Been a while since I blogged again. Lots has happened so let's see what I can remember! We had the twins birthday party at a hotel with a water slide. It was so much fun, but you wont get to see because my camera is broken! We had a ton of junk food for dinner and the kids and adults really enjoyed it. Logan and Layne swan for almost 4 hours, Brenden fell asleep in a pool chair after about 2 1/2 hours. Wish I had a picture of that! My sister then spent the next 3 days with us because on Saturday morning we were going to head out to Beach for my moms family reunion.

We had a great time with my moms family. There are 97 people in my moms family and 67 people were together in one house! The boys really had a good time because there are a ton of kids to play with. Tim even managed to get in some pheasant hunting. He got 3 birds.

I have been visiting with my advisor about how much school I have left. It has been a bit confusing, but I think I have about 1 1/2 years left. DSU took about 3/4 of my credits from Aakers, and I got them to substitute a couple of other classes.

Looking forward to Thanksgiving. We are going to the lake. I can't remember ever being there that time of year.

Only have 3 full weeks of classes before finals. I can't wait for this semester to be over!

My babies are going to be 4!! Can you belive it!

Thank you for the pillow pets Aunt Jody and Uncle Martin!

It was a really long weekend! Brenden wasn't feeling great on Wednesday night so I took him onto the walk in clinic to make sure his sore throat wasn't strep, because if he was sick and had something contagious we couldn't go to the farm. Well the rapid strep test came back negative, but after visiting with the doctor awhile we decided to put him on an antibiotic anyway. I keep him home from school on Thursday and Friday morning when we got up to go to the farm he looked like he was feeling fine. Brenden didn't say anything or eat anything the whole way to there. As the afternoon went on he started to feel worse and worse by 6:00 he was really bad so I decided to take him to the ER. They ran a new strep test and took a CBC. They diagnosed him with tonsillitis and gave him 2 antibiotic shots. Saturday morning he still wasn't feeling great and he hadn't eaten anything since Wednesday. When I talked to the doctor on Saturday he wanted to see him again so I took him back in. When they weighed him he had lost 2 pounds since Wednesday. The doctor gave him an oral antibiotic to take for the next 10 days. He still isn't eating or talking much, his mouth is full of canker sores. I now thin that when I took him in a couple weeks ago for a sore throat that maybe that was tonsillitis too. I am going to call his doctor tomorrow to see what we should do.

Here are some better picutres of the kids on Halloween.

Happy Halloween!

Sorry this picture is so bad. Our camera is broken! Debbie took some better ones so I will post them later!

We had a great weekend. Some friends call at about 5:30 on Friday night. They were going out to a bar to listen to a band and wanted to know if Tim and I could find a babysitter and come out too. My mom and Joe just happened to be home and offered to take the boys over night. So we went out and had a great time.

Saturday was full of bowling in the morning and errands in the afternoon. We were all tried from Friday night so we went to bed early. Today we went to church and then went trick or treating at the 2 grandparents house in the afternoon so we could spend some time at each of their houses. We came home and had "mummy dogs" and tator tots for dinner and headed out to trick or treat in the neighborhood. The kids are sugared up and in bed wide awake!

Tomorrow I start my first day of job shadowing. I will be at Horizon Middle school all day. It should be interesting!

As you can tell by the date of my last post things have been busy around here. Last weekend Layne joined a bowling league. One of the neighborhood boys talked us into it and I thought it was a good idea. I was on a bowling league when I was a kid and have fond memories of it. Layne even gets a bowling ball for joining, he picked out one this is black and looks like it has red, yellow, and orange flames. Cool!

I had parent teacher conferences for Brenden and Logan on Monday. Logan's teacher was just amazed by him. She said that she has been teaching for 20 year and has never had a child score so many 3's (3 is equivalent to an A). He excels in math and science and she said he talks about nature and the farm all the time. They don't usually do a unit on farms, but she is going to add one this year just for him! Brenden did great too. His teacher said that he does have to be prompted to finish tasks and that he sometimes says things are to hard for him. I find that extremely funny because at home he wants to do everything "by myself!".

Tim and I made salty bones last night for Layne to take to school for his Halloween party (bread sticks shaped like a bone with course sea salt on top). He is going to be a safari guide, Brenden is going to be a monkey, and Logan is going to be a cowboy. They should make a cute little trio when they go trick-or-treating!

I start my pre-professional experience (job shadowing) on Monday. I will be at Horizon Middle School all day on Monday and Tuesday with a business education teacher. i am really looking forward to it. I then get to go to Bismarck High two Monday's, the 15 and 22, to shadow a business education teacher there. I am very excited!

November is going to be a crazy month. I have my job shadowing, the farm for girls weekend, LWML Board meeting and in the same weekend my mom's family reunion, the twins birthday party, and out of town for thanksgiving. Crazy!

Today is the boys Friday. They don't have school Thursday or Friday for teacher convention. Layne thinks he should get to stay up until 10 tonight since he doesn't have to get up for school! We will see about that! I think we will do something fun on Friday, I think the twins are old enough for me to take all three of them to the science center by myself. Layne is a member there and has been there many times, but the twins haven't. So I think that sounds like a fun adventure!

Last night when I was checking on the boys I got my hand caught in the ceiling fan. I was trying to cover Layne up with his blanket and I was standing on the bottom bunk. I pulled up on the blanket and went a little to far! My hand is very swollen and black and blue today!!