October has always been my favorite month. The weather is generally great wherever you are and it is all about Halloween my favorite holiday-when you work in the hotel industry your love for many holidays begins to diminish-Halloween is one of those great holidays that is really pure fun, no emotional ties, no big feast, and well Mark can generally get the day or at least the evening off! As September started to come to an end, everyone in the Bedford household was anxiously awaiting October. October was bringing Grandma and Grandpa Bedford to Orlando for the month, Joshua's birthday, and Halloween. We were eager to show Mark's parents our wonderful little town of Celebration, Disney and also let them experience Halloween since it isn't truly celebrated in Australia. Well we sure did have a fantastic time with them. We took them to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party complete with trick-or-treating through the Magic Kingdom, the Boo to You parade, Halloween fireworks and more. Luckily Mark's parents are the type to want to experience different things...it is really strange for many people to don a weird costume and go ask people for candy! When we pulled up at the Magic Kingdom Mark's dad would not get out of the car until he saw other adults dressed up. I can't blame him! Needless to say he soon was receiving many encouraging compliments on his costume.
October 8th marked Joshua's 3rd birthday! Wow we still can't believe he is now three...however we weren't too sad to say goodbye to the "terrible two's"...or at least we are hoping they are over. Given the fact that we don't really have a back yard nor a large house (by mainland standards) we decided to hold Joshua's party at My Gym. Basically all you do is show up with a cake and a few decorations and they take care of the rest. Not an easy feat keeping 17 young kids busy and out of trouble. Needless to say they did a FANTASTIC job and the kids had a great time. Tying into the My Gym theme I made a trampoline cake (Joshua LOVES to go on the trampoline at My Gym and of course it had to been GREEN-he loves GREEN), and then I made cupcakes to resemble the ball pit at My Gym. The kids were so cute they each had a cupcake and then wanted a piece of cake!
As much fun as October was it unexpectedly turned into windy, emotional road. On October 11th we unfortunately were given the news of the passing of our dear, dear friend Brigitte Brown. We had relocated to Grand Cayman not long after Brigitte and she soon became a close colleague, friend, mentor and confidant. We genuinely adored her and she did us the honor of giving a reading at our wedding as well as accepting our request to be Noah's Godmother. Brigitte was someone who brought out the best in you. We shared many laughs, many holidays, and yes many Amstel's. She is always in our thoughts. When we told Joshua we would be leaving for the day to go say goodbye to our friend Brigitte because she was becoming an angel. He told us that we could go outside and see her because she would be the brightest star in the sky. He sure is right. Brigitte you never stopped fighting, may you rest in peace.
