Happy Halloween!

This is my favorite holiday! I love all the costumes and the party atmosphere. I'll do my best to get photos as soon as possible of the princess and tycoon we have this year.

No news is good news

The last little while has been kind of quiet. We are just living life day by day. One little thing that I am loving is the way Josie sings. She is learning church, educational and silly songs. Her favorite seems to be "Jesus wants me for a sunbeep". (JJ is beginning to sing it the same way.)

What a relief!

I had been asked to talk a couple of weeks ago and I was able to get out of it because of Mormor's funeral in SLC. Well, it caught up to me and I ended up speaking today on Helaman 3:35...Purify your heart. It went well and there were quite a few members of the congregation that thanked me for what I had to say. I really loved a story about Joseph F. Smith. He was 15 and on a mission in Hawaii. He had a dream that he was in a big hurry to get somewhere. He had a small bundle in his hand and didn't really know what it was. He came to an opening with a door and knew he had reached his destination. He noticed a small sign to the side that said, "bath". He stopped and cleaned himself then opened the small bundle which held clean, bright, white garments which he put on. He went up to the door and the Prophet Joseph Smith was there to answer his knock. The prophet reprimanded him about being late and Joseph F. Smith answered him, "but I am clean....I am clean."

I pray that we can all become clean and accept the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Quiet time?

It is a bit eerie at the moment. Josie and JJ are still asleep and Jason has already left for work. I am really not used to a house so quiet. I could think of 10 other things I could do right now to enjoy this time.

Yesterday, Josie and JJ destroyed the last live plant we had in the house. I saw them playing with the new lamps we have in the living room and I decided to take a closer look. The plant was on the floor with roots exposed and there was dirt from one corner of the room to the other. The container was sitting nicely on the table as if nothing had happened. The kids were black from head to toe and I wish I had a digital camera to share the image with you!

Bronchitis is in the house!!!

Not feeling very well this week...Josie and I saw the Doc on Wednesday and we are pretty medicated now. JJ and Jason seem to be showing the beginnings of the nasty cough as well.

We have had quite a day already! Josie woke me up at 5am. It got a bit quiet later on...I found her in the bathroom emptying a bottle of shampoo into the tub. While I was cleanning that up, she found a few more things to get into that didn't cause too much trouble. We were lucky enough to babysit Brek while Aunt Trish went to the temple. JJ and Josie love to babysit and I am sure that the babies are more than happy to say good-bye when their time is up! They played with him as much as I'd let them. Although they were told to find soft toys, they dumped out every toy in the toy box for him. A little later, Josie and JJ were too quiet again. I found them in JJ's closet with what had been a new tube of toothpaste. It was all over their bodies, the carpet and the closet door. At that time, we decided to go for a ride...JJ still hadn't napped. We turned a corner and Josie started to yell that she saw daddy's truck...it was daddy and we were able to visit with him for a few minutes. JJ is now asleep and Josie is in her room doing some time for the concoction she put together out of the refridgerator. It can't get any worse!

Dentists & fingernail polish

This morning Josie had a dentist appointment. She did really great! The tech was able to take x-rays of both sides of her mouth. That was how we found out she has 2 cavities in the back. She gets her first fillings in November while JJ has his first appointment with the dentist.

We went back to grandma and grandpa's house to spend the day with cousins, uncles and aunts again. We had a lot of fun making cookies with Aunt Shannon and playing with everyone.

About 1/2 an hour after I had thought that we probably should have packed up to come home, I started to smell an odd odor. It was a lot like fingernail polish and Josie was nowhere to be found. The bathroom door was closed and when I tried to open it, it got caught on the closet's accordian door inside. I started to tell Josie to close the closet and received quite a bit of attention from everyone in the house. It took Aunt Chantelle and Grandma quite some time to find the right tool to close the closet door and get into the bathroom. Josie was a trooper as we told her to wait by the shower while we shoved and shook the door all over the place. Josie cried a bit as she discovered that she was trapped and in a lot of trouble.

Well the end of this story is that fingernail polish remover and razor blades make cleaning up tile and a glass scale really easy. Josie needs to give grandma a new bottle of fingernail polish and a new closet door. The bathroom's doorknob put a hole in the door of the closet as we pushed up against it. We are so sorry grandma and grandpa!

We have a telephone & internet again!

It is such a long week when your phone and internet are down! We finally got the upgrades we needed for the video phone and our internet is now high speed. (haven't had that since we moved into our house) Our home teacher came knocking on our door the other night to find out if we were ok or if we had fallen off the planet.

We are having a great time playing with cousins at grandma and grandpa Freeman's house this week. Thank you Aunt Chantelle for the crafty projects you bring along for us to play with. Josie won't let go of the necklace she made with beads and JJ is upset his picture made with stickers was left behind when we came home tonight.

Congratulations to Whitney, she will be baptized this weekend.