Happy Halloween!

We had a good Halloween. The children weren't feeling very well for the church activity- so we jsut went to the dinner dressed up and then went home. We had to skip out on the games and trunk-or-treat. On Halloween we took them to three houses for trick-or-treating. Just the three families that are kind of like grandparents to the children. I was glad they didn't get a ton of candy and they were glad they got about 10 pieces of candy!

The children didn't have much say in what they dressed up as for Halloween. They either got to wear the costume I bought at the after Halloween sale in 2010 or they got to pick something from the dress up box. Luckily they all chose the costumes I bought after Halloween last year.

Rebekah was a Renaissance Princess

Brigham was a Fire fighter

Hyrum was a doctor

The end.

I can't believe my baby is THREE!

Hyrum just had a birthday and now he is three years old! Wow how the time flies.

He's been very interested in fire trucks lately. So I decided to make him a fire truck cake. He really liked it and kept asking to go and look at it. (I kept it locked in my bedroom so that little curious fingers didn't ruin it before the party.)

Here he is opening presents... He got a bunch of Little People sets we almost have enough to make Little People town.
One of Hyrum's latest skills is riding a bike with training wheels. He's been stealing Birgham and Rebekah's bikes to practice. So, when I saw one at a yard sale earlier this week I had to get it for him! He loves it!

Random info about Hyrum:

♪ He is really enjoying having the other two chilren in school so he gets time by himslef to play and gets Mommy Time regularly.
♪ He is getting close to being potty trained!
♪ He is ALL boy- he likes trucks, cars, dinosaurs, balls, etc.
♪ He counts like this: 1, 2, 11, 12, 14, 18! And he's so proud of it. (It's the same number pattern almost every time.)
♪ He knows all his colors
♪ He's just starting to get interested in letters and numbers
♪ The phrase we hear a lot from him recently is "I'm not little, see, I'm bigger!" (as he stands up with his arms in the air.)
♪ He's wearing the clothes Brigham just grew out of 6 months ago and is only one shoes size behind Brigham. I'm thinking they'll be the same size before long!
♪ Hyrum is very friendly and love to say, "Hi" to people he sees.
♪ He always has a smile on his face!

We sure love our little Hyrum boy! We're so glad he's in our family!

First Day of school Pictures

Rebekah was excited, but nervous about going to school, now she loves it.

Brigham pretended to not like school for the first week. We'd ask him how school was and he'd get smile on his face, and then try to hide the smile!

school

Sorry to all of you who check my blog regularly. I haven't posted in almost a month. I'm on the computer that doesn't have the most recent pictures, so this will be a photoless post.

Brigham and Rebekah started school and are enjoying it. They are going to a local Head Start. (Yes, we're poor enough to qualify for Head Start, but that's what happens when Mom stays home and Dad's in school.) They have two amazing teachers and a good group of children in their class. Their teacher informs me that they are some of the better behaved children in the class and that she could tell I "work" with my children. I took that as a compliment!

Timothy has also started school. He's teaching two music labs and working on his dissertation. He's hoping to graduate with his PhD in June! This coming June, 2012! It will be weird not having him in school soon, because he's been in school our whole married life and longer!

We're also in the process of looking for and applying for jobs for the next school year. He want to teach and a community college or university, teaching music theory. If you know of any community colleges or Universities near you that have a music department, please let us know! (Especially if you want us to move near you!) The CC's aren't as good about posting their jobs on academic job sites so we may end up looking them up independently, but I haven't found a central location for lists of community colleges. (Sometimes they hide so as not to be noticed, I guess.)