september in review

well i got a new camera and i love taking pictures with it-no more weird colors:^)but now i have the crazy computer thing where my computer won't recognize any of my new pictures...so i was all caught up and ready to do more of a weekly post but now i will probably have to wait for a new computer-thanks to lisa marie she let me come and download these pictures on her computer.

koy started pre-school this month with mrs.tammie(all my kids have had her and she is amazing). koy is a little different than my other kids and since his birthday is in november he won't go to kindergarten next year,but i wanted him to be in pre-school with his church and neighbor friends. all my other kids when they started pre-school knew the abc's, numbers, shapes, how to write their names, etc. but koy really knows very little and could actually really care less. so we were doing some flash cards of the alphabet the other night and he was just pretty much guessing at every letter...then brooke showed him the letter m and he says "that's a mcdonalds sign!"
the kids all got on their cooking attire to help me cook sunday dinner...they love to help in the kitchen-i actually really love when they help too:when everyone is helping it's not so boring for me to be in the kitchen. kelsi can pretty much make anything now from a recipe-that might be dangerous for me, i might put her on cooking dinner every night...then it might get done!
brooke is such a smarty pants-she came home from kindergarten the other day and asked if sirri could come over and play-i said she could and we would call her in a minute...well next thing i knew brooke had out the ward directory and was dialing the number all by herself.
brooke had a little friend land on her at kadens football game...

i love her cute new toothless grin-i really don't like grasshoppers though!

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kaden had a little dillema after school a couple of weeks ago-there was another boy pushing him around and trying to take his book. kelsi happened to be walking down the fourth grade hall and saw what was happening and went in to tell his teacher but there was only a substitute who said "i'll write a note for the teacher"-what? so kelsi held the other boy back and told kaden to run to the bus. kelsi was staying the night with a friend in sugar city so she called me and told me what had happened-of course i immediately started crying and worrying how kaden must be feeling...the bus ride home is an hour long, which took forever! i thought he would get off the bus all sad and distraught but he came off the same old happy smiley "hi mom" kaden. i asked how his day was and he said "great" i told him that kelsi had called me and told me what had happened after school-he said well colby, the mean boy, was joking around at first picking him up because that's what his other friend was doing, then he said stop it and colby wouldn't-then he said some kids in the hall started telling colby to knock it off. then kelsi came and he got on the bus. i asked why he didn't stand up for himself, he said "i know that colby was just embarrassed because everyone kept saying to leave me alone" i told him you can be mean back if someone is being mean to you and kaden said "mom,he didn't hurt me, i won't be mean to him-everybody else is and that's probably why he acts mean." i immediately thought of the scripture *a soft answer turneth away wrath* sometimes it's hard being a mom, i hate to hear of anything bad happening to my kids-but they sure teach me how i could act a little better in some situations. what really cracked me up was the next day when kaden is reading this book...

kaden said kelsi had checked it out for him-she was so sweet to help him and still worries about him getting picked on...kelsi is more like me and would have pushed the kid right back.

a few days later i decided i needed to tell the principle, not about the boy, but because i was really angry that the substitute did nothing-so i went in and before i could even say one word i'm crying...i hate being a blubbering cry baby-i can't have a serious conversation about anything without crying. i was also very happy to hear that two of the kids that stood up for kaden were from our ward-it makes me glad we live in an area where people look out for each other.

this is a borrowed picture from my friend karens post-her boys garrett and justin and koy needed some hot chocolate the other day at her house...i'm not ready for the cold-what was so funny was that they came back to my house and ate popsicles out in the garage bundled in blankets...i don't think anyone is ready for the cold.
kelsi wanted to take her friends natasha and nitchelle out for their birthday -it was fun and they really enjoyed the "cookie monster" dessert!

the end of the month i went to the womens conference... i love the womens broadcast-it reminds me how great it is to be a girl! my favorite quote was from president Uchtdorf:

those who bring sunshine to the lives of others...

cannot keep it from themselves!