September 28-October 4

Monday September 28th-I ran this morning and got my but kicked. I ran almost 5 miles but ran with two other friends who are training for half marathons. They ran so fast especially for 6 in the morning. The last half mile I had to stop and run slower with one of my friends because my knee was hurting again. I think I just pushed myself way to much too soon. Stupid me. I picked tomatoes today from the garden and I spent the whole time freaking out because of how big the tomatoes were. I had about 8 the size of a grapefruit. It was awesome. I washed all the bedding today and then remade all the beds. Monday is bedding day in our house. So if anybody ever wonders what I do on Mondays you now know. I am usually washing bedding. signed up as a Scentsy consultant this evening. https://sundryscents.scentsy.us

Tuesday September 29th- Kaelen woke up at 5:30 this morning and never really went back to bed. What is going on. I spent most of the day canning Salsa. I couldn't believe how much salsa the few tomatoes were that I picked. Also I don't know how people can cut tons of jalapeno's. Wow when I cut them I couldn't breath and my throat and nose hurt. Ahh. I did enjoy canning though because it was fun to watch a good movie while canning. I watch Mansfield Park. Kaelen played outside most of the time I was canning and then took a nap for almost 2 hours which was so nice. I know why he did though too. With this batch I did 14 1/2 pints.

Wednesday September 30th-woke up this morning wondering if I would run and saw how hard it was raining and chose not to. It was freezing today compared to yesterday. Yesterday we were in shorts and today pants and sweaters. It rained and snowed off and on all day. It rained most of it though. The snow melted though before it hit the ground. I spent a lot of the day doing things around the house like cleaning bathrooms and cleaning other things. The weather sure make it feel like a gloomy day. In the evening Enoch and I went outside in the rain and picked the rest of our tomatoes and peppers. It is supposed to really freeze tonight and so we wanted to pick it all. It took us about 45 minutes. We now have 6 fruit boxes in our garage full of tomatoes. Once those become ripe I will can more salsa. It was sure cold outside. I was so excited when we were done to come in the house and get warm. Oh yah we had to turn the heat on. We haven't had the heat on since May and now we have to have it on. So sad. I think that fall is officially here.

Thursday October 1st-Rachel and Jacob didn't have school today. They actually don't have school today or tomorrow. It is a state wide teacher in serivce. I was hoping to sleep in this morning but nope didn't happen. Jacob woke up at 7:30 saying he was hungry. I spent a lot of the day working on Scentsy stuff and trying to get my sister in Canada signed up. What was supposed to happen at 8 am didn't happen till 5 pm. Don't you love technology. The kids helped me clean the basement in the morning. I ran a few errand to Roberts crafts in the afternoon. This store will cause my marriage to fall apart and us to loose our home. I love everything in that store. I did find some fun fall decorations. In the afternoon the kids and I decorated the house with fall decorations. Oh I love the colors of fall. I love the way my house feels and I love the smells especially the fall Scentsy scents. I will post pictures of all the fun things I did.

Friday October 2nd-Enoch and I tried to sleep in again but Jacob woke up early again asking to get dressed. I did a few things around the house this morning and then went to the dentist. So I grind my teeth. Yay. I hope that I still have my mouth guard. After the dentist I went to Roberts again and ran into three friends from church. We spend a while talking and then running into each other again to ask advise. I came home with some more fall garlands. When I got home I finished decorating. I cleaned a lot around the house and then Enoch and I went outside with Kaelen and planted bulbs. Today was a little warmer than yesterday or the day before. Still had to wear long sleeve shirts. For the last two nights Enoch's made dinner. Rachel has been a wonderful help to him. It has been really nice not to have to cook.

Saturday October 3rd-Happy birthday Heather and happy 18 months Kaelen. Can't beleive that Kaelen is 18 months already. This morning I was able to sleep in and I actually slept in till General Conference this morning. I woke up at 10. I didn't know that I was that tired. Must have really needed the sleep to sleep in that long. So conference today was amazing. My favorite talks were David A. Bednar's and Boyd K. Packer. Loved them. In between conference today we all did a deep cleaning of the house. All of the kids helped as well. Walls were washed upstairs, baseboards, windows, doors and even under the fridge and oven. It was so nice. The kids also loved working. After the afternoon session and before the Priesthood session the kids went outside with Enoch and played snag ball (a fun game made up by Enoch when he was a kid, I'll explain later). After playing outside we all went to Reed's Dairy for ice cream. None of us had been there before but man it was so worth it. I am not an ice cream fan but wow I could eat that stuff everyday. It was so creamy. I guess that Reed's dairy was rated as the best ice cream in the nation by some food magazine. I totally think it is. It was a fun treat after us all working so hard. The rest of the evening we hung out and watch football on TV. It was a good day.

October 4th-Conference was once again really good. I loved hearing President Monson talk about his birthday and the wonderful cards and gifts he received especially the jar full of 'warm fuzzies'. Our kids seemed to listen pretty good during conference as well. Other than conference we didn't really do much today. Enoch and I tried to play Bananagrams but Kaelen likes the game as well and just as we were about done Kaelen got on the table and destroyed all my word tiles. The game ended then. This evening the kids and I watched some missionary movie on BYU TV. It was not one that I want to watch again. The kids seemed to enjoy it though. Today was a good day except the weekend always goes fast on conference weekends. There is not much you can do between conference and it really isn't much time in between sessions so the days go by really fast. I feel like now that I have tons of cleaning to do even though we really cleaned yesterday. Going to church on Sundays gives us three hours of not messing up the house. Oh so Rachel got a new book in the mail on Friday. It is over 250 pages. She has now finished it. She has almost read her 400 minutes required for the month. You go girl.