Fast Update/Many Ramblings

---My kids like climbing up onto the roof of our house...no biggie....if they fall off, we get a cast.  However, tonight they climbed onto the roof of the garage.....that has 5 electrical wires from the power poles to surrounding houses, including ours....Gahhhhhhh!!  It's kindof hard to bring kids back from the dead if they're electrocuted....or are stupid.

---I got to climb up into the tree in our back yard this afternoon because Taylor was about 12 feet up and I couldn't help him from the ground.  Again...not worried about the falling thing, more worried about him getting his shirt caught and him strangling to death...because that really almost happened when we first moved in.  His elbow got caught and he was hanging between two branches.

---I promise, I do care if my kids fall, but sheesh...do I need to tether them to the ground?

---Kortlen is fascinated with the fact that he can completely cover himself in fine-dirt/dust, and then laughs hysterically when I try to catch him and brush it off...turkey!

---I finally got a picture of blue skies from my front lawn last night...we've been basking in smoke for the last month....I'd forgotten what those beautiful Idaho skies looked like!

---Finished up Dylan and Ashlee's wedding album....had such a fun time taking the pictures, and they were a quick edit, once I sat down to do them!  ALMOST makes me want to do photography more, and make my amateur skills useful. Guess I'll stick to people just passing on my info word-of-mouth, and not advertising.  I already stay up way too late!

---Tanner and Taylor have been loving piano lessons, and I am, too!!!  They each practice 10-15 minutes a day, and then go play while I practice for an hour or so.  It's so refreshing....but probably the reason my kids are getting themselves into sticky situations....hmmm.....Guess I need to reserve my practice time for later in the evening.

---There has been NO CANNING at our house this fall....I figured since we already have a closet full of canned produce, that nobody likes, we'll starve when the EMP hits, and then I'll be sorry I didn't do what I knew I should have....PREPARED MORE FOOD!

---Taylor has a unique talent of catching bugs.  By the wings.  Then he examines them, lets them go, and catches them again and brings them to me...like a cat.  He's particularly intrigued by flies.  Those big bull flies....*shudder*.  Well, at least I don't have to hear them buzzing around for too long, nor do I have to swat at them.

---Tanner is in the top of his class for math skills, but the bottom for reading, and has the home room teacher that teaches BOTH those classes.  I don't know whether to feel sorry for her, or for him.

---I love mowing my own lawn.  I love digging up the foliage I don't want next year, and planning what I do want instead!  I can't wait to start hacking away at the overgrown shrubs (14 feet, no kidding!) in our back yard to make room for a LOVELY garden spot come spring.  Exciting things, people!

---I have been trying my darnedest to keep this house picked up so that we can spray for Hobo Spiders ...when we get around to it.  Trouble is, by the time I get around to it, there are toys strewn everywhere again.  I sorta wish the world would stand still while I clean.  Wouldn't that be nice?!

---Had to buckle down and go out to the garage to pull out my maternity clothes from 'the stack' of totes (which I recently rotated for the boys...guess it was my turn).  I have to admit, that while I've been putting on weight from all the sugar wafers I've been craving, I'm hoping some of that weight will shed off quickly when we have baby number four the first part of April.

---And because I know you're going to ask, we're due April 11th (the dr. thinks???) and while I'd love a sweet little girl, I think the pros of another boy outweigh all the bows and pink glitter shoes a mother could buy.  BUT either way, we're ecstatic!  I've been told more than once by more than one little boy in this house, that they're getting a sister.  And now that we know we're not having twins, we'll just be happy with whatever Heavenly Father blesses us with.

---Wish me luck.  And pray that no children fall off any roofs, out of any trees, or get electrocuted on my watch, while I'm growing a new sibling.