Fall break and the pumpkin patch!

We had a wonderful fall break.  We stayed home and just relaxed.  

I absolutely love having trees in our new yard.  The boys have really enjoyed playing in the leaves.  It's so beautiful!

We took the boys to the South Ridge Farms in Santaquin for pumpkin picking.  The boys had tons of fun picking their own pumpkins.  Porter could've run around in the fields forever!  You show up at the red barn and they take you in a wagon to where the pumpkins are.  We had lots of fun.

Miles' choice

Quincy's choice

Our latest FAVs!

PORTER

He's into pumpkins and getting the Sports Illustrated magazines in the mail.

Oh yeah....and getting into mom's drawer in her bathroom.  this lipstick has finally died.  Don't be too impressed that he knew where that lipstick went (lips) because believe me, the pic didn't do his artwork justice.

MILES

Miles is all about baseball.  He wants to constantly play ball with us in the back yard or watch the games on TV.  The Rockies have been his favorite and he cried when they lost!

QUINCY

Quincy is our collage maniac!  He can't wait for the Sunday paper to look for things to cut out. 

He has 3 of these huge sheets of paper in his room now, and I finally bought him and spiral "collage" book with blank paper so all of his treasures could be carried around in one book. 

Month 2: Courage

As a family, we have been trying to focus on a "value" every month.  We talk about that value the whole month, role play, talk of people who show this value in their actions, etc...

October's value is Courage!  So we talked about what courage is and talked about what we can do to show courage AND our scripture story for the week to help remind us of Courage is Daniel and the Lion's Den.  Even though a law was passed to prohibit people from praying,  Daniel showed courage by praying anyway because he knew it was right.  Then, of course, he showed courage in the lion's den too.  We acted it out and the boys had lots of fun.  Courage month, here we come!!

LOOK HOW COURAGEOUS MY BOYS ARE...

Our family 2009

We have a family tradition of making a Bridal Veil Falls trip in the fall when the leaves are changing.  It was so pretty.  We decided to take some family photos while we were there.  

Our family 2009

Miles at 6 years

Quincy at 3 years (almost 4)

Porter at 19 months 

And here are the proud parents.  I had fun messing with this shot.

Thank you Andrea for taking some of our photos.  And the Beesleys for heading up the mountain with us.  The boys always have so much fun.  

Good thing he's cute...

because it's been one of those weeks!!!!

Here's looking forward to a new week...

Harvest time

This is my first year of harvesting fruit from our own trees.  What fun!  We have enjoyed raspberries all summer long and grapes have been fun to eat too.  I canned 13 quarts of pears...and added a bazillion fruit flies to our home....uggggg!  I have canned 21 qts of peaches and made homemade peach ice cream,  and plan on doing freezer jam and cobbler too.  We are loving the fruit and excited to stock some away for wintertime.  The children have gotten into quite a bit of mischief while I've been busy canning, but hopefully this week will be less busy.  

Oh yeah....and we love to eat the fruit right off the tree too....Porter grabbed this one while I was on the ladder picking fruit.  Hopefully there were no bugs etc...in it.  It was part gone by the time I noticed that he had one.  Boy does he love those peaches.  He tried really hard to eat the pit but alas he had to throw it! ( I think mom had to take it away and throw it actually)

yeah for fall harvesting time!!  Happy Fall everyone!

1st Grade Grandparent program

The first graders had a special program for their grandparents the other day and it was so much fun.  It was hilarious...Miles had to keep telling the chatty girl next to him to be quiet. 

So this post is for all of his grandparents who missed the program because of living too far away.  Enjoy.  Sorry about the video quality.  Porter was "helping" me video this song.  Miles specifically wanted this song recorded.  I think it's because Allen sang this song when he was little too....crazy!