Tuesday, November 4, 2008

October 2008 Update

So, let’s see. Recently we have had some fun and exciting…and not so exciting things going on.

Rhett – Summing up from our last post, we found out the pitcher from the other team ended up with 30+ stitches in his chin from Rhett’s line drive. Oooops!!!

Maren – I am currently measuring 1 week ahead in my pregnancy. Only 2 months to go. My mom is planning on coming and spending around 3 weeks with us when Jackson is born. So exciting!!! At my last appointment, my Dr. said that my iron level was a little “borderline”, and since I’m having a C-section he is having me take an iron supplement daily to get my blood built up for surgery. Other than that, my pregnancy is going great!

Austin – Halloween. He finally decided that he’d had enough with Superheroes (for the last 3 years) and decided to be a skeleton. We got such a great deal on his costume too! I got the shirt for $1 at Old Navy, black sweat pants for $5, face makeup for $2 and then I made the pelvis & leg bones out of some white self-adhesive vinyl that my friend gave me. So $8 and 45 minutes later for the face paint, we had what I think turned out to be a pretty awesome costume!

Logan – Luckily he doesn’t really care yet what he is for Halloween, because the pumpkin costume we had from when Austin was 4 was just fine with him. He made a super cute pumpkin!

Carson – For Halloween he was a bat (thanks to another hand-me-down costume). Carson caused some excitement at church on Sunday when he decided to pull the fire alarm. I had left Sacrament Meeting early with him (to get the Primary Room set up) and next thing I know the fire alarm is blaring and Carson is the culprit. Our ward was just getting ready for the closing prayer when the Bishop got up & said that they were required to have everyone leave the building. Luckily some members from the previous Ward were still around and someone had the key to turn it off. Word trickled through our Ward that it wasn’t really a fire and only a few people ended up outside, thank goodness! I was mad at Carson first for doing it and scolded him with a slap on the hand and a “No touching!” remark. It took him about 20 seconds to realize that he was both A. In trouble, and B. Scared from the blaring alarm…so he started sobbing, which made me start sobbing (pregnant hormones I’m sure!) and I reassured him that everything was okay. Needless to say it took both him and I several minutes to get calmed down after the chaos we caused.

For a few days before Halloween we had noticed a small leak coming from the bottom of the toilet in the boy’s bathroom. There was also some wet carpet on the other side of the wall from the bathroom (in the corner of the dining room) that we thought must be caused from the leak. So Rhett took the toilet off and found that the wax ring was cracked. After a trip to Home Depot he replaced the wax ring and re-set the toilet. Voila! No leak! We thought that would solve the wet carpet problem, but it seemed to persist for a couple more days. I would suck up water from the carpet 3-4 times a day with our carpet shampooer (thanks Mom! It has come in handy several times). We finally realized that there must be a leak coming from the shower, so after our Ward Halloween party & “trunk or treat” we came home and a friend of ours (thanks Travis!) helped us cut into the wall and fix the leaky pipe. It ended up being a small leak coming from the joint. Now we just have to fix the sheetrock to make it look like a pretty wall again. Another home repair done inexpensively (it cost $2.90 for the new copper joint at Home Depot).

Rhett’s sis Melissa & family came for Halloween so the kids could trunk or treat together. That weekend we also visited Retama Park (a horse racetrack) with them and had a fun family night out for less than $10. What a deal! They have these fifty-cent nights where you just have to pay for parking and everything else is free (except hot dogs & drinks are fifty cents). We watched several horse races and the kids enjoyed face painting, caricatures, clowns making balloon shapes/animals, pony rides and a petting zoo. After 2 of the races the jockeys gave Carson their racing goggles. He was ecstatic!!! He must be too cute to resist.

So that's about all that's new this month. We look forward to spending time at both Thanksgiving and Christmas with our "Texas family" (Rhett's sister & fam and his brother & fam). Luckily we are all sticking around for the holidays, so we can at least spend time together! We hope you all have a great month.

Love- Rhett, Maren, Austin, Logan, Carson & Baby Jackson