Halloween 2 weeks early

Today is the start of the Halloween season in our house, Paige has a birthday party today with full costumes. No we didn't skip church to go to the party, we skipped church because Taylor has a cold and so she can't go to nursery. Anyways, here's Paige in her purple ballerina costume, I still have to finish Taylors "sack of taters" costume, but I'm glad Paige is going to get her costume more than just one Halloween.

We Miss You DADDY!!!

Because of the 13 hour time difference between Chicago and Shanghai we only have about a 20 minute window in the morning and evening that we get to talk to Daylan. The girls and I really look forward to this time everyday. No matter where the laptop is as soon as they hear it ring and see Daddy's face pop up they're right there. And yes, our whole family sits like that...weird I know, but true. Once it hits 8pm and the girls are down for the night I count the day as being over...so...only 4 mores days!!!!!

Punk Princess Fashion Show

This next picture is to prove to Paige that Mom does know how to cook and it's enjoyable! Taylor, and Paige for that matter LOVED my pesto pasta, hence the green face.

After dinner Taylor changed into her new Punk Princess pjs and gave us a little runway show. I'm not sure why but right now I'm really drawn to the punk style for the girls...I just need to find Taylor a pair of skinny jeans.


How can you resist this...

Petting Zoo

Taylor liked staying about 3ft away and just saying "Hi!" to the goats.










Mo and Asher checking out the damage after the goats decided that Mo's jacket would make a good treat. (It actually separated the lining from the shell!)

Taylor still wasn't too sure about actually brushing the goats, she just wanted to carry them around.

Brookfield Zoo

Thursday Taylor and I went to the Brookfield Zoo with some of our friends from church. We had never been to this zoo before, but we'll definately be going back.









Taylor loved checking out the monkeys of course, but she was a little disappointed that they didn't have dogs at the zoo!

And he's off...

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a couple weeks. Last Thursday I got the call I detest getting. Yup. Microsoft and Motolora were trying to get Daylan to go to China again. At first they asked for the first 2 weeks of November and we were all going to go since Paige had a 7 day weekend in there so she wouldn't miss too much school. When he went back to them the next day they decided to move it up a month. Because China was on their fall holiday we weren't able to expedite Daylan's visa and we literally picked it up at 3pm yesterday just before the office closed. And so he's off... Our car service just picked him up and he's on his way to the airport. The stinking lucky duck is getting to fly first class this morning, although is just to Seattle and then business class from there to Seoul, Korea, and then on to Shanghai, but still nonetheless. He's so spoiled. He'll be gone for 12 days all together (he's coming back early since we already had a trip planned for the weekend he was supposed to fly back). I guess if there is a silver lining it's that my mom is getting to come up next Sunday to help me out for 4 days. Daylan gets back at 8pm Wednesday night and then we are on a train the next morning at 8am to Ann Arbor, MI to go apple and pumkin picking with Uncle Stacy, he's Daylan's awesome Microsoft Mentor that took our family pictures last year at Christmas. Taylor and Paige absolutely love Stacy and his family, we we're all really excited. I'll try to keep you posted on how much hair I will lose over the next 12 days, but hopefully it will go fast. And, don't worry they're still talking about us going again next month.