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Happy Halloween

Today AR had her Halloween party at preschool. She went as a fairy princess. QT was also invited and she went as Tigger. QT had more fun than AR. AR took care of her little sister and made sure she got snacks and met everyone. It was very cute. Most of the parents brought in treat bags for the kids so at snack time they were over whelmed by cookies, cake and candy. The three C's. AR brought her snack bags she made in on Thursday with Grandpap. It was our day to bring snack so I am so glad we brought in our Halloween bags early. For they didnt need any more junk food today. Although our bag only had pretzels in the bag with playdough and stickers. No candy, cookies or cake. AR had a great time having her grandpap at preschool with her on Thursday. The moms at the preschool voted and they all think Grandpap should be SANTA this year. All except AR. We will have to figure something out. So Grandpap if you are interested you should start growing your beard for the Holidays!

We had lots of company over the last few weeks. On October 19, 2006 Aunt Jane and Uncle David from Australia arrived with Grandpaps sister Margie and her husband Uncle Roger. Grandpap actually arrived the next day. Much later than he was suppose to. His flight kept getting delayed out of Pittsburg. On his return flight he was also delayed. They cancelled his flight out of Watertown and the airline wanted to book him out of Syracuse to overnight in the Pittsberg Airport. He told them no thanks and Cherly went back and picked him up. And he flew out the next morning and caught the same flight out of Pittsberg. I dont think he got into Las Vegas until 3 or 4pm their time. They are 3 hours behind us. They had him rerouted to the craziest places with many more delays.

The Australians wanted to see another New England fall foliage. Which they did see driving from Penn to here. The day after they arrived Friday, it rained and snowed about 4 inches in 2 hours. It was beautiful. Huge snow flakes and they were coming down so fast. They got to see two seasons for one trip. We were laughing how lucky they were. We enjoyed their visit and they were all to leave Sunday but Roger thankfully decided to stay and help Grandpap with the basement and raising the floors. We were so Happy Uncle Roger decided to stay also. We got lots of work done and the girls just love their Uncle Roger. They were sad to see him leave yesterday! AR kept asking him why did Aunt Jane, Uncle David and Aunt Margie leave him here. He replied so that he could stay and play with her. She loved that answer.

We had quite the sleeping quarters while everyone was here. Aunt Jane and Uncle David slept in Grandma's room. Grandma and Grandpap slept in the living room with Uncle Roger and Aunt Margie. Grandma and Grandpap swapped the couch and Lazy boy each night. Asa and I with QT and AR slept in our room. However, AR decided she wanted to sleep in the living room with everyone so we put her mattress on the floor with everyone too. Aunt Margie and Uncle Roger had an air mattress. After the first night of sleeping Grandma slept with her air plugs because everyone snored so bad. I think it was mainly me and Grandpap who did most of the snoring.

Asa and I went to our first Farmers meeting. It is called the Grange. They are suppose to talk about local farming issues and to get the local farmers together. We were invited to their anual fund raiser meeting. It was fun but we didnt talk too much about farming because we were bidding on wrapped white elephant gifts and that money went to their state chapter of the Grange. We were invited by the Pastor of the local Lutheran Church and his wife. They are very nice and it is affliated to AR's preschool. We had a good time. The who's who of the farm community were there and they all knew of us. They said they new with in twenty minutes of when the farm sold to us. It is a very small community. The one farmer who raises organic dairy is also the Fire Chief of Redwood. He knew we had called 911 to get the number for poison control because QT had gotten a hold of the childrens vitamins and was eating a mouth full when I caught her. I knew she couldnt have eaten more than 10 and I had fished out about 4 from her mouth but I couldnt find the number for poison control so I had to call 911. They wouldnt give me the number and because I called the had to dispatch the ambulance to our house. This happened the morning Grandpap was going to preschool with AR. The Fire Chief said he was just getting through milking and the dispatch wasnt too excited over the call so he wondered what had actually happened. Needless to say poison controll said even if she had ten she should be fine and the first symptom would be vommitting and if she isnt doing that she would be fine. And that if she hadnt had breakfast we may want to feed her.

There is always some excitement even if you dont want any. Saturday we went to a community luncheon at the firehall for some kid with cancer. They were raising money for him to pay for his medical bills. Asa purchased a coon hunt or Racoon hunt and Grandpap bid against him and he was very shocked. Asa goes coon hunting this friday. I asked if he was going to get the girls hats. Saturday night we also had good news of getting two offers on our house. We picked one and we hope it all goes through and we should close on our house November 27, 2006. YEAH.

Sunday it was so windy and rainy here it reminded Asa and I of weather in Alaska. It blew over our metal 6x12 dog kennel. The girls play house, tumbled across the lawn. It was incredibly windy, which is also probaly why Grandpap couldnt leave.

Considering it has been over a week not too much has happened. Tonight we took the girls out trick or treating. They had so much fun. QT's eyes were wide open looking at all the costumes and she kept going into everyone's house and we couldnt get her out without going in after her. It was funny. There was one house which was pretty scary and AR wouldnt go into it. QT had no fear and just went around her sister and straight into the house and got her candy then wouldnt leave. She was mesmerized by the strobe lights. When we got home we had dinner and I made the girls brush their teeth and now they are in bed with Dad.