Field Trip Blessings

Today I am so very grateful that I am able to be at home with my kids. That my job is dishes, and laundry, and peanut butter sandwiches with kisses. Today all my appointments were with my favorite clients. I was on time for each one. Today we were able to take Dad to the airport and look at all the big planes. Today I could go with Max on his preschool field trip. I didn't have to cancel anything. I didn't have to find someone to fill a shift. I didn't have to rearrange meetings and schedules. Grateful. Yes, I am.

Max loved this slide, 5 times over if I counted right.

Little Claire from his class got to ride with us to Hee Haws. Max was so excited that one of his friends was going to ride in his car.

Filthy stinky animals. But the kids loved them. Luke was trying his hardest to catch a duckling.

It was interesting to observe Max amongst his class. He is defiantly shy and stayed right by me most of the time. I seemed to be his security blanket. On the other hand, anytime I unleashed Luke from his harness he was off like a rocket. Max was more timid around the animals while Luke was bound to catch one somehow. It was fun to see their little personalities on display.

For Family and other interested parties...

If you're interested in posts from our family reunion this past July, well I finally posted. Keep scrolling down or go to July's archives. Lots of fun pics!

Grateful Recipients

We were the very grateful recipients of 4 BYU football tickets to last Saturday's game. Thanks to Mark and the Doctor for the awesome seats! Ryan was thrilled to get to go to a game with his boys. Had Luke taken a nap we might have made it past half-time. But they did great the 1st half. What's not to love about 2 boxes of candy, Grandma's kettle corn, a snowcone, nachos, and a Diet Coke. Yes, they were in junk food heaven and we got to enjoy a live game...at least some of it!

Luke Goes Bananas & Max Cruises

Friday Night Family Night

From the first pumpkin I put out this season, the boys have both been so excited for all things fall and now all things Halloween. Luke has started saying "wit, wit" and is mesmerized and terrified by them all at the same time. So we decided to take the boys to see the Witches at Gardner Village last Friday. The weather was perfectly crisp, the crowds weren't too bad, and the treats at the bakery were sweet and perfect. It was a perfect family Friday night.

The baseball witches were new and some of our favorite.

Especially when Max looks at the batter witch and says "Hey, she needs to put her hands together!" (on that bat). That's right, Mom has taught him well.

Feeding the ducks...always a favorite for the boys.

It's Always Fun at Nana's.

Mom called me several weeks ago and mentioned that she would like it if we came to visit her when nothing was going on and when she wouldn't have a bunch of other company. It would give her time to just be with her grandsons one on one, or one on two I suppose. I know she loves it when she gets that alone time with one family at a time. So we decided to go up for a few days just before Conference weekend and let Ryan have some much needed quiet study time before he took another CPA exam. What a good time we had. Max took his little bike up and enjoyed riding up and down Nana's lane, we went for a great 4 mile walk, we took the boys up to campus and to the beautiful gardens, and we got to hang out with Jim's family for an afternoon and let the boys play with their cousins. Max was of course not going to leave Jim's house without driving his tractor mow. Thanks Jim for obliging his obsession. We bought the boys some little basketballs at the bookstore and oh, the spectacle they made walking across campus. They were a real hit with all the students. The best part was just getting to relax and be with Mom. We actually got to watch a movie one night, which we always want to do when we are up there, but which rarely happens with all the craziness going on. We stayed up until 2 o'clock in the morning working on Family History. I got to listen to the first session of conference with her. It was so wonderful to just have that alone time with Mom. Thanks for the invite Mom! Can't wait to do it again.

ME and THEM

Ryan has been really busy the last couple of weeks and so it's been a lot of this...just me and the boys. We just got back from a trip to Nana's for a few days and it was really fun and surprisingly relaxing. We left Daddy at home so that he could have some much needed quiet study time. I have a lot of updating to do here. I've been spending all my computer time making my first blog book, which I am really excited to get printed. The goal is to make one blog book for each year. Now to bed for some much needed sleepy time.