November

It's hard to believe November is already here, it seems like I was just barely writing about getting ready for THIS trip. I guess time flies when you are having fun!!!!!!!!
 Anyways back to the orginal point of this post! Halloween of course! We truly had a blast. Ussually we stick around town for halloween but it was getting pretty boring, so we decided to change it up! Plus this was the last yr that we would have ARiel on halloween before she was a teenager ( we rotate off every yr with her mom) so we wanted to make it special!

As a kid I wasn't EVER aloud to celebrate H-ween but always had this picture stuck in my head of tree lined falling leave streets, it being nice and cool, tons of people all in costume, and decorated house ect.

Well last night thats exactly what we got!!!!

People went all out in prescott!! Mt. Vernon is the main road we hit, its a road I swore Id have a house on when I grew up! I didnt realize that house had a hefty price tag of about 400000-800000! Yikes!!! Im still dreaming:)

Anyways enough enough you are in it for pics so here goes!
Warning picture heavy!!

This maze was so fun! I screamed the kids screamed and aj well he was throwing punches at anyone who tried to scary him..no seriously he was!!! We had a fabulous night hope every one else did too! Now on to thanksgiving!

when life becomes over-bearing...

Lately my life, my days have become stressful, and honestly over bearing....The laundry is never done, the kitchen floor rarely stays clean, and my livingroom lets just not go there! I love organization, and cleanliness but my goodness you couldn't tell by the state of my house!
when this happens I forget to be thankful for the imporant things, like my livingroom floors is a mess because it's ussually covered in toys because I have four amazing kids that make my world go round! my kitchen is a mess because we have food to eat and love to cook.
There is laundry because we have plenty of clothes, our floors are still not quite finished because we are healthy and happy and love to be outside, going to the park, cleaning our front yard, going for rides in the jeep, and on our dirtbikes. WE ARE BLESSED..

So when my love seat  looks like this

I need to consider myself BLESSED, not stressed:)


Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved. (Psalm 127:1-2)