Halloween

This is Halloween! We had dinner and went trick or treating with our good buds the Ostranders! They dressed up as the Wolf Dawgs it was awesome. We also recieved a very special visit from a witch (Jami's mom) that came all the way from Wyoming to bring the kiddos some treats. She played an awesome witch. The kids had no idea who she was!

Ryker the skeleton with buds Bridger and Foster. This was the spookiest house on the block it had fog machines, a hurse, and all of our favorite nightmare before christmas characters on their front yard. Yes and that is a coffin complete with a severed body behind the kids. I love when people go all out like that it's awesome!
Our little trick or treaters! Foster the transformer, Violet the pink horse, Bridger Darth Vader, and Rykes the Skelly!

Their bags got pretty full! We weren't messin around this year. This trick or treating stuff was serious business!

Vi and Ryker

I was so delighted Violet wanted to wear her costume on Halloween night! We had about 3 other times we dressed up before Halloween and i couldn't get her to wear it. She was the prettiest pink horse I've ever seen!

Ryker was four different things: for our trunk or treat with the neighborhood he was Jack sparrow (borrowed from a friend). For his school carnival he was a swamp monster that we already had. We had a family Halloween party, and for that he was a frankenstein that we made up from make-up, hair spray, and old clothes. Then finally he was the blue skeleton for Halloween! My little theatrical man!

Halloween Night we had Jack-o-lantern pizza for dinner!

Our carved our pumpkins!

I wish I got more pictures of the family party but I video taped most of it! Gary and I decorated our basement with blacklights and spiderwebs. We had spooky music, glowsticks, and awesome food brought by family. There were apples shaped like bats in the salad (heather), and purple chocolate chip cookies (harm & Finnley), Soups, and some awesome witches brew with dry ice in the cauldron!

Grandma Jen dressed up like a gypsy, papa shane was a cowboy, Aunt Jill and Uncle Brad had some awesome costumes! They were puss in boots and Humpty dumpty. My Grandma and Grampa even dressed up! Uncle Ty and Aunt Annie were the batman clan. Everyone looked amazing!

Trunk or treat! Our ward had a Trunk or treat in the parking lot it was awesome! People go all out decorating their trunks. There was even a Dj set up. It was pretty fun for the kids. Cousin Crue came with us he was a cute little clowny!

Vi was ariel and I was catwoman

Jonah Bugs was the cutest little skeleton! His favorite thing about halloween was the pumpkin carving he loved smooshing his hands in all of those pumpkin guts!

Ryker as Jack Sparrow with a sweet handlebar mustache!

Gary as Batman! For our party he was an old man. I was a slacker with pictures this year.

Papa Todd and Grandma Fran at the Trunk or treat!

We had lots of fun dressing up, spending time with family and friends, and getting lots of candy! I personally dug the snickers bars out of my kids candy bags and ate them all!

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!