Day 21

Day 21: Picture of Myself

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Day 20

Day 20: Nicknames

I think the best name I have been called is momma. It just melts my heart everytime, nothing else comes close, but a few other names I have been called is 'princess' babe, baby mainly by Jake. Lou from my momma. Eri from Hannah and Noodle from my grandpa...not too sure where that one came from.

another post later...right now we have Tyler & Storie's birthday party going on!! Pictures and update later.

Day 19

Day 19: Something I Miss
I really miss being pregnant. Not just with baby Reese, but with Tyler and Storie. I L O V E being pregnant! (I know, I know I'm one of those weird ones.) I love everything about it. I miss all the kicks, rolls, and jabs. I miss my belly getting bigger week by week, month by month. The excitement and anticipation of finding out what is growing inside of yourself. I miss counting down the trimesters and months, waiting anxiously for your due date. I miss the nervousness of birth. The first moment you get to see this miracle you birthed. It's the most beautiful event I have ever experienced and I can't wait to do it all over again. And if Jake would let me again and again and again! :)

Day 18

Day 18: Regrets

The only regret I have is that growing up I wish I would have treated my parents with respect. I feel sick sometimes thinking of the way I use to treat them. All teenagers go through it, but I still feel bad to this day. So I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry Mom & Dad. I love you both more than you can imagine. Thanks for everything you have done/given for me.

Other than that, I really don't have any regrets. I wish I would have made some different choices back in the day, but if I had maybe my life wouldn't be the same as it is today so I don't regret making any of those choices. I am who I am today because of my past.

Day 17

Day 17: Something I Look Forward To

we'll start with the basics and work our way into the future.

I am looking forward to Halloween.

I am looking forward to Tyler(3) and Storie's(1) birthdays!!

I am looking forward to Thanksgiving and eating turkey & apple pie.

I am looking forward to seeing my husband again...it's been 6 longgg weeks.

I am looking forward to Christmas!!!!

I am looking forward to bringing in another new year with my family. 2011

I am looking forward to seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test. I want another baby so badly.

I am looking forward to BEING DEBT FREE!!

I am looking forward to being off the Howard!

I am looking forward to the next phase of our lives.

I am looking forward to watching Tyler and Storie grow up playing and loving together.

I am looking forward to growing old with Jake.

I am looking forward to watching my children grow up and get married

I am looking forward to being a grandmother

Day 16

Day 16: My Dream House

Halfway through and a day!! It's still not too late to link up with Katie's Journey to participate in her 30 day blog challenge!

I have given my dream house a lot of thought a whole page in my journal plus countless hours thinking of every minute detail. Here is 2 outside pictures. I love little things about them both. If you combine them that would be my perfect outside house.

I love the 3 windows here in the above picture. I want that in my house. They're not attached to bedrooms, their just big sky windows so there is always light in the living room. LOVE that. And I love the porch better on this one (except I want the front door to open in the middle of the house like below)
I want a H U G E front yard where there is room to run and play. I want a light cream almost gray colored house with black shudders and a red door. I want a few big trees in the front yard so there is plenty of colorful falling leaves when autumn comes. I want an American Flag hung from my front porch like above! Can't you just picture these combined houses in the fall. With 4 pumpkins carved and painted sitting outside on the front steps, leaves scattered everywhere, the windows are all open and the air is just starting to get crisp. ahh. That is l o v e.

This is my kitchen<3> perfect kitchen. This kitchen just screams home-y. I can just picture myself baking at the stove while preparing dinner for the kids and Jake tonight. I've got my little apron on and some pearls. :) I also love the window over the sink...can you blieve that in every house I have lived in (besides my Missouri house) I have NEVER had a window over the sink. sad. I want to be able to look out into the back yard and see my kids playing. Yelling to them to share from the open window. I want us all gathered around our large dining table eating dinner and discussing our days.

I don't really have a picture of a living room, but I want it to be comfy, cozy, just some place to cuddle up on the couch watching movies and feel safe. I want the walls a deep purple with black and a pale blue accenting it. I want a cat walk over the living room. (where you can look down from the 2nd floor and see into the living room) I can just imagine Christmas morning the kids running downstairs and looking over the rail up top and seeing our 9ft Christmas tree just glowing in the wee early hours with presents scattered underneath.

