Just a little update. For most of you that know me this is old news. The past week has been absolutely miserable. Mia had the modeling job from hell Wednesday. I was told a "client" wanted her for the cover of a magazine. I should bring pink tops and not feed her lunch as she will be eating chocolate cupcakes for the shoot (and may have to eat a lot of them). The shoot was scheduled at 12:45 in Benton Harbor. My friend Laura watched Mason and I told her I'd be back around 3pm since these shoots can go quick or last over an hour. I thought I was being conservative. I dropped Mason off at 11:15, picked up Mia from preschool at 11:30 and drove straight to the shoot. Mia says she's hungry and is almost crying that I won't feed her. I arrive at the shoot to find they have booked 2 other girls for the same job and they have scheduled a minimum of 3 hours. (I call Laura in a panic who tells me not to worry). At about 1:30 "they" come out look at the girls and decide to start with the one who has the thickest/longest hair since "it will take longer to do". We sit with no word until they come out at 3:15 and release us. Soooo, Mia never even got her pictures taken. At least we still get paid and Mia got her cupcake. Since I'm not a big breakfast eater I was ready to eat the magazines in the waiting area! I guess I need to ask a lot more questions next time they call one of the kids for a job. To top of the day's fun Mason started vomiting at 9pm and it took until Friday before he could even keep down water. Fun, Fun! Mia was the neglected child and I felt bad that she was pretty much ignored while I tended to Mason. She of course vomited after dinner last night. Luckily that was it. I kept her home from school today but I think she is just working it for the attention. She seems perfectly fine (and has since about 9am) but if she doesn't like what you want her do do, wear, eat, etc..... she says she's sick. Yeah right.
I guess I should be thankful this was before the Holidays and not during Mike's hunting trip (knock on wood, rap.... rap....rap).
So sick kids.... and Bo died.... and Michigan lost. Bad week.
We did manage to sneak in getting our family pics done Sunday after mass. Our first family photo that has Mason in it. The kids thought it was fun and it only took about 15 minutes to take the pictures.
Anyway, hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween! Top: Mia and Mason in front of our house. Middle: The trick-or-treating gang at the Snook's house. Bottom: Trick or Treat bags that my friend Shannon made for the kids. It was sooo nice outside Monday night but of course cooled way down for Halloween. We set out our treat bowl so we could both go with the kids and of course our bowl was empty shortly after we left. So much for honest kids. My friend Laura told me she still had candy left in her bowl when she came back and that was after she saw a group of teenagers leaving. I guess the kids in my neighborhood are a little less morally conscience. Now that Halloween is over I've turned into the candy Nazi. Letting the kids have one piece after lunch and one piece after dinner. Mia has tried to help herself a few times so now I get to add in the fun of hiding the candy. They were cute in their costumes though.

We ate our last apple Sunday morning so since the weather was nice we decided to go to Crane's and get apples one last time (yesterday was the last day for the u-pick). We've never eaten in the restaurant but we can attest that the cider and donuts are killer. The apples were darn good too (we like Jonagold). If you've never been you should check them out sometime http://www.craneorchards.com/. I can't wait until the kids are old enough to try out that maze.

Last Wednesday at our Moms and Tots Halloween party. This is the best pic that I could get (hopefully Becky or Meg got a better pic) but it's pretty good considering our subject matter. We are missing a little Dalmation pup, he ran off before I could snap the pic. There was lots of treats, lots of mess and lots of energy:)