HALLOWEEN

Yay!!!! Its finally here and now done. We love Halloween at our house. Dressing up for school and then coming home and visiting Grandparents and then Trick or Treating, we love it. It is so relaxing when it is over though. The girls all looked so cute and had fun getting ready. The weather was so nice too. We trick or treated in our old Grandview ward. It is Pat's parents' neighborhood. We saw the Ortons and Barons and some of our other friends from that ward. Pat's mom loaded the kids up with full size candy bars. Way too many, but thats where I come in. I eat most of them anyway. Its so sad, I am a candyholic. We carved pumpkins last night. Marin and Paige did scary faces and Amanda did a nice face.

Our Little Rockett

Jaida is so cute. She was born May 22 and has been such a sweetie since day 1. She loves to be kissed and grabs my head and pulls me close to kiss. She loves attention and when her sisters are around she just wants to be with them and yells til they pay attention to her. She is becoming soooo vocal it is so cute. Its been crazy since she was born, adjusting to having 4 kids, but it seems like it is smoothing out and we are forming more and more routines. Having kids in school does that. Her Grandma gave her this outfit and she sure seems happy in it. She just seems to enjoy being in our family and we all think she is the cutest thing. It's so fun to have her around, always happy and just wanting to be loved. As far as I can tell, I think she looks most like Paige. We will have to see when she is older though.

Parent Teacher Conferences

I love going to parent teacher conferences and hearing how my child is doing in school. This year I went to 2 of them. Paige's teacher, Mrs. Brimhall loves Paige and said she is the top of her class and such a great student. She is starting her on some reading books and said she will be the first one in her class to do so. She loves going and always has funny things to say about it. Amanda is doing really well too. She does well every year. If they are doing well in school, I buy them a book at the book fair and Amanda is already into Chapter 11 and it has been 1 day. She loves to read. I am reading Paige's book to her and we are on Chapter 4.

Playing Cards

Today, Patrick went hunting with Lyn and Pat and Adam. They left around 1pm and got home at 10pm. Lyn shot a 2 point buck. Grandma Grams and Denise came over and we played cards pretty much the whole time they were gone. Sounds lame I know but time flies when you're having fun. I enjoyed it. We took breaks to feed babies and take care of kids and eat pizza. Last weekend, I was able to go hunting with all of them. We took our trailer (without kids, thanks to my sister Pam) and parked it at the bottom of Adam and Denise's property and then we drove through to the Fish and Game land on the north side. We didn't see much there but on our way back we saw a couple of bucks and Adam got a shot off but the buck ran and from what we could find there was no blood. It was a far shot. Then Monday Adam was able to get a buck and I watched him gut it and even helped hold it up while he did so. It was not as gross as I thought it would be. It was actually interesting to see. Maybe this weekend Pat will get one. We are going to take the trailer and go up again but take the girls this time and I will stay back at camp with them. They love to camp and ride the 4-wheelers. It will be fun, I just hope it is good weather.

Hmmm very interesting this blogging thing is-

So I have never blogged before, but it looks fun, and it is fun to read about what friends and family are up to, so I thought I would give it a shot. It all seems interesting to me, posting what is going on in our lives over the internet for whoever to read. I'm not good with words so we will see what I can come up with to write.