Part of Bradey's apprenticeship he has do get so many hours in different departments of the company. During mid-October and the first of November he was gone for 8 days straight twice, but on the upside he was home for 6 days straight afterwards!! The first "hitch" (October 18th-25th) we went up to Washington to visit my dad!! OH my goodness it was so much fun!! Dad took off the ENTIRE time we were there!! The traveling part wasn't as bad as I thought, thank goodness for DVD players in cars!! Although what should have taken us 9 hours, took us 11 hours! :/ But when we finally got there it was worth the drive!! Every time we've seen Dad since Carter was born, Carter's been too small to understand and recognize his Pappa. But this trip they REALLY bonded!! It was so adorable. He LITERALLY when EVERYWHERE Pappa went! If Dad walked out the door, and Carter saw him, Carter would start crying like there was no tomorrow! And of course Londyn had to play with ALL of the expensive music "toys" of Pappa's. The piano, the guitars, and the Karaoke machine!! We got to go to some family friends' soccer games, play at the park for HOURS, walk to the river with the dogs, play with Michael and Susan, and the kids' favorite ride in Pappa's truck! They also got to sit on Pappa's tractor, but no riding on it because it rained like crazy and there was LOTS of mud!! :)
We got home and the kids were SOO happy to see their Daddy!! And they got him for 6 whole days!! We were so busy that we didn't have time to carve pumkins until the Saturday of our Trunk or Treat! Bradey and I have a deal. I gut the pumkin and he gets to carv the designs out!! I think they turned out rather well! After getting done with the pumkins we put our costumes on. This year was a bit easier than last year. The kids are older and WANT CANDY!! So they were better sports about it. We were the characters from Peter Pan. Londyn was Tinker Bell, Carter was the Crocodile, I was Peter Pan, and Bradey was SUPPOSE to be Captain Hook. Bradey REALLY hates Halloween. He always says, "It's the mother of ALL NON-holidays!" So when he didn't dress up! But that's ok we had a fun Halloween anyways!
