Story Time

I had a really hard time with Maclain going to first grade. I missed him, he is like my own little peacemaker. All the homework was new too. It didn't help me missing him when he would say "It's so long, and I don't have very long to play anymore. I miss you and want to stay home with you everyday." Ya none of that helped. But now he likes it and I am getting used to it too. I will say the pay off is Bridger and Rilynn love him reading to them, and I get the kitchen clean all at the same time.

October Fun

We went with Bridger's Preschool on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We went on a tractor ride out to the patch and the kids got to pick there own pumpkin and the driver cut it off the vine for them. This year you had to dig throught the vines to find the pumpkins because it has been warmer than usual in October, wait then three days later it snowed oh ya. Rilynn would not look at me to take her picture, she is so stubborn, but I thought it looked neat with the pumpkin patch behind her.

Bridger told me I had to get a picture of him in his favorite jamies, he even posed, there are times I wish they could be this good when something is my idea.

I got this sweater for Rilynn for a dollar last year, and I wanted a picture of her in it before it gets to small, so I had to trick her into picking grapes for me and had Bridger make her laugh, because if she knew I wan't a picture I would have gotten the stare. Whatever works, right?

This month has flown by, in fact this year seems to have flown by. Well this month we've been busy. Alex has flown a lot, I have been helping do a fall carnival at Maclain's school, we've had two field trips, two doctors visits, and too many things to do. We spent a whole day with family putting up tomatoes, and another entire day juicing grapes, and soon we will do apples yum. Maclain is loving school finally. Bridger can almost write his name, and Rilynn sings I am a Child of God. So all in all we have had a great month so far, I just can't believe it's really October already.

Photo Shoot

This is a self portait taken by Bridger the day he decided to sneak the camera and take lots of pictures of himself, his sister, and the cat.

This is the last picture he took of Oscar, needless to say Oscar doesn't get mad very easy or very fast, but the look on his face here, is anger and even a paw bat to say go away now......Poor Cat

This happens to be an earlier picture taken while Rilynn is driving her cariage over Oscar. Our poor cats tolerate soooo much. A week later Rilynn gave Mook a fur cut, luckily she didn't hurt herself or Mook, Mook just has a couple layers now.

On with Bridger's photo shoot, he follows poor Oscar downstairs to get a picture of Rilynn's toes with Oscar, you always have to have group shots.

And finally he gets a great shot of Rilynn after she chases Oscar back up the stairs. Bridger "she even put her phone down to pose." Who knows maybe one day he will be a fabulous photographer and to think it all started here.

Silly Kids

After all the trucks, trains and guns I find everywhere in our house, I feel bad for Rilynn, we don't have much in the department for girls, but through it all she has learned to hold her own. She doesn't let the boys push her around for nothing, and I guess it's ok for little girls to like monster trucks too. One day while I was picking up I saw her shoes laying on the floor, like always ( she has a thing for shoes) and even with the scuffs on the toes I thought we really do have a little girl in our house. As she gets older maybe she will be more girly, but for now this is as close as it gets.

THis is what you get when you ask our kids to smile........Cheese - Bridger

Fake smile from Maclain - he's finally beyond the Cheese.

And Rilynn, a straight face, because smiling would be too easy.

Where did October go?

Ok so our weather doesn't know what it's doing one day it's hot, one day it's nice, and the next it snows, and then it's cold go figure. Well the kids took full advantage of the snow, Maclain played outside in it for hours the Sunday it snowed, and Bridger and Rilynn continued it on into the next day too. They like being all bundled up now, but when they have to everyday it will be another story. This is Rilynn laughing at Bridger eating the snow.

This is the only second outside Bridger was not eating the snow.

We went on a field trip with Bridger's Preschool class to our brand new fire station. I learned Bridger needs to work on pretending, he would have nothing to do with pretend fire on his clothes to stop drop and roll, and there was NO way he was crawling under a sheet pretending it was smoke. He also was the only child there who would not give the fireman a high five. When someone writes a book on how to understand three year olds let me know. Rilynn on the other hand loved it, and now is totally facinated with ambulences she got in and out and in and out and cried when they shut the door. She could have cared less about the fire truck she wanted to be in the ambulence, I told her she better never have to ride in one.

This is Bridger giving the poor fireman the evil eye, even not in his full gear Bridger would not let that guy even help him out of the truck. I kid you not Bridger wanted nothing to do with the firefighters. It is so strange knowing him I would have thought he would be all over the tools and coat, but no.

Temple Square Splash

We took the kids on tracks to Salt Lake, and one of our stops was Temple Square. There are several fountains that kids love to throw money in and touch the water, and we are not the first parents to warn their kids they might fall in. I have never until now ever heard of a kid really falling in. Bridger wasn't even trying to touch the water he was just crawling around the side of the fountain, and did a perfect acidental roll into the fountain. It was so funny, we couldn't help but laugh at him. Because we were laughing he got so so mad. Lucky for us he has now learned this lesson the hard way all by himself. We are just glad he learned it in September and not in December while in all his winter gear looking at lights.