No Good Deed

No Good Deed: Book One of the Mark Taylor Series by M.P. McDonald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is such a well written book.  The plot of a man being arrested because his camera can predict the future and he tries to change it for the better is quite outlandish.  However, the story is so well written I could hardly put the book down.  I haven't read a book that kept me so captivated in quite a while. I loved it!
The book has no swearing and no sex scenes.


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Like Father Like Son

 One Sunday Grant insisted that he and Kyle dress alike for church.  I thought they looked handsome. We can all agree that Grant and Kyle look alike.  Here is just more evidence...

This is their tough guy look.

I am so blessed!

Rubber Band Fly Shooters

Here is an interesting fact about the Maybury family.  All of the boys can shoot flies with rubber bands.    I am talking about traditional house flies and just regular rubber bands.  All of the boys can do it.  They learned from Grandpa Grant.  Grant could shoot the flies in mid air.  It was really cool!  People don't believe it when I tell them about the rubber band fly shooting boys.  But, I have never owned a fly swatter since being married to Kyle. There was never a need for one.  

Now that Grant is getting old enough Kyle has started teaching him how to shoot flies with rubber bands.  There is an art to being able to shoot so accurately.  The first important detail is how the rubber band sits at the end of your finger.  Second, you have to pull the band straight back and at max capacity.    I don't know the rest and don't need to because I already have one great fly shooter and I have another in training!  

Football Game

A few weeks ago we went to a Boise State football game.  We had so much fun! The crowd was wild and the game was fun to watch.  It was "black out" day and so all the fans had to wear black.  

Here we are before the game in our matching sweatshirts!

On this special day...

I want to wish you all a very

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have so many things to be grateful for!  I didn't do my traditional 30 days of gratitude this year, but that doesn't mean I don't have so many things to be thankful for.

I am so thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I know my Savior loves me and is aware of my needs.   I don't know what I would do with out my testimony.
I am also grateful to be married to Kyle. He is a wonderful husband and my best friend.  We have been together for 13 years!  It was love at first sight and we have only fallen more in love over the years.
Grant is also such a blessing in my life.  He is such a great boy and brings so much joy into our lives.  
I am also so very grateful to be able to spend this wonderful holiday with my extended family I love so much. 

Mattress

To make a long story short Kyle and I have our really nice king size mattress in storage.  We have been suffering with this piece of crap mattress for a year now.  Not only did we down size to a queen, but it was a terrible mattress when we bought it. 

I recently decided that enough was enough and I was going to get a better mattress.  I ordered one online and have been impressed with it so far.  Grant thought he died and gone to heaven because I let him jump on our old mattress.  We kept it in our front room for more than a week because it kept Grant so entertained.  He cried when we threw it away.  I would highly recommend buying a new mattress and using the old one for cheap entertainment.  

Halloween 2012

A few days before Halloween we carved our pumpkins.  I was proud of Grant for at least putting his hand in the pumpkin.  He really didn't want to.  He doesn't enjoy his hands being sticky and gross.

Grant wanted a bat on his pumpkin.  At preschool he learned the word "spooky" and has successfully applied to about everything imaginable.  I helped him... oh wait let me rephrase that...I carved his pumpkin for him. You might not be able to tell but the bat is flying in front of the moon.

Here is all of our pumpkins.  Yes, there is 6 pumpkins.  No we are not expecting triplets.  Kyle picked out the green one at the pumpkin patch, but it was to soft to carve so he bought a different pumpkin to carve.  Grant painted the one on the left with fake blood so it can be spooky! 

Here we are on Halloween all dressed up!  I was Corpse Bride and Grant was a banana.  The banana was completely his idea. I don't know where he got the idea of being a banana, but that is what he wanted to be.  Kyle didn't dress up.

Here is a close up of that spooky pumpkin.

