Thankful

November is a month that helps us remember to be thankful.  I know that I have so much to be thankful for.  I'm thankful for my great little family and for a husband who works hard for us.  I'm thankful that Dan puts up with me, even when I throw his pillows across the room at night and laugh hysterically for the hundredth time.  I'm thankful for my Emma who makes me smile with her silly jokes she repeats from tv, and her creativity.  I'm thankful for Hannah Bo who keeps me on my toes and gives the best cuddles.  I'm thankful for my parents who have worked hard and still to this day take care of their kids.  I'm thankful for my brother and sister (and my adopted sister/cousin/friend) who are not only siblings, but friends and always find a way to make me laugh until I hurt.  I'm thankful for my extended family (both here and gone) who love me for who I am and always make me smile.  I'm thankful that Dan has a great job that he loves and that he can provide for us while I take care of our girls and finish up my schooling.  I'm thankful for our new home and for the wonderful neighborhood that we moved in to that has welcomed us and for all our new friends we've met here.  I'm thankful for our health, this is sometimes easy to take for granted.  I'm thankful for my friends who, no matter how long it's been, always make me smile and always have a listening ear and great stories to tell.  I'm thankful for my freedom, that I can choose what I want to do and when I want to do it, and for those who fight for freedom and have lost their lives doing so.  I'm thankful for my church and my calling and for all the joy and peace they bring to my life.  I'm thankful for time, love, forgiveness, faith, and so many other wonderful thinks we have.

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall Has Arrived

 Welcome to November, can you believe that we are here again already.  Life continues to fly by, but we're having a lot of fun along the way. 

Daniel spent the most part of October in St George and Coeur d'Alene so he wasn't around for all of these festivities.  We miss him a lot.  The good thing is that it's looking like (knock on wood) that he should be sticking around for the rest of the year.  Just enough time for me to get sick of him.  Haha.  Just kidding, you know I love you Daniel!! 

I'd say we got pretty lucky with the weather this October, it's been fairly nice and warm for the most part.  Now lets just hope that it doesn't mean snow until May again.  I don't think I can take it another year. 

Let's jump right in to October . . .

Jarom turned four.  He is such a silly little guy.  Check out his cool miss matched socks.  He does silly things like that on purpose.

He's going through that lip-sucking phase that I swear all kids go through so he has a big sore under his lips.  My girls both went through it.  I remember with Emma we had to stick a band aid on her bottom lip to finally help her stop.

Squinkys are all the rage

There wasn't an empty seat in the house at this event.

 I put Sam on the fridge and he started crying, right after I took his picture.

 Jeffy didn't mind it so much.

Happy Birthday Jarom! (with his best friend Cole)

 The we all decided to crash Nikki's trunk or treat one night at her church. 

 We love torturing the babies.

Then it was Enoch's turn to have a birthday.  He turned seven.  He wanted to have an eyeball party, sounds like a boy thing to me.  The kids had a fun time playing all the eyeball games.

 The birthday boy!

 See this bug, I pulled it out of Cole's ear that day.  He came up to me slapping the side of his head telling me that his ear was bugging him so I took a peek inside and didn't see anything so I sent him on his way.  He came back again a few minutes later and said it was still bugging him so I took another peek inside his ear and again saw nothing so I asked him if it was ringing.  He said he didn't know and headed off again.  A minute later he was back again complaining about his ear.  I asked him again "is it ringing like this riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg?".  He said "it's not ringing, it's FLAPPING".  Flapping???  That was a strange answer.  I once again took a peek into his ear and this time saw this bug crawling up from the depths of his ear.  I momentarily freaked out but then sprung into action and used my fingernail to pull the thing out.  EWWWW  It was still alive when I pulled it out.  After I got he out he just wandered away as if nothing happened but I may just be scarred for life.

One day we headed out to a pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins for carving.

On Halloween I was able to help in both of the girls classes for their parties.  That is one of my favorite things about not working, being able to help in their classes.

 At the school Halloween parade

On Halloween Dan was still out of town so I decided to head over to the Franc's so I had someone to take my girls trick or treating with.  They are so nice to always let me crash in on what they are doing when I am without a husband.

 Their costumes were cute and funny.

 This was my costume this year (I recycled it from about five years ago).  I look like a normal inflatable cow, don't I??

But no!, I am a giant inflatable cow that walks on his front legs.  It was a lot of fun walking around with this thing on.  Children and adults both don't know what to make of it.  At one point during the night Nikki decided to go cow tipping.  Not cool!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

(Kwinton J is crying in this picture, not barfing like it looks like)

(After I posted this I saw that it was my 300th post.  Yay!  Happy 300th post to me!!!)