Happy Snowtober! Last SAturday our Girl SCout Troop was supposed to be standing in front of Pizza Hut selling Girl Scout cookies. However it was snowing, sleeting and raining all at the same time so I made an executive decision and decided no one wanted cookies that badly. As a matter of fact, most people did not leave their homes. They even had to salt the roads. And SCott made his first snowman of the year! Afterwards, Cookie ate it.

Instead we spent the day cleaning and setting up for our traditional Halloween party. This party was a bit different however since I did not invite the entire neighborhood. Tom had his first surgery experience on Friday and I was not sure what shape he was going to be in. I did not want the masses(especially all the little kids) running around destroying the house while Tom was feeling miserable. Last year the weather was nice enough to let all the kids go out and play, but this past SAturday's weather did not allow us to host the party in the yard, or even in the garage. So instead I invited 6 families which meant about 24 people rather than the 50+ that usually show up. It was just the right number of guests. It allowed me to host a few games, primarily a round of Pictionary. No one except Tom and I had ever played(and it is not Tom's favorite game). He was the timekeeper. Also since he really couldn't talk. And I did not really play since I knew all the answers. The theme was The TOp 50 Scary Movies and it was a fun and rather interesting time. Surprisingly, the tweens were the biggest help. Although most of them have not even seen these movies, they have all heard about them(or maybe have seen clips). Thank you internet. I know they have seen worse. Anyhow, we had a winning team that were treated to candy bars. And of course we gave out a jar of candy corn to the guest who guessed the closest number. And naturally lots of good food. It also got us in the mood for Trick or Treating on Monday.

Friday I had some errands to run in the morning before taking Tom in to have all 4 wisdom teeth pulled at noon. He was done in an hour, but still really out of it. I dropped him off in bed with lots of Coke and Vernors since he wasn't feeling well. He has never been put out for any type of surgery and he said the gas they gave him first made him feel dizzy and sick to his stomach. We guess they gave it to him to help calm him down. It took several days for him to start to feel better-less dizzy. He actually stayed home on Halloween day and slept.

While he was recuperating at home Friday night, I had picked Allison up from a Field Hockey game-her team played twice that week and won both games. So now they are in the County playoffs. I had to rush her home and pick up SCott from school and rush him home and get them and my girl scouts over to a Haunted Hay Ride. This year instead of riding on the wagon we were participating in the actual show! We received an email from our local Farm Heritage Museum looking for volunteers and a chance to earn Volunteer hours which some of the girls need for NHS. I brought 7 kids and 2 adults. They had specific costumes for us to wear. Scott was a zombie, Allison and I were witches. Scott was out in the graveyard scene chasing around one of his girl scout class mates, Allison and I were in charge of a cauldron filled with bones and a smoky skull. When the wagons came by, a spotlight came on and we went into action. Allison and I chased down the wagon and asked the guests to join us for dinner. One guy accepted my offer(I guess). I couldn't hear much with my wig and hat pulled down over my ears. It started to sleet around 9pm, so they shut down after about 100+ people went through. We were supposed to run until 10pm. I was happy to quit-it was getting cold. Afterwards they treated us to hot dogs and hot chocolate. Quite an interesting experience. If we had time, we would have gone back for the kid friendly session on Sunday afternoon, but the kids had lots of homework and studying to do. And Allison had to work at the Skating Rink-she had to go in early to help set up for their Halloween Session. She even got to wear a costume. SCott wanted to go, but we had already spent too much time partying over the weekend. I think I should hire Scott out to the neighbors-he helped clean, cook and decorate the house for our Halloween Party on Saturday night. I couldn't have done it without him!

I also had to leave work early on WEds to get my eyes checked. I hadn't been to the vision clinic in two years and I had a slight decline in my vision. I needed to get them checked since I am now supposed to wear my glasses when I drive. I could have figured that out when Tom and I were driving home from the Octoberfest the weekend before and neither one of us could read the exit sign. Even with the help from the GPS it is hard to tell if you have reached your turn. Anyway, we ended up getting off at the security enforced NSA exit(not good). I was just happy to be able to merge back onto the freeway. Guess glasses would help both of us!

I needed my eyes checked since I had to get a new driver's license. So Friday morning before I took Tom in for his surgery I was off getting a new license. I wanted to make sure I had the new license before we travel to Houston since it expires on my birthday on the 13th.

I also spent the week picking up food orders and dropping them off, including GS cookies and the fund raiser food items that Allison sold for Prom Tickets and Field Hockey. Feels more like Christmas!

At least we did not have to mow the lawn! Then again, we did not even have to shovel snow!