John, Laura, Kyle, Christopher (CJ) and Alyssa Mullen

Sunday, November 1st

What a day! We saw Daddy off this morning to Brazil (via Houston and Peru) and shed a few tears. Then we went to church and Mommy led the storytime for the K-2nd graders. After church, we went to McDonalds and stopped by to see Aunt Jennifer's and Uncle Rene's new (old) house.

Then Mom and Grandma went shopping at IKEA, the mall and Walmart. While Mom was gone the boys played a marathon round of Nintendo DS, and Alyssa took a nap. She woke up sick to her stomach and threw up all over Grandma's floor (and BOY! did she do a GREAT job too....covered nearly the entire hall!). Mom and Grandma came home to take care of her, and we played and watched Blue's Clues.

Kyle and CJ practiced their verses and played in the backyard. CJ also discovered while eating apples that....his bottom left tooth is getting loose!

Tonight we are looking forward to a visit from the Great Pumpkin who will take our carved pumpkins off to the Great Pumpkin patch to be with their families. He is always grateful that we let his baby pumpkins go, and leaves us a surprise on the porch!

Then we got ready for bed. Since there was no school tomorrow, Mom let Kyle and CJ play DS in bed for thirty minutes. Here they are deep in concentration.

Alyssa needed to go to sleep, but she decided to run around her room collecting things for her bed. You'll notice a bandaid on her face...purely decoration so don't worry. You just have to be fashionable when you sleep, you know? Mom removed the box of bandaids though so Alyssa couldn't "overdo" it.

And all went to bed...even Mom. However....
Mom managed to snap a picture after The Great Pumpkin came....she missed seeing the Great Pumpkin himself but wow! what neat treats. (Mom brought them inside so that they wouldn't get wet if it rained).

We miss you Dad!

Posted by Mullen at November 1, 2009 04:53 PM