Halloween 2009

This is going to be lots of pictures since I didn't post about our pumpkin carving and it's also of Halloween night!




This is the first year that Nate actually stuck his hand into the pumpkin and pulled out the seeds. He did do a pretty good job cleaning his out.


A shot of all the boys on the table.


Colton peeks into the pumpkin but never dares stick his hand into it!


Josh didn't like putting his hand in the pumpkin so he tried scooping it out. He didn't last long!


Nate posing with his pumpkin! He drew his picture on a paper and then Danny carved it out. (I forgot to take a picture of the finished project the night we did it.)


Josh is with his pumpkin that he created!


Colton is just checking things out!


So, he was suppose to be a doggy this year but refused to wear his costume. So, at the last moment I had to create something with the things we had at home. I looked online and this is what I came up with. He was Interstate 35. This is the best picture I could get of him because he kept ripping off all the cars and the yellow dots. I think we lost a few cars at the church.


One more shot of him and as you can see he's already pulled off a car.


Nate is Leonardo the turtle again- for the 3rd year in a row.


This is our little firefighter! Doesn't he look cute?!


Trying to get a picture of the 3 of them is not easy. This is the best I got from them.


Sitting in the truck, waiting to go after the ward's trunk or treat!


Colton is satisfied with a sucker and a glow stick but he is also super tired.


Finding himself a candy.


Josh is also getting a treat.


All of them dumped their buckets out so that they could examine their loot! They had a fun time and wore themselves out! Another fun Halloween has come and gone!

Pregnancy shot

I decided to take a picture of myself. I am now 19+ weeks a long. So this is where I'm at right now. I'm sure to get much, much bigger by the end. But so far, it's been a really easy, smooth pregnancy. I don't really feel pregnant besides feeling the baby move now and then that's kind of what reminds me that I'm pregnant. Only a few more days until we find out what we are having, YEAH!

Fall Pics

So, I wanted some pictures of the boys with all the pretty leaves. They didn't exactly cooperate the best with us but these are some of the best we could get of them. I like this one of them all looking out at the lake. It's one of my favorites.







(I had to crop this one of him out of another group shot because he was a stinker and absolutely refused to look at the camera. It's a little bit grainy because of that.)

This is some of them just being silly. I thought this next one would look better than what it turned out. I didn't realize the weed was right there.

Pig Man

We may be the meanest parents on the earth. The boys are very familiar with Mr. Pig Man. We wanted to introduce to everyone, Pig Man! So, here he is:






Nate posing with Pig Man




Josh keeping his distance from Pig Man.




Colton refuses to come into the room. Can you see the tears? He was completely terrified for the rest of the night. He just clung to me until bedtime. We took it down and I showed him it was gone but he was still leery to go in their room.

Gardner Pumpkin Patch

We headed out Monday morning for Gardner Kansas for a day at the pumpkin patch. They had a special for military families and they offered a lot of activities for the price compared to many other places around. It was a lot of fun! It was a little misty and cool but it got warmer the longer we were there. There were lots of slides and tractor rides and bike rides and a haunted barn and much much more. We definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for somewhere to go. And of course the bonus is that you are supporting a local farming family. I know we'll be back next year and as long as the boys think it's cool! And it wouldn't have been complete with out some pumpkins. So, we let them pick out their own pumpkins before we left. Nate got a big one, Colton had no opinion so he got a medium one but we didn't end up getting a picture of theirs. And Josh chose little ones and we did get a picture of his. So here are the pictures we took of the boys, I know it's a lot but I did it anyways.

Picking some gourds. They each got to pick out a gourd. Funny thing is, Josh got himself one and then he picked out a small, decorative orange pumpkin. I told him we didn't need that one and that he already chose his. Well, he told me that he picked it for the "baby gull" (girl) as we pronounced it. I told him the baby didn't need it and on top of that, we don't know if it's a girl and he just continued to insist it was for the "baby gull." So, needless to say we came home with the pumpkin, who can argue with him when he gives you his dimple smile!


Colton is helping Josh carry his pumpkins. Josh didn't want a big one so we let him get 2 of these little things.


Nate and Josh got to ride a train pulled by a tractor.


Colton is chilling in the "corn box" We thought it would be nice to fill our pool with corn instead of sand-it would be so much easier to clean up.


Look at the chunk on the saddle swing.


Pretending to drive the tractor


Colton would climb on the play vehicles then quickly climb right off.


Josh pops his head up out of a wooden train. If it looks like he's stuck, well, he actually was stuck.


All my little pirates-I mean boys.


Don't mind me, I look horrible, just look at Colton sliding down.


This is just one of the many slides they had. They only bad thing was the slight mist made the slides a lot hard for them to slide down. Would have been much funner for them on a dry day.


What farm would be complete without some animals and I don't mean those 3 boys.


Colton is checking out some bunnies. He is actually pulling his feet up because he didn't like being that close.


Nate rides around the track.


Josh just barely reaches those pedals.


This was a duck race. I really thought this was cool.


These are 2 of my little pumpkins.