November 2020

 Doing whatever I can to get these girls out of the house.  That day I took them to the corn maze and BJs for treats.

Skylar and her friends celebrating Aubrey's 11th Birthday.  They did a scavenger hunt in Target and then had a sleepover and didn't go to bed until 5:00 AM.  Skylar passed out in her bean bag chair for hours when she got home.

Evan, Madden and Travis have been having a great time playing soccer together this season.  

Cabo 2020

 We are now in November and the Covid-19 pandemic is something we are are still living with day in and day out.  Sadly its only gotten worse and for Thanksgiving we were being told it's in everyone best interest to not gather with family members.  Well Jake and I took that to heart and decided to be as far away as possible from family and head down south of the boarder to Cabo and social distance in 80+ degree weather.  I have always wanted to try Mexico in the Fall and this was the perfect excuse.  Being the loyal people we are we stayed at our same hotel.  The hotel was at a smaller capacity and we did our best to stay safe and keep our distance from others.  After being at home for months now the beautiful Cabo water was just what we all needed.  We swam, ate, swam, ate on complete repeat and soaked in all the sun we could.  It was the escape we all definitely needed.  

We traveled home on Thanksgiving so I must admit I did miss the annual Thanksgiving feast.  Madden, Jake, and I dined on egg and bean burritos and Skylar had a hot dog.  As fabulous as Cabo was I'm looking forward to next year when we can be with our family and enjoy all the Thanksgiving fixings.

Video highlights from the trip is below.

October 2020

The kids had the best time at Morrison's 3rd Birthday Party.

The kids had a sleepover with Sophie at our house.

Heading out for our Halloween Boo Missions.  

Skylar and her friends favorite night of the year is the annual Halloween Baking Champion contest.  Skylar had the theme of ghosts and graveyards.  She came home with "Best Use of Theme."

Nothing better than a visit from Grandma!

Some of the local middle school boys put on a Haunted Trail that Madden and his buddies walked through.  I must say, I was really impressed.

Pumpkin craving.  The kids are doing more and more of the carving each year.  I was really proud of Skylar who carved her entire pumpkin herself.

Halloween 2020

Covid or Not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my favorite holiday.  I had already picked out costumes for our family months and months ago, but with the pandemic still in full effect and knowing that Halloween wasn't going to be what it normally is, we made the switch.  I wanted to make sure our costumes were "covid safe," but still cool looking, so Alien masks it was.   

Several people in our neighborhood already proclaimed that they wouldn't be passing out candy or letting their kids trick or treat.  I didn't agree with that and felt that both those could be done safely.  Jake built me a candy shoot to keep with social distancing.  I usually purchase well over 1000 pieces of candy, but not knowing what this year was going to look like I kept it calm and only bought 500/600 pieces.  By the end of the night I still had about 200 pieces left so it was definitely a lot less people this year.

Madden had a bit of a rougher Halloween than last.  He started his day by waking up at 5:00 AM which Jake and I knew wasn't going to be good.  By the time it was to head out and go trick or treating his mood changed and he refused to go and then pouted inside the house.  Luckily he came out for a bit and helped me pass out candy, but by the time Skylar came back from trick or treating I never saw him again until he asked me if he could go upstairs and take a shower.   I think next year he will come back stronger than ever.

Alien Invasion

Madden and Jake's Pumpkin

Nicole and Skylar's Pumpkins

For the majority of the houses not passing out candy Skylar and her friends got a nice haul of candy.

Aubrey as Arthur the Mouse, Skylar the Alien and Ava and Lucy as Pepper and Salt.

Jake and I are the top of the candy shoot.

Had to drag these two apart that night.

Even though it wasn't your typical Bressi Halloween I'm glad we still made the best of it and enjoyed the evening...well at least 3 of us did.  #poormadden