Sugar Highs and Meltdowns

Last week was crazy. This week is right on track to battle last week's madness. 

I think I've decided that I don't like Halloween on a Thursday. It just stretches it all out too much. Starting the weekend before since apparently there is some law against celebrating anything Halloween after the 31st. The kids just finally finished all the candy from last weekend's festivities (and by finished I mean I threw away every piece I found and the last half of the bag after they left for school today). And in two days we get to do it all again which means another sugar-spike-and-crash filled weekend. 

I know, I know I should just take the candy away and slowly distribute over the months to come... But I'm not that mom. I'm the scarf it all down, make yourselves sick and be done with it in 2 days type of mom. 

This week I'll be battling it all mostly on my own. Seth has work meetings tonight, young men's activity tomorrow night and a scout camp out on Friday/Saturday. I promise to be grateful that he will be there for Halloween night. Hats off to single moms. I'm pretty sure I'd curl up in a ball and let life go on without me. You should see what the house looks like and what the kids eat on nights when Seth's not here. Or maybe you shouldn't. It's rather embarrassing. 

Ok done with the Halloween griping. All the candy wrappers and meltdowns aside, I do love to see my kids all dressed up and looking cute. Seth and I went to a costume party this year. We were not nearly as cute as our kids. I'm hoping that those pics have all been destroyed. 

Charmed...

Today was just an average day. Nothing too exciting or out of the ordinary but I feel so blessed. I feel like I live a charmed life. 

If cameras followed me around you'd think I was crazy for saying that. I think I swept the floor 4 times and it could probably have used one more go at it before bed. Nash has pink eye and the goop oozing from his eye is far from charming. Jensen's teething so there has been a LOT of crying and whining (mostly from him but also some from me!).  And I've had a crazy off and on headache this afternoon. Despite it all I can't go to bed at night without feeling so incredibly grateful for all that I have. My children are happy and (mostly) healthy. My husband has a good job and he's über helpful at home. I have a baby that will cuddle me and snuggle me (even if it's only for a few minutes at a time). 

I have everything I could ever hope for. And so much more. 

I need to be better at remembering/realizing this during the children's waking hours. It's always easier when they're asleep. 

Sweet Kimball

My sweet little Kimball turned 8 last week and was baptized the day after her birthday. We like to celebrate bdays all week long so in true Avey fashion we had  a full week of fun. 

We actually started a week early with her friend "party". We kept it small this year and she just invited her 2 closest friends (and McKay of course) to go see the 1D movie. It was the last day it was in the theaters and they had the place all to themselves. It was so much fun. I hope these girls are BFFs forever. 

Monday night we went out to dinner with Nana and Papa to celebrate. 

And then because I was feeling overwhelmed with the baptism prep we skipped the big breakfast at home on the actual birthday and just went to Denny's. 

Friday was her baptism. It was amazing. There was such a wonderful spirit there and other than the font half emptying and it being every very low everything went perfectly. We had a dinner here at home afterwards and I loved having all of our friends and family here. 

And on Sunday we celebrated with Seth's family. Sloan (her cousin) and Kimball always get to share a bday party and they are so good about it. 

Fun week. I love that little girl so much. She's a little too much like me which scares me for our future. But for now we are having a blast.