Chloe’s been wanting to learn how to make jewelries from me and we got to do just that. We spent the whole afternoon sitting next to each other making jewelry while listening to hymns. 

Chloe’s first design piece. She’s hired!

We did some paintings this afternoon. I painted my girl Chloe.

Chloe’s

Shane’s

This year I too decided to dress up. Wearing: Huntsmen cape that I got for $9!

They said they gave out 600 hotdogs this year. Wow.

Happy Halloween!

We finished our pumpkins and put glow-in-the-dark paints but it rained pretty hard last night and washed away some of the paints. 🙁

Made some treats for kids friends before going out for trick or treating.

I was planning on having them decorate these cat cookies but no time! We have to get to our business and go out.

We went ghosting kids friends in the pouring rain in the dark. By the time we finished we realized we had been driving around for over an hour. Andrew was a driver and I was a guard holding flashlight for them.

Sneaky Chloe…she never got caught!

My Skull

It got too late so we decided to finish up tomorrow. To be continued…

Chloe’s reading by the front door while keeping her one eye outside to look out for her friends “ghosts”.

Too funny.

Chloe’s troop “volunteered” to do face painting at a local craft fair. They mostly just had fun drawing on their faces. 🙂

Of course she draws mustache on her face.

So happy to be home spending time with Ronaldo!

We are celebrating Shane’s 8th birthday and we are having a camping party in the backyard. 🙂 My sweet boy didn’t even ask for a party and even though we didn’t do anything special on his birthday, he just thought that was it. So when we surprised him with our little “camping trip” in the backyard today, he was thrilled!

Chloe’s an awesome sister. She bought him walkie talkies with her own money, wrapped beautifully with a card and gave it to him on his birthday. Shane said it’s “the best gift ever”, and they’ve been communicating through it all week. Andrew got him a brand new bike but who cares about that . ;P Actually he’s been riding it a lot and he’s very happy to ride a big boy’s bike.

Chloe’s praying for the meal.

My mom made Kalbi and Japchae. So yummy!

To the best 8 year old boy Shane,

Sweet, smart, kind, athletic, funny and bright. That’s you!

I am so proud that you are my son. I hope I tell you that often enough. I love how when you wake up in the morning (only during school week) all tired and needy and have to come to find me in the kitchen to sit on my lap hugging me for a while before you start your day.  When you outgrow my lap I’ll be really sad. I love how you randomly call me to say you love me throughout the day. You are a sweet sweet soul… You have so much love to give and I hope you love your God the father the most before anything else in life. I love you with all the love I can imagine…my son.

At 8 years old:

1. Your favorite color is black.

2. You want to become a football quarter back player when you grow up.

3. You’re going to live next door to us and be our neighbor when you get older but you’re also going to have a house in Bar Harbor.

4. You love to play basketball, football, baseball, soccer, basically all sports and you’re so good at all of them.

5. You find your sister Chloe to be the funniest comedian on earth and you are her biggest fan.

6. You still like to sleep in our bed every chance you get.

7. If we threaten you to take away your video game time on weekends, we can pretty much have you do anything we want…

8. You discovered U2 early this year and it was your favorite band for months. Now you found out about Z100 music station and love everything they play. You’re a music lover.

We made this guitar together and it’s functional.

Zucchini noodles with pesto.
This was not very popular amongst my family members… I thought my mom would love it since she loves everything healthy. But. She looked at me like I had three heads when I served this for dinner. My dad didn’t even come near it. Chloe ate a few forceful bites and ran away. ONLY Shane and I thought it was delicious and we finished our plates. Shane actually asked for second. Maybe it had to with the fact that he was so starving just coming back from his basketball camp.
I didn’t even try giving it to Andrew. So for those who were snobs…, I had to make real pasta noodles and served it with the same pesto sauce. They were relieved.

Vietnamese banh mi – everyone’s favorite.