Fall is in the Air...with a Flood

mowing

jogging

i love, love fall weather...and i take it for granted until the freezing cold sets in, minus the flies!!  this fall was no exception, absolutely beautiful weather except for a freak rain storm that laid down about 2.5 inches overnite and flooded our basement. arghh!  it also blew really hard.  hard enough to blow the chains in the gutter out of the drains and straight into the boys' window well which then filled and flooded their room.  bentley woke up to think the girls had played a trick on him and spilled water all over the carpet.  i wish that were so...i ran down and saw the window well full of water.  by the time ben cruised over to the shop and go the sump pump, all the water had dissipated into the wall, closet and carpet...leaving a nice mess.  but only a precursor of what was to come.

the kids also say the funniest things i would like to remember!  here are some ellee classics:  'spicy toothpaste', and wondering why the white bus got pulled over by the police and the kids have to pick up garbage???  nope, those are jailbirds picking up trash.

emerson:  'those pigs have lots of balloons on their bellies' and i'm never getting married while looking at her aunts' wedding pictures.  me-why?  because those dresses look soooo itchy!

bridon:  after reading in the bom, 2 nephi about the lamb lying down by the lion  'i'm going to die with no steak!!'

bentley:  after questioning me why i don't get around to making cheesy pull apart bread like grandma mcintyre ??  me-i have a lot going on with canning, the garden, and all these animals, she doesn't have that   so he says-'yeah, but grandma's got uncle spencer'  bahahaha

and, after passing a mint field ellee says it smells so good.  bridon says he didnt' smell anything....bentley says to him 'she can smell it just fine, she's only 2 1/2.  your nose is 7  and full of toots so it's probably dead.'

here is a recap in pictures of our beautiful fall:

school

riding the tractor we got from ezra

popping pto popcorn on fridays!

running 5ks...my best one yet!

gymnastics

visiting teaching paddle (last day of the month with lots of duck poo)

frogs

sunday drive to meridian temple

dropping di...this was a sad one for me (saying goodby to mission and babies)

teaching the boys dutch oven cooking

library

blowing bubbles

camelback w camille while we were at the temple

pumpkins

the old houses no more (reminds us of our view of the blood moon too)

jog-a-thon...em rocked it!

playing cooker

one on one with mom while em's at kinder

fun with cousins

the beginning of the flood

so warm!

stem nite

the wild man

joanna gave us a ride

the kids also say the funniest things i would like to remember!  here are some ellee classics:  'spicy toothpaste', and wondering why the white bus got pulled over by the police and the kids have to pick up garbage???  nope, those are jailbirds picking up trash.

emerson:  'those pigs have lots of balloons on their bellies' and i'm never getting married while looking at her aunts' wedding pictures.  me-why?  because those dresses look soooo itchy!

bridon:  after reading in the bom, 2 nephi about the lamb lying down by the lion  'i'm going to die with no steak!!'

bentley:  after questioning me why i don't get around to making cheesy pull apart bread like grandma mcintyre ??  me-i have a lot going on with canning, the garden, and all these animals, she doesn't have that   so he says-'yeah, but grandma's got uncle spencer'  bahahaha

and, after passing a mint field ellee says it smells so good.  bridon says he didnt' smell anything....bentley says to him 'she can smell it just fine, she's only 2 1/2.  your nose is 7  and full of toots so it's probably dead.'