Enjoying Our November

November sure flew by, but we had a lot of fun throughout the month.

The boys helped me celebrate my birthday

We enjoyed our first snow fall by keeping with the crazy tradition of walking barefoot in it. Big H built a snowman. He then built another snowman because he wrecked the first one before I got a photo. They love snow. I need to try harder to get them some good snow clothes so we can got out and enjoy it more.

After a stressful week for of eye surgery, recovering, work, work and work we decided to go do something fun together. We went to check out a new make your own soap store in Provo. The boys loved it. I was not too happy with my decision to take Little S though. He was kind of a stinker. 

The finished products.

Later I took Little M for a turn. Big H wanted to go again so he paid for his own.

The kids love making the soap, and they were so excited about using it. They couldn't stop talking about how great it was! I appreciated how nice and personable they were. You should check them out.

We also enjoyed ourselves at Thanksgiving. We finally got the twins' turkeys decorated-- I think this assignment was about a week or two late. We have a ninja-- with a ninja sword tongue depressor-- and Superman.

This years fun fruit tray.

Two of the boys went with their Dad for Thanksgiving down south, so it was just me Big H and Little M. We had a fun Thanksgiving with my family, and we have had fun spending some quieter time together.

Big H had fun with his Rainbow Dash at Thanksgiving. I even let him use my flower to style her hair with.

Little M spent the night at Grandma's so Big H and I just enjoyed hanging out together. He played Yahtzee with me-- and totally cheated-- and watched "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with me. Both traditions for me. Though I haven't been able to convince someone to play Yahtzee with me for a couple years. Oh, I forgot, Rainbow Dash played Yahtzee with us too.

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!

I Don't Like to Brag. . .Unless It's About My Kids ;)

Here's some random fun things the boys have been up to lately.

This is a note from Little H telling me how upset he is that we're not getting a kitty and that he is going to run away.

The boys got into drug free week at school. This is from "Dress up Like What You Want to be When You Grow Up" day. We have a pilot and a firefighter. Isn't Big H's hat the best. They both look adorable!

 

The boys have had fun with letters and writing their names with different things. They are so smart. Big H has been loving school. However, he stayed home sick and will now always say, "I can't go to school" *cough* *cough* "I'm sick." Little H really struggles with school. The social side of it is just not for him. But he does super well at his homework, and focuses really well. Little M is taking off. He is kind of a little advanced for preschool. He's making leaps and bounds I almost get anxious and want to tell him to slow down. Perhaps if we can get him reading he can just skip kindergarten. I'm just worried about him getting bored. He already kind of is with preschool. He wants to go all the time and he always wants to do homework with his brothers.

Little H spelled his name with legos. I thought it was rather creative.

Here's Little S enjoying some snacks. The first was a sucker that I had saved since about high school.

Trying to show Dad his delicious cookie.

Little M loves to have me take weird random pictures of him. The first photo was a lovely outfit chose of his. The shirt is Little S's. It is size 18 months. 

That Little S has quite the personality. He had on a pair of shoes, but insisted that I put on these mismatched shoes instead. If you know Little S you know he is quite insistent.

Little S also decides to do some of the most. . .well. . .interesting. . .things. The week of Little H's surgery, and where I worked like crazy, I took a minute to lay down. I had just brought in a bunch of eggs from outside. Here is how many were in the fridge when I went to lay down

And here is how many were left when I came back upstairs. 

Where were the eggs? Little S decided that they needed to decorate the floor. Why he did this? I do not know. That's just what happens when I try to take a minute to relax. Oh well. We cleaned it up, and we got more eggs, so I guess there is no harm done. Just a lot of frustration.

Silly boys! But we're having fun! :)

Enjoying Fall in the Canyon

Every fall we try to get out and enjoy the beauty as much as we can. One Sunday we walked up Hobble Creek canyon.

For some reason we always see crazy bugs when we come on this walk. This time we saw big spider. Little H wanted to take it home and claimed, "Aww. . .he's cute!"

Taking pictures with bugs was a must this hike. Little M is posing with a bug. You can't see it, but he is.

For some reason when we went to turn around and go home Little S threw a fit. He refused to head back and took up running, with the dog, in the other direction. I'm still not sure why exactly, but I am sure that kid is determined to do what he wants to do.

It was a pretty fun little Sunday walk with the kids. A nice way to spend a fall day :)