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Brent was having fun with the macro zoom in our new camera. See if you can guess what these pictures are...

It's dinner time at the Leavitts

Pre-dinner...with a bag of grated cheese on the floor... (Click on the picture to get the full effect.)










This will be funny in a couple of days..right?


One of our favorite things to do at dinner time is tell knock knock jokes so enjoy!:)




This one wasn't dinner, but I thought it fit in with the food theme:)


As you can tell from these pictures, Jacob is learning to get to the top of the table and either sit on top and eat (peanut butter and jelly), or dump it on the floor and eat it (cheese).

Brent also helped the kids carve pumpkins a few nights ago while I was working. Now it is officially Halloween.

The Moon is Made of Cheeeeeeeese

One of Dallin's new favorite movies is Wallace and Grommet

The hole in our backyard Part 2

I finally got some photos for you...and I don't think there is any gold so far in our heap:( But lots of rocks. We've heard it used to be a riverbed here.

Jacob Walking

Just thougtht I'd let you all see my cute one year old who has now been walking for a couple of weeks...I'm not actually sure that's a good thing:)

The world from a child's perspective

These are just some old photos that Dallin took this summer. I am cleaning up my photos, and don't really want to keep them except I thought they offered an interesting perspective from a child's point of view so I thought I'd post them here.

Why do I do this to myself?!!!

Ok, so yesterday I took the kids all to the library...now that part wasn't so bad, for the most part. But...I decided I didn't want to take the car (we've been trying to use it less).

Five kids. No car. Walking. For about 45 min.

That's why this is entitled why do I do this to myself:)

Long story short, I came home 4 1/2 hours later with two crying boys and one really grumpy child who insisted on kicking everyone for the last 15m. of the walk home.

The funny thing is, I probably would choose to do it the same way again. I blame it on my dad:) He's always been an environmentalist and I think it rub off on me a bit. I love the freedom of not having to use the car. I think Brent would make the same choice too...I think we're just odd:) But admitting is half the battle, right:)

On another note, Brent was out panning for gold in our dirt heap...I guess it's just the Leavitt blood coming out in him. I'll keep you posted just in case you want to try and get in our will:)

The Hole in our Back Yard

Well, Rachel has extended rights for me to contribute to the family blog now, so I thought I'd add something.

I've been digging this hole in our back yard since the beginning of the summer. I've wanted to put a root cellar underneath the the new shed I wanted to build in the north corner of the yard so that I could pull down the existing shed on the south side of the yard and use the land for a garden plot (It's the only place in the back yard where the sun shines all day long).

Now five months later, I've only gotten down about 3 or 4 feet deep and not even all the way across. I finally asked for help in Priesthood open exercises at church thinking I could get a few extra bodies to help me on a Saturday morning or something. A neighbor come up to me afterwards and offer to come over with his back hoe and help finish the remainder of the hole.

He came over tonight and made light work of the project in about 3 hours' time. We got about 3/4 of the space cleared out and a huge mound of dirt in our back yard! We'll probably finish the remainder of the hole tomorrow or Saturday. Rachel's very excited as she's set us on time line to get the house expanded and this is the first step in getting there.

Dallins prayer

Dear Heavenly Father..

(Dallin you can't pray and turn around in circles at the same time)

Dear Heavenly Father, please bless that I can play on the computer...

(Dallin you need to kneel)

And bless that I can kneel...

(and close your eyes)

and that I can play on the computer...

(he looks up at me and smiles)

in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Our bilingual child (sort of)

Here's what Aaron wrote to me today...

¡WHOA You or the best!

So, I'm trying to decide if this is Spanglish in writing:). (Notice the beginning punctuation.) Either way, we thought it was cute.

Beautiful messes

Ok this is pictureless, because my cameras batteries are dead, but I had to get this down....

Messes that I clean up in a typical day

1. Banana baby goo from Jacob
2. Joseph took all our library books and dumped them on the floor.
3. Before Aaron made it out the door the legos made it out and beautiful creations, plus some, where crawling across the living room.
4. Both Emma and Aaron threw their night clothes on the floor in the bathroom
5. Don't forget the roll of toilet paper that got tossed in the toilet
6. Joseph likes to help me do dishes (enough said)
7. Dallin is not quite potty changed (again enough said:))
8. Cats like to sleep on my sheets and leave kitty hairs all over
9. Spilled milk times 3
10. The boys thought it would be fun to build a fort....with my couch cusions....and my kitchen chairs.....and decided to have a picnic inside....with crackers and cheese(Brent said that was his idea-he didn't want them in the kitchen?)
11. Emma was busy making everyone You've Been Caught Being Nice notes, and conviently forgot to throw away her cut up papers.

Well, they're all in bed and I remember how much I love them:) They really are beautiful.