November can and went way too fast, well most days at least.   

Remember when you were a kid and it seemed a lifetime between Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas?  I guess it makes me officially old, time is going by too fast sometimes.  

We lucked out and got one perfect leaf jumping day in before the snow hit and it got too cold.  

I love it when the kids start to do something fun outside and then the other kids notice and slowly start trickling outdoors to play.  

It got even more exciting when Paul joined the fun and made a giant leaf pile that the kids took turns hiding in and scaring people, before they could no longer contain the urge to jump in it.  

We got a good hour of leaf jumping in before the metal rakes came out and I deemed it too dangerous for my kids to continue to be outside. :) 

The valley got it’s first snow dusting.  

Which meant Paul got off work early and we went sledding with the Rensinks at our new favorite mountain sledding hill.  

Nothing like a first snow.  


And it was our first sledding experience, post kids, where someone didn’t cry.  


It was a sledding miracle, which I don’t foresee being repeated.  

Miles has decided he wants to be a scientist. Which means he is always doing some sort of experiment.  

Whether it be figuring out how to get cars into Ruby’s crib.  Or mixing things like mouth wash, toothpaste, and soap together to see what he can create.  Or putting random toys or food items in the freezer to see what happens.  

It’s been messy and exciting around here to say the least.  

I got to experience quite an exciting day this month too.  Nothing terrible happened, just lots of super annoying things.  

It started with Crew peeing his pants in the Carl’s Jr. playplace and discovering this by the fact that it dripped onto the table where Julianne and I had just placed our drinks.  I then had the walk of shame to go tell the workers what happened.  

The “Pee Ball” and the table we were originally sitting at :)

Then when leaving the parking lot I got in an accident, which caused me to be late for kindergarten drop off. After returning home Crew had a poop accident.  In order to get that cleaned up I put Ruby down for a nap.  When she woke up 2 hours later I discovered she had removed her clothing and dirty diaper, and had flung poop all over the room.  I seriously could not stop laughing.  There were a few other things that happened that day, but I think I’ve already tried to block this day from my memory.  The joys of motherhood.

This was me when I got to sit down for the first time that day at 8:00, it took me another 30 min to convince myself to get back up and tackle the war zone that was my house.  

Luckily most of our days and outings are “boring” compared to that.  

And I am even willing to attempt to take them swimming without Paul.  The locker room afterwards always attempts to break me down, but we are getting better.  


And sometimes I have energy left over at the end of the day to babysit neighbor kids and feed them dinner too.  

And then there’s this girl.  


She of course has her moments, but when I really need her, she’s there. Whether it be doing her homework without having to be asked, helping with dinner, cleaning with me after the little kids go to bed, and even seen here typing a talk for church without any assistance from me. bless this helpful and independent 8 year old.   

Ruby is still getting into everything and stealing everyone’s stuff.  


And Crew is always walking around with some sort of injury.


But these 2 are playing together more and more each day.  and I am sad they only have a few more weeks in nursery together before Crew moves up to Sunbeams.