I'm batman

Weston's Uncle Todd bought him a batman mask and cape just because. Weston loves it. He wouldn't take it off the entire fist two days of owning it, and he has me hang it up in the closet loveingly like a tuxedo. I'm sure it will be his halloween costume of choice.
Savanna opted to perform in her school talent show and memorized a piano number for it. I was a proud mommy when I heard her play for her 2nd grade class. She has also decided to participate in the school's extracurricular choir taught by her past 1st grade teacher. She goes to school at 7:15 on Mon and Wed!!! It's still dark outside then. But she is a great singer and will do well.

On Friday we went to Maceys grocery store in Orem for a tailgate party. They were offering steak dinners for 3 bucks, and they had free samples and inflatable slides. It was awesome! The best steak we ever had. The kids loved it, Savanna asked when we could go to that party again. Hopefully next year.

Strawberry Reservoir

We decided to have a picnic at Strawberry Reservoir. Actually, we were supposed to fish there, but it didn't work out that way. The banks were all muddy and mossy, impossible for kids to fish from. We got out 3 times and tried different spots, but alas, it was not use. Gma Rappleye, me, and the kids had a picnic supper by a boat dock and Jared got out on his float tube. Apparently the fish were all spawning up some river because he didn't catch anything that way either. The kids had fun, even though we all went four hours without a bathroom and Savanna was not patient on the way home trying to find a place to go. The next day she wrote in her journal that she had fun.


Jared in float tube




Fiora had a sleepover with her cousing Lucy so Savanna was jealous and called every friend she knew until she had a playdate too. She came home with her face painted like a cat.

Pictures and a funny story

Gearing up for Halloween. Our home comes complete with black cat.




Fiora and Weston dancing, someone cut in.

Pre-hair cut

Post hair cut
Jesse and Kelsy work graveyard shifts so they sleep in the afternoon and evening. Tuesday evening I go to class in Salt Lake and Jared has Scouts. I asked our neighbor to watch the kids during Jared's scouting but sometimes Jared figures we have two adults in the house and that's good enough, even if they are asleep. The rule is, we don't wake Jesse and Kelsy unless mom and dad aren't home and there is an emergency, like Weston get's hurt and is bleeding. One Tuesday evening during class I got a call from Fiora on Kelsy's phone, so I knew they had woke up the Barretts. I apologized to them the next day and asked why the kids woke them. Jesse said he didn't know, Savanna came into his room and said "Weston got cut!" So Kelsy got up and went to get him a bandaid and on closer inspection noticed the "cut" was red marker. Apparantly Savanna got nervous being "in charge" and conned up a reason to wake up the adults in the house. We had a good laugh.

October

In October I'll be host
To witches goblins and a ghost
I feed them chicken soup and toast
Whoopy once Whoopy twice
Whoopy chicken soup with rice!

Fiora memorized this poem she learned in Kindergarten. She likes to memorize poems. Ask her to recite one for you sometime.
I had a parent teacher conference with Savanna's teacher and he said she's fun to have in class and is the best story writer in class. Savanna has had a lot of practice at writing stories. Her preferred past-time is to be hunched over a ream of paper creating a story and illustrating it. I never know whether to save the results or chuck them. There are just so many! I've started encouraging her to make stories on the computer so she doesn't use so much paper. Some of her stories are pretty funny, with some fighting scenes and some love scenes. I thought this story looked pretty interesting, but she hid it under her bed before she wrote any dialogue:





I wouldn't mention this to her if I were you. She gets pretty embarrassed about certain things still, I imagine mom snooping under her bed and finding an unfinished story would be one of those things.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jesse and Kelsy and Wendy and Ashlyn for watching our kids for us while we went to Park City to celebrate our 9th anniversary. We had a wonderful time. Jared showered me with gifts! I'm so glad he has stuck with me all these years. We are very blessed.

Schauers Voice

Jared and I have created a open-to-the-public blog called "Schauers Voice" to share our testimony with all those out there who may happen upon the blogspot. If you would like to add your testimony or check it out go to www.schauersvoice.blogspot.com

Wednesday Kid Day

On Wednesday we get to have Alexis and Spencer Whipple come over! Their mom Shelene and I are doing a kid swap this semester while trying to get through school. In exchange for their coming over on Wednesday, my three go to her house Wednesday and Thursday afternoon until Jared can pick them up after work. Weston and Spencer are so fun together, they play superheros and geotracks and run around the back yard. Alexis' favorite spot in our home is the doll house, she had me write a letter to Santa asking him for a doll house of her own. Alexis likes to dress up like princesses and play "house" with Fiora. I call Wednesday "kid day" especially when other friends decide to come play.

Peter Pan and Batman. These two came up with the pan outfit all on their own, and nicely put away Spencers clothes in Weston's drawers and it took me forever to find them.

Alexis couldn't quite get the wig on her head because of her cute hair-do, but it works! (Note Spencer showing off his muscles in the background)