Halloween, sick kids, lots of candy

So, I've wanted to update this blog for a while, and I just wrote a long post all about our Halloween experiences, but it deleted before I could post it, and I don't really have the time and energy to rewrite it. So, here are a couple pictures...Jon and Nathan (Jack Sparrow and his Navy Seal sidekick) went trunk or treating, while mom, ellie, and asher stayed home (sick with a cold) to hand out candy all two times the doorbell rang. We also played sequence, and ate a lot of candy from the very full candy bowl, so we had fun:)
In other news, my dad recently came to help us work on some wiring stuff for the house for the weekend. Well, after they had surveyed all the stuff they wanted to do, they made the lowe's list and were ready to go, when I aksed if my dad could just take a quick look at the window trim/wall in our room. We had been told there was some old damage when we moved in (not sure if it was water damage or termite damage), and the wall was pretty thin under the window. Well, Dad took a look, and agreed the wall was pretty thin, but thought it best to try and just replace the trim, as the wall would be a big project. So, he takes the trim off, and the wall pretty much disintegrates from the window down to the floor. Yeah. You got it. Just the brick to the outside of the house now, which could be nice and rustic, but a bit too drafty for my taste. Righto. New project of the day...rebuilding the wall in Jon and Kerin's room. Amazingly, they got the whole wall rebuilt and the first coat of mud applied to the dry wall, as well as much of the wiring done that day! Jon and I finished up the mudding/sanding over the next few days, and then I painted the wall. We still have to repaint the trim around the window and baseboards, and cut a new baseboard piece, but I'm pretty happy to have a stable wall there now:)