the one about the school Halloween party

So I have had a crazy two days... so busy infact, I didn't have time to blog yesterday and I feel a little weird about it. All day yesterday, I would think, "I need to blog about this," or "That would be a good blog topic." Of course, it is all forgotten today. So off to new things.

First thing, I am playing on a Women's City League Volleyball team and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I always thought I hated volleyball. I actually thought I hated all sports. I had no confidence and I know I am not super athletic but about a year ago, I decided to try to play for fun and guess what? IT REALLY IS FUN! So Janice put a team together this year and I jumped at the opportunity to play. We just started a couple of weeks ago and I am already dreading the season coming to an end. I am really not any good, but I sure have a great time. In the spring, I got a wild hair and decided to play softball. I put a team together. We had fun, BUT NEVER AGAIN! It was a nightmare trying to make sure I had a team and calling and reminding everyone. It was a joke. Towards the end, we had to forfeit several games and it sucked. And it was super embarassing. But back to volleyball, my baby sis-in-law, Talia, plays with us and I am so glad. (She played softball too.) I just love her to death. She is only 18, but she is truly one of my very best friends. She is so much more mature than an 18 year old girl. She is a good listener, gives good advice and she is just a total sweet heart. Sometimes she will just come over to see Quayd and I and I just LOVE it. She is so special to me. I started dating Brett when she was 7. Holy crap she was cute! But now she is HOT! I have so many memories of her just being a silly little girl and now being a crazy teenager. She is such a good sister, aunt and friend. Ok, I keep changing the subject.... back to VOLLEYBALL! We lost our very first game on October 11th. We won our game on (my birthday) October 18th. Last night we had two games; won one, lost one. Its so fun. This is our team.
Back Row: Stacey, Kristie, Tara, Rusti, Amy. Front Row: Lani, Janice, Me and Talia is the lone ranger on the middle row. Our team name is "Rockstars." We are self-sponsored, so we got to name ourselves. We are actually pretty decent. We are on the lowest/worst league, but we aren't loosing every game. That's good, right? And most importantly, we are having a BLAST!

Ok, my next item of business is Quayd's Halloween Party at school today. It was so much fun. I was the head mom in charge, and I had three other mom's there to help. This is what we did... First, all of the kids decorated a brown paper bag to put all of their goodies in. Then we broke them up into groups of 5 and we had 4 different centers. They all rotated through the different centers. We had a bowling game. It was two liter pop bottles decorated like ghosts and they rolled a gord to knock them over. We had a Halloween Bingo game. Hot potato, but it was a witch's broom and they played the song "Monster Mash." Finally, we decorated Nutter Butter cookies as ghosts. Then after they completed all of the centers, they hit a piniata. This cute little girl, Alexa is the one who broke it and she was so excited! She didn't care about what was inside, she was just so thrilled that she crushed it. She told me, "I have never broken a piniata before!" She was as excited as I would be if I won the lottery. It was so cute.
This is Quayd and his little crush, Brinklee. She is such a cute little girl. Quayd's best friends at school are Brinklee and Raymond (Quayd and Raymond are sitting next to each other in the class picture, Raymond is wearing a black t-shirt with green stuff on it.) They are all three such good kids, I am glad they are friends. Well, I was very pleased with how the party turned out. I was nervous about it, but it came together well. I am again, so grateful for the opportunity to help in Quayd's class. It means the world to me. Really.