The last 4 weeks

--Yes by Chrystal--
So my husband calling me a blog-post-aholic made me feel like I needed to defend myself a little. Maybe defend the use of my time, so I am finally taking the time to post what I have been up to the last few weeks so you all know that I don't just sit around and post.

But first! I had to shout out to Aunt Natalie for starting the bucket trend! Anyone else have bucket pictures to share?

I got this woody costume and a few other costumes at 75% off. I like to get dress up costumes after Halloween. My kids and Evan play with these all the time! I they are not on the computer it seems they are dressing up. More on costumes in a min...

Josh received an award at school that made his so happy! We also had parent teacher conference where he is doing excellent in everything. At the beginning of the school year his reading was at "m" (which is about 3rd grade reading level. He is now at "t" which is fifth grade level. He is also doing fantastic in math. It is fun to watch your kids learn and grow, I love when they help teach us as well. The other day Josh says to me "mom lets have scripture study again." I turned to him about to say "Josh lets do something else we already did that today" and then realized what I was about to say...crazy. That day we ended up having scripture study 3 times. Josh asked if we could have scripture study 2 times a day, in the morning he would read by himself and in the evening we could do it as a family. OF COURSE WE CAN!! He is 4 chapters ahead of us cause he has been so excited reading the Book of Mormon.

Caleb has gone through many phases... Army crawl, hands and knees crawl, sitting up, standing up holding on to something, walking along the edge of stuff, and best of all he now says "DA-DA" or "DAD" all the time!!! He also has cute 4 more teeth making 6 total and has two more coming!

He loves Balloons, This Laptop, and Books! These are his favorite worldly items!

Loves chasing cups and drinking from them.

Giving me a run for my money crawling everywhere including to the stairs. And putting everything he can in his mouth! And squealing like a firework.

Halloween:

Meet Josh and his last min Pee Shooter costume (a character from a computer game).

Patrick as a Tree. I really have no idea why but he wanted to be a tree! His leaves where wilting from the rainy Halloween we had.

Josh, his dad Mike, and Patrick. The dads took the kids trick or treating while I handed out candy to our very busy neighborhood, I loved it!

We each made a pumpkin, think the kids did pretty good. Hey where is Caleb?

And the major projects of my last few weeks. Before we left out of town Patrick helped me make and paint shelves in his closet.

This is a picture of our fun 'clean up the flooding after Disneyland project'...

This is the master closet while cleaning up flooding.This is master closet after cleaning up flooding and me building shelves to organize the closet better. We don't own a dresser and I don't want to pay what it costs for a nice dresser so I built a functional closet. Shelves for shoes, clothing, area for hanging dressed, area for hanging shirts, And even enough room for laundry basket and mirror. So I never have to leave my closet to get dresses. It helps keep our room a lot cleaner. I am so happy how they turned out.

I have been helping my friend Jessica get her house organized once a week and I am getting closer to having the boys room finished. It is so exciting to feel like I am soon going to have a house of order.

And a few weeks ago Trevor and I went with our friends to a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. We saw a spoof on Harry Potter and Twilight. SO we decided to be festive and and instead of wearing "Team Edward" or "Team Jacob" shirts (twilight thing). We wore shirts that said "Team ___" name of our husband in the blank. We had a great time!

I am so excited to see Tia next week!!! And Mandee this week!! Harry Potter rocks and so does Thanksgiving! Hope you are all well.