Quick Little Pumpkin Festival

Seriously, where has October gone? It's almost halfway over and I realized we haven't done anything Halloween-ish yet. I love this month so much and I love all the fun things you can always find to do so I figured we better get started!!! Plus, we're in a new place now, so there's gotta be lots of cool places to try out.

We went to a neighborhood pumpkin festival today and it really was a lot of fun. Not quite as fun as some of our favorite Halloween places in Texas (which I'm really missing...), but the kids seemed to enjoy it and that's all that matters, right!

I thought this was a different idea. Everyone who came carved pumpkins that had big holes cut out of the bottoms of them. Then they put them all on this huge shelf with lots of white christmas lights underneath the pumpkins and once it got dark, lit them all up for everyone to see. We didn't stay for that part but there were TONS of carved pumpkins so I'm sure it was really cool!

They were charging a dollar a ticket for the carnival games which was just crazy since the games were so basic and some even required 2 tickets. So we let the boys each just have one ticket to play a game. They both chose this spider toss game. Well, Brayden chose and Tyler followed :)

Yay for Halloween!

Slide Races

This is how we spent our FHE activity on Monday night.

The boys racing on the slides

over

and

over

and over again.

Climbing up to meet Brayden for the big race

Just about there...

"On your mark.... Get set.....GOOO"
And they're off....
"Wheeeeeeeeeee"

"Let's do it again!"

Coming back for round 2 (of 50!)

Almost there...
Phew, made it to the top again!

Wait for it... "GO"

Ty can't help going early every time.

The anticipation kills him!

Just adding some mulch for a bit of a challenge

Quick stop in the middle when he realized he put it on his side.

Way to go water shoes...Nice stop!

Slides are FUN!

Quick Trip West

We made a quick trip out to Utah the beginning of October.

Guy ran and finished the St. George Marathon!!

He cramped up really bad after so he was lucky to have his dad and brother to massage his legs! Let's just say I was glad to be a spectator this year and not going through that pain again :)

Great job Guy! We are so proud of you!

And it was so great to be able to see Grandma and Grandpa Hill, Missy, Maria, Mike and Mandy and all the cute cousins. Thanks Mike and Mandy for letting us stay a night at your place and Missy for the family pics. Love you guys!

We went to my Grandpa Peel's Funeral

October 4, 2010

He had a military burial and it was really neat
My sweet Grandma.
I love her so much!

It really was a beautiful funeral and it was so nice to hear my mom and aunts/uncle's telling stories and sharing what a great father and man my Grandpa was. All of the grandchildren sang a few songs and poems together that my Grandpa wrote. The words he wrote really touched my heart. I am so grateful that we were able to be there for his funeral and to be a part of honoring his great life. Love you Grandpa!

 It was great to be reunited with all of these guys!
Love them!!!!

We celebrated my brother Jason's 17th birthday

Ty found this hat at my Grandma Richardson's house and wouldn't take it off. It's part of a game where 2 people wear these hats and you have to try to throw balls at the other person's head and get it to stick on the velcro strips. We played it once at a family reunion and it was hilarious to see my uncle's running around, chasing each other. Pretty funny!

Haha, I just love you Tyler!

We played some mini golf for Jason's birthday and the boys all went crazy with the go carts after. It was pretty funny to watch...

 His yummy rice krispie treat cake!

I'm still not believing my little brother is 17 though.

How did that happen?!?!

And then just like that, it was back to Florida once again. This was such an exhausting, quick trip that I think we are still recovering. It was so great to see everyone that we were able to. I know we missed seeing a few people that we really wanted to see and I am soo sorry! Next time we come out that way we'll hopefully be able to spend a little more time.

First day of Preschool!

Yay, today is Brayden's first day of Preschool!

 He has been SO excited about it!

His hot wheels backpack

It was cute to hear him explain to Tyler where he was going on the way to Preschool this morning.  He said, "Now don't worry Ty Ty, I'm going to a school for big kids but you don't have to miss me cause I'll be back pretty soon. When I get back I'll play with you, so just go home and set everything up" Haha, he makes me laugh. And Tyler really has been in his room playing with the toys all morning. I think he is just loving not having to share them for once :)

Hope you're having fun Brayden. We can't wait to hear all about it!!!