A Little Bit of October

October came and went.

Cassidy had her birthday. She turned nine. Hard to believe that could be true. Where does the time go? The weather in October was much like the year she was born, very mild. We love our Sassy Cassy and don't know what we would do without her in our family. She keeps us all smiling and is such a great example to everyone she comes in contact with. Why is this underlined? There isn't even an underline function is there?

Grandma and Grandpa came over to wish Cassidy a happy birthday.

For months Cassidy had been begging to have her ears peirced and I would tell her "maybe for your birthday" so for her birthday I gave in. She is so used to being poked that she wasn't scared at all. It was a "piece of cake". HAHAHAHA I crack myself up. Get it...piece of cake....birthday cake. Ok it really wasn't that funny.

She looks so cute and is so excited to wear all the cute earrings she got from Santa.

I know another "boring" cake. I don't even try fancy anymore. But a birthday wish can still can still be made on a boring cake. Right?

Now on to all the Halloween stuff. My parents always do a really fun Halloween party for the kids. Part of the fun is eating a donut off a string using no hands.

Bag this I am going to use my hands and eat the donut!

We got to go Trick-or-Treating up at Make-a-Wish.

Now on to the school Halloween parade. Logan is dressed as Obi Won Kanobi from Star wars.

Cassidy is Belle of course.

Megan was a spider queen. She ditched the scary black wig and black fingernails. I tried but didn't quite get her costume right. She was sweet to try to use things we already had. She wasn't very scary more of a pretty spider queen.

Off to say "Trick-or-Treat". Logan changed his costume to a self made vampire. Drew blood on his face with a marker, safety pinned his Batman cape on, sprinkled a little bit of baby powder on his face, wore the teeth he got at his school party and there you have it..... a vampire. Much cheaper than the Obi Won costume. That is the way Halloween should be.

Other September moments

In September my grandma had her 95th birthday. She loves the kids and they love to give her hugs. She commented how she has the best family in the world. Grandma loves her family. I am pretty sure she didn't know who I was but that is ok. I hope she had a happy birthday. She told me that she thinks that it will be her last. I am glad that I took the kids up there to have their picture taken with their great grandma.

At the end of September I got to go the General Women's Meeting with my favorite beautiful ladies; my mom and 5 sisters. It has been a long time since we were all able to go together.

State Fair and Loud Concert=a Trip to the ER

A couple weeks before we went to Florida Make-a-Wish called me and offered our family tickets to the Utah State Fair which included a concert with Mitchel Musso from Disney Channel. The tickets were for the day after we were to get home from Florida. I thought this would be a great way to end our week. One more day of rides and fun. We did have fun and we rode a lot of rides

Logan got to do the bungee trampolines because he was too short for a ride he really wanted to go on. You should have heard him giggle! It was so cute!

We saw a lot of stinky animals and even some stinky people. Hehehehehe! Fairs bring out all the weirdos! The baby pigs were a favorite. Then we got snow cones and cotton candy and headed to the concert. Honestly I thought this concert would be more geared to kids but it wasn't. Mitchel Musso is a complete idiot. He really isn't anything like his Hannah Montana character and he isn't a kid. He was so conceited and looked like such a dork with his two big diamond earrings. I was not impressed. The kids thought it was cool so I guess that is all that matters.

Logan ended up with a cotton candy beard.

Cassidy waving her hand with the music.

Mitchel threw out a drumstick and Lorin Caught it. How much do you think we could get on Ebay for that?

Cassidy was all smiles and really was having a lot of fun. She loves music but it was really loud!!! I looked over at Cassidy and she had her head bent down. So I got up to see if she was ok. She had the most terrified look on her face and her eyes were looking to the side. I have seen that look before and my heart sank. I said "We are out of here!" Lorin carried her and we rushed to the car. She was starting to drool and wouldn't respond to me. I am sure she was seizing. Finally she put her hand to the side of her head and said that her ear hurt. We got in the van and sped to Primary's since we were in Salt Lake anyway. We weren't going to take any chances. We got there and it was really busy but they rushed her right back. Cassidy still wouldn't respond much. They put an IV in but didn't have to give her anything. Her temperature was up and her blood pressure was way too high. Something was definitely going on. She then fell asleep. I was so scared. I thought "Are you kidding me? We just got back from her wish and now this is going to happen? I cannot do this again!" Cassidy woke up and was happy and herself. They kept her overnight because her blood pressure wouldn't stay down but it leveled out. She vomited in the night which scared Lorin to death because she has done that before seizing. But she was ok. I feel so blessed that she was able snap out of this one on her own. Thanks to everyone for their extra prayers! It took her a couple days to get back to herself. I think I just crammed one too many things in that week and the concert was just too loud.

Cassidy enjoyed playing with the camera while we waited.

Poor Megan was so tired!

Glad this had a happy ending!