Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

We woke up this morning to rain and a leak in our roof- which is hard to do when you are living in the basement... How does that happen? But, OUR house is fine and it really is almost a house! They got the walls up yesterday and tomorrow the trusses will be on and next week is the roof. It's a house! Wish me luck on getting all the bargin shopping done tomorrow... I think I do it more for the thrill of getting up at 4:00 to shopping with my sisters than for the deals themselves :) I love the holidays! Here's a picture of our little turkeys Hyrum and Weston and I made for place setters this year...

It's really happening!

SO we really are building a house- how cool is that! The weather has been so great that things are progressing smoothly and so fast! Next week we, well, not ME but the worker guys, will start framing- the lumber is already there... Soon we'll be picking out paint and carpet and all that stuff. So fun! Hyrum decided we should just leave the big pile of dirt in the back yard- it really makes for hours of good clean fun- though not the boys are not clean at all:). While Zach is most excited for the sky light in the kitchen, Hyrum thinks the coolest thing will be the fact that there are THREE bathrooms, and then if three of us have to go to the bathroom at the same time- we can! He also decided we need a fire pole for when we are in a hurry and now Weston is very excited for that! We went to look at the progress one day, while they were digging the hole and Weston asked me "But where is the upstairs for Grandma to live?" He doesn't know any different since we've been under Grandma his whole life! Poor kid! Anyway, here is pictures of our triumphant sold sign, Hyrum on the dirt hill and the foundation all done!

Reading!

So if any of you ever go on GoodReads.com and look me up, you will know that I am an avid reader! Sometimes I read a book a day- it's easy when Hyrum's at school and Weston plays so well by himself... Anyway, I was pleased to see it rubbed off when I found my boys at different times of the day, yesterday, just reading to themselves or to their animals. Like Shannon Hale signed in my Princess Academy book "Yeay for mommies and readers!"

Boating...?

We did our duty today and went to vote. I took Hyrum and Weston and went early, about 7:10 am, so we were there with all the old people :). They all thought the boys were so cute and glad they were being taught to vote so early in life. But, as we left the school, Weston started crying "But where's the boat? How come we didn't go on the boat?" No matter how we explained it, he still didn't understand why we didn't get to go on the boat... come to think of it, I think we had the same discussion with Hyrum last year... I guess I need elocution lessons!

Falling down, gently down...

Happy November! Rain is falling, leaves are falling, the temperature is falling, gas prices are falling- it is a GOOD time of year! We had a successful Halloween full of costumes, trick or treating, candy, family, friends, more candy... Hyrum found two awesome costumes this year at Savers so we Had to get them because who would get more use out of them? He wore his "Dash with Muscles" costume to school in the morning and Spider man for the rest of the day. Weston started telling people he was going to be a black cat, and then a pumpkin, and then a black cat, and then a black cat pumpkin... so he was a black cat pumpkin! He is a two year old with an opinion, like my dad says! This is Weston, Hyrum and the lovely Grace Wilcox- their princess cousin

This is Weston and Hyrum and their cousins Jordan and Jessica- where do they get such wierd poses?

Here's me and my silly boys- aren't they so cute?