Fall splendor!

I am in love with fall.

I love the color. I love the cooler temperature.

Did I mention I love the color?

Here are some of my favorite pictures of this fall.....

Vi vi and I had a girls day out to the Black Island farms.

I look forward to many more girls day outings with my little lady!

Vi loved the cow.
This was a warm sunny fall day in our backyard. Our tree was starting to shed it's red-orange leaves and the kids were discovering the wonderful joy of playing in a big pile of leaves! Ahh to be a kid again.....

The mountains are my favorite place to be in the fall time.

This is where we get to admire all of the beautiful leaves
and my kids get to run around and be in the great outdoors!

We went a little early in the year looking for some fall color.

We didn't see any but I managed to snap this cute picture of Ryker!

Just look at that face. He's so cute!

One of my favorites. Nothing beats pumpkin pickin' with the family!

Jonah discovered his love for Wagons...so cute!

The brothers.

Vi with good buds Bridger and Foster at the Black Islands patch.

Fall is the best! It's a time of comfort and family and being warm inside while soft white snowflakes start to fall outside of your window bringing with it the Holidays!

Harvest time and other stuff....

This is the peach tree in our backyard. This beauty produced many lovely peaches for us so we gave some away, made peach jam, and canned some. I am loving these fruit trees in our backyard! The apricots came and I was able to make apricot jam also. It's so exciting to watch them grow and the kids have been loving them.Here are just some of the bag fulls of peaches! My counter tops were covered.
We also have pear and apple trees. I have been learning alot about canning, which is something I have always wanted to do. It's a good feeling having all of those pretty fruit jars on the shelf!

Jonah

This cute little man got two teeth on the bottom and his two vampire teeth are starting to come down just in time for Halloween!

Jonah has turned into such a daddy's boy! Gosh he just loves it when Gary walks through that front door. He gets so excited and gets the biggest grin on his face.

This is what he does when he gets mad, he buries his face into the ground. Lately he has been getting really mad if he can't play with the cell phones or if we close the bathroom door to try to keep him away from the toilet. We are just such strict parents aren't we? Ha ha.

Here Jonah is grabbing a dirty sock which he proceeded to stuff in his mouth directly after this photo. Everything has been going into this little portly man's mouth these days! Watch your toes around him, he got mine the other day!

Violet

This picture is the epitomy of Violet. We were at Ryker's swim lessons every morning for two weeks, and this is the sassy little attitude I got to deal with on the sidelines. Good thing she is so darn cute.

I found during swim lessons and soccer, my bright red lipstick would keep this little lady entertained. Although, it would usually end up all over her face!

This is sweet Vi with her best friend. Ripley got a hair cut and she thought that he was a new dog. She kept following him around and calling him King.

Violet has been loving horses! A pink princess horse is probably the best thing that she could ever dream of! She is such a little girly, girl princess. I love it! I wouldn't have her any other way. I'll take her sass and all!

Ryker

Little Mr. Kermit the frog body, that's what Gary and I call him. He has got the cutest little skinny body! Here he is at swim lessons. We went to the clearfield aquatic center while he was off track and he loved it. He learned some new techniques and enjoyed his time in the water! He is such a little fish.

He gets better and better everytime we put him in lessons. As long as he likes it, we'll keep putting him in!

SOCCER

Ryker has a love for soccer. This is him with his blue whales team! He got so much better this year. It's been exciting to watch his progress and enthusiasm for the game increase. He is a great forward and he keeps up with the ball pretty good too.

Coach Simi (our neighbor) was sweet to give the kids medals with their names on them, he went through calling all the kids names one by one, and had them stand while he gave them their medals. He said something good about each of them. He said the best thing about Ryker was that he always listens when he tells him what to do. It was a great confidence booster for the kids!

The red sharks team.

Ryker scored his very first goal ever with this team! It was the second to last game of the season. We have been rooting for him for some time now to score a goal because he always says, "Mom i'm gonna score seven goals today" and we always just tell him to try his best and have fun. But we really were so excited when he got that first goal because he has wanted it for so long!

Here he is #7!

Go Ryker!

Adventures....

Jonah bugs

Did I say this kid was mellow? Wow things can change fast! He has learned to turbo crawl all over our house. Some of his favorite hot spots are the bathroom, dog bowls, dishwasher, and the stairs! He also favors putting small objects into his mouth. He is definently in that " I just gotta keep him alive" phase in life!You'd think with all of this crawling the rolls would dissapear. But he still has these scrumptious little rollies all over his legs, hands, and feet. I love it!

He can fall asleep in the oddest positions!

Here he is with that sweet little innocent face gettin into the dog food!
My little curious george.

Dishwasher fun!


He still loves his little snuggly friend. He smashes him into his face to go to sleep!
The ONLY thing that will slow this boy down is watching his favorite show Baby Einstein.
Violet
We have this awesome park right down the road from our house. We take the kids down there sometimes and walk around. Here are some pictures of Violet at the park.

My little drama mama.

She is starting to love friends! We had a new family move in across the street and they have a little girl Violets age. Hanna came over to play one day and they were downstairs being awfully quiet. Gary went to check on them and found Violet with the Halloween make-up! Apparently she decided to give Hanna and herself a little make over. Hanna wasn't too happy with her look!

Ryker
The park is an adventure for Ryker!
He catches bugs, collects odd plants, and looks for frogs.

Searching the waters for frogs.

Ryker had an All about me day at school! He got to make a poster with his favorite things on it. Here is what he wrote his favorites were:
Color- Light blue

Food- Chicken enchiladas

Friends- Bridger, Braxton, Audrick, Tyler, and Jordyn.

What you want to be when you grow up?- A paleontologist

Gary made a great video of pictures of Ryker to share with his class
It was a fun day for him!

Soccer Season started! We put Ryker on two teams. The red sharks, and the blue whales. He is loving it and getting better each game! Here he is as goalie for the blue whales!

BOATIN'

We went up to Pineview lake for some boating with Grandma Jen and Papa Shane. It was a beautiful day!

Ryker learned to jump off of the front of the boat. I am surprised he would do it! I have to muster up some courage to do it myself! It's a pretty far drop, but he was loving it!

Gary got to do his favorite thing: swim!

Violet got to do her favorite thing too: snuggle with dogs!

Jonah and Ryker playing around!

Grandma Jen and Jonah buggers. The view at pineview, so pretty!

We are looking forward to the adventures that Fall will bring!

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken by my Mom. We took them in an alley way by Kaysville theatre. It was very cloudy, and looked like rain, but we still hoped to snap some shots before the downpour. My Mom did a beautfiful job. I love pictures where your just being yourselves! She captured us perfectly. Everyone's doing their own thing as you can see.


These are just a few of them. She took many others that I loved too. Right after we got done with the shoot it started pouring rain! We also saw a double rainbow shortly after that.