New member Tiger, but they call him Baby Kitty
White Cat, formerly named Blue Cat

White Cat as a baby

Big Cat. Formerly known as Patrick, Racer Rex, and T Rex.

On a sad note. Both cats; White Cat and Big Cat are gone. We brought home a kitten from the Silent Auction at the AIM School Fiesta Fundraiser and they wanted nothing to do with him and took off. We sent around flyers the other night and the kids snuck up to all the houses like ninjas and taped a flyer to everyone's front door. Like literal ninjas, sneaking around the corners and Paisley would loudly yell "Ghost is clear!" (Coast is clear) and they'd run to the door, leave the flyer and then sneak back. We haven't heard any response and I'm sadly thinking that the coyotes got them. :( We have had black cat for 4 years and White Cat for 2.... And this baby Kitty drives me crazy, but the kids are in love with him.

The kids were so excited to carve pumpkins and daddy had to miss out because he was helping a friend decorate for a Halloween party that we went to last night. We got dinner cleaned up super fast and the kids went to town.

Beck was actually pretty careful with his little carving tools and we didn't have any spilled blood or mishaps!

Paisley on the other hand was perfectly fine with me carving her pumpkin for her.

Beck wanted his to look like a vampire. I fixed the nose a little bit, but he did the whole thing by himself!

We have a great fun pumpkin patch field trip that AIM takes every year thanks to some very gracias neighbors of AUnt Kortni's. I drive the trailer every year and Paisley just wanted to ride with me and not with her class on the trailer and she pretty much just stuck with me the whole time. Eating her lunch in the car and not to happy to have to try and take a class picture. :)But the leaves were another story... she LOVED them!

This was on about the 3rd trip Paisley and I took down there driving the trailer. She was pretty much done with me taking pictures of her. But she does love her new owl hat!

Beck's field trip was a little bit longer with an apple cider press and popcorn ball making.

My kids are obsessed with all things tiny and "babies," so of course, they pick out the tiniest pumpkins that they can find at the patch.

Paisley was little upset that Beck's was tinier than hers, but she still found a pretty small one.

Beck's K-1 combo Kinder class with teachers Miss Kortni and Miss Candace.

Friends Noah, cousin Piper, Beck, and Bella.

Paisley and her Aunt Kortni on her 3rd hay ride of the day.

On the hay ride we stop at another neighbors house and feed the reindeer Bucky and Reiny. Beck really liked the "mama" reindeer.

On a sad note, Beck's much anticipated (and not in a good way) dental appt was yesterday. The one that we have been back now 3 times to try and get the same work done. We drugged him and Stephen even took him and he would never calm down. It's bad, people and I mean bad. I didn't even go. I just sat at a gas station that was close to the office and bawled. For an hour. This awesome dentist, my friend, Carrie Tatum, referred us to another dentist and he really needs to get his work done. Two teeth need capped, and yes, you can see the hole in them, and she got a glimpse of another tooth that has puss around it. I am not happy. And Stephen is the maddest of all. It's so frustrating. There is no reasoning, nothing. So Stephen has grounded Beck from the AIM Halloween Carnival tonight (which I understand, but don't necessarily agree to the grounding part, I mean he's only 5 and he literally thinks that the dentist is going to kill him! But marriage and raising kids is compromise right?) and Beck is devastated. He's been talking about the "spooky" Carnival for weeks! Hopefully he will be ungrounded by Monday for the warn Trunk or Treat party and Trick or treating in the neighborhood.

Getting ready for Daddy's surprise birthday party for #34 years, Beck started blowing up balloons all by himself!

The kids waited behind the counter for at least 30 minutes convinced he was coming through the door at any moment. They were pretty excited.

We made pumpkin cookies and had Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner.

Stephen got an AWESOME tie Dye shirt that the kids made and a Leatherman.

At Daddy's birthday party we discovered Beck's front tooth was loose. He accidently got kicked in the face at school, so the day after the party I took him to the dentist to get it x-rayed. I was thinking that there was no way that he was already going to be losing his teeth!?!?! I was right. After the cap falls out it will take about 18 months - 2 years for his actualy tooth to grow in. Gosh darn it. Guess we can call him snaggle tooth now. Although he's pretty excited because his cousin, Piper, told him that the tooth fairy brings you $1,000.00. Wonder how close her tooth fairy will be to ours?!?!

