This week, before we got to El Paso...

We had a very busy Halloween week including three days with Robert Thomas, one Kindermusik class and two gymnastics class' for Bailey and two workouts with a trainer for me along with all of the normal everyday chores... not to mention our week was only four days since we were supposed to leave for El Paso thursday at 435pm (more on that later)! One of the main joys of our week, aside from the cooler weather, was the fact that it was costume week at gymnastics and the kids got to play on a blow-up obstacle course and the trapeze!

10-27-09 : Bailey in her doctor scrubs before Tuesday's gymnastics class with Robert Thomas, Abby (far right) and Izzy (far left). Bailey not only wanted to be a doctor for Halloween but she also picked out the fabric for her scrubs which Mo put together for us.

On Wednesday afternoon Bailey wanted to play in the backyard by herself (a normal occurance) and when we didn't hear much, Tony & I decided to check in & this is what we found. Bailey had moved most of a brick pile from the center of our back porch into the top of her sandbox and was constructing a building of her own.

10-28-09 : A view of Bailey building through our screen door.

A better view of Bailey's construction.

Bailey helping me pin the fabric for some special ordered burp cloths.

Bailey was very excited that she was allowed to help.



Bailey counting the pins that she had selected for me to use pinning.

Thursday morning started with the arrival of Robert Thomas & dropping Izzy off at the vet to have surgery to remove two moles which had been growing very quickly. Thankfully Izzy's surgery went well and the day, although hectic, got off to a relatively smooth start.

10-29-09 : Bailey had to wear last years costume to gymnastics on Thursday because her scrubs were dirty (amazingly the rose costume still fit).

Bailey shower off her spider tattoo (upper left arm) which she named itsy bitsy.

Bailey last year in her rose costume a couple weeks before Halloween.

Thursday afternoon we were supposed to leave for El Paso but four lines of tornado producing storms between College Station and Houston delayed our flight until after our flight from Houston to El Paso had departed and there were only two seats available for next (and final) flight so we were forced to reschedule. We could have called it a night at that point but on the way home we decided to pick up some pizza since we had been planning on having dinner in El Paso. After waiting three hours in the airport and 40 minutes for our pizza, we finally headed back to the house to eat and grab some shut eye before our very early flight the next day. As we drove home, we were stopped at a red light a half mile from our house and were rear-ended by a young lady going between 25 and 35 mph. Thankfully Tony, Bailey & I along with the young lady who hit us were all ok, although our bumper is a loss, as was the pizza which ended up crumpled in the box after flying from the front seat into Bailey lap. I guess this was our first hint that our trip to El Paso was going to be a huge adventure!