Hello everyone! Sunday seems to be the only day I actually have time to sit down and update this thing!! We have had a fun weekend of camping, probably the last for the year as the nights are getting quite chilly. I froze!!!! and I even slept in the back of the expedition! But it was a lot of fun, the mountains are always so relaxing and the kids have a world of fun exploring, playing in the river, and "hunting" for whatever they can think of. We went with some friends of ours and had a great time! Chas finally got his "new" truck to run, we were very lucky we made it all the way home without having to leave it on the side of the road, but now it is running and Chas can't wait to get it up in the mountains and fill it with wood. Brooklyn is liking school, though she finds it hard to wake up every morning. She wishes school wasn't every morning, just most days. Brady is trying to figure out what to do without her, especially since I have been canning and not had alot of extra time to spend with him. The leaves are all changing here and it is so beautiful, nothing like Vanderhoof of course, but still pretty! I love the fall!!! And we are so excited for Christmas!!!! we get to go to Canada and we are counting down the days! So Happy Fall everyone, we hope you enjoy all of the beautiful colors and cooler weather!!

Well things have been crazy and busy around here, what's new eh? The last weekend in August Chas and I got to go out of town, without the little rascals, well we still took Emree with us. Chas had a training in Portland and so at the last minute I decided to go with him, since his hotel was free and we drove a company car, there was not extra cost for me! Well not too much anyway! It was a sweet deal the hotel was like two blocks from the outlet mall! So I got to go school shopping for Brooklyn and spent a day there, the other day I just hung out at the hotel. Laid around, took Emree swimming, watched movies and try to get my journal up to date. As much fun as it was without the kids, well it was pretty quiet anyway, I did get a little lonely without them around. It was good to be home again! It was a nice little break for me. Then the next weekend,(last weekend) we headed back over that direction again to go to Jared and Gina's to bless their new baby. We had a fun time over there swimming and visiting with each other. We got home Monday, thought we'd been home too long so decided to go to Boise wednesday night to join the family in blessing Keeton and Melissa's new little guy. That was last night and it was a long night, but fun. So now we are planning on staying home and trying to recuperate for a long time!! I have been making and canning salsa all day today and am now officially TIRED!! We got all of our corn in the freezer and it's nice to have one thing totally done!! Now if I can just get the other 500 things all done!! I will be feeling great! I have so many tomatoes I really don't know what I am going to do with them all, lots of salsa I guess! If I have your name for Christmas, don't be surprised if you get some!! Brooklyn heads off to school tomorrow, and I am sad!!!!She is so excited so I am trying to be excited with her. I told her once I wanted her to stay home with me, and she decided she already knew everything and so she really didn't have to go to school anyway! Well this is getting super long, I need to write more often so they aren't so long!! Anyway, so now I am officially old, I have a child in School! AHHHHH......