Protecting your Innoncence

Dear Children,
      A couple years ago we got rid of cable tv. It was on way too much and we wanted to protect the innocence of your sweet little minds. You've never missed it a bit and frankly, neither have we. (Except when General Conference comes on twice a year and we have to find someone to watch it with). The tv used to be in our bedroom for quite a while, but it was driving your daddy batty that his room looked more like a playroom. So, to the basement it went for you kiddos to watch movies from time to time.

       You should know that on occasion your dad and I want to watch a movie in the coziness of our bed. So this is what we do when we want to watch a movie in bed.

Enjoy an action packed film on a 7" portable dvd player, with our headphones on for better sound. Awesome!

****Mondays Mishaps****
-Took kids in for flu shots. Abby cried just for a minute. Nathan made Hannah go before him and he cried before, during, and after shot.
-Took kids to store to buy some milk after their shots. Walked out to car after buying my things only to find Nathan had swiped a sucker from the check out. Took Nathan back into store to return sucker. Our first experience/lesson on stealing.

Kid to Kid

Perfectly happy to buy gently used clothes. Whole outfit less than $10!

Capturing the Moment

Fall in the mountains! Picture overload. (I cannot figure out how to do collages. Somebody please help me! This is ridiculous!)

What do you do on a Sunday afternoon?

A Sunday Afternoon

I'm home from church now. I love church. I get to be with the Primary kids each week. And each week I cry in Primary. The songs, the spirit, the excitement, gets.me.everytime. We are preparing for the Primary program coming up in 2 weeks! Yahoo! Both for it to come and be over. :o) The kids are darling. It's going to be great.

Pictures that I captured this week.

Somebody got a haircut. His hair was long enough for a rubber band.

She wanted some attention. That, and she loves balloons.

Hannah has a new boy friend. Not to be mistaken with boyfriend. I give you Teague. He's great. We like him.

My obsession with Mums. I have two more that weren't this lovely to take pictures of.

Our home grown pumpkins. My porch needs some Zing!


Meatless Cafe Rio Enchiladas. Divine!

Homemade pesto pizza. Um....not so yum. I need to keep practicing this one.

My expressions

Some say that I look unhappy sometimes. That I don't smile enough. I can't imagine why anyone would ever think that.

For the record. I am HAPPY!!!! And since this has been brought to my attention, I'm working on smiling more, to prove that I am very happy.

Speaking of happy, do you know what day it is today? It's FRIDAY!!! or in other words, date night. Best night of the week if you ask me. So my dearie, I'm going to get my self ready, put on some lipstick, curl my hair maybe, shave my legs, and wear something that will make it very hard for you to take your eyes off me. (wink!wink!)

Ah....now that is more like it. This is a true reflection of how I really feel.

A mighty change

Hmm....why do I blog? At first it was a place for me to put lots of pictures of us for all of our family that live far away. You see, I felt a tad bit guilty leaving all of Aaron's family in California, taking the only grandkids away. A blog was such a great way for them to still see the kiddos growing up. I think they like the blog. I hope it makes them feel connected to us. We do lots of things here on our end to make sure they are connected with their family in California as well.

However, my reason for blogging now has changed some. I blog because I love the 3 munchkins who call me mama. I blog because I want to capture some of the crazy mishaps that happen daily around here. I blog because I love my Aaron and am amazed at the man I married. I blog to remember what kind of person I am at this point in my life. And sometimes I blog just to brag about the good things in my life! A mighty change is occuring in my life it seems. I have this desire to live simply *speak kindly*love genorously. It's true. I have that saying right above my front door and I read it a bazillion times a day. Oh life is good.

What does your house look like at 3:00 in the afternoon on any given day?

Pictures on my camera that I have no idea where they came from.

Okay, actually I'm pretty sure that Aaron took these one day. I think it's Heber. It's gorgeous! That's all I know. FALL IS HERE!

This is my heaven on earth.

P is for.......

a Pirate Party!  Arrr!!!!And many other things too. I got to host Nathan's joy school at our house this week. I chose the letter P. Oh what fun there is with the letter P. Tuesday we ate Popcorn, Pumpkin cookies, Painted Pumpkins, Played with Puzzles and Playdoh, and read "If you give a Pig a Pancake". Phew! I forgot to break out the camera for those fun activities.

Today, we had our Pirate Party, made homemade Pizzas, colored the letter P and a picture of a pirate. Other P things we do, is open preschool with a Prayer and say the Pledge of a alligance.