These are a few of my favorite things....

I love fall!!! I would have to say that it's my favorite season. I love the colors of the leaves, the smell of cinnamon anything baking in the oven, carving pumpkins, cool crisp air (although not too cold!), jumping in piles of leaves, and hot apple cider. We have been busy the past few days with fall activities. We carved pumpkins and roasted the seeds. Carson liked them the most. I have been eating most of them!! We finally have trees in our yard and we were able to rake up a pretty good pile of leaves to jump in. We made pumpkin shaped rice krispie treats. We shopped for Halloween costumes. The past couple of years we have put together things we had around the house, but I wasn't getting many brilliant ideas. Then I saw that K-Mart had all of their costumes for a really great price. Honestly I couldn't have made the ones we were thinking about for cheaper than the ones we bought!! Here are some pictures of our recent fall frolicking:

I don't know why the background of this picture is pink. I'm pretty sure that our camera is dying!!!

This activity was fun for a while, and by a while I mean about 5 minutes :) As soon as they got a whiff of that lovely pumpkin smell and felt the slimy pulp, they had had enough, as evidenced by Connor's frown. So I sat for 45 minutes by myself carving pumpkins. Good thing it's one of my favorite things!!!

Happy fall to you all!!!

A little different...

This is a post from Connor and Kaelynn. Carson is hunting with dad right now. They wanted to update you on our life. I will type word for word... Connor-I um have learned sight words in school. They are the, I, my, and, a. I have been having Phy Ed. I've been playing animal games. We've been able to play running games. We went to Sparks on Wednesday and I said 2 verses. I got a firefighter costume for Halloween yesterday, so it's very, very new. I have a stuffed doggie named Maggie. I have had 2 days off of school. I've gotten to sleep in for 2 days. I've got a friend named Jaden. He's one of my best friends and he sits on the bus with me. And I've got a friend named Jacob. My teacher is Mrs. Kensok and I am good for her. Kaelynn- I have a teacher named Miss Tara and Miss Emily. I have a friend named Cassie and she loves to play with me. I have a baby named Kaylee. I went to kids choir this week and I did jumping and played with sticks. I watched The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I'm a good dancer and a good singer. I cleaned my room yesterday for mommy. So there you have it!!

Seriously???

I have had to ask that question too many times this week! The first time went a little something like this, "Does he (Carson) seriously have a fever because this is the second time and second child in 3 days." The second time went a little something like this: We were in the doctor's office on Thursday when the doctor said to Carson, "Well Carson it looks like you need to trade in that T-shirt for one that says 'I participated in the pandemic of 2009.' ". Me- "Seriously, he has swine flu?" UUHHH!!! The third time went a little something like this: As our three darling children are lined up in front of the window in the living room, "Is it seriously snowing on October 9th?" Them- "Yeah mom, we live in North Dakota now." Double UUUHHHH!!!!! Yep that's the snow!!!

Andy, James, and Gene went hunting this weekend and got quite a few ducks thanks to the snow :) I guess there's a silver lining to everything.

Hopefully we won't have any more "Seriously" moments this weekend!!!

Pumpkins, ducks, and dishes....

I think this is just how our blog is going to have to be for this season of life. I'm not very good at updating every event right now as I just don't have the time to do this very often. I'm deciding that my updates will have to include everything that happens in a week or so... So in this past week and a half we went to the Fargo Park Districts Fall festival. It was hot as evidenced by Kaelynn's sundress. They had a lot of activities- we participated in a few. I had forgotten that if you want your kids to have a fun time there you pretty much need to take out your life savings. It's amazing what they will charge money for these days and how much they will charge for it. Anyways, I tried to really hype up the two free things and the wonderful picture opportunities. We did splurge on some pumpkins.

It's duck season and Andy is fired up!!!! He got the boys up at 5:00am on Saturday morning to go sit in the blind. The trip was not all fun and games as the battery on his truck died before they could even get the decoys or boat in the water. But two hours later they got that situation taken care of and got to shoot at some ducks. They got one!!!

I have finally found a solution to my dishwasher problem. The problem- my dishwasher was placed in a way that makes it virtually impossible to reach up into the dishes cupboard to put them away. I was having to take the dishes out and put them on the counter and then once they were all out, I would close the dishwasher and put the dishes in the cupboard. So, my solution- get a helper. Kaelynn loves to put the dishes away. Please don't call child protection services- that counter is so wide the only way she could fall off would be if she passed out. And since she has no fear I don't think she will pass out from the height!!!

Some have asked me how subbing is going. I am having a blast! I have loved the classes I've been in. I have done everything from English as a learning language to Phy ed to general ed classes. I am loving the excitement each job brings and am really loving teaching in general. I don't know if I will ever have my own classroom, but then again I never thought I would be back in the classroom at all. God does funny things sometimes!

Well, you're up to date on the last couple of weeks. We hope and pray you are all doing well!