Habits and vacations

This is Lexi's favorite "pacifier". She goes to sleep, calms herself down and passes the time with it. Gotta love those plugs.

Here is Sadie getting the "fuzzies" from her toes. She does this four times a day and even to her sister's toes. Habits are so much fun.

Here are the kids in the hotel tub. They thought this was great because it was ten times bigger than our tub at home. They didn't want to get out of it!

Bren and Sadie proving that friends stay friends no matter how far apart they are and no matter how long between visits.

Okay so I'm finally back somewhat to normal. We went to Bosie to a pivot conference (which is a HUGE sprinkler to you non-farmers) last week for two days. It was fun. The kids were wanting to get in the pool but it was closed for the winter. What a crock, the weather was like 65 degrees and they close a pool! Anyway the kids did really well int he car thanks to technology and DVD players. We went with some good friends of ours, Jordan and Susan Whittaker. Sadie was very excited though, she got to visit her best friend Bren Duckett in Nampa. They had a fantastic time playing together.
Sadie sand her little heart out at the primary program on Sunday. She did her parts very well and sometimes sang louder than the entire primary. It wasn't noticed to bad except when she sang the wrong words to make up for the right ones she couldn't remember. A lot of people were laughing so I guess she was the comic relief for the day. For practice the week before the stake president was here and sat by her the entire time. He complimented her on how well she sat still and I wondered who's kid he must really be talking about. he set Cory apart to be the Ward Clerk that week so now I get to contend with two kids to get ready for church, sit in sacrament and eat lunch in the afternoon by myself. I don't look forward to that but I'm excited for Cory and his calling.
Cory went on a trip to Nebraska to go get a pivot from the manufacturer so he left yesterday after church and will be back tomorrow night. I now feel a little like a trucker's wife (I don't know how you do it Korryn). I get to work on my Christmas calendars and stamp a little tomorrow while Cory is gone so that is a plus!

We are going to stay here and have Thanksgiving at Cory's parents house. It should be a fun day with lots of eating and playing Rook. Hope you all have a fabulous turkey day! Love to all-

Head Butting

Lexi loves the cats (They aren't ours exactly, they came with the place). This gray one likes to rub up against everyone for attention , therefore Lexi figured that was how you greet the cats and follows suit. This is what she does every time she sees the gray cat now. They sometimes rub against each other so hard they both fall over :)

Only Lizard Talk

As Sadie, Lexi and I were in the car yesterday, Sadie and I were working on memorizing her lines for the Primary Program in two weeks. Ecko the toy Lizard had accompanied Sadie in the car and her attention was quickly drawing to the lizard instead of what mom was reciting to her.
I tried to get her to tell Ecko her lines as practice and she sighed and said, "Mom, Ecko doesn't speak people talk. He only speaks lizard talk."
I gave up on the lines for the program and started to converse with her about her lizard only to be rebutted again. Sadie sympathized with the lizard saying, "Ecko missed his mommy." I thinking I was helping Ecko's case I said, "Why don't you be Ecko's mommy so he won't be lonely." Sadie replied, "I'm a people mommy so I can't be a lizard mommy. Only Lizard mommies can be Ecko's mommy." So I stand corrected.

Boo!!

On Halloween night we went to Trunk or Treat and they got plenty of candy. Then we went to the school for the carnival and the kids played a couple games before we went house to house. It takes a lot longer to do that here because the houses are spread out miles apart but they had fun. Lexi got grumpy towards the end but who can blame her for having five shots for her immunizations that day. Sadie was a in her words "gorgeous" princess and Lexi was a dragon.

I caught one!

Sadie and Lexi fishing in the creek behind Grandpa and Grandma Bird's house. She caught one too! She also caught a frog. Lexi is checking out the frog in the bucket.

Finally it is done!

Well I finally got with the program and made a blog for our family to keep in touch with everyone else. Since we moved, we finally have most things put away but still have those few remaining boxes of things you just don't know what to exactly do with them because you're running out of space to put them. The kids are settled in their new place and adapting to life out here on the ranch. Sadie loves pre-school two days a week and mom enjoys the break. But I enjoy her help with Lexi too. It has been very cold the last couple nights. Our thermometer read 4 degrees this morning when we woke up.
We had a great time over Halloween. Here you go to Trunk or Treat and then drive all over the country to trick or treat because the houses are spread all over miles apart. Sadie had a lot of fun and kept wanting to go to Aunt Jenn's house, Anthony's house and Rhett's house to trick or treat. She still has a little trouble with the too far way concept. Lexi ended up getting shots on Halloween and getting poked five times because they didn't have the combination shots. But all in all it's amazing what a little candy will do for that!
Cory is keeping busy with jobs here and there. We just bid a big job close by and got it so we are gearing up for that, but it may have to wait until spring because of the cold weather. The ground is getting harder by the minute up here and our excavator groaned in protest, or maybe that's because it's old-
I just got put in a new calling, right back into Primary as the Nursery leader. I had a feeling it would be that when I substituted for that class the first week we went to church here. But I'm excited and I can take Lexi with me to class so it will work. Love to all our family and friends!! Miss you all-