Harvest Party

This year, the grand kids that live in the area planted their own pumpkins at Grandma's & Grandpa's. We ended up with 39 pumpkins from 6 pumpkin hills! The kids were thrilled all season to watch their own pumpkins grow. Grandma and Grandpa had a Harvest Party where we decorated Halloween cookies, picked our pumpkins, went for a hay ride and ate lots of fun treats. The kids had a great time and can't wait to start carving their pumpkins!

Weekend with the Raymond's

We had a great weekend with my parents along with my brother, Ryan and his family coming into town. We had a great time at the park, eating a wonderful dinner, having yummy treats, watching the BSU game and having my parents come to the kids' Primary Program! It was fun to spend time with each other! Here's some pictures of us going to Linder Farms on Saturday. It was beautiful out and the kids had a lot of fun with their cousins!

Update

I'm not sure how it got to be the end of September, but here we are. We've been busy; I'm not sure doing what, but here's a few things we have been doing:
A little breakfast before we head out to the gym each morning:
Projects from preschool:

Adam has two less teeth now than he did two weeks ago.

Busy freezing the corn we planted at my in-laws. (When I say "we" I mostly mean my-father-in-law who did all of the watering and weeding.)

We can only hope things slow down, but as the past has proved, time just speeds up!

Visit with Grandma Pete

Last weekend Grandma Pete made the trip over to my parents house, so I loaded up the kids (Ryan had to work) and headed over to Eastern Idaho to see my Grandma. We had a great weekend but it was especially great to see my grandma, who I haven't seen in an embarrassing long time.

My kids also had a great time with cousins, aunts, uncles, Papa and Grammy! Grammy taking the kids on a 4-wheeler ride was a huge hit!

Of course we have to get pictures taken whenever we can. We had all the grandkids together for one evening and couldn't go without taking advantage of it.

Grandma Pete with the great-grandkids:

Grammy and Papa with all their grandkids. What a great looking bunch!

The cousins:

Four Generations:

Preschool

Last week we went to Jenna's meet and greet for preschool. Jenna was excited to be there that on three different occasions she came to me and told me that I could go now. So you can image her excitement on her real first day of preschool:

She absolutely loved it and was a little disappointed when it was time to go home. Logan was also disappointed when he couldn't stay with Jenna at preschool. I guess I just need to be more fun to be around! :)

Congratulations on your first day of preschool, Jenna! We still can't believe you are FOUR and at this stage in your life, but we are so happy for you!!!

First day of second grade

Thursday was Adam's first day of 2nd grade. And again, I can't believe it's time to start school again and that we have a 2nd grader! Adam was really excited for school (but not so excited about getting up early). When you're in kindergarten, it's new exciting and part-time. 1st grade is the real thing, 5 days a week, full time. By the time you get to 2nd grade you know what to expect, what is expected of you and your into the routine. 2nd Grade! What an exciting grade! 2nd Grade!

At his desk...waiting for the bell to ring.

And again, the annual picture by the Crimson Point Elementary School sign.

We hope you have a great school year, Adam!

32 Jars

We had the chance to pick apricots, so off Ryan went to pick and pick and pick. We decided to freeze some of the fruit and make jam with the rest. After an insane amount of sugar, lots of dishes and one late night, we ended up with 32 jars of apricot freezer jam.