Emma and Jax getting ready to head out into the rainy weather that was Halloween Night. This is before they added their coats and umbrellas.
Jax loved his Woody costume, except for the hat. He now calls his cowboy boots his Woody boots.
Emma decided she wanted to be scary this year so she chose what else, a dead bride. Um...okay. We had fun making her costume fancy from just a plain white cloth. Even with all the makeup on you can still see her adorable freakles.
Last year we realized as we were leaving to go trick-or-treating that we hadn't carved our pumpkins so we vowed we'd do it this year. Well, we almost forgot again, ugh. Ryan is helping the kids get their pumpkins carved on Sat morning.
They loved opening them and looking at the creepy insides that got left behind.
Emma and Jax posing with their Jack-o-Lanterns. Don't ask me what happened to Jax's pumpkin's nose, I'm still trying to figure that one out. ;-)
Last week my friend Meredith and I took our boys, who are about 6 weeks apart, to Gardner's Village. I love this place, esp. in the fall. They have it all decked out with pumpkins and tons of Witches. This is Jax and, his best little bud, Brady at one of the many photo perfect spots.
We took a day and went hiking up to the Timpanogos Cave. It's funny because I told Ryan that I've lived here for 12 years and never done it. He then turned around and said, "Well I've lived here for 33 and never done it, so I win." I can't believe it took us this long to do it.
The kids were better troopers about the 1 1/2 mile hike than I was. Now I remember why I don't like hiking. It was pretty intense in a few spots. But they both walked almost the entire way up. Jax needed help about the last 1/4 of the way up, and then fell asleep riding piggy-back on Aunt Misty's back on the way down. Then Ryan carried him the last 3/4 of the way. But Emma made it the entire way and loved it.
This is a view of Utah County from about 1/2 way up the trail.
Emma, Jax and Misty enjoying the beautiful Fall colors.
One of the MANY pictures from inside the cool caves. A lot didn't turn out though because the caverns were too dark. For anyone that wants to go, take a jacket. It was freezing. They said it's like being in a refrigerator. But VERY worth it. We had a great time together.
After jeeping we decided to stop by the creek that we followed the entire way up the mountain and let the kids get out to play. Emma loved walking in it with her shoes off, but Jax was not about ready to get into the cold water. The entire time I was worried about Emma falling in and she didn't disappointment me. ;-) She had a different ride home in the back with nothing on but a hoodie and a blanket.
She found an awesome walking stick she kept trying to insist we bring home. I won that battle.
Jax decided he needed a turn with above mentioned stick.
Ryan was trying to teach the kids the finer points of skipping rocks.
Loungin' by the creek.
The first weekend of October we went with some of Ryan's brothers and their families jeeping up Mineral Basin up American Fork Canyon. It was a perfect day, not too hot, not too cold. Plus we got to see some of the beautiful color changes that occur this time of year. Here is a picture I took looking into our side mirror at Ryan's brother Ron's jeep behind us.
This was one of many beautiful views from our trip.
Some of the spectacular colors we saw. Man this reminds me why Fall is my favorite season.
This grin says it all. It's more than an obsession, it's a love. ;-)
So this was a picture of Jax at his buddy across the street's birthday party over a year ago. His cute mom sent me a picture of Jax from the party. For the longest time I kept thinking that it reminded me of something, and then the other night we were watching The 3 Amigos and I figured out what it reminded me of...
...the little Mexican village boy from the movie that wanted Dusty Bottom's watch when he died. I pulled up the picture of Jax and Ryan and I started laughing so hard we were crying. I wanted to see if anyone else saw the resemblance.
