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That's got to be about a record. We have just pretty much been living this last week. Doing the same old stuff. Emmerlyn and I had a big fight over what she was going to wear to church we ended up with a compromise that kind of worked. William has been working hard in school and Charley has been keeping busy around the house teasing everyone and sneaking computer time. We are getting excited to go back to Idaho for Thanksgiving we are leaving on Friday (hopefully!)

Have a great week!

A Side Note

I forgot to add this last night so here it is. The other day the boys were going to bed and after about 20 minutes William came up without any pants on with a guilty looking Charley coming behind him. I asked them what was going on and William said that Charley had dumped water all over him and his bed. I asked where Charley got the water and he said "from the bucket that he fills up every night before he goes to sleep!" At this point Charley was grinning from ear to ear and I went down to assess the situation and sure enough there was an empty bucket of water next to William soaked bed. I tell you what that boy sure keeps me on my toes. It is a good thing he is so dang cute.

It Snowed!

So we had a little dust of snow a couple weeks ago but this was the first snow that really stuck to the ground. The kids were SO excited to play in it yesterday, never mind that it was only like 17 degrees outside. It was cold Charley looks cold doesn't he? Emmerlyn didn't last long and the boys only lasted about another 15 minutes but they had fun and then came in for hot chocolate and pumpkin bread.

The kids have been busy this week running around and making messes but they seemed to have been playing really well together even Emmerlyn has been playing with the boys a little bit which is huge for her so it has been a nice change. The other day the boys had their shirts of and then they were wrestling and Emmerlyn came running to me pulling at her shirt saying "take dis off!! I do wrestling wif da boys!" I told her that girls leave their shirts on and she can wrestle with it on. That did NOT fly with her so she ended up topless wrestling with her brothers. Poor girl is there any hope for her coming after 2 brothers? Well maybe because she doesn't seem to mind having her hair fixed, she loves to pull out an amount of ponies and they expects me to fix her hair in a way that uses that amount. (sometimes I have to get REALLY creative) she also LOVES to have her fingernails and toenails painted. So we will she she might just be a very well rounded girl. 

Charley has been busy this week trying to sneak in as much computer time as he possibly can. He is always at the computer if he thinks he can get away with it. He can navigate to a word document, paint, or get on the internet and go to ABCya.com which is a sight that has educational games and activities for kids starting in kindergarten up through like 6th grade. He clicks on the kindergarten one and does great and has a lot of fun on there. His other favorite computer activity is rearranging the icons on our desktop. So much for a short-cut!

The best Charley story of this week though is from church. So he and Emmerlyn went happily to nursery and at the end of the block we picked them up. Well come to find out Charley had needed to use the restroom and so the teacher took him and he went in the boys bathroom and she waited outside the door. Well she waited, and waited, and waited, and then she could hear him talking but since church was in session and she was a girl she did not want to go in there to see what was up so she caught another member of our ward who is also our good friend and said hey can you go in there and check on him. Well he walked in to find Charley with his shirt rolled clear up to his armpits and totally naked from there down swinging his pants above his head (Charley said later he was trying to get the undies out cuz they were all rolled up from when he took them off.) So he helped Charley into his clothes and took him back to nursery and then immediately went into young mens to tell Ben what had happened. The Nursery teacher was laughing SO HARD when we picked the kids up. 

This little blip is from William. It goes back to the wrestling day when the boys were not wearing shirts and they were showing each other their muscles. I was doing other things and not really paying attention until William called to me. So I came in the room and William was squeezing a chunk of his belly just above his bellybutton and asked me (his words!) "hey mom, am I getting one of my boobs?" I almost fell over. I said no, boys don't get boobs. And he said "well when will I get you know that pack of stuff, what are they called on my stomach?" Oh, I said you mean a 6 pack! "Yeah that!" Totally different, we had a little discussion which ended with him wondering why his dad didn't have a six pack. . . . 

Speaking of Ben, he finally got a chance to go hunting this weekend and he was gone for awhile and had a lot of fun. He didn't get anything but he did get hit in the face with the scope of his gun so he had a big gash above his eye which kind of surprised me. Then he went on to tell me that they had run off the road and lost a tire. Sounds like it was a very eventful trip and I am glad they came home when they did before things got worse. Maybe he will have better luck next time. Poor Guy.

I think that is all for the week. It was a good one. This post is late because this afternoon was busy just doing stuff around the house kind of getting organized so that hopefully we will be ready to pack and move when we get back from our trip to Idaho for thanksgiving.

William Flashback!

When we came up to Glasgow for the first time for Ben to interview for this job I stocked up at the dollar store with random toys and stuff for the kids to play with on the very long drive. One of the things that I got was a glow stick which William played with for awhile. We brought the random toys into the hotel room to entertain the kids in there too and all of the sudden William made a gagging noise and we looked over and his mouth was glowing, his hands were glowing, and the blanket on the bed was glowing. He had bitten the glow stick and it proceeded to spill everywhere. Thankfully we got it out of the blanket with some wipes and they were non-toxic. When he was playing with the glow sticks on Halloween he reminded us of that time and then he said "it was crazy I thought I had like a super power cuz I was glowing everywhere." Ben and I could not stop laughing. Crazy kid! 

Happy Halloween!!!!

But most importantly, Ben passed his last CPA test!!!!!!!!!! So all he has left is a 8 hour online ethics class and then he has to pass the open book test at the end of the test. We have almost made it with the worst behind us and we are so excited. 

The main highlight of the last week was of course Halloween. The kids had lots of fun trick-or-treating and the weather was actually pretty decent which was nice. After we got home we had pizza and watched a short movie which was kind of fun. I didn't get more pictures of the kids in their costumes because we got those last week but they did look super cute. At one house they were having their little boy who is Emmerlyn's age hand out the candy and he was loading Charley up. He would give Charley a handful and then go hug Emmerlyn a couple times and then give Charley another handful. He even kissed Emmerlyn (on the cheek unsolicited by anyone) and then Charley got TWO handfuls. I think Charley walked away with about a 1/4 of their candy but it was so cute :).

William said that since it was a holiday about pumpkins that we should have pumpkin pie to celebrate. I wholeheartedly agreed!

 Window stickers from Grandma and Grandpa Allen!

 The kids got glowsticks at one of the houses and they really wanted to keep them going so they got to keep them while they watched a movie.

We have had a pretty good and mostly uneventful week which was nice!!!!

Have a good week!