Time Flies and that's the Truth!

My goodness, what have we done in the past few weeks? Well, for starters we had a great Halloween. The boys dressed up as a Cowboy (jeremy), a ninja (Cooper), Raph - the Nija Turtle (austin) and Spiderman (Ethan). We attended a Halloween Hoops night at Wright State, it was put on as a preview for the Men's and Women's Basketball teams. Then we had a trunk-or-treat night at the church. That was lots of fun, we had a ton of candy by that point. Finally when Saturday night rolled around to do our actual trick-or-treating, the kids were super excited. We went all around our neighborhood and a few streets over. The end result was MASSIVE amounts of candy! Afterwards we had some delicious homemade chicken noodle soup and rolls.

Now moving on to November...Justin and I have been looking forward to the random vacation days he requested this month. Since we still have many jobs in mind for the house, there was a long list of honey-dos. But before all that, the boys had some fun things going on in school and scouts. Jeremy is in the SOAR program here, its the gifted program. He's getting along wonderfully in it. One day a week he and his fellow sutdents all go to Titus Elementary. They have all kinds of projects going on. He's been really pumped to work with the ipods. He also got his Weblos badge and his Religious knot in Scouts. He turned 11 this month, can't hardly believe it. We had a family party and then the other night attended the opening weekend showing of The Deathly Hallows part 1. IT ROCKED!! He and his friend did get a little freaked out when the snake jumped out, but so did I. We loved it.

All the boys have been doing awesome in school and the mid-term reports looked great. This also meant that since they are getting good grades, doing their chores and being great kids (most of the time) they have had the required 3 months to get a new pet. Her name is Athena and she is a Guinea Pig. No hamsters or smaller type things, we wanted to avoid accidental vacuuming accidents!

This week is also our stake wide Proclamation emphasis week. Being un-plugged and taking more time to be together. For us though, we really try to live unplugged and do everything together! But last night when the kids wanted to watch a TV show, we didn't and had time with Athena in stead. We got her little home all set up and let her sniff us out. Eventually she did pee on the floor, on a blanket thankfully. Ethan did drop her on the floor, good thing he's so short, the fall was not a long one!