Crisis

Crisis by Robin Cook
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I just found out that this is book #6 in a series.  I am really mad at myself for not reading the first 5 books first.  On the other hand you can read this book with out reading the first 5 and not get lost what so ever!  I really enjoyed this book!  It was an absolute pleasure to read.  The author got the book up and going within the first chapter.
I love Jack's character.  He reminds me a lot of my own brother.  The author did an excellent job keeping all the characters interesting and engaging.
The twist at the end was the best part!  I couldn't believe how fast the author was able to twist the ending! I was engaged to the very last sentence.  I was disappointed the book ended.  I wanted to keep reading.  This was a great book!  No sex and no swearing.


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Fall Festivities

The weekend before Halloween we went to a local corn maze.  It was more than a corn maze because it had lots of other fun activities for families.  

Grant liked the corn maze until about 15 minutes into when he suddenly had to pee.  We have been working on standing up to pee, but so far we have been unsuccessful.  Kyle and I tried to find the way out of the corn maze quickly, but that didn't go so well.  Finally we just cut through a roped off area and we were out.  No accidents and no more corn maze!  I didn't get any pictures because we stopped having fun.

After we went to the bathroom we had a great time.  

Grant really enjoyed the "corn box" the best.  He could have played there for hours.  

There was this cool creature you could walk through.  Grant didn't want to walk through, but he did touch it.  He also wanted his picture by it.  I am glad we didn't go through because a neighbor told me it was kind of creepy.

Grant also loved the cow train.  He said it was loads of fun, but he was glad it was over because his bum hurt.  He said it was really bumpy.

We also got to watch a few pig races.  I had never seen pig race before.  Grant thought the pigs were cute.  It was a ton of fun and we will definitely go again next year.  

Pumpkin Patch

Grant has been going to a new preschool for about two months now.  Because it is a private preschool the teacher can focus on the holidays.  The center where he was at before didn't get do a lot of holiday activities, but Miss Kathy does.
The whole month of October she talked about Halloween.  Grant made a bat out of a clothespin, made a Frankenstein out of a paint swatch, had a special witch visitor, painted a pumpkin, played Halloween Bingo, and lots of other fun crafts, songs and activities.   He has been completely absorbed in the holiday.  When we go to the store we have to walk through all the seasonal items at the front every single time!  The words: spooky, creepy, fake blood, zombies, are now a regular part of our vocabulary.
I have honestly loved it!  It makes the holiday so much more fun when he is so excited.  I feel bad that all of my fun Halloween stuff is packed in storage shed.  He would actually have enjoyed it all this year, oh well.
As part of the fall excitement we decided to go to an actual pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins this year.  It was so much fun!  We got a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch.  We walked around trying to pick the best pumpkins.  Grant's goal was to find the biggest pumpkin.
It was a perfect fall day to go to the pumpkin patch.  We had a great time!

Grant and Mom on the hayride

Grant found the biggest pumpkin in the patch!

Grant thought the hayride part was so cool.

Primary Program

(The plant is his very own flower he planted during Activity Days.  He often gets to participate in the 10 and 11 year old girl activities.)

At the end of September our ward had the annual Primary program.  We were excited to see how Grant did in his first Primary program.  He did awesome!  He sang the songs and said his part perfectly.  His line was, "I know Heavenly Father loves me because I choose the right way."  It really doesn't make complete sense, but the Sunbeams were given the line "I know Heavenly Father loves me because ___" and Grant completed the sentence all by himself.  We didn't have the heart to change it.
The theme this year for the Primary was Choose the Right (I think he got that down) and the whole Primary learned the entire hymn "Choose the Right."  It was so stinking adorable I just had to video it!  He was a little nervous and so he sways back and forth, but at least it is documented that at 4 years old he knew the entire hymn!
When the Primary children sang the song at the end of the program he kept putting his hands over his eyes.  Kyle and I couldn't figure out why he kept covering his face.  Later we asked him what he was doing and he said, "I know all the words and I  don't have to look at the pictures.  I was covering my face because I knew all the words."  We were so proud!