Getting Closer

Hi, wanted a few more pics on here but I was foiled by the system. So you get pics of Max and Alex at the Nature center and a pic of Dad and Nick on 'walk to school day'.

Hello Again, well next week at this time I will only have one kidney, and with any luck everything else on me will still work normally. It will be a relief to have it over that is for sure.

Things here are spiraling out of control as usual. On Saturday we went to the ski swap and got boots and skis for all the kids and for KM, I did manage to suppress the urge to buy a snowmobile this year but it was really close. So now we are set, we just need some snow. The kids are very excited about skiing again this year so it should be a lot of fun. Who ever thought I would be looking forward to hanging out on the bunny hill all day. Although at the rate the kids seem to pick things up we won't be on the Bunny Hill for long. I am personally all set-up to do some back country skiing this year, the only things that I still need are an avalanche beacon and to take a 3 day avalanche class to learn about snow packs and what is dangerous and what isn't. I think that an avalanche would take all the fun out of the ski day experience so I'm taking all the precautions.

Today was National walk-to-school day so this morning we asked Nick if he wanted to walk to school, he looked at us like we had 3 heads and barely concealing his belief that both his parents had lost their marbles asked 'why?' . We did in fact walk to school, its only a mile and its all downhill, of course we saw exactly NO ONE else doing the same thing, so much for 'walk-to-school' day.

The boys are excited about Halloween and Max has been wearing his costume around for the past 3 days. He is going to be a beetle/bug I'll attach pictures soon.

We have about 100 things that need to be done before we go, yet everything we do takes 5 times longer than it should for whatever reason. Of course the only time that we have to be really productive is after the kids go to bed and then we are too exhausted to actually get going on any of the projects. I guess that's why we only 'blog' once a week or so. I think that we will catch up sometime after all the boys are in school.

I think that is about it, the rains have stopped for a few days and the weather is awesome, clear and crisp with a lot of color. The leaves are coming off pretty fast though so winter is just around the corner. Thank you to everyone who has called to offer their support, be that physical or emotional. I really appreciate everyone keeping me in their thoughts and we'll do our best to keep you all updated. That's it for a few days, or at least until something exciting happens around here. Take Care, Storm