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Ethan wanted to take videos with the camera, so he the first video is Newell playing his piano piece.  (Alexander is the baby in the background).  The second video is just he and Newell looking at some decoration in the nursing home trying to decide how it works.  It seems like it would be boring, but as a mom, I think it's cute.

 Ethan's building    Aiden's building    Putting up the Christmas tree.  Aiden was especially excited this year!!   "Yum! A carrot!!"  "That was good! Where can I get more?"  Meanwhile... back to the Christmas tree.... 

 Here is Aiden and Brynne at my Mom and Dad's house.   Amber's parents were there too.   Mom and Dad and Paul and Chris   Ethan building with legos on his birthday at Chris's parents' house.   Aiden doing a "workout" at Grandma and Grandpa's.   Happy 8th birthday Ethan 

 Aiden's non-fiction story from kindergarten.  It says "Cavemen turned wolves into dogs." Ethan's "Eric Carle" style painting.  It's a made-up character from Mario Brothers.

Ethan's been playing violin since the Spring and he has enjoyed it so far.  Last Friday he played "Lightly Row" at Mesa View, where my grandma lives.  A bunch of Jackson's cello students, and some piano students and Thomas played too.  Aiden really wanted to play too, since he has been playing since August or maybe July, but my mom thought it would be better if he just watched the first time.  Aiden just sat quietly watching the whole time, but after Ethan was done playing and the clapping died down, Aiden yelled "Good job Ethan!"  It was really great to see him support his brother!

Well, I have no photos for this post, but here is what is going on at with the kids.  Aiden is six, and enjoying kindergarten.  He is a very good reader and he says he has lots of friends.  He loves his teachers.  He goes to an early morning P.E. class with Ethan and they both seem to like it a lot.  They just go in the gym at eight in the morning and run around and play games and get exercise, and the goal is that by the time school starts, they should be awake and more focused. Aiden goes to extended care pretty often because I am in school.  He prefers it when he can come home on the kindergarten bus at noon, but he has a lot of friends at Extended Care that he likes playing with.  He makes fun crafts with his teacher almost every time he goes. Today the kids made a Thanksgiving wreath out of some cut-outs of their hands.  One of Aiden's favorite things he made there was a l...

This is the only picture of all 4 of us on Halloween, unfortunately, you can't see much of Aiden! Peter the ghostbuster and some sort of Ninja dude? Saying hello to our neighbor Our spooky front porch Anakin and Yoda at the ward party.  Here's a cell phone picture from the pumpkin patch.  They had a fun slide there.  We had a fun time trick-or-treating around our neighborhood with Judd's kids!  The kids ran from door to door while Mom and Judd and I had a nice walk!

Here are some pictures of our short trip to Idaho.  We went to visit Jazzy, Edmund and Jonathan Dieter. Here is Aiden at the water park in Rexburg.  The boys wanted to be here all the time and Jazzy and I had a really relaxing couple of hours watching them play.