Pumpkins

Well, it was about time to carve the pumpkins. I have to admit I did have a stencil, but I still had to do the carving. I'm quite proud of how they turned out...

My lil skeleton...

Another Aggie...

We were fortunate to be invited to the USU Aggie Football Homecoming game by our Bishop (who also lives across the street). He teaches Spanish at the college... so the tickets were free. Nathaniel wasn't feeling well with a sinus infection, so he and Leo hung out at home. We had a great time and great seats. We were seated with the students and had our pick of seats. So we were up front. The boys had a great time and loved hanging out with 'Big Blue'. The game was really good and close. Lots of action in the last 5 minutes. Aggies made a touchdown and were up by 1 point. Fresno State had the ball with 38 seconds left on the clock and didn't make any great moves in the 4 downs... so with 2 seconds on the clock they went for a field goal at the 57 yard line and beat the Aggie's by 1 freaking point.

We were early to get good seats!



Even Obama and McCain took time to show their Aggie pride.



JC, Isaac, Julian, Ethan and Big Blue

See! Good seats with lots of action! (and I'm not even zooming in)

Yes, Yes... there were football players in tight uniforms, but when the cheerleaders were out, I couldn't help but stare. They were pretty hot themselves. But then they also haven't had 4 kids and aren't almost 30... JERKS!

Leo

Leo started baby food. It's very exciting. I'm much more relaxed feeding him. With Ethan, I was a stickler with keeping baby clean. With Leo, I figure I can just put him in a bath.





And my Leo is like his mommy, a thumb sucker.

Kneeling on rice

Last night we had a discussion about punishments for a crime in the home. We brought up one punishment Nathaniel's parents used... kneeling on wheat with Bible's in the hand. The boys thought this was a great idea and wanted to try it. Since I didn't have any wheat around, we had them kneel on rice while holding 4 lb weights up to the side. They couldn't kneel on their heels and the timer would be reset if they lowered their arms or tried to sit back down. Ethan was okay for the first 3 minutes and then cried. He thought this was a horrible punishment. Isaac was acting tough and brave for about 4 minutes. He would look at me with a look that said, "I'm being tough, but this hurts". He finally said he was done. We also took the time to also parallel the pain they felt and compare it to what Christ went through on the cross. But let me tell you, anytime we ask the boys to do something, Ethan looks at Isaac and says that they better do what we ask or they will have to kneel on rice.

Boys

The craziest thing is seeing your child pick up a snake with no problem. Last week there was a snake slithering across our drive-way. I yelled to Isaac to come see it. He ran out there and was trying to grap it. The snake then was hopping to get to the grass. Isaac finally caught it by the tail and was taking it to a bucket. I yelled to him to be careful. He turned around and told me that he knows how to take care of snakes. I was actually proud of my son.

Mohawk

Ethan was begging to have a mohawk. I finally gave in (peer pressure is bad). He kept it for 2 days and then had to shave it for church. He was very happy for those 2 days.

Block

Here's a faraway picture of our home block. You'll see that there is a lot of farm land. Mostly corn fields. However, the smell in the air begs to differ.... there's a dairy down the road.