This is the closest I could find to start my bathroom, however it is nothing like in my imagination. When you enter my bathroom you enter through 2 large french doors. It is a shabby cream colored carpet until you get to the tub/shower area. It has a large plushy brown couch with a chair in the 'sitting' area. It has a standup shower with 4 shower heads clear glass all around it. My favorite part is the bathtub. It's a jacuzzi tub sitting up on a platform with a HUGE bay window overlooking our backyard/woods. There are purple and cream colored candles scattered everywhere behind the tub with soft music floating overhead. The bay window is the crank windows which are usually open while I am relaxing in the tub. this is my heaven.

I want a large wooden staircase that opens up in the main hall leading to the front door.

I want my house to have 4-5 bedrooms with a few bathrooms here and there. I will have a scrapbook/crafts room along with a downstairs with a walk out basement. 3 car garage. (2 on main level and 1 car garage in the walk out basement-also so Jake can have his man cave!)It will have tons of windows for natural lighting. We will be a mile or two away from neighbors out in the country. There will be a huge fenced in back yard with only a tree or two for shade. Room for a vegetable garden, flowers for Storie and I to plant, dirt for Ty to dig in. Room for 2-3 dogs to run around in. My house will be on a few acres of land with a pond within walking distance. I think that about covers it...

Day 15

Day 15: Bible Verse

"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." -Isaiah 41:10

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." -Matthew 5:4

"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all of your heart."-Jeremiah 29:13

"Don't be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time." -Matthew 6:34

Day 14

Day 14: A Picture I Love


The first looks at my children are pictures I LOVE.

Day 13

Day 13: Goals

find some kind of schooling to complete.

talk Jake into more children.... ;)

find out what we're going to do with the rest of our lives.

become debt-free.

have a natural birth at a birthing center.

pray more.

find a church and start attending regularly.

control my temper at trying times.

spend more time with Tyler and Storie.

travel the world more.

Day 12

Day 12: What You Believe

I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins.

I believe that you don't have to go to church to have a relationship with God.

I believe that everything does truly happen for a reason-even if it sucks.

I believe that I will get to see my angel Reese again soon.

I believe that Reese was the only child we're ever going to have that looked like me. (God has a sense of humor.)

I believe in angels here on earth.

I believe in helping people just because.

I believe in Christmas all year round.

I believe in marriage and family.

I believe in chivalry.

I believe in long relaxing country drives with the windows down and the radio on.

I believe country music saves the soul.

I believe in our military that give their lives for our freedom.

I believe in true love.

I believe that my children saved me.

Day 11

Day 11: Favorite TV Shows

We just got cable again I guess a year ago, we hadn't watch tv since before Tyler was born so around June 2007. We were doing awesome! Saving money, getting use to the idea that Tyler wouldn't watch tv instead he would play outside. Growing up we hardly ever watched tv. We were outside from sun up to sun down. That's the way it should be (to me), but we got cable again in September 09 and we've had it for a year and just now got rid of it again in Oct 10. Time to step away from the tv once more and get myself and the kiddos back outside and active.

buttttt while we're staying at my parents house they have cable! :)

so some of my favorite shows were/are:

Army Wives

Law & Order SVU

Hoarders

Intervention

Burn Notice

Gangland

Sister Wives

Jersey Shore

Money Hungry

Day 10 of 30 Day Blog

Well it's....... Day 10: Something You Are Afraid Of
for everyone still following and participating you can view Katie's blog here since she is the one that started this awesome bloggness!

I hate saying my fears because then I feel like it might become a reality, kinda lame, but that's the way I am. I won't even say the g word (ghost)

I am afraid of something happening to Jake. I'll leave it at that cause I don't want to get into examples. I can NOT imagine life without Jake. What I would do, who I would love again. No one gets me like he does.

I am also afraid of something happening to Ty or Storie. I could not imagine going through what my mom went through losing Nathan. My life would forever be shattered.

I am also afraid of grasshoppers. THERE I SAID IT. I loathe those little suckers. They just spring up everywhere, they don't hop they l e a p and it terrifies me. I can just imagine one of them leaping up in my face or getting stuck in my hair, springing up on my clothes...eeww-yuck just thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies.

