Will made a light box for photo club this month.  He was kind enough to let me try it out.  Talk about very fun!

We took our kids to the BYU game at Qualcomm stadium on Saturday.  Okay so maybe people around here called it the SDSU game, but really half the crowd were BYU fans anyway.  We had so much fun.  We went with some people in the ward so we kind of had our own section.  I screamed my lungs out and sang the fight song until I was practically too hoarse to whisper.  We are training our kids young.

Despite the nice man in line who so kindly gave Hudson an SDSU red and black pom-pom, the game was great.  What was he thinking?!  I don’t want to confuse my kids.  Clearly, he wasn’t so worried.  Althought I bleed blue, my previous voice was dripping with sarcasm(just in case you really thought that I was one of those pretentious people who look down on anyone who didn’t attend BYU).  I love BYU and my time there, but to each his own.The seats were great.  I tried on many occasions to explain what was going on to Hudson.  I’m not sure how much of it made it to long term memory.  He will at least tell you we were cheering for the white team.  Annie on the other time had a habit of covering her ears every time I started cheering.

I know it looks like we smashed the kids heads together before we took the picture.  I’m actually not sure why both little ones are holding their heads.  The score could have been tied at this point.  Maybe they were just both very worried.

So you might wonder, what you do with 4 kids under the age of 5.  Might I advise paper airplanes and helicopters.  We had a mini-marathon the other night and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  Will helped the kids all design different airplanes and we launched them from the banister.  I can’t even measure the amount of whooping, giggling and cheering that took place.  We had successful lift off and that’s what matters!

The photos are courtesy of Will @ www.blattmans.com

With the slight chill of autumn air came the urge to fall-ify my kids.  How better to do so than to let my kids make caramel apples.  They loved doing it and believe it or not – no mess involved!  I was all out of nuts so we used toffee bits.  Can I tell you?  I think I have just become caramel apple’s new, biggest fan!

Word to the wise: I sliced the apple into smaller chunks and put them on skewers for my kids to eat.  Do you really think I would give a whole caramel apple to each of my kids?  I’m just not that cool of a mom.  No mess involved, remember?  That’s neither here nor there.  It was a great after school snack and the budding of a new fall tradition.   In the words of a famous Frenchman, “How do you say?…Bon Appétit!”

Sitting down to the table for a scrumptious dinner of Mac ‘N Cheese con hot dogs, I ask Annie what she did in Primary on Sunday.

Her response:

In Primary today, I sat down,  I colored a picture with crayons and I sat down and I drew a picture and folded it for Daddy.  I played with the toys and hit and punched and I hit Josh.

me:  Hold up.  You hit Josh?!

Annie:  No!  I hit Gene.

me:  Wait, you hit Gene?!

Annie: Nope, I didn’t hit Gene.

Me:  Did you hit Josh?

Annie:  Nope, I didn’t hit Josh.

Me:  Then who did you hit?

Annie:  Well, I hit Gene.

me:  So you did hit Gene then?

Annie:  YES!

me:  Why did you hit Gene?

Annie:  I don’t know.

Just to confirm:  I do feel that I talk or more accurately, get talked into circles on a daily basis.  Is there a way out?  Probably not, since circles are inherently infinite.  My sincerest apologies go out to Gene’s parents.