Someday...

... I'll be able to update my blog with more pictures! My cord that connects my camera to the computer was accidentally packed away (oops!). So I have no way of getting pictures on here. I have Halloween pictures to share that are trapped inside my camera until we move. Oh well! We moved out of the house we were renting on Halloween weekend, so we've been staying with Josh's parents until our house is finished. It's getting close! They did the stucco last week and just put the stucco color on this week. The drywall is also done (except for some of the ceilings I think). Cabinets, countertop, carpet & tile are all picked out waiting to come in. :) We're hopeful to be in by Thanksgiving or at least by the end of the month!

Pumpkin Party!

Since the kids didn't get to carve their pumpkins with everyone else, a couple of days later when they had Fall Break(Oct. 15th), we had a Pumpkin Party! That morning I helped Isaac and Parker carve their pumpkins. They both turned out really cute! When I took their picture (above) they wanted to have a light inside their pumpkins. :)

After lunch, we decorated some pumpkin cupcakes. I intended for them to be a little more complex, but we ended up just keeping them really simple. They turned out pretty cute. When I first brought the undecorated cupcakes in, Bryce saw them and yelled "Cu-cay!" He knew just what they were, and was so excited. He must have had them at preschool before. He had fun decorating them and then peeling the paper off. He had a couple of tastes, but mostly just crumbled it up. Isaac and Parker had a fun time decorating their cupcakes too!

Isaac decorating:

Parker decorating:

Bryce decorating:

For dinner I got the kids the Pumpkin kids' meals from Artic Circle. We don't do kids' meals very often, so it was a fun treat for them. I even bought Bryce one although he wasn't too interested in the food. He liked the bbq sauce from the nuggets though! :)





After dinner I helped Bryce carve his pumpkin. I scraped the inside really good and then let him clean out the guts. It was so cute! He got out every little bit. I carved his pumpkin into a Mickey Mouse (he loves Mickey)! After that, Josh and I carved our pumpkinds. :) Last of all we roasted all of our pumpkin seeds. Yum! It was a fun day. I'm glad we got to do something Halloweeny. I was kinda bummed that we weren't able to do our annual Halloween party this year since we were moving, so this was at least something.

Bryce cleaning out his pumpkin:

Bryce with his Mickey pumpkin:

Josh's pumpkin & my pumpkin:

Pumpkin Town

All the cousins (and Aunt Cammie) at Pumpkin Town.

On October 12 my mom and my sister Marcie came up to visit my other sister and so we all got together (along with my brother) and went to Pumpkin Town. This is where Josh and I took the kids last year and they had a lot of fun. It has a little (kid sized) corn maze, a place with climbing toys and animals, a section with those blow-up bouncy toys, and a light show that you can walk through.

This year it was fun for the kids to do it all with Grandma, cousins, aunts and uncle! We didn't have a lot of time because it was a school day, but we went through the corn maze, and then just walked through the other stuff and went to pick out pumpkins.

We usually don't get our pumpkins until closer to Halloween, but we decided to do it all early this year since we will be moving ON Halloween! I left my camera sitting at home, so all these pictures were taken with Josh's cell phone.

After we got our pumpkins we headed up to Cammie's house and she made us a yummy dinner. We had plans to carve pumpkins there with everyone, but it got to be late and the kids had school in the morning so we headed home. We had lots of fun and it was fun to see everyone (and I got to see my niece and nephews!).

Walking past the pumpkin patches to the corn maze:

Isaac, Bryce, and Parker being clowns. :)

Cool corn in the corn maze.

Dryston in the corn maze:

Bryce walking in the corn maze:

Baby Sydney!

Baby Booker!

Parker & Dryston waking the corn maze:

Isaac & Parker running through the maze:

Marcie, Cammie, & Cammie's baby Sydney (Marcie's holding her):

"I'm the King of the.... big green thing..."

"This is so rude. None of the other kids
had to sit on the pumpkins."

Brycey sitting in the pumpkin wagon:

Dryston!

Enjoying Autumn

Last weekend the boys and I decided to take a ride up the canyon to see the fall leaves before they were all gone. It was such a nice day and we had a fun time. We found a beautiful spot to stop and get out of the car. We took lots of pictures and just enjoyed all the colors! I was really glad we decided to go up because a lot of the colorful leaves were already gone!

Parker wanted to take a picture too:

He also wanted us to get a picture of him with his "antlers" :)

Nevada, Pine Nuts, & Lehman's Cave!

The last weekend in September (2 weeks ago) we went to Great Basin National Park in Nevada to go camping and gather pine nuts. I totally forgot my camera!! I was so bummed. Josh had his phone so he was able to get a few pictures with that. We had a great time though. My mom and dad and brother were there as well. The weather was perfect camping weather and so nice! We camped for two nights right there in the park. On that Saturday we spent most of the day gathering our pine nuts. It was a sticky job with all the pine gum, but we ended up with quite a few! The next day we decided to go see Lehman's Cave. I haven't been for about 10 years and Josh had never seen it, so it was fun to go and to take the kids. The picture above is from a little drive we took up to Wheeler Peak in Great Basin. The pictures below are some that Josh took in Lehman's cave. They didn't turn out the greatest, but I'm glad we at least got something! We had a great weekend!

Llamas!

A few weeks ago some friends from church got together for a little play group for the kids. We went to the Krishna Temple to feed the llamas. We ended up getting the time wrong, so we got there when everyone else was finishing up, but Parker and Bryce had fun (Isaac was in school). It was kind of funny because there were several llamas, but we only really got to feed one because he was a BIG bully! haha All the white one had to do was look at the other llamas and they would leave. They didn't even try to taste any of the apples or carrots that we offered. Finally I tried distracting the Meany Llama with some food while Parker went to the other side and fed another llama. LOL - It worked for a minute. They also had a cool parrot. It said "hello" when we walked by it... which we kind of expected. But the funny thing was that when we walked BACK past it going the other way, it said "goodbye!" We thought that was pretty cool.

Parker's Birthday Party

Today (yes, my blog is finally caught up!) Parker had a birthday party with his friends. We held it at a little park nearby. Parker has totally been in to dolphins this year, so we had a dolphin party! We did a little dolphin craft (dolphin shaped sand bottles), then we had a dolphin shaped pinata and ate dolphin cupcakes! It was a fun party! As you can see, I finally got around to take Parker to get his haircut after he cut it himself. :) It turned out short, but cute!