Halloween

The kids all dressed up. Big surprise what they were. Peyton and Jacen were army guys...again. And Kyrah is technically a bride, but she wanted to be a princess too, so she was a princess bride.

I thought it was time to post some pictures. It's been a long time. This is Jacen dressed as a knight, he had a knight helmet on, and Charlie's old sword, and Mom's lid to her frying pan.
This is Kyrah's first day of Kindergarten. She loves it, and when she's being whiny, I threatened to keep her home from school, and she stops.

Peyton opening a present on his 7th birthday. He has changed so much this year, last year he was shy,and he refused to eat lunch. Now he eats at school all the time, and he loves playing with the other kids. Plus I hear they have a hard time getting him to be quiet.

In other news, volleyball is over and I get a couple of weeks off before basketball starts.

It will be nice to be home more with my kids, but I need to find another way to exercise.

Update!

I figured it was probably time for an update. The snow is about melted, and it seems really nice today! Although Peyton is home sick, but he's being really good. Kyrah was about to stay home, but she ended up going, because it was a classmates birthday, and since she is the other half of the class, we thought it was important to be there. Peyton was supposed to take treats for his birthday, but his teacher said he could take them Monday!
This week is National School Lunch week, and family members are allowed to go eat with the kids for free. My dad went with Peyton and Kyrah on Monday, and Jake, Jacen and I were supposed to go today, but obviously we can't all go, so I'm staying home with Peyton and Jake and Jacen are going to eat with Kyrah. I figure I can hold off on the school lunch, because I sub at the school all the time, and eat there plenty of times.
Yesterday Jacen had an old thing of deoderant, and was wiping it all over the walls and his little table, I looked at him and asked what he was doing, and he said "I'm making a mess" I knew I should have gotten mad at him, but it was so funny! Lately he has been on a temper-tantrum roll. It's like the terrible two's all over again. It started when school started and he had to be home alone. Yesterday at 9:15 am, he asked me, "Mom, can you go get Kyrah" She still had 2 1/2 hours left of school!

SNOW!!!!

We are under about a foot of snow, if not more. I really should have taken a picture, but I didn't. Yesterday, we settled down to watch conference, and it was snowing, it kept snowing all day!
I called my grandma at I think 12:00 yesterday, to see if she wanted us to shovel her sidewalk, and she told to wait until it stopped snowing, it never did. My mom and dad are over there now.
I went out to shovel our sidewalk, and our driveway, and while I was doing that, Jenny's dog Jody, fell in our firepit. It was covered in snow, and she didn't see it.
So before all the snow came, it was homecoming on Saturday. There was a little snow on the ground, from a previous fall, but other than that, it was nice. My kids ran aound with out coats on. The football game was fun, the boys played really good. They ended up losing by 15, but that's good considering the fact that they got killed the first time they played them.
We then had a volleyball game, and we won, we didn't play the best....but we pulled it off. We missed lots of serves. We did better on our hitting. It was nice to win in front of the home crowd.
Then a jr. high game, they lost. Then apparently a dance, which I had no part of, I went home.
There were homecoming things going on all week, but I'm not going to talk about those.

It's been even crazier

So yesterday, I was typing a blog entry.....long story short, I lost it all! So back to square one. I was waiting (before yesterday) to post, because there were pictures that needed to be transfered from my camera to the computer. The person in charge of it, was a big slacker!!!!! Wonder who that was? HHMMM!
Anyway the pictures were of the first day of school. Peyton is in 1st grade, and Kyrah is in Kindergarten, and they love it. Jacen was sick the first week of school, so he didn't even notice that he was home alone with me, but now that he feels better, he's noticing a little bit. We are going to Dillon tomorrow, just me and him.
Volleyball is going good, and the girls are really coachable!

Some Pics

Here are some pics from when we tried to go camping, but there was thunder and lightning Kyrah and Jacen with Stacy
Peyton and Kyrah with Stacy

Peyton, Kyrah, and Jacen with Stacy.

We had our first volleyball game, yesterday, and it was a long day! The girls were better than last year, but there is still room for improvement. Tomorrow we have to go to a place that's 5 hours away on a bus, so that's going to be a blast!

I had a flash of a terrible memory on Friday. We found out that a guy that use to go to school here, (and his parents still live here) was killed in a car accident. When I was told that, I realized that it was exactly 7 years ago that my brother was killed in a car accident. It brought that sick feeling back, and I feel for this family whose suffering.

Volleyball

Volleyball started yesterday, and it is exhausting. Yesterday, we had Coach Reeves come down, for the whole day. Coach Reeves use to coach at Ricks College, and now teaches at BYU-Idaho (which use to be Ricks College). She brought one of her old players, to help, and I really liked her too. It was such a fun day learning how to play volleyball, and the girls were so receptive to her. And that carried on into today. The girls got their butts kicked today with conditioning drills, but they never complained, and it's going to be the same way tomorrow. Hopefully there's no complaining too.
So I'm so excited for this volleyball season!
IN other news, the kids are doing great. They came to practice with me, and were so good. I worry that I'll be gone to much, and the kids will start acting out. So I guess I'll have to spend quality time with them when I am home. I'm really going to have to work on that, when Peyton goes to school full time. Jacen and Kyrah won't be a problem, because I'll be home during the day.