Craziness...

I can't believe we are already half way through November!!! Where does the time go?...These last two weeks, my kids seem to have acquired this out-of-this-world never-ending energy...Brielle has decided that she doesn't want to nap anymore...but then she's tired and grumpy and just not fun to be around at 6 in the evening, right at dinner time...she won't eat dinner, because she's so tired, all she wants to do is go to sleep!!! She has been talking non-stop...it seems like she's talking every single second of the day!!!! Braden has been talking so much too these last weeks, it's like something happened and he's just talking! He's been putting subjects and verbs together...the other day he said "I want"...I was surprised when I heard him say that...and I was also very surprised when he got into our bathroom, where we have all of the medicines and ate almost a whole pill of sudaphrine!!!! They are usually not allowed into our bedroom where our bathroom is, I have a child proof door knob thing for our door, but I must have forgotten to close the door because they were both in our bathroom playing with the drugs...oh my heck!!!! ...thank goodness he threw up, yeah because it probably tasted disgusting!!! I called poison control and to my relief the lady told me that he would be fine...but man! These two kids are ALL OVER the place and going NON-STOP every second of the day. How am I ever going to get the guts to have another child???...It's not going to happen for another 50 years...may be during the millenium...I've lost it a couple of times and yelled and screamed at everyone and all I wanted to do is go to a deserted island with no humans...ha ha! But for the most part we've had great days and I have found that the key to having a successful day is to fill our day full of activities...I told Scott that I've decided to run my home as a day-care, so we have our schedule written out and try to stick to it as much as we can...we have reading time, singing time, dress-up time, snack time, etc, etc, etc...it's been helping...they are both so eager to explore everything around them...I'm sure those of you with children can relate...I wish I had their energy...they are the light of my eye though and I seriously cannot see my life without them...as always we manage to have great times together.

These are super late halloween pictures, but we took the kids trick or treating and I think Scott and I had as much fun as the kids...we loved watching them approach the doors and both of them would say trick or treat! Braden kind of mumbled it but he was at least trying to say it...we had a fun night...it was the perfect fall night!

These are few pictures of our "backyard" that I took a about a week and a half ago...it's kind of a backyard, it's a slanted area full of trees...we go out there almost everyday to feed the squirrels peanuts and the kids like to throw rocks out there... I'm always nervous though, because like I said it's a slanted area and I'm afraid they are going to go rolling down the hill and hit a tree...anyway...it's a good thing I took these pictures then because all the leaves a basically gone now.

The sister missionaries stop by our house at least once a week when they are in the neighborhood, sometimes they bring us goodies or they just come by to chat for a few minutes. The other day on their service day, they came and mopped my floor, did my dishes and watched the kids while I jumped in the shower...it's amazing how attached you get to the missionaries, there is such a special spirit about each of them. The kids love them and Brielle calls them by their last name "Bertucci" and "Yano", the sisters think it's hilarious...last Sunday they were singing in front of the whole congragation during the Primary presentation in sacrament and Brielle very loudly yelled "Hiiiiiiiii Bertuuuuuucciiiiii!!!!!!"

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE our library??? It seriously ROCKS!!!! We love it! We go every Monday and I let the kids play in the kid area and they have such a great time, we read a few books and we pick out a few movies to watch throughout the week...we love going there.

These two fight a lot...but they sure love each other!!! The other day Brielle was hiding behind Braden's chair and then she'd jump in front of him...he thought it was hilarious! I think one of my favorite things about being a mom is hearing my kids laughing!

This is what I mean, when I say craziness...children, children...

That face...

Elder Withers, Sergio, Scott, Elder Shapiro & Elder Leiser

Our friend Sergio got baptized on Saturday! What a special moment for him and for everyone who attended! I couldn't hold back the tears when he was actually baptized. He has changed his life...he stopped smoking and you can tell there has been a genuine change in his heart! We are so happy for him!!!

Our dear Elder Withers, what a great missionary! An Idaho boy, from Blackfoot...those Idaho boys are great!

Oh! And to finish things off:

Brielle put her naked barbie in time-out!