October 2019

Well October came and went and we were so busy! I will let the pictures tell our story...

Carter still loves papa's army suit...

 Saturday 10/5 Carter sold popcorn for his troop...

 That was also conference weekend so we had our conference store...

 and yummy cinnamon rolls...

 At school they are not allowed to wear costumes so Aubrey had the idea to do a shirt costume with her friends.  They decided to be crayons and I helped her cut the vinyl.  She had all her friends over for a little crafting party to make their shirts and do a Halloween craft..

 They came out super cute

 October was Engineer month for cub scouts.  Carter had to make a design and then build it.  He did really good.

 I made this cute sign for our front yard.

In the craziness of October we found a house that we feel in love with on Bear Creek.  We even put an offer but when we were asked to go a little higher we didn't feel right so we didn't go through with it.  It was exciting though to get as far as we did.  I still do love the house!

October RS newsletter...

 Cub Scout clean up day...

 Since October was all about engineering and building Spencer went to a meeting and talked about what he does.  Carter was proud of his dad!

 Always fun to get Aubrey's monthly slime kit!

 Loving our newest member of the family!

 Saturday October 12th went up to Manteca to see David and Carrie who were visiting from Utah.

 Sunday October 13th we met my side of the family in Turlock to go to the pumpkin patch, dinner and celebrate mom and dads birthdays.  They were in Scotland for a few weeks so it was so fun to see them and catch up! They also got to meet Macy!

 They loved her!

 I was so proud of mom doing the corn maze!

 Since we have all these new dogs we went to a pet friendly pumpkin patch so it was lots of fun having them all with us.

 Papa and Nana with all our their grand puppies!

 We even found a pet friendly restaurant.  It was so yummy and so much fun to celebrate Nana and Papa!

 We loved all the gifts they brought us back from across the pond!

 Wednesday October 16th the cub scouts had a field trip to the fire station.

 It was fun to see our neighbor Kevin on the clock...

 Walking the puppies!

 Fall crafts!

 Friday October 18th I let the kids invite some friends over for movie in the park and to sleep over.

 We went to Goosebumps 2 it was really fun!

 Pancake breakfast!

 Saturday October 19th just the 4 of us went to Hunter farms and had fun on all the rides...

 That night we had a Harry Potter party....

 We looked pretty awesome!

 Sunday October 20th we made a fun hunted gingerbread house...

 Monday October 21st was western day at school...

 It was also early release all week so we enjoyed crafting in the afternoon..

 Tuesday October 22nd red, white, and blue day..

 Wednesday October 23rd crazy hair and socks day...

 That night was awards at boy scouts...

 Thursday October 24th was hat day.  The book fair was going on all that week so I was there helping out...

 That night Aubrey had a youth group activity at the pumpkin patch.  She went as a scary doll...

It was also Witch night out at Lori's that night...

 Saturday October 26th we went up to Sonora for the Halloween festival in downtown..

 Introducing the Addam's Family....

 We had so much fun and the kids stayed in character the entire time...

 Everyone loved our costumes we had a blast with it!

 That night we celebrated my birthday!

 I was spoiled spoiled spoiled! I even got my favorite cake!

 Sunday October 27th Carter worked on his Indian report with papa.

 We all got to go bowling and dinner that evening...

 Monday October 28th Aunt Pat came to town for a few nights.  

Carter also got his science kit...

Tuesday October 29th pumpkin carving....

 Wednesday October 30th I took Aubrey to meet up with her friends for the Halloween scavenger hunt at the mall...

 That night was the scouts trunk or treat..

 Thursday October 31st Halloween!

 I got to sub in Carter's class that day and also organize the Halloween party.  We had so much fun! I came up with 8 centers for the kids to do....

Aubrey and her friends were the talk of the school! Aubrey's teacher even made them cone hats!

 That day was also student of the moth assembly! Proud of our guy!

 Aubrey got a bunch of awards too!

 Halloween dinner...

 and we are off to our final Halloween celebration! Trunk or treat at the church and then trick or treating around town!

 Wow! What a month! Carter wanted to make a graph of his candy so that is what we did on Friday after school.

Introducing our newest member of the family.....

Macy Emma Supinger

Macy is cute as a button! She is a mix of chihuahua and toy poodle.  We adopted her from Petsmart at 4 weeks old and 2lbs.  Her birthday is August 5, 2019.  She is a rescue that was being watched by a foster mom through the same program that we got Millie.  

The story of getting Macy: We were all so heart broken when Deucie passed away (probably me the most).  I new we were going to get another dog but my guilt of feeling like we were replacing my little guy was super strong so I thought we would wait a while.  Millie and Deuce had the same collar (Millie would only wear the collar that was like Deuce's which was blue and white) after Deuce passed away it was hard for me to see Millie in the same collar so the kids and I went to Petsmart to get a new one. Well of course the kids wanted to see all the puppies and kitties up for adoption.  When we went over we saw Millie's foster mom and she was so excited to see Millie.  We told her about Deuce and she felt sad for us.  We then noticed these two very tiny puppies in a small little cage snuggling.  Well the kids were in love at first sight.  I had to calm them down and say it was way too soon and I wasn't ready.  I did want to get a very small puppy this time around so the kids could experience the true puppy stage like we got to with Deuce before they were born but I was not ready yet.  After dragging my kids kicking and screaming for a new puppy out of the store saying no... we made it home without a puppy.  That week went by and we kept thinking of them but still were not ready.  I was for sure they would get adopted since they were adorable, tiny and it's very rear to get that young of a puppy through a rescue program. The next couple weeks were so sad without Deucie guy.  I really noticed it with Millie the most.  I would look on our doggie cam and she looked so lonely and sad when we were not home!  Since these kids just seem to be growing as fast as possible I knew we needed to decide if we were going to get a puppy sooner than later and I also didn't want Millie to get use to being an only dog since she loved the companionship of Deuce so much. Fast forward another week and my sister decided to come out to visit us.  When she got here on Thursday she said that she had been thinking lots and lots about getting a dog and that she was ready to adopt.  I thought how cool it would be to get the little puppies together we could each have one of the siblings.  That was if they were still available which again I didn't think they would be.  Well we called the rescue lady and sure enough both the little girl and little boy were available!  It was kind of feeling like it was fate.  So we all decided to go to Petsmart on Saturday 9/28.  We got there right at the same time that the foster mom was bringing the babies.  We brought Millie to see if she got a long with the puppies.  We went to the little visiting area.  We were thinking to adopt the boy and my sister to adopt the girl but for some reason Millie and the little girl could not stop playing and snuggling while the little boy seemed kind of distance.  It all felt right and we knew we were going to be taking little "Sugar" Macy home with us.  Laura loved the little boy but was pretty concerned since he was so tiny and young.  She went back to the adoption area and found her little sweet heart match, Lucy! 

Once we finally made the decision to take our new little one home the kids were extremely excited!

We went back and forth on getting both the small puppies but thought that would be too much work and we wanted Millie to not feel left out.  It was kind of hard taking Macy away from her brother but we have since heard that he was adopted by the Petsmart owner.  

 Once we got home Macy made herself right at home.  She fits in great and makes all of smile everyday!

She was so tiny when we got her.

She is full of energy! Loves to play with everything.  She is amazing with Millie and they have hours of fun playing it is the cutest thing ever! They love to snuggle and are the best of friends.  

Titi's new little girl Lucy is also so much fun! She was 5 months when Titi adopted her.  She loves to play and is taking puppy classes.  

Our family has sure expanded over the last couple days and we are so happy to welcoming these two adorable girls into our crazy lives!