Wizard of Bras

***Girl Talk Here***  Overt your eyes if you are a male***


It's been a while since I have had a properly  fitting bra.  It seems as I have had kids, lost weight, gained weight, had more kids etc.  I just haven't taken the time to get a proper fitting.  Well, I finally did it.  Thanks to my good friend Angela, for prodding me along with a birthday gift card, I made my way to Monrovia's Wizard of Bras.  There, they keep track of your size and the style of bras that you buy.  Now mind you, I haven't been there for at least 3 years.  The record indicated that my last bra was a size 34 E.  What size did I walk out in?  That would be 34 B.  Yea baby, I'm back to my original size.  Whoever said that being busty was fun, clearly hasn't been without.  I think being without is way better than being with.  I'm not sure most men would agree, but I'm sure the women can all relate.

Halloween 2013

It's almost Halloween again and I'm always amazed at how fast the year has gone.  The really bad part is that the rest of the year goes even faster than the first half!

We had our ward annual Trunk-or-treat on Monday night.  It's a really fun night for the kids.  Everyone is there in costume, even most adults.  This year I chose to have us all be Legos.  It was simple and fun and lets be honest, INEXPENSIVE.

The only problem is that sitting down to eat was a little hard for the kids.  Oh well.  It was only for one night.

Football and Pumpkins

Sunday was a marathon sporting day.  First game up was the Washington Redskins followed by the Red Sox World Series Game.   While Bjorn was watching the game I thought it would be a good idea to carve pumpkins with the kids.  It would occupy them for a long time and they wouldn't notice the fact that they couldn't watch "kid shows"  all day.

I started by cutting open everyones pumpkins.  Then I thought they would all enjoy getting out the "guts".  As it turns out, none of kids liked the feeling of the "guts" and I ended up gutting all of them myself.

Then on to the designs.  Audrey wanted an Ariel, Lydia wanted a Hello Kitty, and Myles wanted a little green alien from Toy Story.  They all turned out really well if I do say so myself.  I felt like the little red hen in the end.  I bought the pumpkins, I gutted the pumpkins and I carved the pumpkins all by myself!  Maybe next year they will be able to help out a little more...

Last Year

It's the first day of the last year of Pre-school for the girls.  I will be so happy to have them all at the same place next year.  I will also be happy to not be paying for pre-school any more.  It never seemed that bad when it was just Myles, but then the following year it was all three, and this year it's back to just two.  All the same I can think of other ways to spend that money!

The girls are eager to go and love that they have the same teacher as Myles did last year.  It's a fun, friendly, easy going place for them to spend the mornings twice a week.

Way to go Monkey class.  Next year it's on to Bradoaks to become a Bobcat!

Bubba turns 6!

Myles turned six on the 1st of October.  It was a low key day for the most part.  He had school and then we had our friends the Terrill's over for homemade pizza, cake and ice cream.

Myles was blessed with many gifts from all of you.  Thanks for remembering his special day.  He loved all of his gifts and is still in the planning stages of spending the rest of the cash that he was given.

I mad him a pirate ship cake for the event and as the night went on it became a ship wreck cake.  I guess the heat was too much for it and it split right into two.  Tears where shed, but I think it was still cute, even as a wreck!

First Day of School

It's official.  I am the mother of an elementary school student.  How did that happen?!  Surely I'm not old enough to have a child in school, especially full time school.

Myles was so excited for school to start that he awake at 6:30 am.  He was dressed in his uniform and ready to go.  The hard part was waking the girls and getting them ready to go.  School starts at 8 am and he has to be physically walked into the kinder area.  Thus everyone has to be dressed and have shoes on.

He loves school and his class.  He's even experienced his first bus field trip.  They drove an hour and a half to a farm to pick pumpkins.

Myles the "giant" is officially the tallest and strongest in the class by a whole head...He has grown 3.75 inches this year alone.  Way to go Bubba!

While the kids are away...

Momma will play!  I've been working on a birthday project for Myles while the kids are at school.  I can't decide if my need to build comes from self reliance or being uber frugal.  At any rate, Bjorn and I saw this idea for a sign in Norway.  We had two problems with it.  One, we had no way ro get it home.   Two, it was like 30 $ and my practical side just couldn't justify that for a toy.  Mr. Myles has a *slight* obsession with signs and order.  I knew this would be right up his alley.  Now because my little girls cannot keep a secret to save their lives I've had to build while they are away at school.  It's given me a taste for what it is going to be like next year when they are gone full time.  I have to say, I think im going to do just fine!  The signs are removable for different shapes.  He has a total of four posts And 12 signs.  I hope he likes them.