Fennessey Family Halloween weekend :)

Ok so yesterday got crazy busy so I didnt blog but I have to update on hubbys bday! it was a big success! the cannoli cake turned out great!! :) 

Chloe had a great time helping me and get the presents ready and Liam was fascinated by the cake covered in candles! Can't wait to see how he reacts to his 1st birthday cake which will only be 5 short months from now! Its crazy how fast the time goes by... just a little past his 1st birthday and we will be saying good bye to the Army life and hello to NY and our families again! 

before I go on I have to say thanks for the support from all my friends and everyone that said something to me about my previous post. It was hard for me when I was writing about my mom but I think it really helped and I needed that! The support and encouragement from everyone means a lot to me. I want to post my 101 in 1001 list soon and reconnecting with my mom is something I put on it...even if reconnecting just means taking the first step in writing to her....

Yesterday was a great day! I found out in the morning that I didnt have to work which was a nice break and it was just me and my kiddos all day long :) I very much enjoy days like that! It was also payday which who doesnt love pay day..haha.. Chloe was supposed to have dance class but she asked not to go so that we could make it to trick or treating downtown, so I let her skip it and we waited for daddy to get home and then it was off to downtown to meet her "bf" LOL Chloe's bf Robert, or husband as she sometime likes to call him will end up in our stories ALOT. She loves him and we are pretty fond of the whole family so we spend alot of time together! :) :) They will def be missed alot once we move away from here! Trick or treating was fun I love downtown Fayetteville and all the stuff they do, there is always something going on, the festivals, parades and fun stuff for the kids makes fayetteville not such a bad place to live. and of course dinner at Beef O'Bradys after was delicious!! 

Of course fun times can always be brought to an end with sadness... on the drive home my sister called and told me that my poppop would be coming home from the hospital on Saturday. That was great until she said they are bringing him home to a hospital bed in the living room and will have hospice nurses coming in to help keep him comfortable...I heart fell into my stomach! I've known that this could have been coming for a long time now but I'm not ready for any of it. My poppop had a stroke in the spring of last year, hip replacement surgery over the winter and has had many problems that have been found since then. Now his liver and kidneys are failing and making his heart and lungs work too hard. Because my mom was absent in our lives my poppop and mommom have always been such a huge part of it. They live about a 2 min drive away from my dads house..poppop would get us on and off the school bus each day, if we were sick and needed to stay home from school we were at poppops house, alot of vacations and trips we did together, they are more than grandparents to me! Almost every major event in my life up until now, they have been apart of, they even traveled down here this past May for my college graduation!!
I picture and always will see my poppop as the tall strong man that would throw us around in the pool over the summer or go to hershey park and ride all the roller coasters with us! Or pulling in the drive way, seeing the ladder on the side of the house and poppop up on the roof fixing it again. I want to go to PA soon... and I'm going to I just need to figure it out and soon! 

Well now I suppose its time to get back to the trick or treaters... Chloe has been taking care of the door and each time someone comes she's like come on mom lets go!! we open the door and she hands out the candy to all the kids! In cumberland county where we live, they have trick or treating tonight and tomorrow in hoke county (which is right down the road) they have it, so tomorrow we will be going Robert's house to go trick or treating together! Chloe is sooooo excited! :) 

Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween! and a good rest of the weekend! 

Until next time... :)