My Least Favorite Holiday...HALLOWEEN

Well, Halloween has come and gone. We were a pretty sad family this year...we didn't even really decorate our house this year for Halloween. But, we did do the obligatory Halloween dress up for the boys and went to a few houses in the neighborhood. Although the weather was great, Kaden was done after about a dozen houses. We did dress Jackson up just so we could get some pictures and show him his "first Halloween". Kaden has eaten so much Halloween junk the last couple of days that he literally threw up yesterday morning around 6:00 a.m. IT WAS EVERYWHERE! His bed and sheets were soaked and it was all down his wall too. He had mentioned the night before that his stomach hurt but we thought it was one of his many ploys to procrastinate going to bed...well, we were wrong.

Jackson and Kaden are starting at a new daycare tomorrow. Our previous provider had a family emergency and had to close her daycare indefinitely so after a week or so of intereviewing various providers, we finally found one that we both feel really good about and is really close to our house so Ray will be able to drop off in the mornings and I'll pick up in the evenings. Kaden is excited and really hit it off with her 6-year-old son.

Other than Halloween and interviewing daycare providers, it was a pretty uneventful week and we are looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh, I did have a short one-day training in our Seattle office on Monday and it was great to be back in Seattle. (Sorry Balls family, I flew in the night before and flew out the next day!) When I flew in and saw the city, the water, and bridges, and the clouds, I just felt like I was flying home. I think Ray and I both have thoughts that we want to move back someday...probably when the kids are out of daycare and we can afford it. Utah is great as far as cost of living, but we really miss the mild(er) weather up there and the beauty and sad to say, but being LDS up in Washington is better than being LDS here in Utah. For any of you who have lived in Utah, you know what I mean. Ray and I have found that being the majority is not always the best, when you're LDS up in Washington, you're definitely a minority and LDS people seem to stick together and really take care of each other more when they're not all around you. Anyway, Utah will do for now but don't be surprised if we're back up there someday. Ray has connections at Microsoft (a former boss) and I have great relationships with the Seattle EY office so I hope that they can find room for me again someday.

Here are some of our pictures from Halloween 2007. Enjoy!