for my little angels and

would do pregnancy over for each of them--I am also grateful for a Father in Heaven is so patient

with me through all my bellyaching and for his Son who lifts me above what I am!

May you find joy and love today!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween Fun

Rabon's love Halloween and we had a great Halloween with our little girls. Here are some of our fun Halloween pictures...

Hannah was a great witch and as the night went on she kept shedding different parts of her costume. By the time we got home (we were in the car coming from a party after trick-o-treating) she was down to purple and black striped tights and a white t-shirt. Ellie was a pink poodle and just adorable-- it so fit her personality. When we first started out trick-o-treating in her exhuberation Ellie ran and slid head first down a muddy hill. So, after that she really looked like a dog-- covered in dirt-- what dog do you know that is clean? After she fell head first she got up and said with a smile, "I'm okay, I'm okay." She had a great time!!!! Riley was adorable as a kangaroo. If you asked her where her Roo was she would grab the baby in her pouch. She caught on to trick-o-treating pretty quickly. She would run up to the door with the other kids and push her way to the front. It was amazing to her that people were offering her candy at the door. She would grab all her little, pudgy hands could hold and put it in her bag. Many times the people would give her extra or just let her take candy until she was ready to go. It was the cuteness factor. She wouldn't talk to anyone, but she waved her thanks as we left each door. I had such a wonderful time with my girls.

A few Fair pics... Daddy had a Job Fair, so we stayed in Raleigh an extra day and went to our favorite Fall destination-- The NC State Fair.

This is Ellie with "Buela's" candy apple. What is Fair without all the junk food. We started the morning with ham biscuits, had chocolate milk and samples a little while later, cotton candy, candy apples, pickles, Greek pitas, popcorn, peanuts, kabobs, corn on the cob, hot dogs, fried onion (like bloomin onion), fried potato chips and Ashley had a fried twinkie (but never shared!!!!) As Ellie drifted off to sleep that night she told me that she had a stomachache and Hannah woke up in the middle night sure she was going to yak (she never did-- apparently she had dreamed that she was eating a chicken's bum and it made her feel sick-- HA). Is it any wonder? My kids usually eat fairly healthy-- their little systems couldn't take it. Their favorite part of the fair was holding the baby ducks and chicks. I have to admit that I love that part also-- and the piggies. I LOVE piggies.