He shall cover thee with His feathers and under His wings shalt thou trust, His truth shall be thy shield

HE HEALS THE BROKEN HEARTED AND BINDS UP THEIR WOUNDS PALMS 147:3

AS I HAVE LOVED YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER JOHN 15:12

Going Trick or Treating with the neighbors


























At school on Halloween

















School Parade









The carved pumpkin!

James' Jail Cell

I have come to realize you have to be smarter than your children. Within the last few weeks when I would put James down for his nap, instead of walking into a sleeping child, I would walk into a tornado. He would slide out the drawers on the changing table, take out ALL the clothes and scatter them all over the floor and then use the empty drawers to get up on the changing table part. (Yes, this whole unit is bolted to the wall.) Then, he would get into the diaper changing supplies - his favorite being the BABY POWDER and then dump it ALL OVER the clothes on his floor and of course the carpet!


I have now become smarter than him and stripped his room of anything that he could turn into a mess.


Notice no diaper changing supplies up by the wipes warmer and NO drawers!







Of course, this might be his new nap area! Notice the baby powder smeared on the back wall of the changing table behind his head. How did he get that there last week? That was behind the drawers?!





All his clothes now live in his closet. Notice how Mom is smart and put a child saftey thing on the handle so he can't get into the closet?






Notice the hooks on the wall? There used to be a cute quilt hanging there but instead of fighting putting it BACK UP after every nap, I am just leaving it down! One less thing now on my list!






The bed...nothing on it but Barney and Tad.









So yes, it is basically like a jail cell - a bed and toilet (diapers). Other than that, there is NOTHING and I won't have a big mess to clean up every day after the nap! I am so glad my smart neighbor suggested for me to GET A BRAIN and become smarter than him!!!

Snow Days and Lost Teeth

Rachel & James in the bath! Bubbles and good times! Notice Rachel's missing tooth! Jason pulled it out with the needle nose pliers. Gross!







I went to card group - where we make 30 handmade cards and then trade then trade them with 30 other gals. I came home at 9:30 pm thinking that Jason would have the kids in bed....their own not ours!!!






James' first experience with snow. We got him dressed and then took him outside. He just stood there, got cold and then wanted to come inside!







Here is a close up of the missing tooth!








Here is the puppy....there went the puppy. She is probably 60 lbs and there is NO way I could even attempt to pick her up! She is already bigger than Sammi was when she was full grown!

Pregnant and SICK!!!

Here is Rachel's first day of First Grade at Kaysville Elementary. She loves her teachers and is one of 4 kids that tested into AR reading. It is amazing how fast she learns!

Here is our CRAZY boy who loves the phone and has complete conversations with no one on the other side of the phone! The dirty face picture is after he licked the beaters from Grandma Sue's birthday cake!

Here is Rachel at her first soccer game of the season. This year they have a goalie so the coach rotated the girls in the goal. Rachel had the opportunity to be in goal and she liked it!! I hate things flying at my face so I know she doesn't get this from me!

Here are the other updates....

I am 14.5 weeks pregnant and have been SICK, SICK and more SICK. This pregnancy has been worse than any others and to top it off, the only things that settle my stomach are greasy foods and Coke. I am PRAYING that I start feeling better soon so I can get back to eating healthy so I don't gain 100 lbs!

My foot from the snowmobile accident still had been hurting so I had a specialist look at it a few weeks ago and he said the solutions are surgery or months in the boot again. I am going for the less invasive route an figure this boot will be on until December at the earliest. At least it doesn't hurt when I walk on it, it just hurts when I touch it.

Rachel is LOVING tumbling and was just moved into the intermediate class at Clay's tumbling. she can do a back walkover and can go down in a back bend and then stand back up again....wow those stomach muscles! School is going well for her and she loves to jump rope.

James is.....???? I don't know the right words to use for him. He is tooooo smart. He watches everything I do - how to turn on the car and knows the where the keys go and that the gear shift should move - how to pull up and down the blinds and that the cord is the key so he pushes his scooter, stool or whatever might get him high enough to reach the cord.....the list goes on and on. The most recent discovery was the water that comes out of the door of the fridge. He can put a cup up to the lever, get water in the cup and then either dump the water on the floor or back in the drawer where he got the cup. Since our fridge doesn't have a lock for the water/ice, we have turned the water off to the fridge until he stops this MADNESS. The only problem is that he is not doing all of this to be mischievous or naughty, he is just learning. And his smile is too cute and his personality is so sweet. I am realizing how different boys and girls truly are. (Rachel hopes this new baby is a girl so we don't have another wild boy!)

Jason is working hard, hard hard. The business is ever changing and they are going to be filming a TV commercial in the upcoming months. Since there are more building permits being pulled than before, there is a ton of business out there and they are busy trying to get more new accounts.