Yes, I got the lovely reminder from my family...it has been 7 days since I last posted!

Soccer is over! Jbird scored a goal on the last game of the season! Yea Jbird.

The boys recently had fire safety week at school. Always a great time to go over our fire stuff at home. The two older boys are all lined out on what to do. The had me test our smoke alarms. We even pulled out the fire escape ladders. They both practiced going down the ladder three times. I wanted to practice going down with JB, but being I was the only adult around at the time, figured I would err on the side of safety. So thankful our firefighters go into the schools once a year to talk with all the kids.

The parts of my bed are quickly disappearing. Seems that 8 -10 years is the life span of linens and bedspreads. My beloved bedspread is gone and my most favorite down comforter now has a hole in it. I am glad one of the boys brought it to me before feathers, lots of feathers, got all over the place. One set of our sheets now has been throw away because I found holes in them. Thankfully it appears to be the type of holes that are worn and not cut - like one of my kids will do from time to time.

The younger two got to take costumes to school today. JB has 4 other boys in his class. I found it cool that between the 5 of them, they had a fireman, policeman, batman, superman and spiderman. All 5 heroes represented. Here is a picture his teacher sent me. Too hilarious. Not sure how she got that exact look.

Opportunity finally presented itself for me to teach a huge lesson to one of the boys. I only took two of them out this evening. One got left behind and did not get to go trick or treating. Have been having some issues and some minor things happened today. Knowing all too often I threaten things or forget about certain consequences, I followed through today and left him at home with JR. He was very upset but then handled it very well. He was very surprised when I told him how much we missed him and his enthusiasm and energy. He told me he learned a lesson and now I can always go back to that specific incident in letting them know I will follow through, even if I don't want to.

JR has not seen anything out hunting. Hopefully the weather will cool down and we will get some more mountain snow to bring the animals lower down.

Off to bed. Will try to get some more pictures soon to appease my nieces :-)