This is where the cute halloween pictures should be...

but, my camera batteries are dead and so i took none.
tony wore his same pooh bear costume from last year.
mae and addie wore the witch (we call them princess) costumes and ry wore the ninja costmue, all of which i got at target after halloween for a couple of dollars last year. i'm sure there are pictures on here already of them all in these same costumes, already... so i'm off the hook, right?

mae is mis.er.a.ble. really. i slept (or didn't) on the couch with her last night and she is a scratchy, flaky, sticky, raw, bloody mess. SIGH.

I haven't been blogging much. For one, I'm making my own homemade bread now. Yes... very exciting for me. I am NOT a natural baker. Usually don't like it at all. But, a very generous person I know gave our family a sweet gift of a Bosch machine, and now I'm an addict. Grinding my own wheat (yes...i'm back on gluten! hallelujah!) and baking my own bread. I've made bread, cinnamon rolls, pumpkin muffins and more bread in the last few days. so so so fun. and yummy.

the other reason i've been in a blog funk...i'm drowning in the elimination diet with her. pretty exhausted by it. everything we try to add back in...and i mean everything... causes a reaction. apples. dairy. egg. wheat. all of it. CRAP! i want to pull out my hair...and so does she. her diet right now consists of: rice. chicken. carrots. repeat. rice. chicken. carrots. repeat.

i have not been so excited about halloween this year, dreading the 'its not fair! everyone can eat candy but me!' wails that i knew would be coming. We went to church tonight and a sweet new friend from church took it upon herself to make little gift bags filled with non food items for mae for our church party instead. At each little game station, instead of the candy she can't have, she was given a little prize bag instead. AWWWWWWWWWWW.... Thank you so much, Stacy. You really rock the planet. So so so thankful for you and all your generosity! (She watched the kids for us last night, too, so that we could go out to a fundraising dinner for a ministry in Denver. Shout out to the Staceter.)
So. Tonight turned out fun. AND, the Mizzou vs. Colorado game was at 11 am, so Marrty could go with us to church (cause he couldn't miss being at that game, with Mizzou right here in Colorado). And, he was in a good mood, b/c Mizzou won. So... it was a Happy Halloween afterall!
How was yours?!