Pumpkin patch!

One of my favorite field trips with my kids has been when they got to visit pumpkin patches. I have been able to go with all three of my boys on this field trip and have gotten to experience three different pumpkin patches ( went to Billings with Carson and Worland with Travis). This year, the kindergarteners went to Gallagher's pumpkin patch in Clark. It was freezing most of the day, but that didn't seem to bother the kids. We ate lunch as soon as we arrived and all of our hands were freezing by the time we were done! After lunch, we hopped on the hay ride around their farm and enjoyed a  pumpkin shaped sugar cookie!

After the hay ride was the kids corn maze.

The rest of the afternoon was spent enjoying the other activities they had to offer. Landon loved the huge hay slide and went down it countless times!

Landon and his two other kindergarten cousins: Britt and Janelle!

Landon and I (and some random kid) as pumpkin heads!

I even went down the slide a few times!

Taking a ride on the pedal trike track.

Landon's kindergarten class!

Halloween happenings

Our Halloween was busy and full of festivities! I helped at the elementary school that morning for a few hours doing BFK (books for kids). Each elelmentary kid gets to come to the library and pick out a new book and take it home with them. We had to write inside of each of them. It was fun to see the kids and be with some fun ladies! That afternoon was the elementary school costume parade. They did it across the stage this year, which was super nice! It's so much easier to see all the costumes! After the parade were the classroom parties. I got to visit both boys at theirs. The both had yummy treats and got to do some fun activities!

Travis as Napoleon Dynamite

Travis's class.

Landon was a swamp monster.

 

Landon's class.

Travis at his class party. They had nachos, cookies and fruit.

Landon's party. They each brought candy and made witch's brew out of it.

Landon and his cousin Britt.

 When school was over, we ran home and put on some long sleeves because the wind had picked up and it was getting chilly and then we did our annual Halloween photo shoot. Carson was gone to wrestling practice, so I made him do his the night before.

Travis had a hard time not smiling while he was trying to pull his Napoleon faces!

Carson was Indiana Jones for Halloween and played the part pretty well. 

 I think Carson's favorite part of his costume was the bullwhip had dad bought him. They spend lots of time perfecting their technique in the days before Halloween and all the boys are pretty good at getting a loud snap!

 After some pictures, we made our way out to Grandpa and Grandma Asay's house to trick or treat them. After a stop there, we made our way back into town for our combined ward trunk or treat. The kids made a haul there. Carson showed up late due to wrestling practice, but still got to make his way around. (Side note: Halloween was their first dance of the year. They learned how to dance in gym and then got to put their new skills to work. He said his first dance was good and he asked one girl to dance)

Trunk or treat.

This is one of my favorites. Travis as Napoleon Dynamite and his best friend, Rocco, as Pedro. It was awesome!

Waiting for the trunk or treat to start. We decorated our car as a mouth (thank you Walmart clearance last year)

A Halloween selfie from Christian. He was dressed as a stud muffin again this year.

 After the trunk or treat, we made a quick stop by Carson's old primary teacher's house to decorate a cookie and then on to visit Grandpa Monk.

Making cookies with Sister Roth

After visiting them for a bit, we made our way to Powell and visited my grandparents and Jason and Cassie. It ended up being a late night, but they boys had lots of fun visiting everyone and filled a gallon bag each of candy!

Pumpkin carving

The boys finally got to carve their pumpkins yesterday afternoon. Christian and I most got to sit back and watch as they did it all. I helped Landon carve his, but other than that, the were rock stars and did it all on their own.

Travis and Landon both picked out designs on line for patterns to carve their pumpkins. Carson drew his on just how he wanted his.

Catching up!

It's time for a little catching up for the month of October!

Homecoming week, the middle school got to dress up for a couple of the days. One of the days was dynamic duo day. Carson dressed up as a robber and his friend, Weston, dressed up as a cop.

Travis finished up his flag football season. He had so much fun and loved getting to play all the positions. He scored 3 touch downs and a point after between his last two games.

