Ready, Aim, Fire

Samantha has been begging for years to get her ears "really pierced". She caught us in a moment of weakness and now she has a new obsession.

I say obsession because Samantha stresses over things and likes to ask a MILLION questions about EVERYTHING. With the earrings the questions are about infections, what the earring is made of, how the back works, how to turn them right, when to clean them....ahhhh!

I have to say she did ask the girl 1,000 questions, she picked her birthstone as her earrings and she didn't shed one tear. My baby is growing up way to fast.

Fast forward a couple of days and she isn't really trying to do her homework so I tell her maybe I made a mistake and she isn't responsible enough to have her ears pierced. She tells me she loves them and that she hates me. Will gets a look of concern in his eye and says "Mom, Sam said she doesn't like you." I tell Will that she will say that a lot before she gets big and he will say it one day too so I am not worried.

What To Do With Our Lego's

We went to Park City to see the "The Art of the Brick" display. This exhibit consisted of sculptures made 100% of Lego's. Our family loves Lego's so we very much enjoyed this exhibit.

When I play Lego's with the kids I am pleased when the buildings have four walls and the cars four wheels. Now I will have to increase my skills or they will be very disappointed.

After the exhibit we rode the Trolley up and down Park City main street. The kids LOVED this. They thought the Trolley was so cool and so did Dave and I, because it is FREE!

Leaf us Alone

Leaves are falling all around...except into plastic bags. I wish there was a way to catch the leaves as they fall but then our kids would miss one of their favorite fall activities.
They all love to run and jump into the piles. Ben and Will love to hide their guys in the piles and drive their cars through them.

ThIs Is HaLlOWeEn, ThIs Is HaLlOwEen

Can we get a mulligan on Halloween please?

This is how the week of Halloween played out at our house:
Monday: All kids sick with fevers and coughs= no school

Tuesday: Still have the coughs and it hadn't been 24 hours without the fevers so still no school.

Wednesday: Sam goes to school with a cough, Will has 103 fever that won't break and Ben is still coughing. I make appointments with the Dr., get Samantha out of school and off we go the 3 miles to the Dr.. On that short drive we get charged by a BULL! Right before the bull, yes a real bull, hits our car it turns and runs down the road in front of us. (FYI the police had to put the bull down later that day)The Dr. informs me that all 3 kids have bronchitis and double ear infections. Great, just what I wanted to hear with Halloween 3 days away!

Thursday: Samantha and I had a girls night with her girl cousins, Aunt and Grandma. We saw Annie at a community theater. Samantha wanted to know where an orphanage was...hmmm don't know that one.

Friday: Ben had a party in his playgroup that morning. My mom and niece Abbey came with us. He was so proud of himself it was super cute.

Will hadn't been to school all week but he didn't have a fever and I didn't want him to miss his party. I should have just let him miss his party because when I got there with all the party supplies he said he wanted to go home and go to bed. :( We stayed for a few minutes to make sure that is what he wanted then we left.
He did make a super cute Captain Rex from Star Wars The Clone Wars. (He loves Star Wars right now.)

Our next event was Samantha's Halloween parade. The boys were very patient as we waited

for our little Santa to make her debut.

When Samantha said she wanted to be Santa this year I thought...that is so Sam. She is her own little person and we love it.

Samantha also had a class party that pretty much sealed the deal on me not being room mother or being asked to help with any party ever again. Nothing like a disastrous craft to end the disaster week!

Finally Saturday came. We carved pumpkins. The kids did great and would have played with knives for hours if I could handle the mess. Dave blasted the soundtrack from Nightmare Before Christmas while he carved his pumpkin. I thought it was cute!

Around 4:00 Dave informed that Will's fever was back.....R U serious...it is HALLOWEEN! What kid is sick when they are giving away free candy at every door?

My mother of the year solution....give him medicine and tell him to ride in the wagon. We are not missing this!

Turns out he walked the whole way and it was our little devil Superman that ended up being the LAZIEST trick-or-treater in the world. Ben HAD to ride in the wagon. It HAD to be pulled to the bottom of the steps and if Dave moved it 1 inch while Ben walked up to the door to get his candy he would SCREAM! Oh, how we loved trick-or-treating with such a joyful child!

Better luck next year! :)

SISTER Katelyn Michael Christensen

My niece Katelyn left last Wednesday for the Houston Texas Spanish speaking mission. She has been attending BYU so our kids have been able to spend some extra time with her the last couple of years. We will miss searching for her keys, watching her text and having her take the kiddos to the park. Good Luck Kate you will do GRRREAT!