October 2011

Geeze October was a busy month!  It started off with Aaron's birthday.  It was a pretty low key event, but definitely a good day.  As always, we took advantage of the free Joe's Farm and Grill birthday meal, which was scrumptious.  I never know what to get Aaron on his birthday because he always just buys what he wants when he wants it.

My mom and sister went to New York for October break and since dad was working in Texas for the week, little Damon stayed with us.  He came during the worst week ever because it was the week that I started back to work and we had our entire kitchen torn apart for our remodel.  I don't think he minded the fast food though and cartoons though.  I was a zombie after work so camped him in front of Power Rangers and Dragon Ball Z.  We did have some fun together during the week though including a trip to the park to throw the frisbee and run through the sprinklers, a smore roast by the fire, and a zillion games of Phase 10.  It was fun having him stay with us and I really enjoyed the extra pair of hands.  He was definitely my "fetcher."

We were able to make an extremely short trip to Palm Desert so we could be apart of cousin Van's blessing. Van is the first cousin Grant was able to meet and he can't wait to meet his others...hopefully sometime soon!  Van and Grant are only six weeks apart so it was fun to take some pictures of them together.  We were able to visit with Nate, Syd, and Bruce and Marcy and awesomely enough cousing Matt and Tommy.  We hadn't seen Tommy in two years so it was definitely fun to catch up with him. 

Grandma Marcy and her two crying babes.  Grandma Marcy is an awesome Grandma - I think I only changed Gran't diaper once during the entire time we were there.  Marcy had things taken care of!

Grant loves sitting in his bumbo and loves watching football too!

Halloween was hectic.  We finally were able to get the right paint for our kitchen cabinets so Aaron was spraying them while Grant and I were quarantined outside because of all the fumes.  We sat in a couple lawn chairs outside and passed out candy to the tricker treaters.  The fumes took a while to subside so we went camping in our new tent in the backyard!

WTF mom.  Our cute little pumpkin man

Our tent is awesome!  Big enough for a queen sized air mattress and a pack-n-play. 

In other news, Grant now knows how to roll over on to his tummy.  He won't stay on his back longer than five seconds when you put him down.  The only thing is, he doesn't know how to roll back yet so when he gets tired of lifting his big noggan up he gets a little cranky until you flip him back over.  He's all smiles all the time and we are just waiting and waiting until his first giggle. 

Our house has officially been trashed for a month now - not the best thing for a borderline OCD person like myself.  We started by tearing out our tile countertops, nasty sink, stove and microwave.  We got our new granite countertops installed and have been working on refinishing our cabinets.  We had to sand them, then fill them, then resand them.  The nimwads at the Sherman Williams store sold us paint saying that it was the perfect cabinet paint, but it wasn't so then we had to resand, refill, then sand again.  The right paint is illegal to sell in Maricopa county so we had to special order it and it took over a week!  All the while we don't have any appliances, dishes, etc.  We've been eating fast food, which is getting soooo disgusting.  We're so ready for the project to be DONE!!!  Almost.  I'm hoping by the end of next week things will finally be back to normal and the house will be clean again.

Work....it's been rough.  The actual working part is great really.  I like my job and I like the people I work with.  Also, since I work nights, Grant is with Aaron so I know he's taken care of.  What's been rough is the coming home and not being able to sleep part because little guy needs attention.  Finding babysitters has been up and down, but I think we finally have things squared away.  On top of going back to work, I've been stressed about interviewing for new jobs.  I've always wanted to work at the Banner children's hospital and so I've been pursuing that really hard these past couple weeks.  I've had a couple interviews, one offer, but the right job is still out there.  I'm hoping within the next couple weeks I'll have been too big of pest for the hiring manager to ignore anymore. 

Lots of stuff going on this month.  Hopefully things will start to calm down and November will a much needed break from chaos - just in time for the Christmas Holidays.