what's up this week

So, I'm determined to post once a week or so, the trouble is that I don't know what the heck to talk about. Then I looked through my recent pics, and there's none of them either, except this one, of Cynthia and Hanna sleeping. I could come up with a more comfortable place to sleep than the back of a couch, but to each his own I suppose. One thing I did recently was put all my digital pictures from the last two years in photo albums. One for the family, and an album for each of the kids. Since getting high speed Internet, picture organizing has become much easier. I just upload them to Walmart.com, tell them how many I want of each one, and they sent them to my door for cheap, I never had to leave the house! Another thing I did was had a friend come over and we organized the basement. My basement is a dirt floored un-inhabitable area of my house, so we use the whole thing for storage. It's so gross though, and so we had to install shelves (there were none) and it's still gross, but at least we can put things off the floor. All my food storage is down there, and all my extra stuff to (ie. hand me down clothes that are too big, Christmas decorations, etc.). Getting that organized was nice because then I could put all the things away that were cluttering up the rest of my house (mainly all the too-big or too-small clothes). What a relief! This weeks project is I'm in charge of a Halloween party for Christy's kindergarten class. It's going to be so fun. We have games planned, and the kids want to have Pumpkin pie for a treat, and then they get to put on their costumes and parade around to the other classes. There's lots of moms who are willing to help, and it will be fun to get to know Christy's class-mates a little better. Then we get to see Cynthia put on her costume and her class is parading too. Cynthia is a Witch, Christy is a Butterfly, Hanna and Axel are Crayons (costumes that my brother Erik and I wore when we were little, I'll see if I can find a Pic. of us to show with the pic. of them, we'll see). The kids have been sick, fevers and sore throats and colds too. Hopefully by Halloween we will all be better so we can enjoy our day. Brody is still very busy with fall work and Cattle, but hopefully we will see him soon. Everyone have a great week!

Finally!

Ok, so I'm up with the times (this is a little loose) and got high speed internet. It only took me 1 minute to figure out how to post a picture. (Pat on back)

Here's an update: Farming is good this year, the crops are the best we've ever seen, and I think the best Brent (Brody's Dad) has ever seen also. Brody is very busy, but we're used to that. The kids and I are good. Christy has started Kindergarten this year, so both her and Cynthia go to school together. It's fun for them and fun for us too (can anyone say "peace and quiet" and "afternoon naps?") As you can see, we're expecting our fifth! It's another girl (poor Axel and Brody) but we're excited. We're due the same day as my SIL, Jessica (what are the odds?). Hanna and Axel are good too. Hanna has two babies in her tummy, I get to listen to them alot (they mostly gurgle, kind of like... tummy noises) and Axel is as cute as ever. It's fun to dress up a boy, maybe even more fun that girls. I'll just show you:

See what I mean? Anyway, I keep busy but not too bad. Brody was called to be in the Bishopric (second counsellor) and so as a result (of my almost-mental breakdown (joking... sort of)) I was released from my more difficult church jobs of Primary chorister and 11-year-old-scout leader and put into a much easier Relief Society Newsletter and Young Women's Secretary. These are two of the funnest callings I've ever had. They are fullfilling (newsletter) and just super fun (Young Women's) and I can be absent with sick kids once in a while without having to get a sub, it's great! Well anyway, that's about all for now. More soon (anything sooner that a year will be soon for me, but I'll get better!)