Pumpkin Craving...

It's that time of year again when our family has it's annual pumpkin craving night. Every year we crave our pumpkins the night before Halloween. We eat and then we spend the rest of the night together craving. In our family it's not about how fancy you can make them, it's about doing whatever you what with your own pumpkin. They get to draw on their own faces or whatever. It's just about having fun! OK we were lucky to get Ben to put his hand in the pumpkin this far...
Do I really have to touch it??? He really didn't think he would have to get his hands dirty!

Jake cleaning his pumpkin out...

The face Jake put on his pumpkin, the candles will show up very well...

Meg cleaning out her pumpkin...

Meg on her first year doing her pumpkin ALL by herself...

She did a great job...

Christmas Already???

So this morning about 6:00 am my two little guys, Ben and Jake came into our room. Lynn and I where still trying to sleep, and we heard the door open and the boys running in with great excitement in their voices, "mommy, daddy, it's Christmas time, it's Christmas time. Can we put the Christmas tree up?" Yes, we got the first snow of the season and they where ready for Christmas. Give me sometime guys, I need to make it through my Halloween party first, and then Thanksgiving dinner!! I promised them one month from today the Christmas tree will be up...

"iN tHe MOoD foR HalLoWeEn"

At the Squire house we love Halloween, so the kids are getting ready and getting in the mood!!

Enjoy!!

The Red Movie...

THE RED MOVIE

This is one of those moments in life as a mom you never want to forget! Last Friday afternoon as my three younger children and I where chasing around, I told them that dad has rented "How To Train Your Dragon" from red box. Jake got so excited he started to cry. I looked to the back seat and saw him trying to take deep breathes and claim himself down. It was so cute, he just kept saying over and over, "you guys we have the best dad ever". A little later when we where at the store picking some things up for dinner he was telling every one he saw, "my dad got the red movie "How To Train Your Dragon". Then when we got home he just stood and looked out the front door for his "best dad ever" to get home from work with the red movie. This was truly a great moment in life!!!

Update on the last half of September...

OK I know in my post earlier this month I said I was sick and just could not get to feeling better, well funny story. A few nights before my parents got here I was running around cleaning the house getting the shopping done, trying to get all the projects in their home finished are ready for them to come home. I was feeling really sick all week and was not doing a very good job at getting things done. Which for everyone that knows me knows that this is not like me at all. I have been feeling sick for a month and it just wasn't going away, I was tried of it, and Lynn and the kids where tired of it. I came home on the Thursday before my parents where going to be here. My sister Pam was getting the BBQ turkey ready for their homecoming, and I walked in the kitchen and laid on the floor. I was ready to pass out, she said, "are you ok". I said "no I have been so sick and I just can't get over it". She asked, "what is wrong". I said "I have heart burn but not like reflex and whenever I eat it hurts so bad, so I have stopped eating, I just eat bread and crackers. But that's not what I hate the most it's my back it hurts so bad and it will not go away". She started laughing and said, "Vicki it's your gallbladder, I bet it's so bad it needs to come out". For weeks I have been so sick and didn't want to go to the doctor, for once I listened and went the next day. It's was my gallbladder, and after a week of tests we found out it's was working at 25%. At 37% they take it out, I let it go way to long. Well after passing out a few times and throwing up a few times, last Tuesday I got it out. It was no fun and I hope I never have to have surgery again. I still can't eat much and what I do eat has to be very low fat. The one really good thing about all this is I have lost almost 17 pounds. To bad I know they will probably find me this holiday season. Well back to my parents homecoming, they where here for just two weeks before they return to their mission. I spent the two fun weeks of seeing my parents after 18 months sick and having surgery and in bed!! Now they are off for the next 15 months, with one short visit at the end of December. I wasn't really thinking great but I did get some pic's at their homecoming... My sister in law Marilyn, Dad, Mom, and my sister in law Kathy...

Kathy and my sister Christy...

One of my niece Cherame, her husband Brian, their baby and my sister Pam. (YES Pam your right!!)

All the boy's including my brother Phil and my brother in law Craig playing a war game for the next 6 HOURS, yes that's right one game went 6 HOURS!! But we had a very fun day visiting and just being able to be with mom, dad, (grandpa, grandma) and all the family.

Well that is about it the last week I have been mostly in bed and resting, but the pain is about gone and I do feel like myself once again. Thank you to all of you that have helped me and my family this past two weeks. It's been a great blessing to have such a great family and friends!!

Picture's that should have been with my last post!!!

So these picture's should have been with my last post, but if you recall I was feeling sick and didn't want to down load them. My next post tell that story, believe me it's one worth reading! Ben on his 4th birthday...

All he wanted was a remote control car... (well he got a remote control jeep instead, he loves it)

For week s Ben told me he wanted a ice cream cake with 10 blue candles, 10 you ask, I know he is only four. But to Ben he could count 10 fingers, in the end we talked him into 4 blue candles!

Hard to eat a frozen cake, but I just didn't feel up to making an ice cake...

HE LIKES IT!!!

The next few pic's are of Travis' Eagle project, he painted cross walks for the Armory.

I think they turned out great...

The Squire's contribution to the project. (I had to put this in, I thought it was so funny, great minds think alike.)

Meg and McKenna helping out...

He did and great job and had a great turn out...

P.S Travis' Eagle will continue in December, that is when we can turn his papers in


Travis at his last Court of Honor, he got his Life. His next one will be his Eagle court of honor.

Travis I love you, you work so hard to do the right thing. I'm so proud of you and I'm so thankful the Lord has sent you to me, and that he trust me to raise one of his most chose son's.