Halloween

Although I wanted to get Banana the cutest little costume from an expensive store I knew it wasn't worth the money. I just couldn't spend so much money on something that she will wear one time or that will have to be used as a hand me down, but there are so many cute costumes out there!!! Banana was a cute little kitten. I was going to make ears and a tail but my mom decided to buy her ears and a tail. I use eye liner to paint on her face and she did pretty well sitting still. I am happy with the costume and proud to say that it cost us nothing. I guess my mom did spend some money on it but it wasn't 30 + dollars.

On Saturday Banana and I attended a costume birthday party that was followed by trick or treating. Even though we were late (like always) we still had a lot of fun. Daddy was planning on coming but something came up and he wasn't able to attend :(. I dresses up as a witch and Annabelle was a cat. I'm sad to say that we didn't get any pictures together. It's funny how you plan things and then nothing turns out the way you plan. I always plan to take lots of pictures and then I never do! It makes me sad but I guess it will be ok, I at least got some pictures of Banana. We were going to get dresses up on Halloween and take pictures together as a family but I guess when the time came around no one was really in the mood. So we didn't do anything on Halloween b/c we celebrated it on Saturday. People were telling me that trick or treating was on Saturday only. But then I found out last minute that people were trick or treating downtown.. You just never know what's going around here!

Anyways here are a few CUTE pictures of Banana.. These are a couple of her funny faces :).

Good bye Great Grandpa

Today was a sad day but happy. My great grandpa died on Friday October 14 2011. I wasn't close to him and to tell you the truth I am not sure when the last time it was that I saw him. I just remember when I was a kid he would always go to my grandparents house and bring stuffed animals that he picked up somewhere. They usually looked ratted and old (I honestly think he got them out of the garbage), but it was always the thought the count. As he got older I remember he had a hard time hearing so after awhile you just stopped talking because he never knew what you were saying. Or at least that was how it was with me because I had a quiet voice. Today in the memorial service they talked about how he would visit the old people in the nursing home (he was 80) and hand out snickers until they said he couldn't anymore. Then he started to hand out bananas. What a great man, to always visit the elderly and actually care and love them. To always make an effort to bring someone a gift even if it was out of the garbage. Even though I didn't know my great grandpa that well I can learn from his example of always loving and giving.

It is amazing how families work. Today I found out that my grandpa has three brothers and a sister still alive. All this time I only thought my grandpa had one brother. Why is it that most of the time families get together because of a death or wedding?? I wish that there was a family reunion every year or two years. It's amazing how much family you still have alive that you just didn't know you had. I know it is hard but it would be nice to stay in touch with family. I think of my husbands family and how many cousins he has that he doesn't really keep in touch with them and then I have my family with my very few cousins and I think we keep in contact well.

Today watching my grandpa cry as my mom hugged him was hard. I have spent every summer with my grandparents from age 2-17. I have never ever seen my grandpa cry before. My family is kind of the family who doesn't show a whole lot of emotion (I must be the odd ball). Sometimes I think they think they are stronger than they are. Everyone knows that we all have emotions. Studies have shown that it is good to cry once and awhile. It was amazing and sad at the same time to see someone you LOVE so much start to cry. You never know what they are really feeling because they don't really talk about their feelings. I couldn't imagine losing my dad or even my grandpa. That would be one of the hardest things. I love my family so much and I am glad to be so close to them. 

New move!!

We finally got everything moved into our new home yesterday. A big thank you to my mother and father in law for driving all the way out here to help us move and to occasionally watch Annabelle. The one thing I hate about moving is you never know where anything is. We are still looking for a washer and dryer, but for now I will use the laundromat. I'm not sure how this is going to work with a baby and one car. Nights and weekends will be laundry night.  Banana is sleeping and I should be putting this house together considering I want to go to the pumpkin patch this weekend and to a hot dog roast out at my grandma's. But I just have 0 motivation.

Dog attack!! YIKES

Most of you know that we have to move again because the house we were renting got sold. I should REALLY be going to bed but I remembered that it had been awhile since I wrote on my blog. We went back to Nebraska this last weekend and it was so great to see family and friends. Our little Banana was not the happiest camper though. I believe she is going through some major anxiety issues which is normal for a nine month old, but we had fun anyways. I didn't get as much pictures as I wanted. We are having a hard time getting pictures with Aaron's family. One of these days ;).