Gotta let the Artist through.......

Aragorns Party

What an amazing adventure having a child has been. We celebrated Aragorn turning 5 yesterday and it was GREAT!! We had a Star wars themed party complete with light sabers and Darth Vader. We all dressed in our best Star Wars gear (ok honestly i had to buy a shirt, as i didn't have one). We had a great time celebrating with family and friends. Lunch was as always a kids paradise, hot dogs, chips & CAKE!! Eric made a great star wars cake, that Aragorn got to keep all the figures off of. He got Toy story 3 & a Buzz Light year action figure from grandpa Spillman, and grandma Dean gave him a savings account that will grow until he's 18, at which point he can decide if he wants to take the money out, or keep it in. (we hope by them, he'll have enough for a down payment on a car) she also got him a pretty cool star wars space ship. He also got a great star wars hat from his friends Dylon & Braden. From the Wagner family (who traveled over 45 mins to be with us) he got some great where's waldo and i spy books. Our friend of the family Martin got him bubbles (which was after all the BEST gift) Auntie Bri got him the most awesome helmet and a PURPLE light Saber, she also got him the pads and helmet for his big gift from mom and dad A new BIKE!! A neon orange big boy bike. All in all he had a great time. All the kids got blow up light sabers that after cake and pinata time, they got to pummel each other with!! Best idea EVER!! We had a great time. Thanks to everyone that come out, and celebrated and to those of you who wished him happy birthday.

Happy Birthday!!

Today was Aragorn's 5th Birthday. For his special dinner we took him to his favorite resturant and enjoyed a nice family dinner. I love how he's the only one not looking at the camera!

Finally.....

We have had some ridicules weather in Denver this Oct and Nov. It is very weird to not have snow by my birthday, but almost unbelevable to not have any snow by Halloween, much less still have 70 degree weather. But yesterday we finally got snow. I had to go out in it last night, which was not the most fun, but this morning, it was beautiful. This is the view we had this morning.

Card Day........

Did you mail your cards today? Here was the stack i sent out.

Halloween......

As i have mentioned before Halloween is my favorite "holiday" but this year i just could not get into it. I tried everything, from decorating to carving pumpkins with the boys. Nothing seemed to work. But i pushed through, and it didn't turn out to bad.

Eric took the boys out this year while i stayed home and passed out candy. We had a mild drama issue with Rohan's costume (which is kinda shocking) 1st he picked the batman costume then out of nowhere the Thursday before Halloween he wanted to be a Pirate, and was adamant about it. So we broke down and got the pirate costume, he was the cutest pirate EVER!! Aragorn all along was a transformer, Optimus Prime to be exact. I have determined there is almost nothing worse then trying to keep your kids calm ALL day when they know what awaits when the sun goes down. We spent all day Sunday telling the boys "No not yet" FINALLY the time arrived to get costumes on. The boys got dressed in the layers i demanded. Skimpy costumes + Colorado weather = layers. It's a running joke of this state "You know you live in Colorado when you choose your costume around a snow suit" we got lucky this year and it wasn't TO bad, the boys got away with pants and a long sleeve t-shirt under their costumes. So off they went for trick or treating, and about 45 mins later they came back. Apparently it wasn't as awesome as they thought it would be. It did get A LOT cooler as the sun set, and they boys got tired fast. But they still got a pretty good haul. I on the other hand ended up with more than enough candy left over, we only had about 25 kids come to our door. Sunday just isn't a good day for Halloween. I think a lot of people did trick or treat stuff on Saturday. Oh well........more for me!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!

Nobody sends......

Nobody sends cards anymore. I LOVE getting cards i blame my mom and Becky for this......
I love keeping them, i love having something to hold that i can read again and again. I love letters too, but that's a different post. I like how the Internet has freed us in so many ways, but hate how it has made us so lazy. I used to write letters to people, actually hand write them. Pages full. I did this no problem. Now, i can't write the shopping list without my hand hurting. The Internet and computers have made it possible to stay in touch with people, i otherwise might not. So i give it that due credit. But as far as a well thought out card, one you picked out because when you read it you thought of some one in your life it fits, that thrill is few and far between. I try to send cards, i used to send them all the time, randomly just because. But i haven't done it in a while. So i say let's make 11-10-10 National greeting card to a friend day. Between now and then, buy a card for at least 1 person (it can't be a bday card, that's cheating) and send it. You can do more than i person if you want. But at least 1. Imagine how much you'll make some smile, just buy sending them a little piece of paper. Pass it on, who knows how many cards you'll get, or send :-)

~Cheers,
Sam