Family Photos

Well, since this week was already crazy I decided to take some family photos. The weather was good (for photos), there were leaves on the trees and I found coordinating shirts for the whole family. This was a good recipe so far. I used the timer and wha la!! Family photos!! I am pretty proud of what I got out of it! The crazy kids running away!! I was really hoping for a serene inspirational photo of my kids walking off into the beautiful fall colors. Good plan! Wrong group of kids!!
The Boys!

The Girls!

The kids!

Hughes Family 2009

Trunk or Treat

With all of my little goblins being sick and the weather being tricky we decided we would settle on doing the church trunk or treat. It is 64 degrees and not raining. I don't think that will be the case tomorrow on halloween!! The little goblins!
Taylor is a princess in pajamas!! Now the boots, just happen to be a recent purchase and she can't seem to take them off. They suddenly match everything!!!

Zack explained his costume as "A Dark Shadow". There is something in Harry Potter called a Dementor that has a similar appearance. He was flip flopping between the two! He designed his costume and I got him the supplies!!

Since the kids had their picture taken with the SWAT team member in NYC this summer, Chris has been obsessed with them. Being a "SWAT guy" is all he has talked about since then. We put some things together and I sewed up a vest a wha la! Chris is happy!

Tim is our little vampire. He wasn't too interested in the fake teeth until the last minute. He was trying really hard to make a "spooky" face and not smile. That is a little hard for such a happy kid!!

And then there's Maddie! She wanted to be a vampire then a ninja. Not sure why but when we showed her those costumes she didn't like them because they weren't pink. She settled on a princess but had to go with wings since they were pink. The bottom line for Maddie is that she is Pink.

A funny sidenote about her pink infatuation. She wears Luvs diapers and they have the blues clues characters on them. There are 5 different animals and one of them is pink. Yes one out of five. She digs through the whole bag til she finds a pink one every time she needs a diaper change. Once we ran out of the pink character diapers, I had to start putting pink stickers over the blue, green, and purple characters!! She is our little pink princess!! (Thanks Tori!!)

Our Crazy Week and Scars!!

These are the two pictures I got of Timothy's wound!! He seems to be pretty cool with it. He is going to be a vampire for Halloween so he thought it would look even spookier.
This is kind of a long post. This day was quite the event!

This past week has been quite an adventurous one!! I went out of town last Wednesday to see my Mom and sisters for a fun trip to Minneapolis for Time Out For Women. This was supposed to be a fun and relaxing time for us girls to kick back and have some time to ourselves. Well, that is about the only thing that went as planned. Greg stayed back with all of the children. On Saturday afternoon he mentioned that Christopher had quite a fever and wasn't feeling too great. This carried on thru Monday when I arrived back home so Chris had to stay home from school with Dad and Maddie. By Tuesday when Greg was back at work I was graced with Christopher (still had a fever) and Zack (vomitting) home from school. Just as I was to go and pick up Tim from school Taylor's school called to let me know I had to come get her as she "didn't look good". Yeah me!! So, now all 5 were home! Wednesday Zack was able to go to school but Chris and Taylor were still home!! By Thursday Taylor, Tim, and Chris were out of school.

Friday morning I woke with a positive attitude that all would be able to return to school and I could accomplish my extensive list of errands and chores! HA! Hilarious!

First Taylor sounded like she was going to cough up a lung! She is home!! Tim was looking good and Chris had been fever free for a day and a half!! I had all the kids ready to go with lunches packed and Halloween treats ready and loaded in their backpacks. I decide to vaccuum a bit (the one rug in the house!) when all of a sudden there is the ear piercing scream from the basement! Timothy has taken the toy dinosaur to the face!!! I looked down the stairs to see Tim coming up with Zack leading the way with "the story" as blood is running down Tim's face!! Yeah me!! It didn't take long to see that we were going to the ER. I called Greg, told him to head back home. Let my neighbor know that I was leaving and see if she could handle getting boys on the bus. No problem. Taylor is going to stay with Maddie and we are good. Start to load Tim in the van, commence vommitting from Christopher!! What!! This is not good. Call neighbor and let her know only one child getting on bus!! I am pretty sure the neighbors think the circus moved in a year ago up the drive from them!!

Well, as you can see in the photo, we managed to get away with no stiches. Just some super glue!! That went much better than I imagined stiches going!!!

By the time I got home I now had to deal with Christopher being sick again. I called the doctor, got an appointment, and headed in!! Well, it seems that the way things are going, the kids are getting the flu (H1N1 with their symptoms) then that is pushing them into bronchitis or pneumonia. We get.......Pneumonia!! Chris is now on antibiotics and we are on the waiting game for the other 2 sick ones to get it. Greg leaves town on Monday so I am sure all this will catch me around then!! That's about the way it seems to go this week.

All in all, this has been a crazy week. It is almost over and I am looking forward to that!! I am living by a new motto (picked up on my getaway!) If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. I am certainly trying to laugh a lot!! That is the best plan I can come up with at this point!!