Day 9

Day 9: A Picture Of My Friends
I use to think I had a ton of friends, but over the years I've found out who my real friends truly are. I have realized that it is quality not quantity that counts.

First off, this is my best friend. How cliche, huh?! Well before we even started dating he was a great friend. He has been my longest friend (unless you count my family) and now not only is he still my best friend, but he is also my life-long partner. I love you babe.

My family is also my 'best' friends. It took me awhile years to figure out that while friends come and go family will always be there. Well my family has been there for me through everything. I love them whole heartily

This group....man what to say about this group? I L O V E them. including the guys

This is my military family!! These people understand like NO other. I guess it is because we all know what each other is going through already cause we're experiencing it ourselves and that we only have such a few short years to get to know someone that we just BAM put everything out there within the first few minutes!

aaannnddd these 2 girls are the most genuine, down to earth, best frannns a girl could ever ask for. I am so blessed that God has put them in my life for as long as we can be stationed together. (poor Kari has already left us) Kari is such a sweetheart and one of the most humerous people I have come in contact with. She has just found out she is expecting their first baby and I am beyond happy for her. I can't wait to head to Ohio to visit this little one and it's momma. Kari you are going to be the best mom ever! I love you! And Stacy you have been my life saver. My best friend EVER. I am so lucky to have met you. You are seriously one Hot Momma! I can only wish to look as beautiful as you are! I love Mathew and Sophie as if they were my own and I wish you nothing but happiness. You are my rock, my laugh, and my crying shoulder. Thank you will never be enough. I love you.

and I can't forget these 2 goofballs.

I miss them so much. Jamie is my little mother and Tyler...well there's no words to describe Tyler. hehehe We use to hang out all the time, but another deployment has taken us apart for awhile. December can not get here fast enough. We miss you guys and our weekly cranium! Love you both.

Day 8

Day 8: A Place I've Traveled

I've been to a few different states, visiting, passing through, but I have only lived (so far) in Missouri, Virginia, and California. I LOVE ♥ LOVE San Diego. It is always so sunny and warm! There's always something to do and people to do it with, but Dahlgren, VA holds a special place in my heart.

We first moved to Dahlgren after Jake and I first got married. [Jan 07]

643 A Hall Rd

Dahlgren, VA 22448

It was our very first house, We didn't have ANYTHING and the house was so plain with white white white...did I mention white walls. So I hung up picture frames with no pictures just so something was on the walls!! We conceived our first child there, we went to the D.C. zoo, New York City, and just hung out. It was so cute and quaint I'm praying we get to go back there.

This is the only picture I have here at my parents house.

Day 7

Day 7: My Favorite Movies

I have a ton of favorite movies. A TON. Jake and I watch movies like they're going out of style. He downloads a lot of them, or we red-box them, or every once in awhile we go to the theater on base, since it's free!

Just a few of our favorites:

The Goonies, Harry and The Hendersons, The Notebook, Bio-Dome, In The Army Now, A Christmas Story, Elf, I'll Be Home For Christmas, Deck The Halls, Home Alone, Hocus Pocus, Matilda, 27 Dresses, Avatar, 40 year old Virgin, Hot Tub Time Machine, I love You Man, Knocked Up, Nine, 500 Days of Summer, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, P.S. I Love You, Date Night, 300...

[Okay to be continued-I've got babies crying]

Day 6

Day 6: Something That Makes Me Happy

Short. Simple. To the point.

My kids mean everything to me, I would be lost without them.

Day 5

Day 5: My Siblings

I have an older brother Nathan, who went to live with Jesus when he was 6 years old. I was only a year old when the accident happened. My mom said I use to crawl to his door and cry for him. So sad, huh. I couldn't even begin to imagine trying to tell Storie that she no longer had a big brother. anyways, sorry to get so morose already! It was just Nathan and I so after we lost him my dad went back and un did his vasectomy and we had Aaron and than Hannah.

