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This is a smorgasbord of things that have happened the past few little bit. 

Camden lost another tooth. He has a HUGE gap now. It was an ordeal getting this one out too. He didn't want it to come out, but it really needed to. 

Brad attempted Movember. Thankfully it only lasted 2 weeks for him. He didn't like how it felt. I personally don't like facial hair, so I don't mind the fact that he really can't grow much hair. 

We have been crafty in our house the last little bit. We made a 'command center.' I love how it turned out and all that is on it. Our fridge looks so clean now too without all of the papers on it. 

Emery and Jacks helped a little with projects. I was painting things and I gave them their own thing to paint so they left mine alone. 

 This is the blocks that I painted. It's reversible and turned out pretty well, or at least I think so. 

 The "best" part is it's too big for any shelf we have now. So I have giving Brad another project I hope to start on this week... I figure we have been married 9 years and owned our house for 5, it's about time I decorate. I'm enjoining all the things were making, not sure Brad likes all the ideas I come up with. There are a few other projects that are only half done, so I'll post them later. We also got an entertainment center from Brad's parents. I love it, but realized how little i have to decorate with. So once I have Christmas stuff on that we'll take a good picture. 

 We had an awesome snow/rain/sleet storm this past week. I love my job but hate winter weather and getting off at 4 am. On Thursday it did all that fun stuff and froze, so you can guess that at 4 am, when I got off, our car was an ice cub, literally ice was all around it. Once I started the car I realized that we had yet to put an ice scraper in the car. We took them out of the other cars, but one didn't make it into the new one, hence the CD. Who knew that they make good scrapers? I did have to sit there for about 10 min for the car to warm up a little because the ice was too thick but I was able to scrape a little off to see and get home. I think a move to Arizona is needed... well as long as all the grandparents move with us. We'd miss them too much. 

New Room

I am my mother's daughter. I love to move things around. I could probably move all the furniture once a month if we had the space to do so. Emery has been asking for a long time to share a room with Jacks. I haven't wanted to because a 5 min drive in the car is annoying enough with them, let alone every night trying to get them to sleep, no thanks! Well I finally caved because Brad really wanted to. I told him if they are annoying he gets to deal with it. So to put them in the same room we need a space saving bed and found this one. I love how it looks. We are still working on how we want Jacks bed under it, but he loves how the mattress is now. We chose this one because some day she'll be on her own and this will still work for just a single bedroom. 

 We also moved the pictures around and decided to put the weapons we made on the wall. If you really hit someone with them it could do some damage. It's defiantly a half boy/ half girl room, but they love it that way. 

 The bed looks so big with her in it. She loves the new room and they haven't been too bad so far with just going to sleep. I guess Brad wasn't completely wrong... yet.

Mornings

I am not a morning person. It makes more sense to be to stay up till 6 am and sleep a little then to wake up at 6 am. I hate mornings. Thanks to school I have to get up with the kids to get them ready. The boys are pretty independent, so it's not that bad. While they eat and get dressed I sit on our chair in the front room. Jacks is a morning person. 7 is usually when he gets up (too early if you ask me), but he does like to cuddle. This is how we sit/lay most mornings. I love having him lay on me. He is our baby, and he needs to stay that way as long as I can help it. 

Halloween

Another year of trick-or-treating is done and over with. This year we made the kids costumes. I think they turned out well. Emery was Elsa. I'm not very good at sewing, so were lucky it turned out as well as it did. 

The boys were turtles. Their outfits took a little more work, but looked good in the end. Cam was Donatello.

Beck was Leonardo. 

And Jacks was Michelangelo. 

We made the weapons too.

Don't they look great? A lot or work for one night.

Temple Hair and Other Things

The other day while Emery and Jacks were in the bath I was washing their hair and usually I try to spike her hair up with the soap in it. Jacks looked at her this time and said "Hey, you have a temple on your head!"  I guess I can see it. 

 When I was little it was a fight to get me into a dress and the only day it went a little easier was Sunday because I knew I should wear one to church. Emery is the opposite. It's a fight to get her to not wear a dress or skirt. Since it's getting cooler I have her wear pants more often to school. Thursday she came to me with this on. She knew it was a pants day, but didn't just want to wear pants. When I asked why she was wearing bother she said, "because it's beautiful." Well I can't argue with that, so this is what she wore to school. She has a very interesting sense of fashion 

 Camden finally lost another tooth, and it left a huge hole. It's been loose for a while and we noticed Tuesday that we could see the other tooth coming through. Brad tried to pull it that night but it didn't work. He let it go till Thursday then he twisted and pulled it out. The one next to it is almost ready to come out, so the gap will be even bigger. 

Beck Runs From Zombies

This past weekend there was a zombie run at CSI. It was a fundraiser for a cross country team. We tired to get Camden to do it also, but he didn't want to. Beck was really excited for it from the beginning. You had 3 lives, flags, that the zombies tired to pull off as you ran. Beck tried really hard to save all three. 

 Some of the sweet decorations. 

 The zombies were about every .25-.5 mile. Brad tired to distract them to let Beck go free. 

 It worked then the zombie started to come after me. Moving and taking pictures doesn't make for very good pictures. 

