I've been tagged.

Monica tagged me.(I was excited to see my name on Monica's blog--best of luck with the baby!) This is a photo that Gary took of Riley. It's just up the hill from our home. I do think he's cute but I'm his mother. We can't believe it, he's going to be eight in December. He'll always be three to me. He's mamma's little boy. When he leaves in the morning for school he makes sure I give him a hug and we tell each other we love each other. I've not had one do this before. Even though he's now in second grade I will never forget how cute he was as a kindergartner--we use to have to drive down our hill to get him to the bus. He would step up the steps on the bus then look back at me and wave. There wasn't a day that he didn't do this.

Okay so now I tag: Valerie, Bridget, Kent, and Gloria. You are to post the fourth picture from your computer picture file on your blog.

PS last year I thought of a tag game for my neighbors. Tag stood for Tender Acts Given. I gave some cookies to three ladies and they then were to tag (tender acts given) some one else. I was hoping to hear about it but never did, maybe someone else can try it and have success.

The BODY

This past weekend we, (Gary and I and three other couples) went to the body show, bodyworlds.com. It was a display of human bodies that have been plasticized so you can view how the human body looks. It was very informative. If you log onto their website, you can see a glimpse of what we saw. The human body is very complex. We were able to see blood vessels and tendons--everything. But the most impressive and humbling was the babies. In jars were the first stages, at nine weeks you could see the arms, hands, legs, backbone, eyes, the heart. I was blow away at the detail already at this stage. One interesting fact was the heart is the first organ formed and its the last organ to die. From there they the had babies from 18 weeks up for our viewing. They were so little and perfect. I wanted to hold one. There was definitely a reverance that accompanied their viewing. In fact, I think that is why after this display the sign up to be a donor was next; they must know seeing those precious babies did something to the heart.

Winter????

Saturday Morning at 10:12: The snow is falling pretty hard. It’s covering the ground almost completely. An hour ago there were no signs of this white stuff. Gary kept debating what to do for their campout on Friday night. Instead of going into Ogden where they would then hike into camp they went to the church farms, which is only a few miles from where we live. HOWever, I wonder if they had their tents down before this sticky-wet substance starting dumping out of the sky. Thankfully, this last week I planted my tulps (I got some for my birthday, they are red.) Just two days ago, I bought the kids, who needed a coat for the winter, one. It makes me wonder if the framers almanac is going to right. What kind of winter is head?????
I'm not sure I'm ready for the kids to be stuck in the house, it's already dirty from me abandoning it to write. This will only mean it will remain worse for longer periods of time. (however I was paying Aubree a dollar to mop the floors. Money can be a wonderful tool.) I guess if the weather is now going to turn, I will write that sequel to Abish--The stripling warriors. I'm anxious to get it going. I've already plotted it out, now I just need to write it. I hope it will flow like Abish did. I've applied for a job and was told the boss was going to take a few weeks before he contacted me. My resume was impressive--haven't worked for fifteen years. Anyhow...we will see what comes of it. I believe it will be scheduling for insurance agents, so it will be more from home. BUT who knows if he will call. I'm still waiting to hear back from Cedar Fort on my manuscript, "Rubies Fire." I wish that would pan out. (they only have the first three chapters, so even if they are interested in reading the rest than I will have to do more waiting. It's frustration that it takes about six months to find out if they are interested or not)
Wow, now it's 10:32 and the snow has slowed to a faint drizzle. Weird, how out of no where it fell with its vengence. Hopefully that wasn't its winter warning.

Halloween time, it's our favorite!!

We have always loved halloween, I think it was Adam who started us down this path, he was so into costumes from a small age. We had Grandma Vance make some darling little people costumes. Adam was a pumpkin that everyone of my other children wore the costume to. And Batman, he was soooo into batman. I've not had any other child into one paticular thing like he was. I loved when Katee was a baby mummy (if only you could see the pictures we have, that was before we converted to digital, it's in a box somewhere) Last year we threw a party for Adam and his neighbor girly friend, who is like family. It was a boy-girl thing, so we split-up into boys and girls, they then had to get four items to the witches brew before the witch had them for stew! (that is another crazy thing I have done over the last three years, is write treasure stories, if anyone is interested in my stuff, let me know) It was sooo fun to see the halloweeners run around trying to beat each other to the brew. We even set up a halloween store that was haunted. Gary rigged it up good enough that we are thinking about doing it for the neighbors for money. I said to my children, "we can charge a dollar or four quarters." (I was hopeful that the neighbor kids wouldn't do the math) Anyhow. . . now we have started this twelve-year-old halloween party tradition, Aubree is anxious for her's. We told the children that they are done tricker-treat'n at the age of twelve. It's funny how I get the bug to a party every year. If any one has fun ideas and quirky costumes they know of, let me know.

Entertainment

This is the newest thing my children are doing

for entertainment. They use Gary's tripod and take pictures of themselves jumping on the tramp. They even make videos--pretty creative children. That tramp has been the best thing!! They even run out during the winter to jump. Since their bedrooms are downstairs and the door out to the tramp is right there they are out there. It has been fun to see all the videos they film--their daddy started them on that. Crazy Hansens!! This winter Gary is going to take the tramp down so he doesn't have to shovel it. It will be interesting to see what kind of winter we are going to have.