Five Brown Kids

An olympic family: Usane Bolt, super sprinter; Nastia Liukin, US gymnast; Michael Phelps, best ever swimmer; Argentinian soccer player and Venus Williams, tennis star Seriously? I just hold out my bag and people give me treats, treats, and more treats! How is this possible? Trunk or treat in our church parking lot- Scotia, Jaxon and Hailey. Trunk or treat with an Elder, Taye, Andrew and Riley.

Tis the season for yummy roasted pumpkin seeds Clean and pat dry 1 1/2 cups of fresh pumpkin seeds. Coat with two tablespoons melted butter and a generous shake of salt and/or garlic salt. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake in the oven at 300 degrees for about 30 minutes. (I did a few minutes longer) Serve with cold apple cider and eat while they're still warm!

Can you guess what we're going to be? (Don't you love how Scotia has the marker up her nose?)

Totally avoiding the rest of my days work by surfing mommy blogs, check out the cute scripture cases and hairbows on this one... Baby Blvd (I want to win one of the prizes)

Take scotia to gymnastics class Print out scotia's 2 year scrapbook from Snapfish before my coupon expires Finish typing up the primary program and making assignment sheets for kids Sell table from craigslist to help empty attic Go to craft store for six cans of sprinkles for Taye's school halloween party, gold sparkles for halloween costumes and tissue paper to wrap an item I sold on ebay and need to ship Make 12 follow up calls for last week's BYU visits, and print out maps to visit 16 schools tomorrow Tidy my house, do my requisite two loads of laundry, make breakfast, lunch and dinner Play with my kids Type a blog about it to make myself feel better

Scotia's the slowest talker of all my kids, which is a wonderful thing at this point. While she has tons of single words she is just barely starting to combine words into sentences. Here's her first, " M'ere Dadden " Translation: Come here Dad. She always calls Dad, " Dadden ". Tonight at the table Taye asks Dad about the BYU football team, "Dad, did they find out if they go to a bowl weevil yet? " (A little mix up with football bowl games and the bug that used to give cotton growers great stress....) Jaxon talks enough to make up for all others and then some. This morning he climbed into my bed at 6 am. "Mom, what's 2 plus 4?" , " Jaxon , I'm sleeping", "Mom, can you count to a hundred?", " Jaxon , I'm STILL sleeping". I wish.