The Beal/Cannon Family: Ryan's B-Day, Halloween, and More

It's been a fun filled week! Ryan's birthday was on Tuesday. We had Little Caesars pizza for dinner and carved pumpkins (meaning I carved 4 pumpkins!) and watched Hocus Pocus. I'm not carving 4 pumpkins next year! I think we may need to paint pumpkins instead (and by we I mean the dang kids). We had cake and Ryan opened presents. He was a cute little birthday buddy. Scott and I went on an impromptu movie date night later that night as well and it was super fun.

On Halloween I had my first basketball game. It's such a relief to get that first game out of the way. We lost but it was a close game throughout so that's good. We have two more games this week. When I got home we went trick or treating with the kids. It was so fun! My kids are at really fun ages. I love it. I also love that we do a really short route but we get a lot of bang for our buck! It's not a very busy neighborhood so at some houses they will tell my kids to take several handfuls. It's like going to 10 houses at once. Love it! We get home after a short time and the kids get plenty of candy. It's the best. Plus it was cold! We were all happy to get home quickly.

On Friday after basketball practice I did a few things around my house and then headed to Rigby to help my sister paint. We were talking several weeks ago about getting together. We were trying to think of what to do and Trisha said she was wanting to paint her basement and I said that was perfect! Trisha and I aren't hang out people as much as we are project people! It's really fun for us to get together and work on a project together. My mom and sister joined in on the fun. We painted for a few hours and knocked the project out so fast! My mom made me an early birthday German chocolate cake! So, so good! We watched a movie that I slept through and later went to bed. I really don't get enough sleep. The next day we went to breakfast together. My breakfast was SO good. Yum. Then Trisha and I headed to the fabric store to pick out some fabric. Trisha made me a quilt when I got married and I've been using it on my bed ever since. It's starting to fall apart. I asked her if she would be willing to sew me another one and she said yes. I'm very excited. I hope I made good fabric choices. I will be excited to see it when she's done. I've given her an indefinite time line so I'm not sure. Who knows maybe it will be a birthday present next year. Until then I'll just use the one I have. After that I drove back home. I was actually glad we finished so quickly because it was nice to be able to go and have fun but still get back and have some of my weekend to relax and get a few things done. It was perfect!

This coming week should be a doozy. I need to pace myself big time.