Well, after 5 trips to the ER in 4 weeks, I hope we are done for awhile. After Randi's foot and Tucker's stitches we added Kyall getting into cleaner, Charlee's hand getting slammed in a car door, and yours truly tripping over the edge of the sidewalk and face planting. I'm sure it was super graceful. We have still had minor accidents at home so no trip to Disneyland yet:)
Then there was the incident involving police stations and poochie prison. Yes, Maggie escaped yet again, but she actually got caught. For those of you who don't know Maggie, she is part lab part husky. As in run as fast as you can across Alaska husky. She LOVES to run. If the kids leave a door or the gate open she bolts. We used to chase her...for miles. We finally learned that if you just stand in the front yard and call her name she will eventually come back. But don't try to grab her when she gets close or she turns on a dime and runs for 30 more minutes. Just wait with the door or the gate open and she'll run in when she's ready. Anyway....don't know how they caught her, we never can. Randi and I rushed to the police station as they were closing and they showed us a mugshot of Maggie to make sure it was the right dog. Okay, I tried not to, but I ended up laughing hysterically. In the police station. Her mugshot was priceless. She is on a leash, sitting down, with her head turned to the side with the most GUILTY look on her face. She knew she was busted and she knew she was in trouble. I would have given anything for a copy of that...I asked to look at it twice. Then we had to race to the animal shelter (they were already closed but they waited for us). Once again, they pulled out the picture, and once again I'm laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes. It really wasn't funny that we had to bail her out, but if you could just have seen the picture. She was very happy to see Randi and get home. I think we have finally barricaded every possible place she could get out of the fence...we'll see how long it holds her.
We loved being able to see Robin, Mindy and Chris in October. It's always fun to see them, and they were so great to come with Bart and Carol to one of Tucker's soccer games. He had his own little cheering section. He has had a great opportunity playing on a competitive team this fall. His coach is a former pro soccer player for Peru. Tucker has learned so much in a short time and his team is pretty fun to watch...they were their division champs. I do wish I knew some spanish, though. I'd love to know what the coaches are yelling to the players...I think Tucker does, too.
Randi, Charlee, Tucker, my sister and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Sunday morning session of General Conference. We drove down Saturday and spent some time at Temple Square...way too crowded to be fun. Of course, the highlight that day would be the pool at the hotel. What is it about swimming at a hotel? Conference was great. There is nothing like being in a room with 21,000 people and having it instantly go silent when the prophet walks in. You can't get that on tv. It was a wonderful experience to share with (some) of my kids.
We plugged through October. Kellie and Hayley threw a fantabulous "Ghouls Night Out" party for all the witches in the Shelton family (sorry, no warlocks allowed). Of course I decided to start sewing 4 matching witch costumes 3 hours before party time. We finished just in time and I had a green, a pink, an orange, and a purple witch that were sooooo cute! Of course, I had no camera so I'm hoping to snag some copies from Hayley. Trevor, Randi and I threw a bash for Ryanne's 1st grade class. Lots of fun...we had a pumpkin beanbag toss, bingo, pumpkin bowling, a craft and treats. Thankfully Trevor and Randi had a half day...never would have made it without their help. Ryanne got to lead the Halloween parade at school...so neat! Then we rushed home to get ready for Charlee's SURPRISE birthday party. What a day. We had 10 fifth grade girls watching a movie and eating Halloween themed treats. There were monster toes, witch fingers, mummy heads, witch brooms, goblin teeth...and once again I had no camera. Nice. This time I will be begging pictures from Grandma as she was to nice to let us party at her house. The next day brought Tucker's last game of the season, the ward carnival and trick or treating-in the rain. SOOOOO happy it was Saturday and Wade had, er got to take them this year:)
We are already into November...it seems time goes faster and faster. Ben's birthday is today-14! He doesn't know yet, but he is getting an electric bass guitar. What were we thinking? It was all he wanted and he's such a good kid. Maybe this is the start to our own family garage band...dude, we have more kids than the Partridge family and the Brady's and they seemed to do okay!
When I can round up some pictures I'll post a few...this is my contribution to family history:)
