Halloween Fun 2015

We ended up going to Swore Farm and letting Rachel pick out a pumpkin.  While we were there though we ended up going through the corn maze.  It was dark by 6:00 when we went out for our family home evening.  Rachel got really scared.  I got down on her level and looked her in the eyes to let her know that her mom and dad would never leave her by herself in here.  After we had a quick heart to heart she was happy and started reading all the signs for us in the maze so we could find our way out.  She then did the straw maze while I talked with Wendy who owns the farm. 

Wendy finished this today and we were the first ones to get to use it.  Totally awesome.

We of course had to go home and then carve the pumpkin.  We did talk Rachel into waiting a few days so that it wouldn't go bad.  She refused to let us put it on the porch also.

 Scott helping to cut open the pumpkin. Rachel of course cheesing for the camera.

She wanted to get the yucky guts out of it this year.  It took her forever so finally she asked for Scott's help with it.  He just used a spot to get it off the sides and then let Rachel reach in to pull it out.

Of course she knows how she wants its face to look like. 

 Finished product that sat by the side of the front door until the day before Halloween.

The following are how I decorated my house for Halloween.  It's fun to have a new place to decorate.

The house and bats are new this year.  Bonnie and I made them for a craft day.

Head wounds

This last few weeks was rough for Rachel.  She ended up with two head wounds.  The first one came at the JT family reunion.  She decided this huge dog would make a great pillow.  Well needless to say the dog wasn't happy that Rachel hurt her as she was getting off of her.  She swatted her big huge paw at Rachel and cut her head open.  We were in the woods so Scott just super glued it and then used part of the hair as stitches.

Not bad for being in the woods.

Then it was six weeks later and I got a phone call from Scott saying I needed to go get Rachel because she got hurt at school.  So I headed over there and had no idea what I was walking in to.  Thankfully there was a friend from the ward sitting there holding Rachel and comforting her.  I took this picture to send to Scott. 

He said he couldn't tell really what was going on but go to the clinic.  So I headed straight to the clinic and said Susie please help.  We took her to a room and started to clean up her head.  Susie was like yep she's going to have to get staples.  While we waited for Scott we were trying to figure out what happened.  All she could say was that she fell off the monkey bars.  Scott got there right after we got it cleaned up and she needed some staples in her head.  So I held her while Scott gave her the shot to deaden the spot.  Oh boy she screamed bloody murder but other then that she was a complete trooper and hardly cried at all through it. 

7 stitches later it's all put back together.  She did had a giant goose egg that went along with it.

Side Note:  Once Rachel's thoughts stopped being all mangled she was able to tell us that she was crawling down head first on the spider web and slipped.  She thought oh I'll just drop down to the ground and my knees will hit the ground first.  She didn't get flipped around and landed right on her head.

Rachelism

So it's been quite awhile since we've had a really good Rachelism but I had to share this one.  We were at work in Boise for a few days.  Rachel got to come with me.  She ended up meeting one of the SLP's she hadn't meet before.  This is the conversation.
Rachel:  Hi
Colette:  Hi, You must be Rachel.
R:  How did you know that?
C:  Well I see lots of pictures on Facebook of you.  Your really cute.
R:  Yeah I am.  I'm really smart and I have a really big personality too. It's okay I can handle it though.
ha ha ha

American Ninja Warrior

So one show that Rachel loves to watch is American Ninja Warrior.  So today she was tired of me working and she came up with her own American Ninja Warrior obstacle course.  Yes my front room is now the obstacle course.

I wished I had gotten a picture of her doing it.  So cute and funny.