Shane took off for a humanitarian mission to the Philippines last week. He's super excited! So far he has already met a lot of really neat people and next week he gets to help the Philippine military vaccinate a bunch of their animals. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to post soon. All I know is he's having a blast and I'm LOVING SKYPE! I love being able to talk to him face to face even when he's in another country. Technology is super cool!
Here are some pictures of his last night home. We already miss him like crazy but are really excited to see him in a few weeks. In the meantime we have had family in town to help the time pass. It has definitely helped! Family rocks!!!
We had a "Welcome October" dinner. I don't know what that is...we just made it up at the last minute. I needed a fun way to give the kids their Halloween PJ's and thought that this would do the job. I was inspired by my sister-in-law Tera who ALWAYS celebrates each holiday in so many fun ways. She's amazing! I decided I would start with Halloween, so here's my small attempt on celebrating the month of October. We had an all orange dinner and opened some gifts (Halloween cereal & Halloween fruit snacks for the month). We also gave the kids some Halloween PJ's that have been SOOOO fun! I got them online at Old Navy a month or two ago. Anyways here's our goofy family celebrating October.
About 5 minutes before dinner we all made a VERY POOR attempt at finding orange clothes to wear. We realized that is one color that none of us have in our closets. I'm embarrassed to even post this picture but it's part of the memories so I have to :/
Our "Orange" dinner.
This was our first year to do this so I wasn't too creative. Hopefully next year our dinner will get more interesting.
Then we frosted pumpkin cookies. Yummy!
And changed into our Halloween pajamas...
...that glow in the dark...super cool!
(Side note: the PJ's actually glow all night long. We all slept in the same room at a hotel this week and it was way freaky every time I woke up in the middle of the night and could see them both glowing in their beds.)
The morning Dad left the kids had a blast....
...playing Legos with him....ALL morning long!
Have fun dad! We MISS YOU like crazy!!!