The kindergarteners got to go on a field trip to the fish hatchery and I was able to go with Landon's class. They stopped at the Visitor Center first where they watched an informational movie about the Medicine Wheel (which totally lost their attention after about the first 5 minutes...), got to see/touch animal pelts and then walk around the pond area. Then we drove the rest of the way out to the fish hatchery. The highlight there was being able to feed the fish. They went crazy and the kids would get splashed!

Landon checking out a skunk and coyote pelt.

On our way to the fish hatchery.

Checking out the fish.

feeding time!

 Grandpa Foulger got a new boat and took us all out for a ride to try it out after Carson and Travis were done with football games. It was a little bit chilly but a good ride, none the less. Christian was in Dry Head helping his dad wean calves...we missed him.

Our crew!

Travis loved getting to hold baby Sloane. She even fell asleep on him!

Dry Head 2017

My cowboy!

Christian thought it was funny to have his mom take his picture in the "family picture spot". We always take our family picture here year after year because of the changing trees that are there, but this year, he was the only one in our family that was able to go.

I had a fun little sign up for Landon's birthday that said Party time. I came up the next morning to find that a certain middle school boy had changed the letters around the spell armpit. I should have known this would happen with a house full of boys!

Carson finished up his football season. They ended the season with a big win (44-8) over Cowley, with a  record of 3-3. He loved football and learned a lot this year. He's enjoyed his week off from sports and starts wrestling today!

Love this kid!

Our gardening has come to an end. It was a pretty bad year for our garden. We got hardly any ripened tomates resulting in me only being able to can 4 quarts of tomatoes. It's a good thing that we have had good years in the past that I've been able to can lots of salsa so we can still have some! We had lots of hot peppers, but not a ton of green peppers. Travis helped me pick what was good in the garden one afternoon. We had been having some cold nights and it was supposed to freeze hard, so we picked all we could. I'm hoping that some of the green tomatoes I picked will ripen in the house so that we can continue to can a few more quarts of tomatoes to use through out the winter in soups and sauces.

Travis picked a 3gallon bucket full of peppers for me.

 I have always tried to go to lunch with at least one of the boys once a month. So far I've been able to have lunch with the younger two a couple of times. Not that Carson is in school, and it's not cool for mom to come and have lunch with you, we decided that we would get lunch and have it together when it's his turn. This time, I picked up champs chicken, picked him up and then came home for lunch. It's always so fun to get to spend a few minutes with them one on one and hear how their day has been going!

  

My mom, sister and I enjoyed a girl's weekend over this last weekend. My mom was already in Utah, so I flew down Thursday and they picked my up and the partying began. We shopped until about 8 that night and then enjoyed Olive Garden for dinner and then headed to a hotel for the night. We got up the next morning and shopped the entire day around the Salt Lake area. We had lots of laughs and good times!

Heading out to shop until we dropped!

Baby Sloane was a champ shopper and was happy the entire day!

Enjoying some Fiiz drinks! Yum!

My little shopping buddy!

 Saturday, we ran a couple of errands in the morning and then spend the rest of the day at Megan's crafting and hanging out. My mom made chili and cinnamon rolls that we had for dinner!

Getting our craft on!

Our finished product. The little hanging guys are interchangeable for each season. We made a fall set as well!

 It was so fun to have a weekend away shopping, eating good food and being with my mom and sister!

For Landon's birthday, Grandpa and Grandma Foulger game him some money and told him that he got to go on a one on one date with grandma to spend it and then go out to eat (their choice of where to eat). The kids didn't have school this Monday and grandma and I had talked about maybe doing it then, but grandma figured he would want to spend the day with his mom who had been gone for a few days. Well, he asked me in the morning when he was going to get to do his date and I told we had talked about today, but grandma thought he would want to hang out with his mom. He quickly replied: "no!" (boy we were wrong about him wanting to hang out). Landon made a quick call to grandma to see if they could go today and, lucky for him, she said yes! They went to Wal-Mart first and he picked out some great things. He bought a lego flash light, toy gun, and remote control car (that his brothers all love too). After shopping, they ran an errand and had lunch at Wendy's. Landon loved getting to spend his day by himself with his grandma! The other boys are now thinking that this sounds like a pretty good birthday idea for them too!

Date day with grandma!

His goodies he bought with this money!