Logan Pumpkin Walk

The pumpkin walk fell on Tori's birthday this year. We picked her up from school and headed over. The weather was sort of ominous and  threatening.  I think it scared a few people off. It was nice that is was not too crowded.

Randy met us there after work.

When Tori's family arrived to celebrate Tori's birthday we had all ready walked through it once with the kids. We got to go through it twice and my kids were super excited to point out all the stuff to everyone else. 

Claire teasing uncle Matt...Or is it Uncle Matt teasing Claire???

Salt Lake...Again

The next weekend we went back to Salt Lake City for a Doctor appointment for Harrison.The night we got there we messed around with the babies at Randy's parents house.

Brad brought his Halloween glasses so we tried to get the babies to wear them. They didn't think it was a cool as we did.

Randy's parents were nice enough to babysit so we could go out with Matt, Tori, and Tim.

 Kamie couldn't come because she was working and Lance and Kendra couldn't make it either.

We went to Fat Cats and bowled, and ate pizza. It was so fun.

Tim's mad bowling skills.

Matt played awesome. He kicked our butts in all three games.

The next day Randy took Matt and Brad to Rocky Mountain Raceway to drive the go-carts. I am glad I wasn't there. Randy said they were fast. At one point Brad went off the track and did donuts in the dirt. I am glad they came back alive!!!

Right after Harrison's apt we headed back home. It was a short but sweet visit.

Apple Crazy!!!

Claire and I spent HOURS working on preserving apples this month. She was such a good help! A surgeon that I work with let us pick apples from his orchard. We picked several boxes.

Claire was right by my side the whole time...that is until it was time to do dishes!!!

Nothing better than homemade applesauce!!! We have a TON!!!

Boys Weekend

While Claire and I were in Salt Lake, Randy and Brad had a boys weekend. Randy had reservations for a benefit dinner that Brad got to go to. Brad was so exited to dress up and have a fancy dinner. Randy said he actually had good manners and was a gentlemen.

The next morning they volunteered at the Habitat for Humanity house to help put in the landscaping.

Brad said it was hard work but loved being with his dad.

Thriller!!!!

I spent the second weekend in October in Salt Lake. Tori got tickets to go see Thriller:Oddesy Dance Company. It was awesome. I try to go every year and it never gets old. This year Kari brought Steven with. He was trying to pretend that he didn't want to go...but I KNOW he loved it.We didn't get any pictures since it was POURING rain. After the dance we went to Chili's. 

I came down the night before to spend some time with my mom and Julie. We went to Gardner Village to see the witches. We went early to try to beat the crowd. By the time we left it was packed.

This was my favorite witch display. It made me laugh out loud. 

Claire got to run around in a hay maze. Since we were there so early she had the whole place to herself. 

We went into a couple of the shops. I loved all the cute Halloween ideas. In one of them we tried on a bunch of funny glasses.

This one was Claire's favorite witch. She was standing right where the mist sprayed her face. 

I think Harrison was done shopping at this point.

After Gardner Village we went to the new City Creek Mall. I had not seen it and we wanted to go there to eat lunch.

It was beautiful. I couldn't believe how clean and nice it was. Since it was raining they had the roof out. It was weird because it felt like you were outside but looked like you were inside.

After lunch and shopping we jumped on the train and rode to the Clark Planetarium.While we waited for the train we were surrounded by tons of homeless people pan handling. One of them made my mom and I pretty nervous. He was yelling and screaming all kinds of colorful words. I didn't have any cash on me and he was ANGRY. I felt panicked especially since I had my kids with me. Thankfully the train came and we hopped on before it got out of hand. Moments like that make me glad I live in Richmond.

Walking on the moon...

...and mars.

Claire's favorite part was playing with "Newton's Dream". It is a huge 2 story kinetic structure with moving balls, bells, drums and other noisemakers. I couldn't peel her away from it. She could have played with it all day. 

On the train ride back it was raining pretty hard. This is her trying to get a peak of the Salt Lake temple through the train window.

It was a nice quick trip.

General Conference Weekend

General Conference weekend was nice and relaxing. We stayed home and enjoyed the weekend together.

For the Sunday morning session we had the Millers and the Titensors over for breakfast. We have to stick together since we don't have any family close. We are like family away from family. I love having such great neighbors.

I loved listening to all the massages.I also love that we have such great technology that we can hear our prophets and leaders voices on the TV, computer, read it instantly on my Kindle, and read the messages in the Ensign. There is no excuse good excuse to not study the words of our beloved prophet.

Squash Boats

Randy and I harvested the remainder of our garden before the hard frost ruined everything. We had neglected a couple of HUGE zucchinis. For family home evening we took the kids to Mac park today to turn them into squash boats. 

We hollowed them out then set them in the water to test them out. Randy struggling to get his big canoe to float. 

Claire picked a yellow one and named it "HOCUS POCUS". 

Thumbs up on the test run in the river. Hocus Pocus was sea worthy. 

Brad picked a big green one and named his "HEAVY HARRY". 

After all the designs were approved we were ready to send them down river. 

Brad to the rescue!!!

They would get stuck on the rocks so we had to help them a little bit. 

Harrison enjoyed the view from the grass. 

We found a good spot on the river where they floated on their own for a distance so brad and Claire raced their boats. 

When we were all done they threw rocks at the boats to capsize and sink them. I thing Brad and Randy enjoyed that part the most. 

This just may have to be a yearly tradition.