Finally...

Something to blog about!
No. No new baby yet. That is next week. I thought I had better get up our Halloween pictures before Quincy gets here and takes over everything. We had a pretty good Halloween this year. First we had our annual Averett family Halloween get together which is always fun. We eat yummy soup and all the kids carve pumpkins and get a prize. During the week the girls all had fun parties at school and got to wear their costumes. Then Thursday the girls had their Halloween Spooktacular dance show. On Saturday we took the girls trick-or-treating. Saturday actually got off to a rough start. I had to run to Salem for the funeral of my cousins son. Funerals are always pretty depressing but especially when it's for a 20 year old kid. So I had to hurry home for the big night. We usually take the kids to the trunk-or-treat and they get tons of candy and we get to see pretty much everyone in town so there's really no use in going anywhere else to trick-or-treat. Well this year we never heard what time it started so we were just going to head out around the time it usually gets dark. Well Greg had to work and came home right as I was going to start to get everyone ready and he had fallen off something and landed on his shoulder and tweaked his leg and so we weren't sure exactly what was going to happen. I was trying to think of what to do with the kids so their night wasn't totally ruined in case we had to head to the ER and he laid down on a couple bags of ice. Thankfully after resting, icing, and ibuprofen....ing it turned out not to be too serious and we hurried to the trunk-or-treat only to find out we were too late and everyone was just heading home. Well of course this didn't go over well with the girls (especially the 8 year old) and we explained we were just going to have to trick-or-treat the old fashioned way! This didn't help calm anyone down but we stopped at a subdivision in town and they started going door to door and they were satisfied. Hayden even said she liked doing it the old fashioned way! I don't think they even went to 1/4 of the houses but once they started to see the candy pile up in their bags they were ready to go and make one final stop at Grandma Dixie's. She always makes homemade goodies for only special visitors and they had helped her make them earlier that day so they were anxious to get there. Greg's Aunt who is an EMT checked him out while we were there too and said he may have slightly separated his shoulder but that other than a bruised ego he was fine. Thank goodness because that's the last thing we needed a week before the baby comes.
So with all that excitement over and done we are getting ready to start a new adventure next tuesday. I'm excited but starting to get a little nervous. A million things are going through my head. My other girls were really good babies, what if this one cries all the time? It's getting to be RSV season and what about all the flu and H1N1 that is going on? I'm already a hermit, I'm never going to get out of the house now. It's really going to ruin Hayden's birthday and what about the holidays coming up? I just want to flash forward and get this next week over with. For some reason this pregnancy has lasted a lot longer that the others. I think when I have a healthy baby in my arms I can take a deep breath and worry about everything else later. I hope. Fingers crossed for us everyone!