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Oops, you will have to wait until the end of the post. I always forget this thing does the opposite of what I want. Anyone who is reading this probably already knows what we are having anyway:)

It is hunting season. I figured I needed to document about it since the month of October is pretty much dominated by it. This is Derrik and his friend Cody "sighting their guns in" ? I think that is the lingo. Derrik shot a deer, I believe a 4 point, awesome! Hunting is foreign to me but I am slowly getting accustomed to it. Sadly, I'm not one of those good wives that go hunting or anything, I'll let that be my husbands hobby and I'll stick to my own:)

Derrik forgot to post about a funny part of our Yellowstone trip. We found some hoarders. You know the show, the one that makes you want to de-junk your house immediately and have a garage sale? This house had 7 cars out front packed with stuff! It was awesome. They also have deer for pets it seems:)

This is a picture of me with my cute little first graders on our Pumpkin Celebration day! We had a local lady who owned a pumpkin patch come and talk about how she grows the pumpkins. Then we cut one open as a class and the students got to mush and gush in the nasty goop. Then we counted the seeds in our pumpkin, and I was quite surprised how many were in there, almost 400! THEN the students got to decorate cookies, THEN they each got their own small pumpkin and decorated them with little foam stickers. Yes they were spoiled, but oh my goodness was it worth it! These are some comments I heard that day, "I love this school!" "This is the best day of my life," and " You are the best teacher ever!" And this is why I love my first graders!

On Friday of this past week was the Ririe High School Homecoming parade. We got to go sit on the lawn while fire trucks, cop cars, horses, and all the high school floats chucked candy at us. A confession: I teared up. Why? My students were literally too excited to even speak. They were screaming and falling over with excitement. Yes-it probably looked a little out of control, but it was so fun to see the joy they got from such a simple small town parade! Plus I tear up over really weird things, like the episode when uncle Jesse says goodbye to Michelle when he moves out.

Yesterday we went to my 20 week appointment and we got to find out the gender of our baby! I was so sure it was a boy, but I was totally wrong! It is a girl, and we couldn't be more excited! No for sure names yet, we tend to think of some and then get sick of them. Send ideas our way!

It was so fun to see the ultrasound! It was sometimes hard to tell what was what but we did get a good shot of her profile and her little feet! She was kicking away and it was fun to watch! I have been feeling her move a little here and there and that is so fun! It makes me smile every time!

Here is a picture of me at 20 weeks!