Sunday was a great day, even though it didn't start out that way. It started with Ethan having a full blown out tantrum because he didn't want to put his own pants on. (Which is unusual for him) At first it started off that he didn't want me in his room as he was getting dressed, and then it turned into, "PUT MY PANTS ON FOR ME!" He missed a nice breakfast that Ben made, because he sat up in his room screaming and crying. I don't know how HE made it through the three hours of church without food!!
The kids did GREAT through sacrament. Sophia needed constant entertaining, but she made it through the whole thing. The boys sat there reverently drawing pictures. During the passing of the sacrament Boston made one of Jesus up on the cross and people down below. The one with smiles he labeled "bad people" and the ones with sad faces he labeled, "good people". He always surprises me with stuff like that! Aubrie just sat quietly next to me, taking any back scratch or head rubbing she could get out of me! I guess our whole, "if you can't be reverent at church, you'll sit on the couch for that amount of time when we get home" is working! Sophia did make up for her great hour by crying on and off in the Nursery. Terri M. was great enough to sit in there with her, but after an hour of that, I felt guilty and had Ben go and get her. I had to teach this week in YW. The lesson was on Honesty. I geared it a lot toward the fact that by staying silent about something is a form of dishonesty, particularly sitting there and listening to gossip when you know it's not true. The girls had a lot to say this week! I think I hit on something:)

After church, Ben let me catch up on some much needed sleep. Then we started to prepare dinner for company. In the meantime, Boston disappeared and I found him asleep on the living room couch. You know when your kid falls asleep in the living room (the most boring room in the house) that he isn't feeling well. That was around 4:45. When the Lorenzana's showed up we carried Botson up to bed. He slept through the night. He woke me up at 5:15 and said he couldn't sleep anymore. He then asked me if I put his tooth under his pillow (he lost another tooth Sunday afternoon). Shoot!! I had totally forgot about that. Luckily I thought of something quick, and told him I wanted HIM to put it under his pillow and he was cool with that. He then asked why Alex never came over, and I told him he slept right through it all. He then said, "AHH, no wonder I can't sleep anymore!" That meant I wouldn't sleep anymore either. I tried to let him in my bed, but a Queen isn't comfortable with three people. I finally got up at 5:55 and started to get ready to go hiking. I then heard Sophia squawking. I ran her up a bottle before I met up for the hike.


Today Alicia joined us! It's always nice catching up with her. The hike was good. There is a part that is a killer. I look forward to the day that I cruise right up with out being out of breath! I spent the rest of the day grocery shopping, preparing dinner, and making these cute miniature carmel apples, I saw in one of my magazines. I usually am not one to take the time to try cutsie, craft things in magazines, but these were too cute to resist. Especially since I have a hard time committing to a whole carmel apple! You just take a melon baller and "cut" out these miniature balls and dip them in carmel and sprinkles. They are fun to make, but the carmel stuck to the paper cups. So I won't use those again! I originally was making them for Boston's class, until I found out his Fall party is the 31st not the 21st!!! How did I get that mixed up? I thought it was odd they were having it so early. Anyway, I turned them into a FHE treat! They were good! Tonight we played Clue and every time someone showed you one of their cards, you had to thank them by saying something nice about them. The kids love that game, and I loved hearing them say nice things! So it was a Win/Win! (Well I love Clue, too so it was a Win/Win/Win!!!;)


Here is some of Ethan's "art" that he made today. He said it's a goblin holding two pumpkins. I thought it was funny how he made arms and legs for him! (or her? ) I don't know how he can have such a short attention span with some things, but can sit for hours cutting, creating and coloring! Poor boy colored white computer paper FOREVER!!! Time to buy some more colored construction paper. I love it!