In the matter of an hour

the gas price at the local station went from $2.95 to $2.72. That is crazy. No complaints, just stunned in amazement! I left at 5:50pm for a PTO meeting. One gas station had lowered to $2.79 and across the street was still at $2.95. I come home one hour later and they lowered to 5 cents lower to the station across the sreet.

Well, I just had to express my amazement. I am glad gas is becoming more manageable in price. I've had a pretty busy week and I am exhausted. So, I am not spending more time here. My eyes are tired and my head aches!!!

Have a fantastic Halloween!!!

Funny Story

I will have to retell this story that Neil told me about Paden today. It's pretty darn funny.

Neil took the boys to tri-cities today for a few reasons. They met Cousins Jake and Marlys for breakfast at IHOP. They had a fantastic time and it's always fun to see family we don't get to see very often anymore. They went to the Children's museum. They had fun there, but they will tell you it's not as good as others they've been too. They also went on the big shopping trip for groceries.

At the children's museum, a kid that was a little older than Gunnar ran by Paden and called him "dude". Paden says, "hey!" Kid keeps going. Paden: "hey, I am talking to you!" Kid stops to listen to Paden. Paden explains sternly, "I am not 'dude'. I am Paden. P-A-D-E-N. Paden." Yes, he spelled out his name to the unsuspecting kid who called him "dude".

Paden is a funny kid and he's not afraid to speak his mind. He is not afraid to give anyone a hard time. He is pretty sweet sometimes too.

This morning I woke up and he was sleeping next to me; don't remember him coming in my bed! So, it's like 5-something in the morning and I roll over and he says, "Mama ..." I say, "yeah". "I love you." He was totally NOT awake! How cute! Then around 6am he did wake up more and wanted chocolate milk and a cartoon. TOO EARLY. I think I held him off until about 6:40am!

Oh the memories!

Halloween is Coming

Our first step to start decorating for Halloween was a family activity to make these spiders! We really want to go all out fo Halloween decorating this year. We haven't really started much yet. I think that we might not quite go all out as we thought we wanted to. We'll see.

On a Sunday afternoon a couple weeks ago, we took a nice relaxing drive out to the countryside/edge of town to find the materials to make the spiders. Thistles. We brought them home and spray-painted them black. One night for Family Home Evening, we created these:

No actual pictures of us working on them, as the camera battery was dead at the time and I just finally remembered to charge the camera battery. And yes, they only have six legs - pipe cleaner conservation day, haven't you heard of it?

Neil has been gone since Friday morning - out hunting with a friend. The boys & I have just been chillin'! I tried to watch some of General Conference, but it was hard with the boys. I did LOVE the show inbetween conference, On the Lord's Errand: Life of Thomas S Monson. It was so fabulous. It was great getting to know Thomas S. Monson. He was called to be a bishop at age 22 to a ward of over 1,000 members, including 85 widows. He made an effort to always visit the widows and amazingly has been able throughout his life to speak at many of the funerals of those widows; most of them asked that he speak. How sweet is that! At the end of the program he said something so wonderful. He said, "I always want the Lord to know that if he needs an errand run, Tom Monson will run that errand for Him."

Wouldn't it be great if we all had such a great attitude. I think I will work on that this week.