Another Week

Things are going well here at the Weston Household, just trying my best to keep up. All the kids are sick again (didn't we just barely do all this??) which is never fun. I'm really hoping this doens't last long. Tyler's soccer has started up again. It actually started October 1st, but he has an air-head for a mom, so we missed the first two weeks!! Yeah, I was pretty upset about that one. But he goes every Tuesday and Thursday night, and it's amazing how much that adds to a week. I still have mutual every Wednesday. This last week was especially bad because I also had a "Fabulous Friday" stake RS craft night on Fri. night, and had to attend the tri-stake youth dance on Saturday, and a fireside on Sunday. SO I was gone quite a lot, and poor Kenny always gets the brunt of it. I am really grateful for a capable, helpful husband who carries on and does a fabulous job when I'm gone. I feel bad having to leave so much, because I know that it is just an added load on him.
Ty and Bryn have gymnastics on Sat. morning too, but Bryn missed because of being sick, as I said.

Kenny still works crazy hours. The only time he does come home is because I absolutely have to be gone. But we are rarely home at the same time, except for sleeping. But even that we haven't been doing much of thanks to sick/teething babies.

On Sat., Oct. 13th I hosted a big "baby bash". It was supposed to just be one giant baby shower to cover the 5 pregnant ladies in the ward, instead of giving them individual showers. I sent out around 40 invitations, with 5 pregnant ladies to celebrate. I was thinking big. Guess how many showed up? 8, myself included. Only 2 of the pregnant people whom it was FOR came. 2 called and backed out an hour before it started, the other forgot. So it was a pretty big flop. But my house was nice and clean and my family sure enjoyed all the leftover food!   Serves me right for trying to plan something--it never works. That night we went out to Wasilla and had dinner at Mike and Maren's gorgeous home. Kenny and Mike work together, they are members of the church also. The other mormon couple, Tim and Christina were there too. It was a fun night, and I enjoyed getting to know them better. It also snowed a lot that day and the next few days.

Another new development is we have decided to build a duplex. So we've been getting the ball rolling with that, and it's very exciting. This is our first time building or owning any kind of home, and we are really excited about it. SO many decisions with that!

Tyler had a fun church-class Halloween party on Saturday and he had a blast. His reading is improving and it's so fun to watch him. I feel like he is so tall now! I don't know why, but all of the sudden he is just so big to me. He really loves doing soccer and gymnastics and told me he feels so lucky to be in not one, but TWO sports! :)

Brynlee is into this phase where she just LOVES cleaning. It's so funny! Every time she is in the tub, she will take the wash rag and sit there scrubbing the tiled walls. If she washes her hands in the kitchen sink, she will get distracted and end up "washing" the sink and/or dishes for as long as I let her. She's just obsessed with making things "nice and shiny" and I love it! Kenny says she has a little too much of her Grandma Andersen in her :). My mom is known for her cleanliness haha. Sometimes I just hand her a bottle of windex and a paper towel and tell her to make the windows and mirrors shiny. She's happy to oblige.

 Madison's hair is getting longer and so are her sentences. She likes to copy Ty and Bryn by telling "jokes". Last night at dinner she said, "why did the pig cross the road? because he wanted to wash the spider out!" hahaha. Honestly, she makes about as much sense in her jokes as Bryn and Ty--it's all just a bunch of nonsense but they sure think they're funny!

Kelsy is majorly obsessed with me, which makes things trickier. But I am sure crazy about her too, it just makes it harder to get anything done. She army crawls around to get to whatever she wants. It's so funny for me to watch because she's the first of our kids to do that. I know lots of kids will army crawl before they actually crawl, but none of the other 3 did that. Looks like it's time to buy a gate so she doesn't go tumbling down the stairs. It makes me so sad when she's sick.

This picture is from last week. I put down a "road" with masking tape on the carpet. We were role-playing how to safely cross a street for part of Bryn's preschool that day. Afterwards, they brought up the bin of cars to have them on the road. Then they brought up the legos/foam blocks to put buildings on the side, and tunnels on the road. Things get pretty elaborate when Tyler is around and directing his sisters. It sure kept them busy for a while!

This next picture is to represent (very poorly) my favorite time of day. The temperatures are really cold now, just hanging out in the low 30's as a high. Every morning we wake up to a thick layer of frost. Each individual leaf, every blade of grass, every weed and twig and post, has a nice layer of frost covering it. Around 10:30 a.m., when the sun finally makes its way above the mountains, it shines on everything and there's this awesome lights show. Every little thing just sparkles and shines in the light of the sun. It is so beautiful and really cool to watch. If only I could figure out how to photograph it, then I could actually show you what I mean. Women of New York...Frost Yourselves! (10 points if you know that movie)