First Snow of the Season!

I still for some reason can't figure out how to put videos from our new camera on to youtube and then onto the blog, so you all just get to follow the link to watch the video on youtube. We had great fun this morning playing with the bit of snow that fell, it was gone by dinner, but with school on a two hour delay it gave us enough time to enjoy playing in the snow!

http://youtu.be/KtBhG-1m9mQ

New Living Room

Mama and Papa Burt have sold their baby grand piano and the Living Room looks very different without it! I have only ever seen it with the piano, so it is new to me to not have it there. We have moved furniture around and filled up space with the Christmas tree. November has been the month of the Dentist! Our dentist will not see more than two people from the same family in one day, so I have had to space out the appointments. Then, some of the boys had cavities to fix, and Joshua had to see a Pediatric Dentist and an Orthodontist for his spacing issues!! I never want to set foot in a dentist office again (at least not for a while)! I always stress out about those visits because of mine and the boys' history of teeth troubles.  Anyway, Last night there was an earthquake! It was a small one, and I didn't really feel any shaking. I woke up because of a loud noise at the back of the house like someone slamming a door or some large animal smacking into the wall! Then a sound by our bedroom door of a picture swishing back and forth on the wall, but there is no picture there!! I was scared!!! But after laying there listening for any other strange noises, I was calming down when Jonas calls out to me in a very frightened voice! That forced me to jump out of bed and see what he needed, and check the house for burglars or something. Glad to know it was just an earthquake, but man my imagination was vivid last night.

Logan being silly!

Trunk or Treat!

 Vampire Joshua, Devil Wesley, Skeleton Logan, Pirate Jonas, and Iron Man Jesse!

 

 Wesley made the cutest little Devil! He even wasn't bothered by the hood on his head!

 

Logan should have been a monkey because he was swinging around on the back of the van before trunk-or-treat began.

 

It was a CRAZY Halloween day for the family! In the morning, mommy took Logan and Wesley to see Joshua in his Wax Museum. The 3rd grade classes held a wax museum where the kids chose a character from a book they had read and dressed up like them. They would stand still until someone came and pressed their button, then they would 'come to life' and tell a memorized summary of the book. Joshua was awesome! He dressed as a mummy from a book called "First Day of School".  I forgot my camera, but Aunt Kristi got a picture of him that I will post later. So, after the wax museum, we picked up Jesse from Kindergarten and raced home for a quick lunch before we had to go back to the school to pick up Joshua and take him to his Orthodontist consult appointment in Silverdale. It went well considering I had Joshua, Jesse, Logan, and Wesley with me! We got home in time to have dinner and get ready for Trunk-or-treat. Oh yeah, sometime in there I made and delivered a dinner to a family in the ward who has a new baby! Needless to say, Friday was a curl-up-with-a-book day to recoup.

Leaves!

 

Wesley was laughing and loving playing in the leaves with his brothers.

Pumpkin Carving!

We grew pumpkins in our garden this year, but ended up having to buy two pumpkins from the store because our pumpkins were small and still a bit green. Joshua carved his all by himself while daddy helped Jonas and Jesse with their shared pumpkin.

Joshua turns 9!

Joshua got to celebrate his birthday twice this year. Once as a combined birthday party with Mama Burt and then another party the night before his birthday (since mommy was gone to a RS retreat on his birthday).  Joshua got to decorate his own cake. He chose robots made from legos fighting against army men! He enjoyed all of the gifts he got, especially the books.  He had told me previously over and over that he had read all the books in the house and needed new ones. I love that he enjoys reading so much!

Grandma and Grandpa Visit!

We were so excited to have Grandma and Grandpa and Sara and her kids come visit us! We had a good time hiking, playing, and working.  Grandpa spent a week cutting down trees and clearing land for their home.  All of the kids loved helping haul branches and watching the big trees come down.

 Joshua earned his Wolf badge! We are so proud of him and the hard work he does!!