Halloween

We spent Halloween in Utah this last year! It's funny because we thought oh this will be fun in a "normal" neighborhood, they'll get more candy and have fun seeing friends and family. Yeah we went around 1 block at my parents neighborhood and they were done! It was cold for them and the houses were spaced far apart compared to military housing that has 2-4 houses connected together. So in the amount of time it took us to go around  the one block which is actually a very LONG block we could have gone that same distance here on base and got 5 times the amount of candy. Not that they would eat that much...they didn't even eat half of what they got in UT. They just like knocking on the door for the candy...but in military housing there's a lot more of going up to a bowl on a porch to pick out a piece of candy because usually one of the spouses is deployed therefore you have nobody to pass out the candy if your taking your kids around. I had to do a bowl on the porch last year because Wayne was on mission and would have been on mission this year if we hadn't had to come home to UT. And he will probably miss it again next year as well and that's ok we take lots of pictures and video for him. :)
And this year I made Peyton's Batgirl costume. After looking at the $50 dollar one at walmart i decided that was to ugly for that much money and I could do better. I also hated the boys batman costume and just bought some sweats and black pants for Matt and some batman gear to wear over his costume...but I keep getting reminded about the belt I forgot....like right now at this very moment I'm being told that I still forgot his belt.

Batgirl, Robin and Batman. We had a blast this year!!

For everyone wondering where I got the cool pink Batman mask....from a pink spray can and a can of pink glitter blast! Because yes people thought I really bought a pink one somewhere and were in complete shock that i made her costume. The Pink Batgirl was the talk of the fall festival here on base. We had a ton of people asking about her costume and how I made the gauntlets for her.

Crazy Life and Three Birthdays!!

Wow it's been way to long since my last post!! Matthew is now 5!! He had a Batman birthday this year and then started school a few days later!
Matthew is now old enough for sports here on base. So he played soccer this year and started football but then we had a family emergency and had to go home. He LOVES football though, he likes soccer but not as much as football.

Matt is a HUGE Batman fan and wanted a Batman cake for his birthday. I was glad the new Batman movie was coming out because HotWheel came out with there limited edition Batman Wall tracks. So I got that and a couple new cars for Matt for his birthday. I also love that the tracks go on the walls and not the floor!!
                                      

The night before school we read The Night Before Kindergarten....well we read it every night a week before school started because he was SO excited for school.

We didn't get a picture on the first day so we got a second day of school pic.

Matt wasn't happy when he found out his team was the Dolphins until I said but Matt that's your school mascot and grandmas school mascot. So now he was happy to be a dolphin like his grandma!

 Peyton is 3 now and had a huge princess cake i made her. It was her first Brithday back home in Utah with all our family and she was spoiled!! She is also quite the dancer girl so I am looking at signing her up for hula while we are still here on the island.

Peyton got two cakes this year. I made on and then I had the ever so talented Lillylicious make the big cupcake one for her photos. And not only did it look fantastic but it was " A very yummy pinkalicious cake"

Sharing her cake with Pinkalicious!

Peyton in her lil Audrey Hepburn dress I made for her photos...she LOVES that dress!

Mason is already 18 months old...it's gone by so fast that I didn't realize he was that old already! I was telling people he will be 16 months old next week....yeah no. He was turning 18 months old the next week. What happened to months 16 & 17?! He is also OBSESSED with anything fish! He see a fish and he starts screaming "ish ish ish ISH!!" We were at the commissary the other day and he saw a fish on the wall and started screaming fish as loud as he could and clapping his hands. So this year his christmas consisted of anything Finding Nemo that I could find. He is going to have a fish overload!!

We spent the end of october and November in Utah. My mom got a bad infection in her leg and we almost lost her. She then almost lost her leg. But she is getting better, she has a long road ahead of her.
 Wayne's unite flew us all home to be with my mom. Wayne stayed for a couple weeks then took Mason and Peyton back to Hawaii with him and I kept Matt with me and had him going to school there.
Matt and I got back last week and yesterday we spent the day at Bellows beach. The kids were all excited to be back at the beach!!
                   
I can't belive how fast Mason's first year went!! It seemed to take F..O..R..E..V..E..R.. to get to Matt's first birthday and Peytons went slow but faster and Mason...well he's 19 months now!!

   Again a Fabulous cake by the talented Lillylicious!! I wanted a Hungry Caterpillar cake to go with his Hungry caterpillar newborn photo! Love they way they both have turned out!!

SERES Training and the ER

And now Wayne was sent to SERES school (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training) basically you go and get beat up. It is now mandatory for everyone...glad I backed out of bootcamp when I did ;) Not really. He had to do a CFT (combat fitness test) before he left and when he was done his kidneys were hurting him. This has happened before and i told him to go to the Dr but the first time it went away after a few days same the second time around...this time when he got to seattle he was sick and by the time he got to spokane he was having a hard time breathing so he went to the hospital and is now in acute renal failure. So please keep him in your prayers.
I'm kinda running around like a crazy lady today trying to get ahold of all family and friends and his unit. I have two family members in the hospital now in two different states, so i'm kinda going a bit crazy at the moment. Trying to keep myself busy while I wait for phone calls to let me know whats going on. They have done so many tests and they all come back negative, so we don't know why this is happening or what is causing it. And i'm kinda just stuck here in Hawaii.