November update

Yes, it's halfway through December, but I'm hoping I can post this early this morning!

First, here's some pics of Eden to make anyone smile!! Eden has become such a ham lately and has the most darling smile. Actually, Ella took most of these pictures, she really knows how to make Eden smile. Ella and Eden have a love/hate relationship. Ella either takes such good care of Eden and they have so much fun together, or Ella gets a bit overwhelming and Eden gets annoyed!
(This is her new favorite thing to do! She loves our water bottle and loves that I let her go to town with it in the shower.)
Poor Emily spent a better part of the month at home sick. She had an upset stomach and got some sort of rash. She ended up scratching herself raw all over her back! She's still healing from those sores!
Of course, we were super excited to meet our new nephew/cousin Hayden. We got to see him in the hospital, then not again till November with all our sickness and busyness.
Lynn's kids with ours at the hospital statue.
Eden loves playing "Nigh Nigh". AND she likes to be right underfoot!
We got the Consumer Reports electronics edition. Steve needed his bib while reading:)
And Emily lost the 2nd of her two front teeth!! Looks like she's getting both of them back for Christmas this year!
And Ella's been a busy little girl! She's attended morning preschool while Natalia was out. She's back in her element loving school. She has a hard time going to Kindergarten because they do so many worksheets, but preschool is helping her enjoy learning again. Could be she'll stay in preschool for awhile. I will have several open spots in January because of several families moving. I'm having a hard time finding clients this year. It's a good thing I've got a 2nd job now, because it will hopefully make up for what I'm lacking in preschool tuitions.
Ella and I did some crafting the other day and made Frosty the Fridge! We had to clean off the dozens of wishlists the girls make everyweek with the toy ads!
And Christmas starts in November! We've have our house and yard all decorated! Steve and the girls got to attend the Tanner Christmas party. Unfortunately I had to work and couldn't ask for it off because I hadn't even been working 2 weeks yet. We also had our ward Christmas breakfast. As you can see, Eden didn't like Santa either time!!
(Both the above pics made it on the ward bulletin board!)
Steve update: Steve's been super busy playing Mr. Mom 2-3 evenings a week and Saturday mornings. He gets home from work, has to make dinner, clean up, do homework with the girls and often get them ready for bed before I get home. He doesn't complain, and does a good job. It's mom who's having a hard time letting go of being around all the time (and knowing where the messes come from!) He's also doing all the preliminary work to start school at WGU - Western Governers University - in January. He's taken the entrance exam, enrolled, filled out financial aid forms and has his entrance interview this week. Hopefully, he'll finish it all before the deadline on Dec. 18th. He bought a laptop on black Friday, so he's all ready for some hard-core studying. He's hoping to dual major in accounting and business management. :)

Kim update: I got a 2nd job at Sylvan Learning Center about a month ago and still feel like I'm out of sorts! I feel so comfortable with the younger kids, that I'm having a hard time adjusting to older kids and 3 on 1 tutoring. I think I'm improving and can hopefully keep the job until finances start settling down again. I'm also super busy as 1st counselor in the YW (again) with a new presidency. I think I've had to leave my family everyday for something! (Including some alone-time Christmas shopping.) I've been saving my pennies from online sales, bow sales, and other odd-jobs for about half the year now and was SUPER excited to finally have enough to buy my family Christmas present this year!! A fed-ex man delivered it this week and it's under wraps until Christmas morning. It's so hard not to go overboard this time of year, but I feel I really only spoil my children a couple time a year - Christmas, birthdays and perhaps Easter - so I shouldn't feel too bad! Preschool has been going well, despite losing several customers soon. I used up my waiting list before school even started with all the changes people were making. Next year I plan on making a MUCH longer waiting list! I've also been busy getting family pictures done, making our annual photo gifts and keeping up with traditions!