I am so proud of Caiden! He has received his white belt in music class! He has Music class every Friday, and He got his white belt on his recorder!
His white Belt
This was the song he had to play in order to receive his white belt. He practices everyday, and loves to go to music class, and he was so proud of himself for getting the white belt! Way to go Caiden, keep practicing, I know you will continue to do great!!
Yes, we are still celebrating Halloween, only this time Jerry is with us! Jerry always brings little prizes for Caiden and Bailee when he comes home. We always look forward to him honking the horn when he drives up in the drive way. The day that he travels home, Jerry and I are constantly texting each other, and we are telling each other how much we miss each other and love each other , and how we can't wait to see one another. It is soo much like when we were dating, how we would talk on the phone for hours, about how we couldn't wait to see another! He kids get so excited about him coming home, they are always looking out the windows to see that white Impala pulling up in the driveway !! As always, when he arrived Thursday night, we all met him out outside, and have him big hugs and kisses. Then we all go inside and help him carry luggage in. He was so glad to come in the house to the smell of Ham cooking and he was so ready for a home cooked meal! He eats out a lot when he is away, and so craves my home cooking. After getting settled in, He came to the door with a huge Halloween Decoration for Caiden and Bailee. He got it for them since he could not be here on Halloween, and wanted them to know that we was sorry that he missed it.
They were so excited that Jerry got it for them! It talks and blinks and moves and says all sorts of things!! The kids quickly went and got some of their Halloween candy and filled it up !! They played with it all Thursday night. Jerry is so thoughtful and he cares so much about our family. I think sometimes that people often take family for granted. We sometimes get in a routine of working,doing chores, cooking, doing homework, and we often forget our grateful and blessed we are. But, not us, we treasure every moment our family has together, for we know how blessed we are to have such a loving family. God puts us in situations sometimes to remind us how blessed we are to have a family, and nobody knows that better than us, for we will NEVER take for granted how God blessed us and always protects us and how He allowed us to be a family. Thank you Lord that we can always count on you for allowing us to be together!! And thank you Lord, for our Jerry being able to come home!
Jerry is FINALLY coming come today! The kids and I are so excited and looking forward to spending a couple of days with him! As most of you already know, his job requires him to be way from home. He could be away from us for a couple of weeks, and sometimes months. But we know the sacrifices he makes for us, and we all work together to make our family life as normal as possible. We love him so much and we thank God daily for all he does for our family.
The boys played football and traded baseballs cards
The girls played on the computer, played school, and jumped on our trampoline.
I let the kids have the camera most of the sleepover
I usually go around the house taking pictures of everything they do, but I thought it would be more fun if they actually took the pictures themselves, for it was their sleepover and they could tell the story better!
They also played card and board games, and eat popcorn and left over Halloween candy!
I had cooked a ham for that night with baked beans, potato salad and rolls. I also cooked gumbo for the next day.
I love having little sleepovers for the kids! They had lots and lots of fun! They were all so good that I even went and got donuts for them the morning of the election!
Caiden and Bailee attended the last ULM home game Saturday. They love going to the tailgate and to the games.They were excited the most that Pappaw cooked his famous chicken on a stick!Pappaw and Mimi were going to cook it last weekend, but they decided to hold off on it because we were in New Orleans seeing Jerry and Pappaw and Mimi didn't want Caiden and Bailee to miss out on it!
They has so much fun, and Bo got to go with them. Caiden and Bailee also got to spend time with cousins Madison,Patrick,Carter, and Jayden. They had such a fun time with them, and they talked about it all weekend!
Thanks Pappaw and Mimi for letting Caiden and Bailee tailgate with you all! They had so much fun this season!
Bailee in the haunted house.
We had a great Halloween! Our day was busy, but it was so much fun!
I ate lunch with the kids, like every Friday, and I attended Caiden and Bailee's Halloween parties at school.
They both had pizza parties and Bailee's class had coke floats.
It was great to see their little friends and I got to really know their friends and all the little stories they tell about each other.
It is such a great feeling to walk in their school and see all the faculty and parents, we are such a close knit school.
Caiden's little party was great, and his friends always are so sweet, and they talk to me daily about how much they like him, and how he is the class clown!
Bailee's class had their little coke floats on the playground and I got to see her play with her friends out side.
I absolutely adore Bailee's teacher Mrs. Tanner. We have really become really good friends! She cares about every student in her class, and she is soo pretty!
She tells me often how much Bailee reminds her of her own daughter!
I worked on my little decoration table a lot today. I was so proud of myself for the pumpkins that I purchased at Sam's today. They had pumpkins for 1.71, WOW, what a great deal! And since we had already carved our pumpkins, I just got them to do later in the day!
I had also made cookies and cupcakes for their after school snack. I am not very good at making desserts, but at least I tried.
I had little treat bags made up for them.
As always, Caiden and Bailee are so excited about coming home and finding little surprises that I had for them.
I filled their little bags with coloring books, stickers, and fake buck teeth, which they loved! I also had candy and little flashlights that had Halloween themes on them.
I also put Hairspray paint in their gifts bags, and I sprayed their hair with it.
What's Halloween without candied corn!
Caiden called Bo and asked him to come over for a bit, and had a surprise waiting for him.
I had also got them spray string in their little treat bags and they has so much fun spraying each other with it and they got Bo pretty good!
I decided to carve our 2 pumpkins while they played football, I asked Caiden and Bailee if they wanted to help and they told me that they had already carved pumpkins and thought that I should do it myself, so I did it gladly! I even had kids from our neighborhood stop by and comment on my carving! One little girl said that I was doing a great job, and she wished her mom would do that with her, I kinda felt sorry for her.
After the carving, Caiden and Bailee got dressed for our local church's Fall carnival. Bailee has dressed as a ghost, and Caiden went as one of his heroes, Drew Brees, who plays for the Saints.
We has so much fun at our church, Caiden and Bailee's friends were there and they got to hang out together.
They played many games.
Caiden and I got our faces painted! He decided on ULM, since he was going to the game tomorrow.
I got a Saint's sign and and a LSU, since I am a fan of both!
After the fall carnival, we got ready to trick and treat in our neighborhood.
Our neighborhood is like the jackpot of Halloween. They are so many people that come to our area. Cars are parked down the street for miles. People have trailers hooked up with lots of children, and it is always soo much fun to see everyone from our school there.
We got to go to at least 3 little haunted houses in our neighborhood.
Bailee Grace and her friend Mary Grace
