Play School

Evan has started playschool again. Yippee! He loves it, and I'm so glad that Anjie is one of his teachers. He loves her. Here's the teachers pet with the great teacher. Thanks Anj!

Jack-O-Lanterns

We had our annual Pumpkin carving party. This time we only invited ourselves and it was so much fun. We rented Meet the Robinsons, ate popcorn and snuggled on the couch. Afterwards we scooped out all the guts (Dallin's favorite part) and carved us some pretty ferocious pumpkins. We bought these little battery operated lights that flicker and they look so neat at night. Evan and I both wanted to sleep with our pumpkin heads we just loved them so much. Beware! They're pretty spooky!


Don't mind the snot running down into his mouth. It was a never ending faucet this last week.


We have Dallin's, mine, Matthew's (Tim Burton's Skellington) and Evan's baby face. So fun!

Gary Lou Retton

van has been in a tumbling class since the middle of September and is having so much fun. He's always so excited to get out there and do his front rolls. He is the only one that will walk across the balance beam on his own, and has a funny little arabesque. Dallin and I love to watch and it's so funny to see him act so shy and timid at times. Who knew! It's been so great for him. I'm sad that there are only 3 weeks left. Hopefully he'll learn how to do a front handspring before it's over. I'm hoping for a Gary Lou Retton some day.



Evan has been in a tumbling class since the middle of September and is having so much fun. He's always so excited to get out there and do his front rolls. He is the only one that will walk across the balance beam on his own, and has a funny little arabesque that could use some refining. It's been so great for him. I'm sad that there are only 3 weeks left. Hopefully he'll learn how to do a front handspring before it's over. I'm hoping for a Gary Lou Retton some day.

Softball

Last weekend we played in the annual UOP softball tournament. We had most of the same teammates as last year and had just as much fun. We weren't the big winners, in fact we weren't winners at all, but we still enjoyed getting dirty. I discovered that I can pitch pretty darn well (underhand and soft) so darn well that I gave many the satisfaction of a home-run. The boys were great cheerleaders and poor Dallin tried several times to join us on the field. He was really hoping for that shortstop position. I would say next year buddy, but we won't be here. Yipppeeee!

Don't mind the shirts. It's a pun on some fiasco with the sterilization of the dental instruments.

Rain, rain go away . . . come again another day! The rainy season has begun and we're trying to make the best of it. We get some great puddles around here and love to go puddle jumping. We still manage to get sopping wet despite all the rain gear, but what's better then coming in from some serious puddle splashing, stripping down to our skivvy's and sipping some hot cocoa all wrapped up in a warm, fuzzy blanket. Not much I tell ya. . .not much.

Pumpkin Hunt

This is my favorite time of the year. Actually September 1st until December 31st is my absolute favorite time of the year. I just love the fall colors, pulling out the sweaters, lighting my pumpkin spice candle and anything to do with pumpkins. I've been itching to take the boys out to a farm to get their pumpkins to carve, and since Matthew had some patients cancel and was left with nothing to do I seized the opportunity for a family outing. It wasn't exactly a farm, but it was fun enough. Evan found the "perfect" pumpkin right away and didn't let go of the little guy the whole time. Dallin couldn't decide and tried to pick up every gigantic pumpkin he could find. He settled for one that Evan had picked out for him. We ran around on the hay bales and poked at all the scary decorations. It was a grand ol' time at the pumpkin patch. Now, we just need to scoop at the guts and get some silly faces on these cute pumpkins. Did I mention I love this time of year!

Denver

So after I got back from my trip to Utah I washed our clothes and then repacked our suitcases for our big trip to Denver, CO. We've been trying to decided where we might like to end up after we graduate and Denver kept popping up so we decided to go take a look for ourselves. We spent the first couple of nights in a town called Estes Park. It's just outside the Rocky Mountain National Park and it was gorgeous. We loved it! A huge thank you to Barrett & Kendra for the free nights.



Evan found himself a nice pair of antlers and wanted to pretend that he was Bambi. "Run, man is in the forest Bambi."

There was this neat little herd of Elk. A bunch of mammas and babies with one big daddy. We stopped and watched them for a while. Dallin walked up behind this little bush and was peeking through the branches like he was sneaking up on them. It was pretty cute.

Evan was well on his way out to pet the big Bambi. He has been replacing his Bambi fetish with Ninja Turtles, but he was still pretty excited to see them so close.

It rained our first night there which meant snow up on the peaks. Evan was so excited to see snow that he wallowed in every square inch he could find. I sure do miss the snow.