Adventures in Wisconsin on a Mid-Autumn Day

Luke Turns 4!!!

Around the end of October, life starts getting a little nuts in the Bullio household.  Halloween kicks off 3 months of celebration madness in our home.  Trick or Treating, All Saints, All Souls, Luke's Birthday (which will sometimes fall on Thanksgiving), Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Nick, other advent Feast days, Jack's Birthday (which is a week before Christmas), Christmas, New Year, Kate's Birthday & finally, Mark's birthday (what am I forgetting???).  It's all good stuff, but a lot of good stuff at once is a bit overwhelming, especially for me, who has never been very good about "being on top of it all."  Sometimes it makes me cry up to the heavens, "June, Lord?! Could I have had one of these beautiful blessings in June?!"

On this particular year, Luke's birthday fell on Thanksgiving, so we had a family party the weekend before.  I have dubbed this party "The Noro Virus."  For little did we know, while eating cake and having superhero merriment, almost everyone was becoming infected by a stomach bug.  Words cannot describe how bad I felt about this...  But here are some pictures of the good part :)