Autumn leaves

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year.  I love to rake the leaves and then let the kids play in them.  The only problem with that is then the leaves break into a million little pieces.  This year I raked them acrossed the street and let the kids play in them there and that worked out great.  Mason loved it the most.  He layed there and had me bury him all the way with the leaves and then he just layed there under them, Tyler wouldn't let me do that to him at that age.

Elly even got in on the action.  She liked the leaves too.  She followed the leaf pile all over the lawn and was mad when I took it acrossed the street because she couldn't get to them any more.

Tyler had to wait until he got back from school to get to play with us.

The rest of our leaves have fallen off so now we get to do it all one more time.  The kids keep wanting to get me back out there to rake them up another pile because the wind blew the last pile away.

Ten months

Elly is ten months old, I know this happened so fast.  I told Jay it mkes me so sad to see her growing  up.  It seems like I was just fat and preganant.   I wish all the time that the first year would go a lot slower.  She has started letting go of things when she stands by them.  She doesn't last very long before she grabs back on, but it last longer every time. She has been a lot of fun and is a really happy baby.  She is very funny about her space, she doesn't like it when the boys get to close to her.  I can't say that I really blame her.  She learned that the hard way. 

Incase anybody thought that she was so happy while I took these here is the proof that she was a stinker.  Infact I was surprised that I had any good ones because she was so bad.  I thought that even the bad ones looked cute though and I like to have pictures like this for the day when they think they were always perfect.

Halloween

We went to visit my famly for Halloween because we were going to watch my brother play in a football game that day, it ended up getting moved to monday. While we were there the kids decorated sugar cookies and they did a great job.  Those cookies were eaten so fast.  This is one thing that my kids love to do.  What kid wouldn't love to shake sprinkles on a cookie?

Here are my little Trick or Treaters and some of their cousins.  My mother painted my kids faces and they loved  the way they looked.  When Mason saw himself in the mirror he didn't know what to think.  He just stared and stared at himself.  It was pretty funny.

Elly didn't love being in her costume.  She didn't like having the hat on.  I carried her with us for some of it but most of the time she just rode in the car and ate the treats te kid brought back to her.

Here is everyone after hours of running from house to house.  The kids had so much fun and it was perfect weather.  Tyler would sit out for a house every now and again, but Mason thought it was so fun.  I loved hearing him say thank you to all the people, it was amazing that he would do that because he really doesn't talk to people that he doesn't know.

Mason got these teeth atour ward party and brought them with him to Grandma's house.  He loved it when he put these in and looked in the mirror. 

We trie the witch wig on Elly and she sure didn't like it.  She looks so different with hair.

My little sister was a witch for Halloween and I just thought that her costume was pretty cute.

My little brother was a mummy for halloween.  My mother put this costume together as we were walking out the door.  I thought that it turned out great.  We all kept looking at him all night because it just didn't look like him.

Carving pumpkins

Carving pumpkins became a family tradition for us while living in Ohio.  We started to do it with our friends and have continued to do it since we moved.  We still think of them everytime we do it.  I was wishing they were her to help me now that I have three pumpkins to do and their children are older now.

We decided to do it one night when I didn't have enough time to do all three so I just did the two one night and Elly's the next.  The boys each picked out their pattern and I carved them.  It was fun to see if they were going to help me clean them out.  Tyler was great at it he helped me clean them all out and stayed with me the whole time.  Mason put his hand in one time so I could take a picture and that was all he wanted to do.  Apparently it is really sick inside of the pumpkin. 

I loved to do this with the kids and it is a great activity.

I didn't take on Elly's until a couple days later, but I did get it done in time.  Tyler wanted me to do a hard one but I told him I was ready for an easy one, so Elly's said Trick or Treat. 

Tyler is showing Elly how to clean it out.  I was surprised that she didn't even want to put her hand in.

The finished product.  Mason loved it when I would light the pumpkins because then he would go out and blow them out, then tell me that I needed to light them again.

Another fishing trip

We took the boys fishing again since we had so much fun the last time we went.  We didn't catch as many but we still caught a few.  It was a perfect night so Elly was even able to be out with us.

I love this picture of my boys just watching their pools waiting for a bite.

It is surprising that the fish live after what the boys put them through so that I can get a picture.  This fish jumped out of Mason's hand so he had to chase it down, so he is really holding on to it tight.

Elly loved being outside with us but I would have to say that her favorite part was when we ate.  She went crazy for tinfoil dinners.

The lake was so beautiful.  The wind stopped not long after we got up there and so the water was as calm as could be.  Every now and again you could see a fish jump out of the water.  The boys really liked that.

Yes, Tyler is kissing his fish.  I was videoing them and all of the sudden he was kissing his fish.  I made him do it again so I could have it on my still camera as well.  What a crazy if you ask me.

Mason just loves to be out where he can run and get dirty with out me getting to mad at him.  Mason is one funny kid!