Life is Crazy, Life is Good

As stated above, the last few weeks have been crazy but good.
My Mom came in town and helped me with a project for nursery. I don't have a picture of it, but it turned out so cute. I will have to get a picture and post it. We made cute little bees for every child and one poster with flowers all over it and one poster with a beehive on it. The kids come and get their bee off of the flower poster upon coming in and then put it on the beehive poster inside the room. Their are velcro circles on both of the posters and on the back of the bees. It is supposed to make the kids excited to come to nursery...we will see if it helps. I really like being in nursery, it is such a change from any other calling that I have had. It is a bit crazy in there right now, but it will be much more calm when we lose eight kids in January to the Sunbeems. Before she left Mom took me for a little shopping spree for my birthday. Thanks Mom!
After Mom and Paul left, I inherited three extra kids for a week. Their parents went out of town and I volunteered to have them stay with us. A few days before they came, I thought to myself, "What was I thinking...I must have been insane". But it turned out wonderful. The kids were great and I had a lot of fun. It was nice to have some older kids around, I got to go to the grocery store by myself one day. (Who knew that would be such a luxury?) And the girls love to play Phase 10. I hope they come over soon, so we can play again. I was a bit tired by the end of the week and I decided that we will definitely not have five kids, but all in all it was a great week.
My birthday was that week, but we just skipped it. We just had too much going on and I am fine with that. Wes was great and got me a nice gift and made me a cake...it was yummy! We did go out to dinner with Wes's parents after the kids left and that was nice. Wes's Mom and I share a birthday and it is always so fun to celebrate with her. Happy Birthday Verna!
I love Halloween! We had our ward "Trunk or Treat" last night and it was so much fun. Case was a pirate and Madison was a ladybug. Good fun, good friends, good food and a lot of candy to take home. What else can you ask for? Here are a few pics of the kids in their costumes. You can notice that I finally got Madison's hair cut...so cute in a little bob. It was getting so straggly and now it will grow out nicely.























I thought these pics were cute of Wes and the kids looking at stuff on the computer...what a good Daddy!

Catching Up

I know, I know, it has been forever...We have done a lot over the last two months but, I have not been blogging. So, I think I will try to cover the highlights with mostly pictures and few words.

In August, Wes and I flew to Spokane WA and drove to Couer d Alene ID for one night and then to Glacier National Park in Montana for three nights. We had a great time enjoying the beauty of the area and spending time alone for a few days . A special thank you to Mom and Paul for watching the kids for us while we were gone.

Also in August we celebrated Wes's birthday. Happy belated to the best hubby and daddy! We all love you.

On September 11, Madison turned two. It is so amazing to see our feisty little blond girl grow up so fast.

I put it off for a long time, but I finally decided to read the "Twilight" series. I read all four books in a week and a half. Thank you Christy for lending me your books. This was fun for me, but it left Wes to be a single dad for quite a few nights. One night Madison came out and daddy had painted her toes bright red...it was so shocking to see her nails painted, because we had never done this before. What a fun dad! The bright red was a little much for my little girl, so a few days later we went to the store and got her some girly pink and painted her nails again.

Case continues to love school. Some of the moms from his class and I decided to take the kids to Peter Piper Pizza after school one day. They had tons of fun, but it reminded me why we do not do that too often. Here is Case and his school friends having fun.

Last but not least...after almost three years, I was released last Sunday as the Relief Society President of our ward. I will miss a lot of the things involved with the calling, but I also know that it was time for a change and that Christy will do a much better job than I did. I am now the ward Nursery Leader and I could not be more excited. I have already been on the internet looking for different ideas to help the adorable young kids in our ward.
I know that I missed a lot, but this is what I had pictures of. I will try to be more on the ball with updating the blog especially with the holiday season approaching. Yippee!