Everett and Chris. My two Favorite Guys!!!

Everett wanted to go to school too. He wants to be such a big boy

Emma standing in line to go to class.

I love this little boy. So stinkin' cute

Me with bangs again

So school is going full force. I hardly have time to clean our home. Ahhh, it is driving me crazy. I don't have time to spend with Everett either. Chris is working and doing school full time. He is my hero. I got a new calling. I am the secretary in the primary. I love being with those kids. I felt that I was done teaching in Relief Society. I loved that calling, but I can sense when my time is done and something new is about to happen. I have been in for a couple of weeks and things are running smoothly, thank to being the Secretary in the Stake Primary back in Kansas. The presidency was amazed that I had things organized.
I am doing the HCG protocol again. I am enjoying it more this time around. It is easy because it involves no exercise, I started 6 days ago and have already lost 9 1/2 lbs. This time I decided to eat steak and tilapia and not just chicken, eggs and ground turkey. I made a yummy steak last night. I don't feel hungry until it is time to eat either. That is the magic of the HCG. I did torture myself last night by making banana chocolate chip pancakes last night with an ice cream sauce to go on top. I did cheat, but not big. just a little ice cream.
I love the smell of fall. I miss the changing of the leaves. I went to bath and body works the other day and they were having a fall festival and the 3 wick candles were 2 for $20 so I got 4 candles. Mmmm! I got  the "Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin", "Leaves" and a new one called "Nutmeg and Spice". They also gave me a small candle for free. It smells so good. It is called "Pumpkin Carving." I am in the mood to make pumpkin bread and pie and rolls and turkey and cider and hot chocolate. I love this time of year.

Emma is so awesome. She is doing really well in school. A while ago I taught her how to read and now she has just taken off. Every day after school she has homework to do and I am supposed to read a book to her while she follows along with her finger. Well, I have her read a book to me. She can read the "Biscuit" books. They have some pretty tough words that is stretching her mind. It is awesome. She loves her teacher and she has been getting a green dot everyday which means she is doing awesome. The teacher says she enjoys having her and that she try's really hard to do good. She has gotten the star student twice now. She is just awesome. She still thinks she is a bird and that she can fly. I wonder when she is going to grow out of that. She is easily entertained by playing with her hands. Her hands are her friend. On the way home yesterday she was having a full out conversation with her hands. It was quite funny and entertaining.

In a couple of days Everett is going to be 2! I just can't believe it. He is getting so big. He is talking a lot. He copy's Emma with everything she does. He is my little shadow and is such a mommas boy. He wakes up every morning at 5:45 and who does he want? Not daddy. He comes straight to me and asks for "Bunny," which is chocolate milk. We got the kids a TV to put in their room so I can do homework without any distractions, so I get his milk and put on blues clues and go back to bed. Or I am just awake to get some cleaning done or make breakfast or get ready for the day. I am trying to potty train him but no success yet. Everett told us that he had to go poop so I put him on the toilet and he just sat there with no results. He said he was done and got off. I stayed in the bathroom and he was just outside of the bathroom and started to pee right on the carpet. I jumped up real quick and said, "Ahh, not on the carpet, on the potty chair!" Oh well. Some day! Everett is obsessed with Lightning McQueen. I am going to make him a McQueen cake for his birthday. I think he will love it. He is such a little monkey. He responds when I call him "Monkey." He is silly. I love his energy. Well, not when I am trying to do homework.

Chris I a big boy now. He Has a Motorcycle finally. He has been looking on craig's list for a while for a sweet deal. He has found a few, but we never had the money for him to do it. But now he has one. It is going to be nice to have two vehicles again. All he has to do is take the riders course and he will be official. I am excited to go for a ride on it with him.

That's All Folks!