So Gracie’s costume was finished in the nick of time…as in last night.  We had a Pumpkin Party today so Gracie got to try it out.  I’m happy with the way it looks and she is thrilled to be a Garden Fairy:

Gracie and her friend Ellie–

The back: 

Trinity got some candy in her and ran everywhere.  This is the only shot I have of her, really, where she’s not hoarding candy.  (But there is a load of candy in that Dixie cup!)

Tomorrow night is the big Family Fall Fest at Dell.  We’re excited.  There’s a costume contest, candy and all kinds of fun things.  And then on Halloween we will go up to the church I work MDO at, they have a big thing every year with a petting zoo and inflatables and lots more–you guessed it–candy.  Trinity will be in heaven.  Poor child is so deprived, I never buy candy to have in the house and she’s just gotten her first taste of it.  She can’t get enough. 

Okay cheerleading is tonight, so I have to go.  See ya’ll later!

There were too many pictures and I’m on the laptop so I only grabbed two of them off the shared files…so this is all you get.  But I’ll have more soon.

Gracie with her classroom’s pumpkin wagon:

They only had heavy pumpkins left and it was just too sad seeing that Trinity wouldn’t be able to hold one.  So I bought her this baby pumpkin in the gift shop: 

They’re actually going back to the pumpkin patch tomorrow with the grandparents.  Lots of pumpkins around here. 

I *finally* finished Gracie’s halloween costume.  I think it will be cute.  Pics coming soon!

Haven’t heard back on the results on my CT scan.  No news is good news, right?  That’s what I’m goin’ with!

I’m burning all my pumpkin spice candles and the house smells yummy!

Gracie has been copying letters and numbers.  She got hold of an AVON catalog so we have all these papers around the house that say things like, “your choice $9.99″ and “only $1.99 each” in her handwriting.  That makes me laugh. 

Okay well I was just informed that there’s some stinky meat in the fridge that I thawed but it spoiled and I think it’s leaking.  Agh.  Gross.  So I have to go.  Have a nice night.  =) 

Congrats to Katie and Jason (Chris’ sister and her husband)   Last night they welcomed little Joby Leon into the world.  I can’t wait till we get to meet him in real life…

Isn’t he precious?  Gracie is all confused, she thinks he’s her brother.  So her brother lives in New York.  LOL  And Trinity just points to the pic and says, “baby!”  What a wonderful day yesterday was! 

The race this morning was soooo much fun!  It was perfect race weather, a little on the chilly side but warm enough to really enjoy it.  We got up at 6:30 and got the girls dressed and headed downtown.  I along with about 10 other people spoke at the opening ceremony, which was in front of the starting line. Our stage was a huge UPS truck that we stood on top of! 

Our family before the race:

Then I met Chris, the girls, my mom, dad and sister, Brooke at the 1 mile starting line. 

Next year I’m going to run it.  At the end, me and my mom (and all the survivors) got roses.  We met Chris’ work team from Dell.  They all took off this morning to come out and participate, which I thought was an awesome show of support for Chris and our family!  

Then we ate breakfast at the Pink Hat Cafe, which was set up inside Coach’s above the ballpark. 

We ate Panera’s Pink Ribbon bagels and fruit and drank some yummy Starbucks coffee before heading out to the ballpark for the survivor ceremony. 

That’s the OU girls basketball team!  Wooooo!

Seeing all those pink tees and hats was so encouraging!  On our hats, we stuck pink ribbon stickers, one for every year we had survived.  Some of the women there had over 20 stickers!  One of the other survivors said to me, “hey, imagine your hat someday with 70 ribbons on it!” Just such a great time.  We were all exhausted and the girls are napping.  We’re all relaxing now here at home.  What a fun day!

ETA:  Yes, me and the girls are on the front page of the Daily Oklahoman.  Yes, the article is mainly assumptions.  It states that I didn’t have health insurance, that’s not true.  We had really *good* insurance through AOL.  We just needed help paying for childcare while I recovered from my mastectomy.  So in the words of the head coach of the OSU football team, talking about the assumptions printed in the Daily Oklahoman:  “It’s Garbage.  And the person who put it in there is garbage!”  LOL I’m not normally an OSU fan, but this is something me and Mike have in common.

Oh yes, and Katie’s water broke so either today or tomorrow I’m going to be an AUNT!  Wooooo!