White Men Brought Diseases

I am SO incredibly happy to announce that we have the internet!!!  YAY!!  I've been seriously so depressed without it but it was a good thing too.  I have been so much more focused on taking care of my family.  I have been actually cooking dinner, laundry, dishes, getting us dressed and ready for the day and all that other not so fun stuff.  It's amazing though how much you need a happy medium.  Because although I've been doing really good with homely things, I've been so depressed feeling like I've been cut off from the world.  So I'm going to put my best foot forward with keeping up with the chores and still leave time for myself to indulge on the computer.  Besides my exciting news, I have some for my sister Nikki, who had a little baby boy, Collin Michael McBride, October 15th, 7 lbs. 9 ozs. and 21 inches.  I can't wait to go up and visit them!!  Sadly on another note I still don't have my camera battery charger, so still no pictures but it's in the mail...right mom?  I've been dying to take pictures.  It's fall right now and all the leaves are changing.  I LOVE the colors of fall.  We already had our first snow fall too.  It happened last weekend and we woke up on Sunday with two inches of snow on the ground.  Happily enough it warmed up and by the end of church a lot of the snow had melted.  I also now understand why there weren't any diseases in Hawaii until the white men came.  It was because there's not winter there.  Since my kids have been here their noses have not stopped leaking.  Especially Brody's!  He's one big snot monster.  Then yesterday both the kids had caught something and they were puking their guts out.  We've been here barley a month and they already got sick.  Besides that we are having fun living here.  For now at least, I'm sure once it starts to get really cold it won't be as fun.  Since being here we've had dinner with friends a couple of times, we went repelling, which even Drew went commando down a 50 ft. drop attached to Kurt, went up the mountain to cut fire wood, played rock band till 2 am, acquired laying hens, chicks, a rooster, and pigeons, went to a horseshoe tournament in somebody's back yard, bought my own bb gun, which I have to brag am a pretty good shot with, and rode in a Rhino, the newest toy for adults.  We were even lucky enough to have the Greenleafs come and visit us.  It was SO fun seeing somebody from TVA.  I've really been missing the friendships I've made there.  You really do get spoiled living in such a tight community.  Which brings on the subject of Halloween.  I'm going to miss going down Moana St. and wish everyone in Hawaii luck that it doesn't rain.  We're really excited for Halloween.  I think Drew most of all.  She's going to be a scary witch.  Not a nice one, a scary one.  She even said when she's a witch she won't be Drew be dew any more.  Every morning when she wakes up she asks us if it's Halloween today.  Brody for once does not have to be scary.  I'm not sure if anybody remembers last year but Kurt made him be Scream.  The mask actually fit him good but it was so sad that my 8 month old had to be Scream.  This year he's going to be Master Chief from Halo.  Kurt volunteered to make his costume and if anybody remembers Kurt's costumes from last year or the year before you know that Kurt can make a darn good costume.  So he's only done with the helmet so far but oh my gosh is it amazing!!  Well that's all for now.  I can't wait to get my camera working again because you all are probably tired of just my writing.  And if I write too much I won't have anything else to say.