Aaron

Aaron is my LITTLE brother, okay well not little since he towers over me, but he is my younger brother. We are 3 years and a month-ish apart. Growing up we always played together outdoors. We would swing while singing Disney songs, or we would play indians where he would fine onion grass and dandelions and I would crush them up and make war paint. We really did have alot of fun together. As we got older, we fought more and more. I know we drove my parents crazy with our constant bickering. Aaron is like my mom. Exactly. Exx Actt Lyyy. like my mom. So I think we clashed a lot there. Aaron was/is such a goof. He would just do the dumbest things, but somehow he always made them funny. I mean come on, how annoying would it be to have someone make a singysong about poop, but Aaron can accomplish that AND make it rhyme, all while making you laugh. He also has this weird quirk where he takes a leg hair and tickles his nose with it when he starts getting tired...still to this day! I kid you now! Thank God for his wife Ali, because I think he would still be living at home with Mom and Dad. I kid, Aaron......[but not really] ;)

We are still working on our relationship, it has gotten 100% better. I can't remember the last time we have fought. Thank goodness since we're 24 and 21 years old, HAHAHA! We have normal conversations every few weeks and we get along. And I really do love him. He helped right the world again after Nathan was gone. And I guess technically I got my wish. I have always wished I could have known what it was like to have an older brother....what girl doesn't want an older brother to save her and stick up for her. Aaron is twice my size so I guess that was God's little way of telling me I had what I wanted all along.

Hannah My sister Hannah is 6 years younger than me. We were each spaced out 3 years...if you couldn't tell. We played together growing up, but mainly Hannah was my tag-a-long. I mean she was 6 years younger than me, so when I was hitting pre-teens she was only 6. We couldn't really find much in common in that age difference. We just fought. Actually Aaron and I fought and Hannah was always just kind of there. Now when we were both old enough we double teamed poor Aaron. As I got older I realized what a great thing it was to have a sister. Even though she dressed like me, bought the same things I bought, tryed to act like me, and do the same things I did, it was still pretty cool to have a sister. For instance my favorite number in Soccer was 11, guess what Hannah's favorite number is???? HA! I'm only kidding Hannah! Hannah and I are exactly alike! We look alike, we sound alike, (I will call my mom from Hannahs phone and we will swap back and forth and laugh while my mom tries to guess who she's talking too. We go shopping together and now I have someone to ask what I should wear!! She is so beautiful and I am so envious of her hair. It's so pretty and blonde. She can scrunch it or straighten it and her bangs always seem to do what she wants. UGH. She is the best little sister I could have ever asked for. I can't wait for the years to come when she gets married and starts having babies and our kids can run and play together! (Aaron and Ali too!)
When I got married I also acquired a sister-in-law. Jake's little sister, Erinne.
I'm still getting to know the real Erinne. She is like Jake, but totally different. She is so pretty and I know there is the right guy out there waiting for her. She is into reading (like me!!) and she is phenomenal at tennis! I'm still working on breaking her out of her little shell, but she'll get there! She is one funny girl. Jake and Erinne both has a sense of humor that just cracks people up! I love her.

I also received another sister-in-law when Aaron got married a year ago. Ali is the best person I could have ever imagined and more. I never really thought Aaron would find such a beautiful young woman, no offense Aaron! She is amazing and genuine, down to earth, and gorgeous. She has a booty that I would kill for! Had to put it out there, Ali. She hasn't been around our family for too long so we are still working on her too. I did hear that she farted around my Mom on accident so now we all need her to just start ripping them on a daily basis! ;) I am so lucky to have Ali. We can talk married talk and be closer friends because she's only 4 years younger than me. I only wish we lived closer so I could go on weekly girls nights with my sister/s.

Erinne, Ali, Me, (baby Storie) and Hannah

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On another note I just want to mention that today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. I never thought I would become one of these women, but on 9.1.10 it happened. To read my story you can go here--> http://onegrowingfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/reese.html

I found a wonderful website-->http://www.october15th.com/ It helps families who may be grieving in silence come to term with their loss, connect with who relate to their loss, and to help families live with their loss.

This day is for everyone who has suffered a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, still birth, neo-natal death, sids, or loss of a child.

Today we remember all our little angels that were taken to early, but now wait for us at the Gates of Heaven.

We love you baby Reese can't wait to finally meet you and hold you in my arms. I may not get to hold you in my arms yet, but you are always in my heart.

