Book Club

This book is great! It gives you a week by week, day by day section to read and the opportunity to make goals. It was shocking to see that someone else actually had been where I feel I am at today and after reading just the first week I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel! I feel so much lighter knowing that I can do anything that needs to be done and then some!

A woman in our playgroup read this and suggested we start a book club to keep ourselves on track and help keep us motivated. There are a few of us that are reading this book now and with our first book club meeting tomorrow, I'm so excited and interested to see what they have to say about it.

I'll keep updated on our meetings for the next 6 -weeks. Maybe some of you moms out there could use a little pick-me up too. I'll let you know how it goes!

Batman & Spiderman

Mom, Amanda, Jess and Noah all came up this weekend. We spent our nights watching scary movies and ghost shows and eating and on Saturday we took the boys to the Pocatello Zoo for the Halloween festival.
Harry was fascinated by this witch.



They had hotdogs and drinks, a haunted treehouse and little games and crafts everywhere for the kids. I wish Jess and Noah were in this picture. Jessica won 3rd place in the adult costume contest.

In one of the games the kids searched through the pile of leaves for little prizes. Aidan just wanted to be buried in leaves. He loves the crunching sound!

Harry in his spider costume. He kept falling over and he would just roll because he couldn't get up on his own. But at least he had padding!

*Insert Star Wars theme here*

Ta da! Jeff finished this all by himself! I'm kidding Todd! ;) Though Jeff was able to help start a small part of this 3 foot long lego ship, it proved to difficult to complete with a 3 year old with honest intentions of helping daddy build the spaceship. Our friend, Todd took it over to his house and finished this masterpiece. Thanks Todd!

School days, school days dear old golden rule days...

Aidan started pre school today! He was so excited, he woke up at 4am wanting to go but I made him lay back down and watch a movie in his room so he could get more sleep. He asked for a play by play of what needed to be done before we left for school also and when we were getting ready to leave he saw a school bus drive by and he thought he missed it! He started crying and telling me the bus left him but when I told him mommy would take him he was okay. As soon as we walked in the door for school, he took off his backpack and covered the following subjects with his teacher in under 2.5 sec.
* Thomas on his backpack
* He loves Thomas and Percy and James
* Asked if she had any Thomas
* Showed her his 'new' shoes
* Showed her the lights on his 'new' shoes
* Asked her if they were cool 'new' shoes
She just laughed. He was so excited! Aidan has his first field trip on friday to the pumpkin patch. His teacher is in our ward and I think she is really great. He has other kids to play with, is able to learn and have a more structured environment to get him ready for school and primary in January.

Apple Pickin'

Aidan had his playgroup on Saturday morning. We went apple picking at one of our mom's in-laws home. It was a lot of fun. Bob got acorns and a lot of apples from the orchard that I plan on making an apple pie with this weekend!

I seriously love my boys! Harry had fun too since he was able to walk around with the kids a little bit. Gran also held him while we were in the orchard.

Aidan pulled Papa all over the place. Papa was also Aidan's official acorn and apple bag holder.

I think Bob enjoyed it most when he could climb the ladder himself to reach the apples.

An apple pickin' thug. So cute!

Happy Birthday Harry!

Harry turned 1 today! I know everyone says it - but I really can't believe its been a year already. He is so adorable. I can't stand it!!! :) Jeff and I got Harry this toy that blows the balls into the air. Aidan and Harry both thought it was pretty hilarious.

Papa and Gran are visiting this week from Georgia. They took the boys to the park where Harry played til he could no longer stand and Aidan played for three hours. They had a blast!

Of course we had to give Harry some cake. Aidan picked out a Nemo cake for Harry. I had to fight Aidan off for awhile but we did let him blow out the candles.

The end result - a blue baby in a blue bath.

Private a no go

Jeff was concerned about putting our blog private because he has so many stinkin' friends and family all over the country that it would be such a hassle to put EVERYONE's emails in to let them see it whats going on with our family.

So - come one, come all - but don't get psycho. Oh - and no - I don't want to buy a watch from your website.