catching up

ok, so I have been bad at taking pictures since we moved. I didn't even get Halloween pictures. But Lydia wears her costume all the time, and Danton's was easy too, so we will just take pictures later. Lydia was Giselle from enchanted, I made her the curtain dress, and she has worn it EVERY day. Danton was a monkey. Same costume I made for Lydia when she was that age. Just as cute on Danton as it was on her. I wore my fall back costume, my chicken hat, and went as an egg head :) I wanted to take the kids to the trunk or treat, but it just didn't' work out, we were too busy that day. so we just went to people we know. Uncle Paul and Aunt Ann, Granny and Papa, and My friend that I have been tap dancing with. i think we got about 7 pieces of candy.
As far as tap dancing, this is the way to do it. Since it's just me and my friend we can go at my pace, and we are having a good old time. I've gone for 4 weeks, we have already finished one song and we are starting a new one. And each week we talk about something else and find more stuff that we have in common. That hour goes by SO fast. It's way more fun then the dance studio I was going to last year. :)
My little car that I got 7 1/2 years ago is finally giving us trouble. Mark is working on it again today for the 3rd or 4th time in the last month and a half trying to fix what ever the heck is wrong with it. We are hopeful that this part he is getting today will do the trick. But fixed or not, we still need to get a new car in the near future. We are driving a little 2 door car with a booster seat for Lydia and a rear facing car seat for Danton. So in order to get them buckled, we have to climb in the back seat. yeah, it's fun. We just aren't looking forward to car payments.
oh oh oh, I almost forgot! Renters insurance. We finally set up renters insurance. Oh Halloween night after we got the kids in bed we were watching tv and about 8:00 or so we started hearing sirens. We realized they were fire trucks and they kept coming. Mark finally said "Sarah, I think they are close." He looked out the back door and I looked out the front door. "I see it!" he said to me. There is an apartment complex right across the street from us and tons of smoke was coming up from one of the buildings. He walked down the parking lot to see and called me when he saw it. I made sure the kids were asleep, locked the door and walked down to see it too. It was crazy! I got there in time to see the flames cut out the side of the building and move on to the roof. We watched for about 20 mins. the flames for a good 15 feet above the roof. The next day we drove past on our way to church and we could see the damage it caused. Monday first thing I called and got our insurance set up.
ps 2 units were destroyed, one belonged to a couple in their early 20, and the other a single mom with a 5 and 7 ish year old girls. very sad. No one was hurt.