I love....

The other night I was cuddling with my cute Coleman. I pulled him in for a big hug and said, "I love you Coleman." He gave me a quick kiss and said " I love...TRUCKS!"

Pumpkin patch and corn maze

We go to Ashely's Pumpkin Farm every year. We have so much fun there. The kids love the corn maze and petting zoo...except for Makayla who is jumping away from the goat in the pic below. We all love picking our carving pumpkins out of the field. It wouldn't be fall without our trip to Ashley's.

Halloween 2011

I can't believe another Halloween has come and gone. It went by so fast. We had a great time. Unfortunately, we're still eating our way thru an obscene amount of candy.

A fall hike

Here's some pics from a hike we went on last month. It was such a beautiful evening we decided to throw dinner (chicken tacos) in some tupperware, grab some grapes and water bottles and head to the park. What a great fall night.

Not quite right

The other day (okay week) we were practicing trick or treating with Coleman. We kept going over it, "hold out your bag and say Trick or Treat". We thought he had it until we asked,"Ok you're holding out your bag, what do you say?" He didn't miss a beat saying, "HO, HO, HO."

Butterflies and a prayer

We just had the local news out to our house to do an interview for the new "I am Mormon" campaign. I am so nervous to see the segment on the news this evening. I love this Gospel so much and I just pray they put the church in a positive light. I hope they understood a little more about the church. We just broadcasted to the entire community that we are LDS, in one small interview. Wow. I hope this brings positive experiences for missionary work. Sorry this is a rambling post, just so many thoughts going thru my head right now.

Wyatt's birthday party

We had Wyatt's birthday party Friday night. He had 5 friends over for a Halloween themed evening. It was a lot of fun. I didn't get a lot of pics because we were too busy playing. I did get pics of the doughnut eating game. It was hysterical watching them...

It was freezing out (46 ) and very windy but the kids were great sports. We roasted hot dogs over the fire pit and then did the doughnut game. We divided into teams to find all the bones of a skeleton and the first team to find all of their bones and assemble it won. They had a lot of fun running around with flashlights looking for bones. Then we gathered around the fire to handle the remains of poor Mr Smith. It was gross and so much fun. We had oatmeal for brains, a whole peeled tomato for the heart, cooked lasagna noodles in oil for skin, baby whole pickles for fingers, a laytex glove filled with flour for a hand, pearl onions for eyes, dried apples for ears, dried mango slice for a tongue, and candy corn for teeth. After the game we decided to have a scary story. Looking back, I may have overdone the story...but it sure got a great reaction when Tyson revved up that chain saw from the woods behind us. I have never seen a group of children take off in a dead run so quickly. Chairs were thrown, McCoy was trampled, and the screams were deafning. Those little stinkers got to the house before me ( I stopped to pick up my truely traumatized McCoy) and they locked me out! They really believed there was the ghost of a murder in our back yard and they left McCoy and I out there to face certain death. It was hysterical. Once they let me back in and after Tyson came screaming to the back door, we calmed them all down and convinced them it was all a joke. The story was completely made up. They were sure wound up at that point and refused to ever go into our back yard again. Luckily it was almost time for the parents to get there, so we opened presents and had monster cupcakes and caramel apples to end the night. It really was a lot of fun, even if my 5 year old refused to go to sleep that night :)