A tale of two frogs

A few of my children have been blanket babies. When Chase was born I found a cute little frog blanket (small square with a frog head). I thought, this will be great because it's small so he won't be able to drag it all over the place! Little did I know what I had started. Later, as we found he had a huge attachment we bought another frog. It got lost. Over the years "frog" has been very well loved, snipped, worn through-think velveteen rabbit. We have been unable to find a back up frog until a week or so ago. I was in Target and had to take Chase to the bathroom. Outside the bathroom door was a cart that had in it -you guessed it-a FROG!!!! Chase noticed it immediately. We went in to the bathroom and found a lady changing a little girl's diaper. I asked if she was the owner of said frog and proceeded to ask how to find one. We are now the proud owners of TWO backup frogs. A few days after the frogs arrived, we couldn't find frog (this is a rather frequent occurrance. I don't even want to think of the hours I have spent looking for frog). At the end of the day we still hadn't found him so I pulled out a new one. The look on the four year old's face was priceless. Grinned from ear to ear forever!! A few days later the orginal (and by far,favorite) frog was found, and young Chase dozed off to dreamland with two frogs in tow!!

Trick or Treat

For the first time ever, our whole family dressed a la theme. However, due to the rush of the day I failed to get a full family photo. It all started with Chase as a Knight, Delainey as a princess, and Braden as a dragon. Andrew added on as a serf, with Matt being a king, and me being a socerer (read Sorcerer's apprentice hat)! It was fun!


If you take a close look, you'll see that Delainey is actually "screaming" as Braden "attacks" her while Chase defends!!


Chase and Delainey went to trick or treat at Matt's office.

The "not so" new house

So, after a month with no internet, the business of unpacking, and not being able to log on to blogger I can now post some pictures of the new house!!

Here goes:

WE'RE BAAAAACCKKKK

Hail to Jared, the conquering hero!! He just dropped by for the evening and was able to get me back on the blog!!! Waahooo!! Now I'll be back to posting real soon!!

Ya'll come back now, ya hear??!!!