October Fun

The kids are done with Soccer. Here are their cute pictures. I made this one for Cody since he didn't get one if his own.

Ryan and I went to the corn maze on our date a couple weeks ago.

And yes, after taking every wrong turn imaginable and walking every square inch of that maze, we finally made it to the end. We are not very good at mazes.

Pumpkin update:

Someone Ryan works with gave him this 'Spearmint' gum. Inside it says, "No Spears were harmed in the making of this gum." Pretty funny.

Kathleen was so proud of this Indian Poster she made.

The kids finished soccer and had their parties and got trophies. They were so cute.

The kids went to play outside and disappeared. When I went to find them, they were in the corner on the rocks just playing. They were all so cute and getting along so well, which is amazing.

More recent pumpkin update: The boys are really excited that it is finally orange.

Kathleen really wanted to learn to play "I am a Child of God" on the piano. Ryan has been working with her. It is pretty cute.

Brandon decided to be Wall-e for Halloween. I thought it would be easy enough to make the costume. Not really so. But he sure had fun with it. He was so excited.

Yes, that is the yellow box with my butt. I think Ryan took this picture pretending it was about the box. But it was really about something else. What do you think?

Cody was eating a pop tart and the kids freaked out because they thought it looked like Idaho. Best day ever!

The finished Wall-e Costume. It will be even cuter when you see Brandon in it.

I guess it is project week because I also made new bedding. Here is the back side.

And this is the top:

A good friend of ours took our family pictures. Kathleen's smile is really freaky. I don't know what is up with it. Lately she has been smiling funny for pictures, but this is a whole new thing. I don't know what it is, but at least we have it documented forever.

Kim did such a great job and was super great working with my 3 squirming kids. Thanks Kim. Here is a link to her site if you want to see more.

Kim's Photography

Pumpkin Patch

The kids got their school pictures back. They turned out pretty decent.

We decorated out house with the traditional spiderwebs.

What do your kids do when it is raining out. Surly I am not the only one with a child who puts on a rain jacket (over her dress), scarf, gloves, and boots and jumps on the trampoline.

The boys put spiderwebs across their top bunk bed and threw yogurt covered raisins to each other attempting to get them in their mouths. I don't know where they get it but I blame dad.

Brandon learned about apples at school.

And I know this picture is really late coming, but here are his things from the first 2 weeks of school. He was so excited about them that he taped them all to his bedroom door.

The boys are really loving each other right now, which is great. They are crazy at breakfast time though and a lot of cereal gets spilled. But they have fun.

A pumpkin update:

Cody and I got to go with a preschool class from church to the pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun. However, when you grow pumpkins in your yard, the pumpkin patch loses a lot of its excitement. But Cody still had a lot of fun.

I told you this one was going on the blog.

Cody LOVED the hay bail maze.

So what do you do when you have 20 pumpkins at home? You find something unique.

Some of the other kids with their "normal" pumpkins.

Brandon had Isaac over to play. He really loves Isaac. They sat at the table for an hour and a half (with Cody too) and played Lego's while quoting lines from Monsters vs. Aliens.

It has been really fun having some one-on-one time with Cody. I haven't had that with any of my other kids at this age. Here is just one of the many things that come up when it was just the two of us. Background: Cody is picking his nose.

Mom: Cody, what are you doing?

Cody: I am hungry.

Mom: Okay, so what are you doing?

Cody: I am trying to find some food in my nose.

I guess it is time to have that talk.

Utah

Kathleen learned about Earth at school. She was pretty excited about it. We decided to go visit "Blue" Granny for conference weekend, but she broke her arm. The kids were very sad. We decided to go to Utah anyway and just not all the way to see Granny. On the way, Brandon had a lot of fun playing with his stickers snacks.

Kathleen asked about a month ago to go to the restaurant where they did diving inside. So we took them to the Mayan. The food was terrible, but the experience was very fun.

Ryan was pretty excited at the moon, although this picture doesn't do it justice.

We stayed at some friend's house and felt like we were staying at a spa. They were so gracious and the kids had a lot of fun. Look how cute they all were watching TV.

We went on a tour of a chocolate factory:

You turn your back for 2 second and the boys go shopping. Yes, they had to put everything back. But we did let them get some in the end.

We had so much fun with Jared, Heidi, and Xander. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of it. But it was Xander's birthday. He was so cute. We did get this one picture of them frosting sugar cookies.

When we got home, the kids were super excited to put up Halloween decorations. Brandon helped me with the lights and kept calling it his "evil experiment" and saying he was an "evil scientist."

And of course, the pumpkin is getting even more orange.