richards real birthday and the week of halloween

 richard turned 34 this year!  he requested tres leches cake.  we had it for breakfast because we had a ward party that night.

 we bought him some new clothes, only one shirt fit.

 we planned to take remi and trac to the library since virginia has a newborn - but they were both sick so we went back to the millcreek library alone.  it was a good time.  they even had a halloween parade around the library and the girls got treats and candy.

 we went shopping at target after that.  we had a picnic lunch in their cafe.  the girls enjoyed that.  we saw rachel there and gave her a birthdya present (its her birthday on sunday).  Then we returned all richards shirts and went home.  Anna has music class, then we went to the ward party  - which was a chili cookoff.  I won 3rd place with my wheat berry chili.  wahoo.  Anna enjoyed seeing all her neighborhood friends there.

 On wednesday we didn't have spencer!  That doesn't happen often. we had to go visit teaching, which ended up taking forever - and we missed the puppet show that was happening at the library.  we walked down to the library anyways and just relaxed and read books and played.  julia bullied kids around there.  I pretended not to be her parent sometimes.  After julia's nap Julia wanted to make stuff out of this fairy book we got at the library.  so we made fairy crowns and wands.

 anna did a lot of cutting practice on wednesday and finally got to the point where she actually enjoys it.

 on thursday i went and picked up remi and he and anna played all day.  they are best buds.  he gets her to laugh so hard all day long.  i was able to get a lot of work done while they played.

then i went visit teaching and then rich and i did a realy round about attempt at fixing my broken brake lights on the corolla.  Turns out it wasn't a fuse problem - they both just burnt out at the same time!  Last night at 9 julia woke up in throw up.  she slept the rest of the night, but anna got up and couldn't go back to sleep because he tummy ached.  Then she barfed at 7.  We had to cancel watching spencer again.