It's cold here. Snow has come for Christmas--Yeah! I have caught the baby's cold. That's what you get when you share his lunch spoon. We started the Anti-Plague today, so we should be well sooner than later.

Are you all done with your Christmas preparation? I'm not. But that's turned out the be good today. Because I was out shopping today I saw an old friend from high school. Stacey Morrow and I were friends with lots in common. Same first name, born in the same hospital, born the same month of the same year. And now I find out our moms have the same first name. It's was neat to see her.

Off to bed.

It's a rather gloomy day outside today. Jeff came home early to take the boys swimming. They were thrilled. Last night we bought a pass to the Rec Center for Christmas. We are hoping to take the boys swimming once a week, and workout daily ourselves.

HEre are the pics of Halloween--at last. Enjoy. I must say The Hippies are my favorite.

Sorry, the pics didn't download and I don't know why. It said everything worked, but upon publishing you can clearly see it did not. I'll try again later when I get to use the main computer. I've been put onto the laptop for now.

Life is good today.

Every Sunday I intend to update this blog, and then the day happens. Well, only a day late this week.

The past week has been quite adventurous for us--or more specifically ME. I swelled up again and ended up at the IHC instacare facility for anaphalactic shock. Thankfully it cost less than the emergency room of the hospital this time, but I was put on steroids again. They make me feel awful, yet it is worth it to get the swelling to stop. Once again there is no obvious reason for the swelling up of the eyes and throat. We did notice, though, that it coincides each time with my monthly cycle. Now to start looking for an allergist to figure out what is going on. It is very scary to feel one's throat closing up. You just hope it will stop, try to get the Benadryl down before it can't go down due to swelling, and pray the air can still get in. This is the third occurrance since September 12th.

On a happier note, we are putting up the Christmas tree this evening. The kids are excited. Mom is excited because the tree is only 3 feet in diameter this year. Dad is excited Mom is going to put the lights on it.

As promised a month ago, here are the Halloween pictures. The boys dressed up as follows:

Josh was just a gruesome, bloody fellow
Chris was the Phantom of the Opera
Nate was Link from a Nintendo game
Matt was an indian
Ben was an orange M&M
and Mom was a little girl

I quite scared the boys when I bounded out of the bathroom in pigtails and freckles skipping and singing. It is fun to catch the kids surprised. We had fun and Deb and John's place trick-or-treating, eating, and movie watching.

I've also added pictures of Deb and John and their awesome crew of hippies. Theirs were my favorite costumes of the night.