My Laptop

Three days ago my laptop died.... I woke up Thursday morning and the screen had some white words written on a blue screen. I followed the instructions, and it has been a black screen ever since. My sweet, smart husband tried to fix it, no luck. He currently has people trying to recover all my important *documents* (mostly pictures) from the hard drive. In honor of Halloween, we believe our house is haunted. In the past two months we have lost the following electronics.... one TV, one DVD player, three hard drives, and my favorite MP3 player (no, I do not have an IPOD --- my old MP3 player worked just fine!). Colby cannot decided if our house is haunted, or if my magnetic personality is, really, magnetic.

Soccer fun

Last night, Tanner's soccer team had a parent/child scrimmage. We had so much fun and laughed and laughed. I think the kids really loved playing against either Mom or Dad and always wasnted to be in the game when his parent was in the game. However, I am so SORE this morning. Now.... I run and strength condition, but I do not run sideways or kick a ball for an hour and my body is feeling it this morning. Sad, so sad, but mostly pathetic.

Pumpkin Patch

There is something magical about going to the farm in October. I always feel like I have stepped back in time, to the less complicated time of childhood. There is a crispness in the air, the excitement of autumn, playing in a hay maze, and picking pumpkins. The first graders had a field trip last Thursday to French Prairie Farms and we had so much fun. Here are Annika & Arik with their pumpkins. They were suppose to pick a pumpkin they could easily carry -- look at Arik, he even put down a larger one in favour of this *smaller* pumpkin.

TWISTER!

Annika LOVES babies!

Annika loves babies and always has. It is all she asks for when it is her birthday, or Christmas, or any other occasion. Colby always wants to give her something different or more exciting -- she will not hear of it. This past weekend, her Aunt Becky let her take care of little Meggin. Here are the results:

Mormor & Grandpa

Just a quick note to say we are having the best time at Mormor & Grandpa's house. We woke up this morning to 3" of snow!! The kids were so excited. It is the earliest recorded snowfall in Idaho since they began keeping records in the 1800s. Global warming?? I don't think so.

Nik, Arik, Tanner, Annika & Alex

BYU Football

Since we are no longer living in *Zion*, we have a more difficult time getting the BYU Football games on TV. It always depends upon the team they are playing. Well, last night, the game was on BYUTV -- Yipee for us. Arik immediately put on a football shirt and Annika quickly slipped into her BYU cheerleading outfit. There was jumping, there was yelling and there was dinner in front of the tv. BYU won, again -- YEA!!! Go Cougs!

The rain has returned

Autumn has been so wonderful for the last couple of weeks and I am just not ready to let it go. The rain returned today and I am so afraid that it is here..... to stay. And when I say stay, I mean until July. I am not sure I can face that reality or be ok with it. I actually enjoy the rain. I love to walk in it and I love the smell of the earth, so clean. HOWEVER..... I don't love it everyday and I don't love what it does to my hair. I have to work so hard to keep the frizz from taking over my head. I used to have soft, curly hair. Well, after babies, it is now just frizzy. And in the rain, really frizzy. The best invention in the world is a flat iron, and I LOVE mine.