Lils and E's favorite thing to do EVER is play in the hot tub. They play in the hot tub almost everyday after school. Rose is such a great baby. She just wants to be where the action is! So I'll just put her in the bouncer seat wherever the other two are and she'll just sit and bounce around, drool, and giggle at her brother and sister! She just loves watching them!

Yes, wild turkeys are EVERYWHERE here! Growing up, whenever we'd drive by a wild turkey, my Dad would yell "LOOK, WILD TURKEYS!" out in excitement and point out the window! My Dad is no hunter, but for a split second I would see him dressed in camo with a huge barrell gun crouching down behind a trench... just waiting...... Clark told me that his Dad would do the same thing! What's with Dad's and wild turkeys? So, we now live in a wild turkey crossing area! Whoohoo! It's always a good time here at our house, right? (but turkeys are WAY better than Canadian Geese, which Clark has a vendetta against) I had my niece and nephew over and so we crept outside and got as close as we could. This is our front yard. We also have a game every Sunday as we drive up to church to see who can spot the turkeys first! There are always turkeys up there on the grounds! Never a dull moment, right?

This year for Halloween Lils is a unicorn, E is Spiderman, and baby Rose is a little cute spider! They got to wear their costumes early for a Harvest Festival at school and then we had our ward's trunk-or-treat. We're using all of that candy (except the Reeses cups and Butterfingers that are long gone) to pass out this next friday on Halloween! I love this season and the weather here is so amazing!

So... we're becoming a little more ambiguous with our blog so it's not so "hey, here's our names and phone numbers and address!" We're also switching out our blogspot address by December 1st to www.chundermonkeys.blogspot.com (Clark came up with that one)! So be sure to change your link to that for me too, when the time comes... I'm not really sure how to do that the best way. But I want to be public and private at the same time! :) We used our family nicknames and I'm sorry if you hate them, but that's what we've been calling each other for years, so it just makes it easier to write that way! I hope you enjoy the new background! I finally figured it all out! Yay! So we're cute now, at least our blog is!

In case you're wondering how Ebay got his name, well, it's from my Dad. If you know my Dad, he's just plain funny and weird and crazy! He also came up with "E-male", get it, m-a-l-e??? Yeh, that's the weird that I'm talking about! That never really caught on for some weird reason... I love my Dad!

Yes, my friends, I am sad to say that Lils has her first crush... sorry Parker! :) First, I will start out with this story that is somewhat heartening- Lils was playing with a friend under a tree at recess when he says to her, "you're pretty, I want to kiss you on the lips!" to which Lils replied with an adamant, "NO! You only kiss on the lips when you're married!" and she ran away!

Chalk one up for Lils. The next day she says to me, "I love Aram (another boy in her class), he's just so cute! I want to make him a card!" NOOOOO!!!!!! I said, "you don't LOVE him, Lils, he is just your friend". She said, "I don't know if he likes me because he's on the blue team and I'm on the yellow team." and that was it. I picked her up from school and she showed me who this elusive Aram is. He's a really cute, sweet boy, and she got this goofy grin on her face and giggled and said, "Hi."

Oh man, I'm gonna get it! She's still a Noggin, Playhouse Disney girl- no Hannah Montana or High School Musical?? I don't know where she gets it! I wasn't boy crazy until at LEAST 5th grade, right??! Though my Mom would then bring up how I would sit on the missionary's laps, grab them by the ears, and kiss them all over their faces when I was 3 or was I 5? Oh, the memories!! It's the only time you can get away with that kind of stunt!

Here's a picture of Lils, I walked in on her reading like this and got my camera! She's so silly! She said it was more fun to read upside down AND practice her gymnastics. Makes sense, I just thought she was just a weirdo like Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter!