Halloween Weekend

The weekend did not start at all as I was hoping. 

Friday night Dustin made a fire then we went to bed. Sometime during the night the damper in the stack closed, causing our house to fill full of smoke. We had changed the batteries in our detectors, but for some reason they did not go off. The carbon monoxide detector was at 38, if it would have reached 40 it would have been deadly. We were so truly blessed to have woken up and get out of there, airing everything out. Connor and I then stayed at my mom's while Dustin tended to the house. 

Saturday, all of us headed down to Saint George in the intent to bring Dustin's grandma home with us to visit. While she was shopping at Ross with my mother in law, we went to visit Dustin's grandpa. During our visit with Grandpa Moore, grandma had a mini stroke and was rushed to the hospital. We stayed waiting to find out the test results till close to midnight. We were then informed that she would be released in the morning. All of us headed for home. (I wished that we had stayed, found out the test results and just been with grandma!)

Sunday morning we found out that more tests needed to be ran, so my in laws headed back down to Saint George. Wish we could have went, but both me and Dustin had work and things that had to be done. We are still praying that things go good for grandma. Most of the day we cleaned, trying to rid the house of smoke smell and damage. 

Of course, Halloween is not considered a major holiday. I had to work, which was fine but really tough when you have a two year old and want to make the holiday spectacular, even if it isn't a huge holiday. Not to mention our batteries in our camera died and could not find the video camera charger so SOL on that! After work we hit up the corn maze. cannot believe we spent 10 dollars to walk around and see some decorations. No pop outs/music/lights/fun things for kids like balloons/candy/clown---very disappointed. The only thing that made it fun was that Dustin hid and Connor had to find him. Then we followed a dove while Connor chased it with his gun trying to shoot it for dinner lol! We hit up all of our families houses. Connor had the whole Trick or Treating down to a T!!! Wanted to go to the carnival, but arrived to late :(. Then Dustin had to work and not much more for me and Connor to do. 

The whole weekend had its ups and downs---little bit more downs but eh that is life right! Things can only look up--or so we hope!

Next year we will plan a whole lot better for this holiday and hopefully it goes as planned. For the record on this Halloween, even though Connor had a runny nose and was not feeling to hot, he had a blast which is all that matters. We do pray that Grandma makes it out of this tough trial and our house goes back to smelling normal.