Day 4

Day 4: Your Parents

My parents...hhmmm where do I start?!? They'll probably be reading this soon so maybe I should mention that my mother would not let me pierce my belly button in the 7th grade after my cousin Leslie got hers done. Or that when my brother, sister and I would want Dairy Queen on our way home my dad would say he would go by for us...than he would tell us to wave as we drove right by. Funny, Dad real funny.

Seriously though, I think if I could have chosen my own parents I know I wouldn't have picked anyone else. My relationship wasn't the best, especially with my Mom. I guess because we are 'too much alike'. I was always Daddy's little girl (one of them) so anytime Mom would say no, Daddy would say yes! :)

My parents have helped make me who I am today....I now know how to correctly raise my kids!

just kidding, just kidding.

I don't know if it was the fact that my older brother died or what, but my parents did anything and everything we asked. (just about) If we wanted to play catch my Dad would play catch, right then and there. No questions asked. No putting it off cause he was busy. They just dropped everything and played with us. I think that is one of the most important things I have taken from my parents. If Tyler wants to play trains, I go play trains because tomorrow or even later might not be there to play trains with him. I want to spend every single minute playing with my kids or spending time making memories with them. Tomorrow is not for certain so live today. I want Tyler and Storie to know that I love them all day, everyday. And that was another important lesson my parents preached. Just because they were mad at us did not mean they did not love us. Something about 'spare the rod, spoil the child' well Momma we had plenty of rod marks.....not really. ;)

I have come to really appreciate my parents and all they did for me, and put up with from me. I did not really understand until I had my own children. I took a lot for granted, but I'm trying to make up for that now. My parents loved me with their whole hearts, they took me to church to learn about God, they taught me right from wrong, taught me that family will always be there for me, and to love unconditionally, and to tell the ones you love that you love them daily. Those values are what I now teach my children. I am so lucky and thankful to have had such great parents growing up to instill in me these values that I hold dear. My family is the most important thing to me. I just hope that I can be as good of a parent to my kids as my parents were to me. Thanks Mom & Dad. I love you both!

mom and me before my wedding. December 30, 2006----yeah I know forever ago, but I'm staying at my parents house and don't have too many pictures here on the computer.

My daddy walking me down the aisle...I love this picture.

Day 3

Day 3: Your First Love

my first love was a nerdy, scrawny, shy boy with brown hair, some big ole eyebrows, dreamy caramel eyes, a fro [for a white boy] who rode his bmx bike everyday after school and chased me throughout high school like none other. He drove a '98 hunter green chevy s10 that he lowered himself. We would spend hours at night on instant messenger and talking on the phone until mornings.

He asked me out by writing a note in 6th grade and finally got me to go out with him at church camp by flirting with a good friend of mine. Our first date was paintballing! I was his first real girlfriend.

That's right folks...my first ever love was my high school sweetheart, my now husband Jake. He wasn't the first boy I ever dated or the first boy I've ever kissed, but he has been the only boy I have ever loved. We have been together for over 10 years now. I still get those butterfly feelings when I see him come home after work, meet him at the pier from an underway. And when he comes home from deployment, it's like falling in love all over again. I am one happy woman!

30 Day Blog Challenge

I found this on a fellow bloggers blog and thought it would be fun to do! Hope everyone enjoys a deeper look into my life! Come join in on the fun! ---> http://katieslifejourney.blogspot.com/



[I am 2 days behind so here is both days]

Day 1: introduce, recent picture, and 15 interesting facts

I'm Erica and I just turned 24 in August. I am a stay at home momma and I LOVE it.

15 interesting facts:

one. I love being a mother more than anything in this world. It is all I have ever wanted to do!

two. If Jake would let me I would be like the Duggar Family with 19 kids....okay okay not that many, but I would love to have 5-6 kids.

three. I love to read vampire books. I currently have 3 different series going.

four. February/March is my "fertile" period. I have 2 November babies.

five. November & August are important months for us! (Tyler & Storie's birthdays are in November and so is our anniversary. Jake & my birthdays are in August!)

six. I lost a baby at 6 weeks this past September. It has been the most awful experience I have ever gone through, however I believe that God knows what he is doing and I am healing as we speak.

seven. I LOVE Christmas! I start listening to Christmas music, watching Christmas movies in September! It's never too early for Christmas!

eight. One of my favorite self soothers is too put on hip hop and clean the house.

nine. I wish I could tan all the time. I love laying under the heat with the fan going and some country music on. Talk about relaxing!

ten. Jake and I have been together for OVER ten years!

eleven. I wish I was more domesticated at least in the cooking department. Jake is the main cook in our house.

twelve. I love baking!

thirteen. I miss playing softball

fourteen. I live in San Diego, from Missouri though and I miss Missouri so much but I love San Diego weather

fifteen. I have a lot of tattoos. 24 to be exact.

