A fun Halloween!

This year Brycen and Blake were so excited for Halloween. They both were totally into their costumes. I think Blake tried his on 5 times a day for the whole month of  October. Brycen was hilarious to watch in his costume. He would put on his cowboy boots and walk around stiff legged. Allie however did not like dressing up, it was more because mom thought she was so dang cute in her costume and made her wear it! She especially did not like her antennae, we would have to put them on her head and distract her until she forgot about them.  Jared had fun being Napoleon Dynamite, because nobody recognized him. Allie freaked out the first time she saw him in that wig! My parents came to visit, and we had fun trick-or-treating together. 

COWBOY BRYCEN

OFFICER BLAKE

LITTLE ALLIE BUG

Jared turns 30!!

Jared turned 30 last week! It doesn't seem possible, but it's true. The thing is I'm not too far behind him, but I like to tease him anyway. His long day at work unfortunately had to be on his birthday, but the staff took him to lunch and brought all sorts of treats and cards for him. When he got home we had a birthday dinner and a dessert cake! We celebrated the weekend before his birthday with his family at Olive Garden, and they gave him a halloween basket full of all sorts of fun things for a date night.

Pumpkin Carving.

The kids could not wait to carve their pumpkins, so the day after we went to the pumpkin patch we carved pumpkins. Here they are so proud of their work! They insisted on keeping them in their rooms, so I let them. A few days later I noticed black mold growing inside of them, and had to sneek them in the garbage!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a Pumpkin patch called Bauman Farms in Woodburn, Oregon. It was a gorgeous fall day and we went with Emillie and Riley and their kids. We ended up staying all day because there was so much to do. The kids loved going on the zip line, jumping on this huge air pillow, running through a maze, and finding their perfect pumpkin. Allie kept pointing to the pumpkins and saying "ball." 

4 wheeling

We had a fun time going 4 wheeling with some friends of ours Jordan and Emily Young. Jordan went to Dental school with Jared and has recently bought some fun toys. They invited us to go to Sand Lake and go 4 wheel'n. They boys had such a fun time and Allie loved to play in the sand, and try to eat it too!