I love to dress up with my kids for Halloween. Some years are better than others, but this year was fun. Even the husband dressed up, which doesn't always happen.
I guess we need someone else in our family so we can have a scarecrow
The tinman out trick or treating with friends
The lion is practicing his roar
Boy #1 was too cool to be the tinman for the school parade so he was a Star Wars clone character
Last week boy #1 woke up complaining that he didn't want to go to school. Of course, he went and when he came home he told me he was so glad he went because they learned to do this with starburst candies. Isn't school great.
My in-laws recently moved from Oregon to Utah and we are happy to have them so close. Right now they are very close since they are residing in our guest room. We will miss our built in babysitters when they move out. We celebrated my mother-in-law's birthday last week. I made Cafe Rio pork salad and peanut butter chocolate cupcakes. Suzy and Jared came for dinner and we had a fun evening. Happy Birthday, Joyce!
The birthday girl
Boy #1 took several pictures of grandma's loot
Grandpa enjoying a cupcake
We decided a day before the Homecoming game that we could attend. The Homecoming parade is always fun for the kids since they get lots of candy, so they were excited to go to the Homecoming game. It was actually a good, close game and the Cougars won. We decided that boy #2 is still too young to sit that long in a fairly confined space.
Happy Boys
The mountains and clouds were quite beautiful and the view from the stadium is great
A few weeks ago we went on a day trip to Kanosh and while we were there we went to find the nearby lava rocks. After a few wrong turns on a dirt road we found some lava rocks. The boys had so much fun finding rocks and wanted to bring them all home. Luckily, we convinced them that the rocks needed to stay there and we only came home with a few rocks.
The path was filled with wildflowers
On the way to the big rock
At the big rock
More lava rocks behind the boys
This last weekend we wanted to go on a hike. We thought about some of our usual places, but then decided we should go to Timpanogos Cave. We drove through the Alpine Loop and the scenery was beautiful. The hike to the cave was more uphill than I was prepared for, but it was well worth it. The cave was fascinating and the hike down was much easier, so it turned out to be a fabulous outing.
An out the window shot by boy #1. The colors were so vibrant and unfortunately my phone camera did not capture the colors, but you get the idea
Ready to hike
Inside the cave, the soda straw stalactites
More cool cave formations
Beautiful tree on the hike
We went up the canyon last weekend and I was amazed to see the colors changing already. Here are some images taken by the boys from the car.