 Beck lasted the longest,but still 'died'. Brad had three the longest, then at one of the zombie places his whole back got taken off. Beck lasted 2 more zombies after Brad and I. 

 It was a 5k and we did it in about 40 min, which I was so happy Beck did it all and did it in that amount of time. He ran his hardest (we did walk some of it too) and had a lot of fun, well, he had fun until he last mile, then we could tell he was done, but he kept going. He wore his race shirt to school today to show it off. After the run we went to rent a movie and Brad let Beck get some Pokemon cards. That made the hard run worth it all. I really hope this get him excited to do other runs with us. 

Just Stuff

We were talking in FHE a few weeks ago about trying new things. We told the kids to say things they wanted to try (but not having to do with video games) and we'll all make goals to do them. Camden at first said 'to be the best at games.' He broke the rule so we made him choose again. He acted upset and said the one thing he wants to do I won't let him do. We said whatever tell us. It was piano. On his defense I did say I don't want to teach them, but I never said I didn't want them to learn. So I told him if he really wanted to learn I'd teach him, but it is hard and he has to practice a lot. We've had two lessons so far and he's done well. If he keeps it up we'll tune the piano and get some theory books. I hope he does keep it up, but we'll see. I'll teach him a year but he'll need to get with someone who is better at teaching  soon. 

The kids had art night at the school. This is what Emery did to show off. She was embarrassed because she noticed she forgot the n on her name. 

The boys were learning about Picasso and they did their self prorate Picasso style. Beck's is the one you can see the eyes better and Cam's is right above him. 

 Emery will sit on her bed now trying to sound out words. She is so eager to learn to read and she really loves it. 

Beck the other night when we were having out before bed talk asked why they call a pistol a pistol. I honestly don't know what one looks like so I said I don't know. He said maybe it's because they don't shoot very far and so you get pissed. I laughed, a lot. I really didn't know what to say to that. 

Emery's Night

This past weekend was Emery's last special night for the year. We took her to Disney on Ice again. This year we also took Jacks. It ended up being on the same weekend that I was already going to be in Boise with my mom, so it was all the granddaughters, Grandma, Grandpa, Brad, Jacks and me. Everyone who went had a good time. I know Emery doesn't look happy here, but she really is. Not sure what she was doing. 

We got them a souvenir. Emery got a cup again and Jacks got Flounder. As you can see he loves it. 

This is how his mouth was most of the show, open and glued. 

There were a lot more characters this year. Jacks loved when he saw the T-Rex. Emery loved all the princesses. We defiantly will have to go again next year. 

Fun Lessons

So the boys have had a 'fun' week learning a tough lesson. I put this on here mainly because if they ever go back and read this they can hopefully laugh and see that they have grown. Last week we had my mom watch the kids for a little bit and the boys didn't listen that great. They usually are really good, but lately they have been pushing boundaries and acting out, which we are not liking. Them not listening to Grandma was the last straw for us. We told them they lose all games (their one true love) until they can show us they deserve them back. Each day they are supposed to make their bed before school and the last month or so they don't seem to care to do that. They rarely feed the dog, and I don't like the dog, so it was becoming a good excuse to get rid of him. They kept acting kind of entitled with things, which I know Brad and I play a big part in that, but it was time for change. They had to do their normal, everyday chores without being asked and have a good attitude. The first few days weren't bad. We were all pretty busy, so they really didn't think about it. Sunday was the tough day for them. Cam looked sad in sacrament so I passed him a note and asked what was wrong. I wish I had kept it do write it down word for word what he said  (because it was so over the top it was nuts) but I threw it away. He said he was sad he didn't get games even though he cleaned his room once.... yep once to him should have done it. I said it's a while before he gets them and he needs to show us that games isn't all he thinks about and he can have fun without them. He told me he can't be happy without games and they are the only thing he like. Have I ever said how dramatic Camden can be? This went on all sacrament meeting. He wasn't grasping that he needed to show us he can listen to everything we tell him and show us he doesn't just think about games. Good thing it was writing back and forth and you can't read annoyed tones, because I was getting really annoyed. One the flip side, Beck saw we were writing back and forth and he asked what it was about. I said games and he said ok. That's how much this was bugging Beck. How do we have twins SO different? After church we told them again what is expected of them and Cam was in a better mood. Monday after school Cam came home went right to his homework, fed the dog, played the piano (that's another story, once I take a picture), played basketball and was just happy. Beck sat on the couch. Brad was impressed with Camden and game him 30 min of game time. There were things Beck could do and Brad hinted at all of them. It took a while but Beck finally got it and took the trash out, did home work  and played outside and he got 30 min. They now have a list of things they have to do and the know what is expected of them.  They've done pretty well the rest of this week. We told them they never get games back 100%, it's a day by day thing and if they are ever rude to someone watching them again games are gone for a lot longer than this last time. They hated learning there's more to do than video games but I think/hope they'll be better. So will Brad and I. It was a lesson for us as well. 

Pumpkins

We painted our pumpkins on Tuesday. Emery did a witch, Beck a dragon, Camden I think is a monster and Jacks' is just some modern art. Grandma Arrington had an extra Halloween decoration which the kids love and make sure we have it on every night.