Halloween madness

Happiest of Hallows to all!!
I took the boys out trick-or-treating last night. My aunt and her 2 (almost 3) year old son came with us, as did my mother. Someone please kindly smack me next year if I end up getting the stupid idea to go out in a group again. It was just a bit more hassle than I was prepared for.

Be prepared...long story (possibly confusing) to follow.....
I work 30 or so miles from home. The trip is a 45 minute commute one way. Trick or treating started at 6 pm. So I get home, and get the kid's in their costumes at my grandma's house. Grandpa then informed me that it wasn't safe to leave the dog outside, not that we were worried about him hurting someone, but that maybe someone would turn him loose or hurt him. So I go home to put the cat in her kennel for a while so he can be in the house (cat hates the dog), and I can't find her. So I spend 10 minutes or so looking for her, calling for her, and shes not coming. I thought she had gotten outside and ran away. So I took the dog in and bawled like a baby for 5 minutes about not being able to find the cat.
It took us a half hour to get the 1st 3 houses, since we had to go to those houses special (as it was Great-grandma, and 2 elderly great aunts) We were done by 7:30 because True had fallen off of someone's porch.
I get home by 8:30, put the kids in bed, and lo-and-behold...I find the cat. She was perched atop a 6 ft tall bookcase, and I have no idea how she got up there, as there is nothing for her to jump on to get up there.
Both my kids ended up sick, so I was up all night trying to cure belly aches.

So fun fun for me.

Fishing fun.

Heres a couple of neat pictures. The first is my dad holding a 50 lb flathead that he caught.

The second picture is (from l to r) me, my son Kaden, my brother Garould holding a 23 lb flathead that they caught the same night, my cousin Treavor, and my son True.

Just a short post to see if I could get the picture thingy to work. Tee hee it did.

Fresh start

I have seen a lot of people I know using this, so I figured, what the hell, and I'd give it a try.
A little about me. My name is Rachel (duh, right?). I am from Iowa, a very small town called Melcher-Dallas. I'm married (husband- Chance), and we have a full house...2 kids, True (will be 4 in Nov.) and Kaden (just turned 1 in Aug.), a german shepherd, JayJay, and a cat, Baby.
I sell insurance. I love music. I fish, hunt, and can fix my own car. I love to swim.

My family is my life. I would do anything for them, which I have proven to them many times. I also know they would do anything for me, which they have done more than I could ever ask of them.
I don't really have a whole lot of friends, but it's more that all the friends I did have, I have drifted away from, and many of them, I don't like what they've become. I miss high school, where everything was so uncomplicated and the only thing I had to worry about were my grades and not getting caught smoking outside the school. Not like now, where before I can make a decision, I have to think about how it's going to affect people other than myself.
I have a potty mouth, so be warned. It may slip up from time to time.