Herculean Questions

The kids got to spend an evening with their dad last night. Shelby popped popcorn for them and turned on the Disney movie "Hercules" which they are really liking lately. About an hour into the movie Wyatt came to Shelby and asked him the following really hard to answer questions:

1) What is Gods?
2) What is a soul?
3) Where is hell?

Shelby's jaw just dropped. He was still in a little bit of shock when I got home. I don't know what Shelby told him, but since he's so articulate usually (not) I'm sure it was interesting.

Tagged in 8's

8 TV Shows I watch:

1. Grey's Anatomy

2. Desperate Housewives

3. Jon & Kate Plus 8

4. Law and Order SVU

5. One Tree Hill

6. Army Wives

7. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

8. The Hills

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:

1. I woke up at 5:45 am with Wyatt.

2. I talked to Brandee on the phone twice, Amie once, and Wendy twice.

3. I got two hours worth of work in.

4. I loaded cases of water for food storage into our crawl space.

5. I helped the kids glue feathers onto their paper turkeys for FHE (pictures are coming.)

6. I Jazzercized.

7. I disinfected our entire house after everyone has gotten the flu over and over.

8. I made banana pudding for dessert for FHE.

8 Favorite Places to Eat:

1. Outback Steakhouse

2. Johnny Carinos

3. KFC

4. El Tapatio

5. Zeppes

6. Macks in Tremonton

7. Taco Time in Tremonton

8. Mandarin House

8 Things I am Looking Forward to:

1. Twilight premiere with my Bunco girls on Friday.

2. The Holidays

3. Hitting the early morning deals on Black Friday with my fam.

4. Shopping at our Late Night Shopping Spree with Shelby's fam.

5. Taking my kids to see the Christmas lights- they are Wyatt's absolute fave thing.

6. Being out of debt

7. Going on a hot date with Shelby- hopefully to the temple one day this week.

8. Shane coming home from his mission.

8 Things on my Wish List:

1. A new vaccuum- A Dyson to be exact.

2. A magic potion that you could give children to make them immediately potty-trained with aboslutely no accidents.

3. That Shelby would suddenly lose all interest in hunting :)

4. Wyatt being able to write his name.

5. Being able to be 'twinkled' back and forth to Tremonton whenever I wanted.

6. Being as skinny as I was BEFORE the kids.

7. Winning the lottery.

8. Being able to feel like I am the best mother ever- always.

8 Tagged People:

1. Ashley

2. Hilary

3. Amy

4. Lee Ann

5. Jinger

6. Melinda

7. Lisa

8. Kim

Proud little Miss

She did it! She did it! She did it! Livvy pooped in the potty! We've been potty-training for two months now and Livvy is almost completely trained- #1 wise. She has NEVER pooped in the potty. I KNOW- CRAZY RIGHT? However this morning I caught her in the act and sent her in there and she is very proudly showing off the money that she got as a reward. Money? you may ask- Yes money. Livvy is VERY motivated by money. She plans to go to Kings today and buy a gold medal. Yay Livvy- Mommy is so proud!

Kitty Thief

Last Saturday Wyatt's kitty disappeared. Now I was not worried, because I am not particularly a fan of any feline creature. However, Wyatt was frantic. He had looked high and low for that kitty. Luckily he was also sick at the time and that helped us distract him. We figured that perhaps a coyote had gotten poor little 'Pumpkin'. Then on Monday evening I was at my Grandma Turner's house to play games with my fun cousins. My aunt Tracey (who lives 7 miles from my house) asked kiddingly if anyone had lost a kitty because one had turned up at her house. I said 'yes'. She said 'Is it orange?' and I said 'YES', but no way can it be our kitty- how would it have traveled the seven miles to your house? I called Shelby to see if he had been to Jack and Tracy's house and perhaps the kitty had been curled up on his flatbed. Nope. Hmmmmmmm....it must not be our kitty. Then it dawned on Shelby...............the kitty thief is...........BRIDGET! She had been to our house on Saturday night hanging out with me until late that night and apparently the kitty had snuggled up in the bed of her truck and hitch-hiked home to their house. Luckily Wyatt got his kitty back and we know to watch the kitty thief better the next time she comes around! :)

Update

The current count is:

1 otter
4 raccoons
2 beavers
2 coyotes

Hi Kloee and Piper- We miss you too and can't wait to see you cute girls soon!

Dancing Queen

While Wyatt is at school, Livvy and I often do both of our favorite thing: we DANCE! We love to rock out to all kinds of music and sing as loud as we can. I finally caught Livvy rockin' out to Sheryll Crow today. I probably should have moved Shelby's gun case so she didn't trip on it, but it was prime video time. I love this adorable girl.

Trapping Season has begun- Warning- may be graphic- not for young audiences- although my kids thought it was cool.

Trapping season has officially begun for Shelby. That once again means nights at home alone with the kids. But at least this time there is a possibility of profit! A few days into it has the score at the following:

• 3 raccoons
• 1 otter
• 1 coyote

Above is the otter. Kinda cool if you've never seen one.

The coyote. Smell the money baby. Not too bad for a few days work. Good job Shelb!

Rexburg or Bust!

We left on Saturday morning to head up to Rexburg to spend some time with Blake & Hailey, and Shelby's brother Steven for the weekend. Shelby set Steven apart to be an Elder on Sunday- and I just had to blog about it. It's been a long wait, but I am so proud of Steven that I could bust. AND I'm proud of my wonderful husband that is always available and willing to use his priesthood. YAY STEVE!

That meant we got to spend time with Shelby's family as well- always my favorite thing to do. The kids loved swimming at the hotel with Grandma Wendy and Grandpa Jon. Then we were able to have a sleepover at Blake & Hailey's complete with a popcorn party. Add chillin at McDonald's with Jinger and the boys, and bowling with some of the guys that we used to hang out with all the time when we were single, makes it a great weekend. One to be remembered.

Tinkerbell and 'A Welder'

Halloween was great fun this year and very busy! Livvy dressed up like Tinkerbell and believe me the entire world knew what she was going to be weeks in advance. I had so much fun putting makeup and glitter on that girl and she loved every minute of it. So fun. Wyatt recently got these cool coveralls from a garage sale (Thank you Aunt Hailey!) and wanted to be a welder for Halloween. So we smeared some black face paint on him for dirt (trust me, welders are never clean) and gave him a helmet. But he only wore it for this picture and then he dubbed it 'too hot' and it was never to be seen on his head again. We did a trunk at the 3-ward Trunk or Treat in Gooding for the Elder's Quorum in our ward and the kids had so much fun seeing all of their friends and cousins all dressed up. Livvy couldn't help but give Dawson the monkey a squeeze. I think she was really after the fake banana in his pocket :)

The kids with Aunt Fallon. Wyatt loved that she was a kitty and kept asking to 'pet her'.
All of the Turner cousins. Dawson the monkey, Weston the fireman, Wyatt the welder, Livvy the Tinkerbell, and Crew the dragon ( I think, he was covered up most of the night so I'm not exactly sure what his costume was, but he was sure cute!)

After the Trunk or Treat we went around to all of the aunts and uncles and grandparents and then headed up to the Gillette's for a fun dinner and games. Then we had a late-night bash with Thad and Lori and Tara and Nathan complete with lots of snacks and a scary movie while the kids crashed on the couch watching their own 'not so scary' movie. Great fun and a Great Halloween!