Beck's Primary Program was last Sunday and he had his part memorized. He said, "Our prophet today is Thomas S Monson." He did great and I was happy to be his CTR 4 teacher.

Me: "Beck, what do you love about Primary?"

Beck: " Nothing, just the cookie parts."

Getting ready for Halloween 2011!!

This is my niece Hanna June Nelson at my wedding reception in Othello 8 years ago. She is now 10 years old. Hard to believe!

This is my baby Princess Paisley today (well, October 8th) in the same dress that Hanna wore for my wedding in the Salt Lake Temple to the man of my dreams, sigh, for time and all eternity! Isn't my offspring adorable?

If anything we make some great looking kids! I may be a tad bit biased... Just sayin'.

On our Anniversary I taught some gymnastic classes until 6 and I REALLY WANTED Dairy Queen because a) I had a gift card and b) their Pepsi tastes great! So Stephen obliged and we met him at DQ after I was done coaching and he pulled into town from Othello.

Then I lost said gift card after I went to the bathroom, so we didn't even get to use it and then I was too full to eat any ice cream, but the kids sure made sure that they had room for their ice cream.

Happy Anniversary, 8 years! Yeah! Not a better way to celebrate. Except maybe to come home to 2 beautiful pieces of art from my loving hubby. One of the Salt Lake Temple and another of a mother and child, both from Deseret Book and both I absolutely adore. All he got was a crummy "Sugar Daddy" T-shirt, but I guess fitting. :) He IS my Sugar Daddy! :)

7 months along and baby is grrooowing..... I swear that I am much bigger than I ever was before at this stage of the pregnancy. I'll have to go back and check my notes. 41" around and I made my first visit to the chiropractor today and actually scheduled a massage as well. Pain in my tail bone will be the death of me, for that I am certain and that psyatic(sp?) nerve, yeah killer. I feel old, my body feels old. My brain feels slow. I am certain that there is only 1 baby in there, so don't even ask, okay? please? unless you maybe feel like getting karate chopped by a ginormously slow pregnant lady? I am teaching a few gym classes just one night a week and I have great energy at the class and then when I get home I crash and it's really only a few hours of teaching. Between that and running kids around and frantically working on some Christmas gifts, thats about the extent of what I am doing mixed in with random loads of laundry and toilet scrubbing and the occasional 3-4 nights a week of a good dinner cooking. So no, the count down has not begun, we still have quite a ways, but I am planning on the Holidays going fast. :) I can count on that right?

I buy toys, I always do. I buy them no matter what. So I came up with a point system and then you earn a prize out of the box. I think it was Kortni's idea first, but she does it somewhat differently. Once the kids earn 20 points individually they get to pick a prize. They get 5 points for sleeping in their bed all night, that hardly ever happens, but once in a blue moon it jumps their points up quite quickly. They get points taken away for hitting, screaming, not doing what they are asked the first time. They get points for trying a new food for dinner, buckling their seatbelt the fastest, doing nice things. (Which they also get to put a "warm fuzzy" in the jar for nice things for other people and when the jar is full they get to take a friend to ice cream) When we first started I started it for Beck. He has such a temper, bless his heart. He was at negative points for a very loooong time before he ever first got to 20 points. I used to carry around a chart that stated things with pictures that he could gain or lose points for and I'd write on it with an erase marker and we'd tally up the points at the end of the day. But now I've gotten really good at just remembering how many points they each have. And Beck remembers too and always tried to tell me that he has more points than he actually does. Then they got o being good and always asking "Do I get a point for that?" SO now points are random, you never know when mom is gonna give you points. :) Nothing like making up the rules as I go along right? The 20 point prize box works very well. I get to buy toys that are clearnced and feel some sort of accomplishment as a mother that they are actually earning them. :) So it's a win win.

Beck Kindergarten September 2011 5 years old

Paisley 3/4 Spanish class September 2011 3 years old

**School pictures by Lisa Dorsing Designs out of Royal City