Halloween 2015

 It was a great Halloween!  BYU FOOTBALL PLAYER (shocker), ELSA, and IRON MAN all had a full night of trick or treating, pumpkin pizzas and trading candy.  Seth took off and ended up a neighborhood ahead of us cause we were far too slow for him, but I figured he's old enough now, he'd find his way home....and he did....eventually.

 And these pics are from the Halloween carnival spook alley i had to help put together this year being on the PTA board.  My good friend Angela was in charge of the spook alley and I think she did such a fantastic job!  It was awesome!

Seth's First BYU game

We are here.  At Lavelle Edwards Stadium and Seth is on cloud 9!  Just the environment here is enough to make him go crazy!  So many BYU fans, he loved it!

It was actually really hot for my prego-ness.  So here I am trying to cover my head for some shade, despite my nerdiness.  But at least it was not cold, huh? I spent most of the time chasing Collin up and down the stadium for drinks, or bathroom or food...but I was okay with that because I had some intense back pain that really left me unable to sit for long periods of time. #pregoprobs

We were up pretty high in the stadium but BYU scored like 50 some odd points, so Seth was pretty excited just to be there and soak it all in.

So grateful for Cameron and Lisa and family who joined us for the game!

These are the 3 kids who had the cosmo kids cards which is how we got in!

Everything's better with cousins!

OCTOBERNESS

 These pictures were from a business trip to Montana for work that Cordelle went on.  Beautiful city in Montana.

 He came across this enormous statue (looks like Christ) turns out its some saint woman.  Anyways, pretty crazy to see when your not expecting this giant lit up statue in the middle of the darkness.

 Cordelle has been wanting to get the screw out of his leg forever.  It gets hit on things, gets swollen...and its just a pain.  It was a quick same day surgery with an awesome recover.  He barely needed ibprufen and was walking on it all day!

 October also brings General Conference, which we LOVE!  Cordelle knows one way to keep Jaq occupied is to have her do his hair.  So he purposely didn't cut his hair when he REALLY needed to so she could have at it during General Conference.

 Collin found his halloween costume in the cosutme bin.  Done.

 Made this from Scratch!  That's right.  Even cut up and cooked the pumpkin.  Unfortunately I ate WAY to much of it and felt sickly.  But it was delicious.

 Found carrots like this in our garden this year.  Cordelle challenged Jaq to eat this entire carrot after dinner and he would clean her room.  Well it took her about an hour, but she did it, a little nibble at a time and Cordelle was seen cleaning up her room that night.

 Colin made him self an almond butter and jelly sandwhich one day.  Although somehow he also found the cinnamon and thought that would be a good topping to his sandwich.  I was actually impressed that he got it all out.

Seth's 3rd Grade field trip to Zions

So news of the field trip trickles into the house and Seth is SO excited.  But what he is even more excited about to my surprise is if I will come with him.  Now naturally as I am 5 months pregnant and leaving for Salt Lake later that day, I was sorta looking for an excuse NOT to go.  It seemed strange he was so adamant on me coming....I even asked him if he was nervous about something or someone going, to which he responded, "No mom, it would just be really cool to have your mom go on a field trip with you."  Well at that I couldn't possibly say no.  How many more years will my little man want me to go on his field trips with him?  Oh he just melts my heart.

Seth, Ethan and Cameron

Miss Irwin and Seth's class at the Emerald Pool.

Watched the movie about Zions in the theater at the visitors center!

UEA camping!!

 October also brings UEA break.  A time that as a kid we always went camping because my dad was a school administrator and always had time off.  Recently we decided to start joining my family in their campouts.  This year, even though my kids didn't have the same time off of school, we pulled them out and took them to be with my family 4 hours away in a beautiful place called Onion Creek outside of Moab and Arches.

 Isn't it beautiful? I love that Cordelle used his new camera to catch some of these views.

 Check out this tent?  My sister Krista recently bought this!  Talk about a home away from home! So much space!  

 Thank heavens Tallie brought a bucket full of cars to which Collin stayed and played with all day long with Beckham. How cute is he with his sunglasses?

 You know normally my mom UEA camps with a lot of neighbors and friends but this year for some reason no one could come and so it ended up just being my family!  It was so fun and beautiful!  I love camping with my family.  Everyone was there except for Brett and Tiffany because they just had a baby delivered early at 29 weeks, so that is understandable. 

 We went on a 5 mile hike called Negro Bill right outside of Arches and got to this beautiful bridge.  It's hard to see that is really is an arch because its right next to a mountain but it was so pretty and the kids, all 5 miles, were awesome and since they were with their cousins, I didn't hear them complain once!

 Everyone that made it to the arch.

 We then, went on another small hike right outside of Moab (mostly a local swimming hole) that was about a 1.5 miles.  But we found this awesome waterfall, well actually Neal and Brittlyn found it and then we followed them. :)

 Unfortunately Jaquelle rode back with Alexa to camp after the first hike so she wasn't with us on this hike, but here is Cordelle and I and the boys!

Collin started getting tired towards the end of the 2nd hike and we had to pretend we were ninjas the whole way back to the car but it was entertaining and kept him distracted.