Natalia the Artist

 This was a long time ago but I forgot about them because they were on my phone. One day I came back up stairs from cleaning or doing something in the basement and I was surprised with some amazing art all around my house. Don't worry all of it came off except for the window sill.

She takes after my mom. She loves to draw, paint, color anything that has to do with markers. Forget about the paper when you have a whole house and yourself you can color.

oh natalia

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 Gage and Natalia eating candy I think.

 She loves her backpack. And she is a goof ball can you tell?

 Don't forget the dog when you give hugs and kisses.

 It was so cute. I came into the front room to check on Natalia because it was really quiet and this is what I found. She fell asleep.

 Natalia Dressed herself during conference. Snow boots and all.

 I love love love this picture of Natalia. It shows her personality perfectly. Bright, Funny, and Fashionable.

 Natalia has curly hair but it's kind of awkward and stringy right now. So she let me curl it one day. It turned out so cute. Mom do you recognize that necklace? She wears it everywhere.

First day of School

I thought I forgot to take a picture of Jadens' first day of school again this year and then I found one on my phone better late than never.

First Snow

Yes we had are first snow in Rigby Idaho. All I could say was Yuck! I know the snow is pretty but not the first week of October didn't enjoy that one bit. Also, the snow seems to never go away here. This picture is after it melted a little in the morning. The day before and all night it snowed pretty hard and didn't stop. The only thing that kept it from accumulating more was that it was a really wet snow.

Quick Update

I don't have any pictures currently. I have not been good at the picture taking lately. What's going on here in Rigby Idaho? Alot of nothing. We are busy constantly with school, family, church, more school and some more school. Tyson's brother Gabe got his mission call to Bogota Columbia North Mission. We are really excited for him and a little nervous to. Columbia, Yikes! Everyone came here for the day last minute to watch him open his mission call. The next day all the boys went to Quintals old house to put a fence up for the renters and then came and hooked up my gas dryer.
We have been living without a dryer pretty much all summer. It wasn't a really big deal because it was nice and hot and we have a clothes line in our backyard. But, it is starting to turn into fall and I can dry my clothes but they don't dry nearly as fast. Tyson helped someone move into there house and with all the moving and things being left behind by other people they ended up with three dryers. They gave us one for free!!!!! That's right for free. I was so grateful and all we had to do was hook up a gas line since we don't have one. It ended up costing us $100 because of supplies but we were so grateful. It's almost brand new and actually ended up matching our washer. We finally had soft towels again and Tyson and I were so grateful.
We went to a corn maze and pumpkin patch and Jaden and Natalia got a little pumpkin. Natalia picked a white one (with mommies help :) ) It was a lot of fun. I was a little disappointed because it wasn't an actual pumpkin patch this year. I love going to an actual pumpkin patch and walking through the plants looking for the perfect pumpkin but that's ok it was still in a corn field so it kinda had the same effect.
Jaden is loving school and really likes his teacher. We had a little bit of an unfortunate event already but what can I say he's a boy. I got a call one afternoon from the principal and he told me Jaden got in a fight and was put in in-school suspension for the rest of the day and the next.  After feeling like a horrible mother and crying, and not knowing where I went wrong and why I just don't understand my son etc. I went and picked him up and found out that a 2nd grader (twice the size of Jaden and not someone you really want to mess with) had said something mean to Jaden and then punched him. So, Jaden did what any boy I guess would do. He punched him back. I supported the school in their decisions for punishment but didn't really punish him at home. Simply because I can't expect him to act any other way. We talked to him and told him he should have told someone instead of punched the kid back. But at the same time that kid probably will leave Jaden alone now where as if he would have told on him he would probably still tease him.
Other than that not much is going on here. I'm sick of potty training. Anyone have any suggestions for getting the little stinker to poop in the toilet. So frustrating.