Fall Fun With Mommy!!!

I love my boys to death!!! I especially love all of the quality time I get to spend with them! With Ryan in preschool three days of the week, I have some time with just myself and Austin. Although much of that time ends up being spent grocery shopping, cleaning, or trying to fit some time in at the gym, I enjoy my time with him!

A few weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch with playgroup and had a great time!

I can never seem to get a picture with this turkey actually looking at the camera and smiling! The kids had a great time climbing all over the giant tires... ...until they spotted something else to do! They were running and chasing one another up and down the rows of pumpkins! It was cute to watch!

Anyone who knows Austin knows that he LOVES animals! It doesn't matter what kind, but he certainly has no fear when it comes to them! Checking out the "Zebronkey" as I called it. It is a cross between a zebra and a donkey! Weird!!!

Cute little pony! Great big horsey! We all enjoyed a hayride through the pumpkin patch together and had a great time! I love this pictures of Payt and Austin! Ryan LOVES his preschool!!! We get to spend some time together everyday working on his homework and talking about school and what he's learning! He is so stinkin' smart! Every October his preschool has "Fall on the Farm Day!" Mallory was so sweet and watched Austin for me so I could enjoy this day with Ryan! They have so many fun fall activities for the kids to enjoy! They teach the kids about cows and what kind makes milk, then they each got to "milk" a cow! Each class got a turn in the bounce houses! Ryan would climb to the top of the mountain in the middle and yell, "The volcano is about to erupt!" then jump off! He decided that since his shirt was red, he was the lava.We went on a hayride through the orchards behind the school... ...played carnival games... ...rode the horse... ...planted a pumpkin... ...and picked one to bring home!!! I had so much fun spending this special one-on-one time with my boys enjoying the beautiful fall season!!!

Pumpkin Carvin' & Halloween Fun!!!

...Pumpkin Carvin'...
On Saturday we finally got around to carving the pumpkins we picked at Bishop's earlier in the month! The boys were really excited and got right to it!

Austin kept taking the seeds out and putting them back in then was wondering why it wouldn't get cleaned out. Ryan did a really good job getting quite a bit of it done on his own! Don't know why the strange face!? My handsome hubby workin' hard to get that huge pumpkin cleaned out... ...before he headed over to help Austin out!

Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of our completed pumpkins, but here our front porch on Halloween night!!!

Since Halloween fell on Sunday and we don't live in Utah where it's automatically celebrated on Saturday, Justin and I discussed what we would do for our little family on Halloween. Our decision was to let our kids get dressed up in their costumes and pass out candy to trick-or-treaters. So, we stayed home, enjoyed a nice dinner together and did just that! The boys were anxiously waiting by the door listening for a knock!!! The minute there was a knock at the door, they were running and clapping they whole way there! We enjoyed our Halloween and all of the fun that we had leading up to this fun and spooky holiday and hope that you did too!!!

Halloween Parties!!!

The days leading up to Halloween we attended a few parties for Halloween! On Friday we went to a party with some of our friends and had a great time! We all had to bring something to eat, so we brought this spookalicious 7 layer bean dip! I'm not creative by any means, so I was excited about it!

This year the boys didn't really have anything they really wanted to be for Halloween, so we just pulled out the costume bag from Auntie Kirstin and let the boys pick what they wanted to be. Austin chose to be Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Poor kid couldn't hardly see out of the costume, but refused to take it off!Ryan wanted to be a fireman! We had a lot of fun eating, visiting and playing at the party. They planned a pinata which the kids loved! I don't know if he could really even see what he was doing! Ryan got a few good swings in! The kids weren't able to bust it open, so the parents passed around the bat (and Scarlett) and each took a turn! The kids went crazy at first, but there was way more candy than there was of them. They finally got it all picked up! "Say CANDY!!!" ...Trunk-or-Treat...

On Saturday night we attended our Ward Trunk-or-Treat! Austin decided to change it up and dress as Sulley from Monster's Inc.!

Ryan decided to be pirate and wear the costume Auntie Kirstin made for him!

Justin was a pilot and I was his copilot, although we were mistaken for police officers the whole night! We had fun with the carnival games......enjoyed some delicious carnival food...

...and scored some treats at the Trunk-or-Treat!!!

We had so much fun leading up to Halloween and celebrating such a fun holiday!!!