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This is a picture of Bradley and Jamie.

They were going out to wait for the bus on Brad's first day of school.

I Tag Heather Gavin. Post your fourth picture from your fourth folder.

Happy Holidays

Wow. I can not believe it has been so long since I last posted. Sorry about that, life has been so busy. We had a great Thanksgiving.

We got to go Christmas Tree hunting. My kids love to go pick out and cut down their own tree. We have a tree, now we just need to decorate it.

Earlier in the month Naithan had the Fireman's Ball. He loves to perform. He is learning how to play the bag pipes and they are the ones who do the ball. I did not get to go this year because I was in Colorado Springs. I had a Mary Kay retreat. I had so much fun hanging out with the girls.

Well lets see if I can update everyone on the kids. Well baby Brandon is not so baby anymore. He is a crawling machine. He is into everything. He loves to climb and perch on things. He is a mover and a shaker. At church he directs the music while singing and dancing. He is learning how to wave. He says Momma, Dada, Bampa, Baba and lots of other things we can not understand. He finally cut a tooth this last week and is working real hard on his second one. He is still a happy little thing. Jamie still dances all the time. she dresses up in her dress up and dances. She also likes to play house. She is getting so big. She tales me all the time that she is almost big enough to get married in the Temple, and that she is getting bigger everyday. She loves to watch the sun set and to look at the Temple. She is so excited to go to Primary in January. Bradley is doing real well in school. If I could just get him to hold still and focus for a few minutes, my sanity might be spared a little. Better to have active kids than lazy slugs though. He has had so much fun going over to friends houses to play. He thinks he is so big, and talks about getting baptised in about 2.5 years. He is also excited to be 8 so he can be a cub scout. Bradley has started listening to me read chapter books before bed, and he loves them.

I hope that everyone had a great Halloween. We had a lot of fun. I got to go to Brad's school to help with his party. The the kids and I went to their doctor appointments and visited Nait at work for maybe one minute. As soon as we walked through the door he got a call. The doctor said all the kids are great. She was very impressed by Brandon's motor skills. He is seven months and he crawls, pulls himself to standing, and stands and will only hold on with one hand while reaching for things. He has also started sitting down rather than flopping to get down from standing. He is a busy boy! Brandon is now 16lbs 11ozs, Jamie is 30.5lbs, and Brad is 46lbs.

After the doctor we went to my Moms. I got to take my kids over to the trunk or treat. Than I made deviled eggs while they went trick or treating with every one. We had a great time.

During potato harvest we were able to go to the cabin for four days. We had so much fun. It was snowing, so we did not go through Yellowstone National Park. We are going to go in the spring when the animals are having there babies. We did to get to see a moose and her baby right in the yard of the cabin. The kids played and played even though it was cold outside. They love going to the cabin. We tried to take family pictures while we were there. We wanted to take them outside, but it got so cold that we had to go back inside. Brandon lost his spoon under the stool, so he climbed through it. We did not pose him in the picture. He did it all by himself. He loves to climb and he has started to crawl for real instead of inchworming it. He pulls himself to standing and walks along furniture. He also lets go and only holds on with one hand. He loves to smile and be happy.

Bradley had his primary program last Sunday. He held real still the entire time. Which is good for my active boy. He loves to speak at church, so he had no problems saying his part. He had it memorized the day they sent it home with him. His part was "I can do family history work for my ancestors so that they can receive Temple blessings." Bradley is so much fun. He has more energy that anyone could imagine.

Jamie loves to play house. She is always pretending to cook me something. She loves to dress up all pretty and to have her hair and makeup done. She is all sugar and spice. Spice because she is such a tease. She loves to tease her brothers. Her thing right now is to call her big brother a pumpker head. She likes to say pumpker instead of pumpkin. Her laugh is so contagious.

Happy Harvest Everyone!

Well I can not believe it is October. I feel like every time I blink I loose a huge section of my life.

Bradley came home from school yesterday so excited. He got a gift certificate for a free bag of bread sticks at little ceasers for reading. He wants to go and redeem it after school today. Bradley loves kindergarten. It is so good for him. It is helping him to learn to control his wiggles a little more. We just got into the hang of our routine and potato harvest starts monday. That means I get my boy home for a week and a half with no school. Naithan has four days off in a row next week, so we are going to go to my Grandfather's cabin in Island Park. We are all so excited. We love to spend time as a family up at the cabin.

Yesterday we spent the day bottling applesauce and dehydrating apples. It was so much fun. The kids were a lot of help.

Brandon is 16lbs. He is also crawling now. I can not believe how big he is. Six months sure goes by quickly.

Well, I am not sure where my September went. It has been a while since I last made a post. Sorry about that, but life is super busy. Bradley loves school. He always comes home so excited. Days getting shorter is making it harder to wake him up though. He loves to learn as long as Mom is not teaching him. I do his PE once a week. He enjoys that because he gets to be active. It was almost painful at first for him to hold still. He is just your typical busy boy. Jamie is a joy. I thought she would be jealous of her brother. She is not though. Brandon takes a nap and she and I get plenty of 1 on 1 time. She is getting so big. She loves to talk the ears off of anyone who will listen to her. Brandon is trying so hard to crawl. He does push up a lot. The other night he got himself up to sitting position all by himself. Nothing is safe on the floor. He scooches every where and is getting pretty quick. He is such a sweet baby. He rarely cries. I love being a mommy! I love to spend every moment with my family. I am very blessed. Naithan works so hard to provide for us. He tries so hard so I do not have to work outside of the home. He is so amazing, and I am very lucky to have him.