Happy Halloween

Better late than never I guess. I have been terrible at taking pics and posting them since I got prego but here are a few from Halloween. I don't know why but every year I think the face that our kids make the first time they stick their little hands into the pumpkin, is so funny. This year B was super excited to make a transformers pumpkin and thanks to his dad it happened. Aaron kept puling out the tiniest strands of pumpkin and saying "gookie." We were enjoying every minute of it! Halloween night was wonderful as well. Our little superheroes could not have been more excited. I thought it was especially funny how excited Aaron was- surly he couldn't remember Halloween's past. He ran up and down the streets all night. At one point both of our kids got a fright. A guy was sitting on his porch ready to scare people and I warned B. He took off his mask when he saw our little kids which I thought was nice. Unfortunately B got turned around and went back by the guy as a bunch of teenagers were walking up. He was teared up by the time I got back to him. Through his panting me muttered, "I think he is a real monster." Haha I had to laugh, poor little guy. Another house over and a little more candy helped him move on though. Aaron was not quite as dramatic. One house had there whole porch closed in with black trash bags and had decorated it with spider webs and all sorts of nasty things. Aaron kept looking around eyes wide open and finally said, "mom it's spooooooky." We laughed at him as well. What a fun night of treats and a few tricks!

Trick or Treat

On our way to trick or treat- we were laughing at Aaron he was so excited.

Boys in the apple maze

Annual Pumpkin Patch

Hooray, even though Chris has a terribly busy schedule right now we found an afternoon to go to the pumpkin patch. Last year we went to late and we couldn't see which was a bummer, but this year was perfect. We drove out to Santaquin and visited the Big Red Barn. The hayride took us out to the patch and apple barrel maze. Brandon and Aaron loved the little maze. Chris had to go in a get Aaron out after we had been there for an hour. Every time they hit a dead end Aaron would laugh so hard. Lucky, no one had to be rescued- we found the end. Brandon was cracking me up. He went through every row looking for the perfect pumpkin. Before we went he told me was going to pick a tiny pumpkin this year but when we got there he just couldn't resist. I told him he could have anyone he could carry- blah, whatever, you know I ended up carrying that enormous thing. Aaron was happy with his little pumpkin though. He would not set the thing down- funny little treasure. Hopefully we will get to carve them for family night. Check back to see our killer carving skills!

Brandon's Feelings

Aaron doing The Elmo Slide

HaHaHa! Chris and I were chatting on the couch when we looked over to see Aaron really enjoying Sesame Street. So funny and so cute!

Capital Reef Campout

We took our kiddo's out to Capital Reef to go hiking and camping. It was a lot of fun. Boys are just meant to be outside. We decided that the best hike we could do was Capital Gorge. The boys were having a good time until it was time to hike back. Chris and I ended up carrying them most of the way in the heat. I thought if I stopped I really might die. There were some pioneers who carved their names in the mountains there and I just kept wondering if I really could have made it all the way to SLC. One mile hike was enough for me. Really it was beautiful and we enjoyed the time off. Capital Reef VC was neat too. They had a cute Junior Ranger program for Brandon (he got a new pin for his hat,) and they had a family fun backpack that had cute things in it to keep busy. Oh yeah I have to tell you one more thing. Brandon must have watched some show that had camping on it because he had these ideas in his head of what we needed to do- one of them was to tell spooky stories at night. Oh course Chris and I went along with it telling the least scary storied you can think of. I believe Chris's story had to do with ponies and butterflies- because my story was too scary. Poor Brandon was so scared he woke up in the morning still talking about it. HA Ha we could have told any story and it would have been scary at that moment.

Bean Museum

Chris treated us to a fun day out. We went to the Bean Museum at BYU and then to Seven Peaks with some friends. Matt Meese was one of Chris's mission buddies and then his roommate in college. He works at the museum now and showed us a good time. With a little peer pressure he even got Chris to hold a tarantula- Chris is super scared of spiders. Notice how he is holding Aaron's arms away the entire time. Aaron wanted to grab hold of the thing and well Brandon is hiding where his dad probably wanted to be too.