Poor Cody!

My toe is sick

Whenever I look at my big toe I think of my older sister on her mission. She served in Japan and struggled with the language for a while, but she needed to go to the doctor because something was wrong with her toe. She didn't know how to describe it, so she told the doctor, "My toe is sick."

My toenail has had a lot of trouble lately. It had a swollen, pussy infection this summer and it hasn't grown out at all for almost a year. Now the base of the nail has completely separated itself from the cuticle and its so yellow and brown and gross looking. [sorry]  Its getting more and more sensitive too. I'm really nervous about my losing my toe nail. I don't know what I'm supposed to do to help my "sick" toe.

Window Painting

I decided to try something new this year...

We don't have a lot of decorations for most holidays, but I do want to feel festive. So I started painting our front window to contribute to the neighborhood decorations.

I'm in no way a professional, and I don't even know the best the kind of paint to use, but I've been happy with the results regardless. Even if its not perfect.

I've had the kids pick out some clip art online and then I free-hand it on the window with a dry erase marker and paint it. 

Nothing fancy, but I love what it brings to the outside decor.

Happy Halloween

This one I used Crayola washable kid paints.

Happy Thanksgiving

I used acrylic paint on this one. The leaves in the window are things we are thankful for. :)

I'm looking forward to the mural for Christmas. I wonder what it will be....


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Paige the gymnast

Paige chose to take a gymnastics class this Fall. 

She was very enthusiastic about it, of course, but I'm not sure it will be her thing.

She tried (sometimes) and got distracted (lots of times). 

She was actually very focused during the performance night. I think if she were that focused during all the practices she might have learned how to do a cartwheel in time. 

There's lots of room for improvement, but it was fun to see her try something new.

Reptile Preschool

 Highlights from preschool...

Using bubble wrap to paint scales for a snake.

Visiting our neighbor's house and having their son show us his lizards.

Ashby was the only one brave enough to actually hold the bearded dragon.

Watching them eat cockroaches and then having the kids feed them shredded carrots.

Such a cool chameleon! We were hoping to see her super long tongue, but she got stage-fright.

Thanks to Jeremy for answering all the kids' questions and showing off his animals.

Making stained glass sea turtles with tissue paper and contact paper. 

Our BYU football experience this year

We got vouchers a couple months ago for 4 tickets to a BYU football game. We tried to make it to a game earlier in the season, but things just kept not working out. There were lots of different factors that would have ruled out going to the game today - snow storm, 25 degrees, 8:15pm kickoff, tired kids, etc. -  but since it was the last home game of the year we had to just go and not think twice. I ended up taking Paige and Ashby while Brian stayed home with the littler ones that would definitely NOT be able to handle the above factors.

 We had a nice welcome when we got to our seats. 5 inches of snow covering all the benches!

The kids had good attitudes through most of it. Ashby paid close attention to the game and asked lots of questions. Paige spent the time making formations in the snow with her feet or counting patterns on people's blankets in front of us. We left around 10:30 just after half time. The score was 42-7 and we were pretty much frozen. Nevertheless, it was fun to take the kids to a BYU game, sing the fight song, relive the good ol' college days, and enjoy a yummy cougar tail.

GO COUGARS!!

Cody's first hair cut

With sucker in his hand and the use of scissors instead of clippers, it went pretty well.
No more little curls in back though, and no more super whispy stuff flying around on top. 
Our little baby is growing up. :)

Let it Snow!

It was a BIG snow storm!

And it kept coming all day long!

But the kids didn't mind.

Cody looks pretty in pink, right? At least it fit him.

My "car"

For the past 8 months this has been my mode of transportation.
I sure am glad Brian won this bike for me last year. And then we got the trailer in the Spring - so everyone fits great, even if it means I am hauling around over 100 extra pounds.

Really, its been fine since I don't usually have far to go, and with napping kids and no money to spend anyway, we haven't really needed two cars.
The trouble is that it takes up a lot of space in the garage.
And now that the weather looks like this...

We need to figure out another mode of transportation for me. And we need to figure out where to put the bike until next Spring.

Ashby's getting ready for Christmas

Ashby rushed inside from school today and ran over to the computer. He wanted to write an email to Santa Claus. This is what he said,

dear santa
i am sorry for being bad to levi and paige
love ashby

Guess he knows he needs to be getting ready for Christmas.