Bringing Home the Bacon

They did it! Shawn bagged his elk today. It was really cool that Zeke, Navie, and our friends Micheal and Holden were there. I bet you can guess what we will be doing? At least I'm not pregnant this time around. Actually I guess I should bestow my beloved role as butcher's assistant to Zeke. YEAH!!!!

Rockwell

Kenzie brought over this picture of Rockwell as a gift. I had to take a picture of the picture since I couldn't get the saved photo to upload. It looks even better in person. I think it is perfect! I love it so much. I had told her how I haven't taken pictures of the younger two boys like I would of liked to and so she came to the rescue. She tooks some photos while she was babysitting them one day. What an awesome suprise.

What we did today

20 somethings

Guess what my neighbors are doing already? Putting us to shame! Here they are already working on their lighting display and I haven't even picked out our christmas color scheme 2009 yet. Wahh! I guess I'll have to do "homespun christmas." No, that's not what I did last year. Last year was "HOMEMADE christmas" It is totally different. Homespun is where you use all your christmas crafts and tie pieces of raggedy fabric to everything. Silly peeps, the raggedy fabric really jazzes it up you know.

Well, good thing we love our cute neighbors so much. If we didn't we would definitely be toilet papering their house for family home evening. I love it when it is my night for "activity."

P.S. Just because I take picture of my neighbors without their permission and post it to my public blog doesn't mean I'm a weirdo stalker. However, I will concede that it does prove that my house elf needs to get cracking on my window cleaning since you can barely see the picture through the grime.

Rexburg Temple

Shawn wanted us to see the sunset and full moon the other night. By the time I rounded up five kids the sun had set. Lucky for me the next night we had another pretty sunset.

Sugar Rush

Last year on Halloween I found out that we had to move out of our rental house in 5 days while I was 37 weeks pregnant. Family came up and helped pack us, a sweet family let us stay in their basement so we weren't homeless. More family came up to help move us into the house we bought. I think everyone else who knew us remembered to pray for us. It was a trial that is now in the past. However, I'm sure you can imagine how I felt this year as I was trick or treating with our great friends who happen to be our neighbors around our fabulous neighborhood. Every smiling face was a tender mercy as the kids raced from house to house. A lot can happen in a year. Some are better than others, this happened to be one of the good ones.

Visiting Teaching

This picture is of my visiting teachers. They come once a month to my house and share a spiritual message with me. Sister Forsgren just told me today that she is moving to Utah. I could just bawl like a baby! I love them so much. I know that her family is so excited for her to be closer to them but I will miss her coming to visit. They both have a perspective on life that is so refreshing to hear. Not to mention their stories of kids and hubbies are so funny. It really is true that service begets love. I'm so grateful for their service to our family.