What's a few more?

We watched my friend, Kelly's, three kids for a few days and nights while she enjoyed a getaway with her husband. Their kids did well and we enjoyed having them. That being said, everyone was happy when backup made it home! :)

The excitement of the garbage day.

We decided to do caramel apples while watching the World Series. By the time the caramel was done, the babies were in bed, which made it much easier.

These little trays have been such a good purchase.

Pumpkin Patch

We were on a Fall roll and enjoying all of the festivities and fun. Since Luke visited a pumpkin patch with school, I took Emma and Myles a separate time. We had a great morning. It was ridiculously warm. It felt like I was back in California where the weather was warm, hot and hotter! The only time Myles really voiced his disapproval of the fun was when I wouldn't let him go down the steep and fast slides by himself. All three of my kids have demonstrated independence at an early age. Fingers crossed it will serve them well as they get older.

Hard to believe he fell out shortly after taking this picture. :)

This little man was on-the-go and hard to capture!

Corn kernel angels.

Pumpkin Fests

Bryan was in the mountains enjoying some solitude on his elk hunt. The kids and I passed the time by going to the Neighborhood's and Luke's school's Halloween celebrations. The kids did great. Towards the end, they asked people to grab as many pumpkins as they wanted from the pumpkin patch. We selected a few and then loaded up to head over to Luke's school.
At the school there was a trunk or treat, lots of bounce inflatables, games and more friends that we recognized. Myles thought that the amount of time in the bounce castles wasn't enough. At one point, I had to do the crawl of shame and pull him out. I almost dumped him out of my arms as I was attempting to stumble out of the bounce castle. By some miracle I recovered and remained on my feet.  If anyone witnessed it, I'm sure it gave them a good chuckle.

Hand holding posed brought to you by Emma. 

Luke loved posing in his police costume. It was awesome! His spunky personality was cracking me up. 

I loved that all three were excited to ride the barrel train. I'm not sure how many more years this will be the case! 

Myles climbed up the ginormous slide all by himself and slid down.  His older brother who was suppose to have his back ended up climbing over his back on the way up instead. :) The excitement was just too much for Luke. 

Luke's First Field Trip

Luke was beyond excited to ride the big, yellow buses for his field trip that was an hour away from his school. They visited Anderson Farms. He was nothing but smiles when I picked him up from school that day. He loved telling me all about what he learned at the pumpkin patch.

He was very proud of his pumpkin he picked and carried almost the entire way home from school. His buddies, Charlie and Ethan,  helped him out, too. 

Tickled Pink

I finally got around to painting Emma's dresser. It was a fun project to share with Emma. We went to Home Depot where I let her pick out what color she wanted, shocker, she picked pink. After the paint selections, we headed to Hobby Lobby to pick out new knobs for the dresser. It was quite the face lift! Love having a little side kick with me.

 I never took a pic of the finished project...that pic will be coming!

Also, this handsome boy accompanied us and didn't complain too much, except for when it was time to get off the riding lawn mowers. 

Zoo with Coppins

Last year, I saw Whitney and her kids almost every day because of same schools and similar activities with our kids. This year we're at different schools and I miss seeing her like I use to! While the kids were still on Fall Break, we arranged for a play date at the zoo. The kids were great and the moms were able to enjoy a good visit.

The zoo had a traveling exhibit of " Washed Ashore, Art to Save the Sea." There were15 sea life sculptures made almost completely of debris collected from beaches. 

I know that they say, "don't chase the peacocks..." BUT, how do you take away this smile? He isn't too much of a hunter/threat yet. :)