Amazing Teachers!!

Anna graduated from Speech. We are so proud of her. Her counselor a couple of years ago, told her that he would dress up in a dress when she finished speech. So on Wednesday morning, at her first class, Mr. Strong showed up in a dress and gave her, her certification of completion. Wow. It was so cool that he still honored this promise. Koodoos to Mr. Strong.

WE are in TROUBLE!!!

Okay having a two year old in the house has been so much fun. He is such a vibrant little boy. And very smart. But I think that when he gets older we are in trouble. Big trouble. This little boy knows exactly what he wants. He loves watching Dora and Handy Manny.

The other day when I was at work, Gerald was playing around with him and he kept saying that he wanted a Handy Manny toy. So Gerald thought that this was an opportunity to maybe start potty training our child by bribing him with a toy. Not going to happen. Gerald told him that he would get him a Handy Manny toy if he went potty in the toilet. Devin told him "No, you get me the toy first, then I go potty in the toilet. Gerald said that he did this several times with him. I think that we are in big trouble with this little guy. He is already trying to negotiate things with us.

Thanksgiving! Black Friday! Mooseballs!

Well one holiday done. We had such a fantastic Thanksgiving. We stayed home and invited my friend Lori and her family up for the holiday weekend. It was a lot of fun for me and my kids. Unfortunately Gerald wasn't able to make it home for Thanksgiving. We sat around talked, ate, and I think that we might have even slept. Just little though.

Then there was good ol' Black Friday. What a day. Let see where do I start. Lori and I left my house at midnight. Yes midnight! I felt that I needed to get there early so that we could scope out Walmart. I wanted to get two laptops. So we wanted to find out where the lines were going to be and what we had to do to get in those lines. Come to find out we had to get a ticket and stand in line for 5 hours. Yes we sat in line on the floor for five hours for a computer. We had fun talking with the other people that were smart enough to come in early and get a ticket to sit for five hours. Then when that was done, we found our way out of Walmart and went to Old Navy. That wasn't too bad.

After all the shopping was done we went home and picked everyone up to go back. We took the kids ice skating and then went to the craft show there in Logan. We really did have a good time Friday. Lori and I went without sleep for about 39 hours. Don't suggest that anyone do that. I will try my hardest not to do it again.

Then Saturday my friend Lori had to go to Salt Lake City to pick up her daughter's pageant dress. So of course Taylor tried dresses on also. Kaitlyn and her love to try on the formals. And of course I can't resist taking pictures.

They had a little boutique that was hooked onto the Bridal store, so of course, being women and girls we had to check the boutique out. Devin happened to find a couple of purses and a hat and decided to try them on. Of course you can't miss those picture moments. He is just too cute. Then we stopped at Denny's to eat. Kids seem to think that you need to feed them all. Of course again we had a Kodak moment. We decided that all our kids standing together looked like the Cingular bars on their commercials. What do you think? After Salt Lake we came back home to go to my friends house for Mooseballs and Hot Cocoa. They are soooo good. This is becoming a tradition for my family every year after the Festival of Lights, to go and have mooseballs and hot cocoa at Shannon's house. That was our Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Festival of lights weekend. It was a full weekend, but a lot of fun. Hope that we can do it again next year.

Bored Parents.......

This is what happens when parents have nothing better to do and have lots of time on their hands. They torture their kids with Silly String.

Gerald and I couldn't find a rake at Alco, so we decided to buy silly string instead. This what happens,we had nothing better to do,then to silly string our kids.

We told them that we needed to have that dreaded family meeting out on the porch swing. The kids didn't not want to have a family meeting. Then we just attacked them with the silly string.

We are such mean parents. They thought that it was pretty funny.

October is over!

Well the month of October is over. Wow what a full month. My kids all had their costumes picked out. We had gotten Devin a lion costume at Old Navy. Anna wanted to be a vampire, and Christopher wanted to be one of the Blues Brothers. So we were set. Then a couple of days before Halloween, my two year old kept telling me that he wanted to be a Blues Brother, also. I kept telling him that he was going to be a lion, that he could be a Blues Brother next year. Come Halloween day, about two hours before we went trick or treating, he was very adamant that he was going to be a Blues Brother. So he won. So if anyone needs a brand new lion costume that has probably only been worn for about a total of 1 hour. I have one.

Taylor went out to Bonida, which is probably about 15 minutes north of Preston. That is where she spent her Halloween night. Her and her friends went trunk a treating, then a spook alley, and then watched a scary movie. This is a tradition out in Bonida for all the kids. She said it was alot of fun.

Christopher, Devin, and I went out to my friend Jeannie's for their trunk a treating. Then we went back to her house and played games. That was pretty fun. We ate some mummy dogs and just hung out.

Anna was suppose to go out trick or treating with her friend Sassy. But she ended up going out with some other freinds, because Sassy didn't make it back from SLC in time. Her parents wanted to do their own trick or treating at the car dealership. I am glad that Anna has alot of friends for when things like that happen.

All in all I think that my kids had fun on Halloween. I am sorry but I forgot my camera in all the stress of finding another costume for the two year old.