Going Private

Hey everybody,
I want to put more fun info on my blog but also want to keep my family safe so I'm going private. So please let me know if you want to keep reading and I will add you to the list. I will be doing this after Thanksgiving so you have a week!!! Thanks to all of you who read along and give encouragement to me and my family.

First day of school

Ok I know I am a little late!!! But how could I not share their smiling faces and their excitment to start school. It is a new year and a new school!!!

Waiting for the bus!


Getting off the bus at school, he gets so embarassed by me sometimes.
Oh just wait Parker it will get worse!!!

Brayden getting off the bus at home the first day. He is my big kindergartener.

I just want them to stop growing so fast!!!

Brayden our photographer

Brayden has become quite the photographer. He loves to get his brother in an action shot. He found me reading outside one day enjoying the last of our warm weather.(yes this was taken a while ago)

He loves to take random pictures of all his toys.

And of course we have to have a shot of Morgan, she's the kids adopted big sister.

Brayden is exploring lots of his talents. Paul just wishes it wasn't with the nice camera. Maybe it is because I want a nicer one and can't justify it until this one breaks!!!!

Gardens

While my parents were here in September we went to the Portland Rose Gardens. We found this poem and loved it. It makes me think of all the hours my parents made us work in the garden at home. And look how it has turned out, most of us love our gardens and want to grow one!!! Thanks Mom and Dad for the inspiration.

The Dark Church

Brayden wrote and illustrated his own book for Halloween. He even took it to Kindergarten and shared it with his class. His teacher was so excited she put it on the ELMO (projection screen) and read it to both her morning and afternoon classes. I did help him write the words on the pages, they would have never fit if he had to write them all. I am so proud of his accomplishment and his desire to write his own book. Turn up the sound he reads it in his quiet scary voice!!!

Halloween

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. Since the boys were little we have had a family theme. Parker was against being a character like his brother. Brayden is obsessed with Buzz Lightyear and Toy Story. So I finally convinced them to be different toys from Andy's Room. I was able to convince Parker he could be one of the army men he agreed if he could carry his Uncle Mark's National Guard back pack. He loved being an army man, I almost couldn't get him out of the costume.

Brayden loved being Buzz Lightyear and thanks to a freind I didn't have to make this costume.

Elise was Little Bo Peep or what she calls Princess Peep. She loves her dress and I even made it so we can use it for church now that Halloween is over. She was able to go our ward's Trunk or Treat but she got sick for Halloween. So poor little Elise didn't get to go trick or treating this year and I didn't get to hear the ooooh's and ahhhhh's about the costume I made. Oh well there is always next year.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe halloween.

Caught the bug!!!

Yes I caught the cleaning bug!!! Or maybe I should call it the organizing bug. I am finally getting rid of the piles of paper that I never know what to do with. In the process of removing all the paper I have filled 4 paper sacks with all the shreddings and 2 other paper sacks of just paper. That is just wrong that I would have that much paper in my house in piles. Yikes I have a paper problem!!! I wish i could say the piles are gone but they are a lot smaller and you can see the top of my desk. Paul made the comment that he hadn't seen it in months. But he had made one of the big piles so he can't complain too badly!!! I am still at a loss for words about 6 bags of paper out of my house this week alone. My recycling bin will be full this week!!!