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Ah its FINALLY Monday morning! Yes I know usually I’m dreading Mondays but after the full weekend we’ve had you would be glad it was Monday too!  : )

Halloween arrived with the usual chaotic mess.. kids ready to leave, parents weren’t.  : ) I guess I”m a “mean mommy” because I actually expected my kids to eat before they left the house. My kids didn’t agree with that philosophy so much. Any way, we had fun and the kids got way more candy than they should have!

The biggest hit of the night was the new game we bought for the Xbox 360… Disney’s Sing It! Now we’ve had both Rockband and Guitar Hero but this one was a lot of fun for the kids! Even some of the neighborhood adults got into the fun. It was funny seeing kids and adults rocking out to High School Musical, Hannah Montana & Camp Rock songs! : ) (video coming soon… pics can be seen here )

On Saturday night , we finally had Beck’s birthday party.. it was re-scheduled due to illness. It was a slumber party no less.  We ended up having about 5 kids here. (which was fine with SGT Daddy) We did crafts, played more Disney’s Sing It! (of course) and did makeovers.

Yes I was brave and let a bunch of 7 year olds do my makeover. (what I don’t do for my kids) It wasn’t too bad and I actually came out alive and unharmed ; ) The girls had a great time and finally “passed out” around midnight.

Apparently there was too much “partying” going on, because Beck was sick the next morning. So we just hung out at home pretty much all day and did nothing. Well , we did play Sing It! for a bit . I think I’m on my way to being addicted to that game… I LOVE IT! : )

Most of the weekend was a fun time except for Saturday afternoon when I found out some sad news about some of my extended family members (mother’s side) concerning alcohol and drugs. Prayers for them would be greatly appreciated.

I can’t believe we have 3 weeks to go and then we are Colorado-bound.. I’m excited yet nervous at the same time. Do any of you ever feel that way? I want to know how all of you deal with that.Leave a comment below and share your “tips”

I was sitting in a text chatroom the other morning listening to one of my favorite daily internet radio shows, Mom’s Morning Show. (hosted by my friends, Kelly McCausey and Tishia Lee) and the conversation turned to bare walls.

Bare walls are a constant issue for me, as most Army wives. Whenever we move to a new post, we get to make our walls all our own again. We walk into a house or apartment with those white bare walls and in a matter of days, we turn it into a home filled with pictures, our soldiers’ “me” wall, etc.

One way to help with the bare wall syndrome is each time we move to a new place we find something for our walls that represents our time in our new place. For example, from our time living in Minnesota we have a Caribou moose key holder. We also have the Texas Star from our time in Texas.

Now when no matter where we are I can look at our walls and remember people, places, and times in the different places that we have been. It also serves as a reminder of how we’ve grown as individuals but also have as a family.