Family Pictures

Despite the kids being freezing cold, our photographer managed to get some great pictures. Thanks Chelsie!

Halloween

The kids had a great time carving pumpkins this year! Nobody was afraid of getting their hands dirty and everyone came up with their own unique design. Great fun!
Then for Halloween this year, we got together with our friends, the Day's, for one last Halloween together. They were moving that week to Provo area - =(. So, we went to our old neighborhood to go trick-or-treating. It was the most perfect weather! The kids all looked so cute. It's hard to believe that this was our 5th! year celebrating Halloween together. Noah and Spencer were a little wary about going up to other houses and waiting at the doors, but they eventually got into it. About halfway through the neighborhood though, all the kids kind of pooped out and found that it was much more fun to just play with each other. After we finished trick-or-treating, we all went back to our house to have Taco Soup for dinner. We usually do dinner at the Day's house, but cooking stew in a pumpkin was just not a good option for any of us this year. Anyway, it was a fun night and I'm glad that we got to enjoy it together one last time before we all move away. =(

Noah was not happy about being a Lion for Halloween and the girls were some kind of Fairy Butterflies. Mostly, they were just ecstatic that I got color spray for their hair!


Lexi, Maddie, Myra, Camille, Rebecca, Spencer and Noah - Halloween 2011

The Heber Creeper

A couple weekends ago, we went down to visit my family. We spent the morning at Thanksgiving Point, at the little farm they have there. They had a bunch of Halloween festivities going on, so we thought it would be fun for the kids. They got to enjoy petting the very friendly cows and horses, played a few games for suckers and fake tattoos, a wagon ride, feeding the goats, and a pony ride. Later that day, we all headed up to Heber to ride the train there. Now, a little explanation. My dad is VERY into trains. Growing up we would spend Saturdays sitting by train lines, waiting for trains to come by the track. My dad has set up an extensive small gauge train set all over our basement. And I've ridden the historic train in Durango Colorado, 8 times! But, I had never ridden the Heber Creeper. Crazy, huh! Funny thing is, my dad had never ridden it either. So, we thought it would be fun to go up and take a little ride. We also got to stop along the way and pick out pumpkins to decorate, eat cookies and drink hot chocolate. It was a fun little ride, the kids really seemed to enjoy it.