Day 2: Meaning behind your blog name

my blog name is 'One Growing Family' its pretty self explanatory. This blog is about my family and how we are growing everyday. We have already grown by a marriage, 2 children and 1 angel. I can not wait to see what God has in store for us in the future!! I can only hope that our family will continue to grow!

Just another Goodbye.

Jake left an hour and 41 minutes ago... :( These goodbyes never seem to get easier like everyone always says, in fact they seem to get harder. The kids are getting older so they seem to know that daddy is leaving yet again. Poor Jake has to walk away only to come back to Storie walking or Tyler learning more and more. I feel so bad for all of us. It just sucks so much. I wish I could have my family together as a whole for always. I miss my husband. Watching Jake get on a plane, sail away on a boat, or just dropping him off at the pier for an underway it feels as though when he walks away my heart goes with him. It's a physical pain to where it just hurts. Like someone ripped my heart out. It's also a mental pain, I now have no one to talk too, no one to tell my day too, no one that comes home to me. Our meals suck when Jake is gone. By that I mean I am a lousy cook, HA but also that if I make a big meal there is always leftovers. It's hard to cook for 1.5 people. I think the worst part though is night time. I go to bed alone. Even if Jake and I never touch during the night I'm always comforted that he's there, beside me. I have his warmth, he lets me put my cold feet all over him! (He's the best!)

I just miss him. None of my family knows what it is like either.... I mean they get the jist of it, yeah he left again, but I should be use to it by now.... I don't think anyone really takes the time to think about what we go through EVERY time Jake leaves for an underway, for a deployment. Not knowing when I'll see him again, when I'll talk to him again, when I'll be able to email him again. It's so hard on Jake leaving and coming back to kids that are more advanced than when he left, doing new things he missed out on. It's hard on me too. I'm the one that has to explain why daddy is gone again. That daddy misses and loves them. I'm the one that has to video and photograph every little (insignificant or not) thing so daddy can see what we are up too. I'm the one that has to be the single mother keeping the kids to their schedule, trying to keep things normal, going on with life when all I want to do is cry and sleep the month away.

I guess tonight is just a pity-party for me...I'm just tired of feeling like life is passing us by while we're busy waiting on daddy. We love him so much and can't wait for the day we can be together again!

[my new tattoo]

[updated for pictures of my tattoo] I totally forgot to post pictures of our memorial tattoos for Reese so I will do that now. I wasn't even thinking about getting a tattoo and I happened to stumble upon this clip art on a miscarriage support group site and I absolutely fell in love with it. It was everything I had in my mind of what Reese would look like when he was taken so I had to have it be apart of me forever.

It says "Too beautiful for Earth" along with Reese's name on the bottom. I love it.

[sorry not the best picture quality, but it's all I've got right now]

This is Jake's tattoo for baby Reese

and this is something really special to me. http://memoriesinthesand.blogspot.com/ This is Reese's name written in the sand up at Del Mar at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. I am going to blow it up [12x18] and hang it in our room next to Tyler & Storie's beach pictures. It makes 'my heart happy' as Ty would say.

SURPRISE!

Look who came to see me today!!!!

Jake pulled in early and decided to surprise me. So he flew to San Fransisco, to Chicago, and than to St. Louis, rented a car and drove all the way home just to see us til Monday afternoon. Isn't he the best husband in the whole wide world!!!! I love him so much and I could care less how much money we had to fork over for that. I'm so thrilled to get to see him for the day 1/2. I think tonight we may drive down to Sikeston to go to the Haunted House since we've both been wanting to go! Yeah!! Love my silly husband.