Something this week comes

  Yeah, crazy title, lol.  Halloweens coming so what can I say.   Well last weekend, not the one that ended yesterday but the one before Julian was sick.  I thought he had the Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease, again, because he had a fever of 103 that would not be lowered by medicine and that is usually how it starts for him.  But after two days he didn't have any of the blisters to go along with my thoughts of HFM.  So off to the ER for him because I didn't know what was going on and he had really started to complain about his throat hurting so I thought maybe strep. Turns out it was just a virus, so he went back to school after he felt better.
  
   Recently I have started to have some issues in the clothing department :/  meaning my pregnant belly is getting bigger, but my clothes are not magically getting bigger to go along with my size.  So I made plans to go down to my moms for the weekend and do some bargain shopping.  Josh was going to be hunting during the weekend and had to fix the pipe for the tub that was broken, and he also wanted to fix some flooring issues we have been having, (our subfloor has been getting holes in it in high traffic area, don't know why, but we have already fixed one spot and now it's worse).  So it was good that The kids would be out of the way for that since he would need to pull up part of the carpet in our living room.  Friday came I was all packed to go to my mom's and I noticed Sebastian had a fever.  Asked my mom if she still wanted us to come down and she said it was ok, and I said if he got worse we could always come home, it's only about 1 1/2 hr drive, so not too far.  Friday evening Gabriel had a fever too.  Talked to Josh, the husband, and he was sick with a fever and stuff too.  So somehow no one got sick all week from what Julian had but then it just hit all three of them on Friday.  Still don't know what it is other than "some virus" but needless to say the weekend was less than productive for both Josh and I than we wanted it to be.  I was still able to get a few pieces of clothes.  Gabe's, the store, has a few racks of maternity clothes! Yay, so I got a pair of jeans for like $10 rather than like $25.  And Josh got the broken pipe fixed and a spot of flooring in our room done, with the help of his dad, but the living room still has a hole in the floor.

   So now it's the begining of a new week and we have a few runny noses and we are back to the grind, but this week comes with it's own new set of differences.  Tuesday Josh had to take off work because I have to go to some jury selection thing, sounds like fun, right?  So he gets to do the pick up for Gabe.  Wednesday Julian has a doctors appointment after school but I have to pick him up from school because it will take us about 45 minutes to get to the doctors office and his bus doesn't drop him off until after 4 and his appointment is at 4:45.  Then on Thursday I have a baby appointment at 4:15, those can turn interesting.  So we will see what comes out of this week.  But hey, at least I now have some clothes that fit me so I won't have to feel frumpy or uncomfortable most of the time.

TBT

   Here's a quick TBT for ya.  Just FYI I was born with a cleft lip which atfer having it corrected did leave a scar on my lip which is what you see in the picture.  Also I believe this was taken after coming inside from playing on a winter day, hence the rosy red cheeks.

Indoor Smores

   So, I've been thinking about smores since I bought what I needed to make them last Friday.  Since my cousin was coming into town for Gabe's birthday party we usually have a bonfire when she is here.  But it was a little too windy to have a bonfire and my pregnant self was very tired after standing all day baking and decorating cakes and cupcakes.

   So finally the other night I could stand it no more.  You know what it's like when you have all the ingredients to make a sweet treat, you just can't help yourself sometimes.  Also, luckily, we have a gas stove.  I know, probably not the smartest way to do it, but when you want a smore you make smores, lol.

  

   
   Don't mind my dirty stove, I need to get around to cleaning my stove top.  And yes that is a beater from my hand mixer.  I know we have camp fire hot dog roasters somewhere, but for the life of me I couldn't find one, and it was raining so I didn't want to go hunting for a stick.

   For future refrence make sure you have the flame on low, the marshmallows seemed to catch on fire rather quickly even without having it close to the flame but you want to make sure you cook it long enough that it gets gooey in the middle so that your chocolate will melt.  I made them the next night for the kids, well Julian and Gabe anyway, Sebastian just got a few marshmallows. 

  
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Birthday with a Surprise!

   So this past week has been a busy one getting ready for Gabe's birthday party on Sunday.  And it went off without a hitch!  There were about ten kids running around my back yard yesterday they had a blast.  Plus it was also the first birthday party where there were little friends here and not just family even though we have a lot of little people in the family.  There are ten kids in their generation that are six and under! 

   This is the cake and cupcakes I made for the party.  I really like getting fancy with cakes and love to decorate them but I have run into some issues.  Most of my husbands family is diabetic so I would make these awesome looking cakes but no one would eat them because they couldn't, and I would have lots of cake left over to eat and some of it would go to waste.  So I started making cupcakes for the kids and a cake that was sugar free with sugar free icing.  Thankfully there are now some option in the store for sugar free cake mixes and icing.  I have tried many different sugar free icing recipes and I didn't really like any of them.  Also the reason for only making a plain sugar free cake with no special decorations is because sugar free icing does not hold up well for decorating.

  Sebastian had fun running wound outside with all the kids, but he kept stealing the bikes the older kids were using to ride down the hill, lol.

   So now, the day after the party I have only a little bit of sugar free cake left, none of the snacking food I had made for yesterday, and balloons everywhere! Lol.  But that is fine by me, I'd rather not have a lot of leftovers.

   Here is a picture of cute little Sebastian, such a cutie.  This is how he usually watches tv, laying on his back, feet on the tv stand, with his arms behind his head.

   I was trying to clean up some of the blocks the kids have so I was washing them in the tub last week.  I went into the bathroom to see how much water was in the tub and this is what I found!  Little man in the tub.  I guess he just couldn't resit all those bubbles!   And also a picture from Saturday, I think he woke up too early so he passed out right as dinner was ready.  Always has to have his blankets with him.

    And here is our little surprise that we shared with everyone at the birthday party.  So let me see, one, two, three, four, five, six.  Wait a minute six pumpkins?  I thought she only had three little boys, why are there,....oh wait, BABY PUMPKIN! Wow, so new baby coming end of April 2015.  We were very surprised by this one, but never the less are excited about our surprise blessing :)

   And here is Gabe practicing his baby sitting on Murphy.  He is so excited about having a new baby.  He keeps telling everyone, "There is a baby in my mommy's bellybutton!"  He will be such a good big brother/helper this time around.

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