I missed October?!?

So I took a small hiatus from blogging for the month of October.  New Year's resolution to start early: more blogs.  Here's what I didn't post about that happened in October:

Halloween!

Ryan got creative this year with the spooky town village that we have.  Michaels has Lemax Spooky Town buildings, figurines and accessories that we usually buy a few buildings and people every year.  It's growing so big that I think we have to have at least 2 if not 3 of the largest tuffy totes that you can buy.  (In all fairness, we keep the original packing so nothing gets broken.)  

This year my crafty husband went all out.  He bought the fake grass turf stuff that people use for train sets and glued that to ply wood.  He drilled holes through the ply wood so the cords for the larger buildings wouldn't show.  Then he stapled brown fabric around the ply wood to make a table skirt so the cords and stuff wouldn't show.  We had so many buildings and things this year that we had to have two locations!  There was a smaller set downstairs on the air hockey table.  Ryan covered it with brown fabric to make fake ground.  The larger set with the train landscape was upstairs next to the railing on two saw horses.  The kitties appreciated this location - Amy hid under the skirt almost the entire month of October and Fex kept walking all over the spooky town.  I guess he thought he would be the giant black cat that would rule over the town.

Kidney Stones!

Poor Ryan now knows what it's like to give birth.  He was working one of his part-time jobs when he felt like someone stabbed him in the side.  He drove over to the Wesley ER and I met him over there.  They scanned him, told him it was kidney stones and gave him some morphine to help with the pain.  I took him home to rest and sleep.  He couldn't eat anything for over  24 hours.  The morphine made him sick to his stomach.  Two days later he passed the stone: 3mm x 3mm x 2mm.  We took it in to the doctor.  It's a calcium stone which means he should lay off the protein shakes.

Scrapbooking

I'm actually getting somewhere with my honeymoon scrapbook.  I dragged Ryan into Scrapbook Garden one day to get some page refills for my book.  He notices these cute little clear pouches that you can put on a page and it can hold something.  We bought a few packages and I have used them so far to hold a map of Martinique and some Euros (both paper and coin currency).

Construction

Almost all the electrical is done in the basement.  All the walls are up where they should be and there's a few pieces of sheetrock hung so it looks like I have a hallway.  Our next home improvement project is to do the tile in the kitchen and then the carpet in the upstairs.