Sunday Walk

We woke up on Sunday to an unexpected nice day. We decided we better take advantage of it and go for a walk. There is a really nice paved walking trail in town that follows a creek for a few miles, The perfect place for us to explore.

Watching the boys reminded me of simple pleasures. They can have the best time with....rocks.

One of their favorites things to do is throw rocks in water. Creek, stream, lake, puddle doesn't matter if its water they LOVE to throw rocks in it. Notice Dewey..... hum I wonder where they learned this??

If there is anything better then throwing rocks its climbing on them.

These rocks happened to be the perfect height for climbing and jumping.

For those of you that have met me you know I'm rather high strung. (my siblings have other terms not quite as nice) Its a wonderful thing to have the boys teach me that its OK to slow down and enjoy the little things. The simple joy they get from rocks is a good lesson for me.


On last slide in the fall leaves.

Sure enough we woke up to snow today, with more predicted to be on the way.

So glad we got on last fall walk in.

Western Festival

Last weekend in between all the Halloween parties we also went to one of our favorite festivals of the year, the Western Festival. Or sheep parade as we like to call it. The morning starts with a parade down Main street with tractors, horses and sheep. All of my boys (all three of them) favorite things. I mean sheep running right in front of you down Main street, how cool is that?

For those of you that have met Dewey you know he LOVES tractors. A tractor has now moved up his wish list past a gasp Harley. That in itself should tell you something :) When His dad (grandpa) bought a new tractor Dew got his old one. (I probably should know some details but I don't other then its way older then me) The plan is for both of them to fix them up for the parade next year. With this much tractor lovin going on you can imagine that the boys have caught on to the craze.

After the sheep parade was the tractor pulls. Once we got there we saw they were also holding tractor pulls for kids. Luke and Kolby jumped right in. They were both in the same weight class Kolby was the youngest participant.
He went first, so cute to watch. Dew was the coach

It was quite the little setup, the trailer they pulled was just like the big tractor pulls in mini version. The farther they pulled the heavy it got. The object was to pull it (peddle) as far as they could. Then the officials measured the distance.

Like everything he does Luke was very serious about it.

Drum roll please....... Luke took first place in his weight class!

Kolby came in second so they both got a ribbon. We were lucky to have Grandpa there to share the day with us.

The boys showing off their ribbons at home.

Such a fun day. Its amazing to me to watch the boys follow so closely to their dads footsteps. When I first heard this song "Watching you" I cried because it reminded me so much of Dew and the boys. I thought it was perfect for this occasion.
Luke was his class's "Happy camper" this week at school. We filled out a questionnaire and sent treats and pictures of him to show at school. Two of the questions on the questionnaire were "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Luke's answer was "A cowboy" (like dad) and "what do you like to do for fun?" Luke said "work outside with dad". It just warms my heart to hear this.

Halloween

The boys were pretty much partying it up from Friday morning thru Sunday. I have never seen anything like it. We started Fri with a Halloween party at Luke's kindergarten which I volunteered to help with. (helpful hint, if its anybody else's first time helping at such a party your supposed to dress up, I was the only mom not dressed up) Cutest little party ever, 24 5 year old's dressed up and so excited to tell you about it. Then it was off to Luke and Kolby's daycare/preschool party. Kolby was beyond thrilled to be able to dress up for school.

Friday night was a Halloween party at Luke's Elementary school. They had a dance with lights and a deejay. (Dew and I are both pretty sure we didn't see such things until high school) It was dark when I took these pics but check out Luke being a mummy (monster mash)

This one cracked me up, its so hard to get a pic with Kolby not sticking out his tongue. Apparently he dances with it out too :)
On Saturday one of the local churches puts on a huge Halloween festival for the whole town. The boys had a blast playing the games. Check out this doughnut its almost as big as Luke.

Since we live in the country there is not a lot of trick or treating. But the neighbors we do have plan for the boys and all have something waiting for them (they get spoiled). Their idea of trick or treating is 4 houses equals a bucket full of candy.

The boys both picked out their costumes this year, Luke was Bumblebee (from Transformers) and Kolby was Ironman (the new one he will tell you). I had all sorts of clever costume ideas that they wanted no part of so this was it.

See the tongue, just can't get away from it :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!!

Pumpkin Carving

This month has flown by, yesterday we realized we had not carved our pumpkins yet.

So the boys picked out their own pumpkin and what they wanted them carved as and we set to work.

Kolby is doing this "funny face" thing. Its pretty hard to take a picture without him doing it.

Look at both their faces.......slimy pumpkin insides....gross
All of our pumpkins came from...... drum roll please..... our very own little garden. Yep the very same garden that I was sure would not grow. We ended up with about 15 pumpkins of various sizes. I just had to take a picture of this one, I mean come on is it the perfect pumpkin or what?

We let the boys each choose what they wanted their pumpkin to be. Kolby picked a bunny rabbit. There was some discussion as to this even being possible but with a little creativity I think it turned out alright and he was thrilled.

Luke picked a "scary" vampire, He was equally happy and wanted to show off his own "scary" face.

Of course the real test of any good pumpkin carving is the candle light outside

Not to bad for a last minute effort :)

What a week.......

We assumed it would happen at some point. But we did not think it would be Kolby our three year old that would be the first one to do it.

Last week when I went to pick up the boys from preschool their wonderful teacher Jennie met me at the door. (from past experience I know this is never a good thing) "Let me tell you what happened today" If you can picture me with instant slumped shoulders and resigned look on my face. Apparently Kolby threw a dinosaur while playing with one of his friends. He did not want his friend to play with it and thought throwing it would be a good idea. It just so happened there was a window in the direct line of where he threw the dinosaur.

Not an actual picture the window he broke was much bigger. So we have the first of what I can only assume will be many broken windows. On the bright side I think Kolby has a real future in baseball, obviously the kid can throw.

On our way home every day we pass this beautiful little grove of trees. The colors are just beautiful this time of year. All last week I planned on stopping to take pictures of the boys. One thing after another came up (rain, late getting home etc.) and we were not able to too. By Fri I was not giving up. I'm not making this up when I say as we pulled up it started to rain. I looked around and saw blue sky's the clouds were just over us. I told the boys to get out of the car we are taking pictures. They looked at me like I was crazy even at 3 and 5 they understood the wisdom of staying dry. Never the less off we went through the mud to find the perfect tree.
And just as I'd hoped the rain stopped and we were able to get some great shots.

At one point Luke informed me that my shoes were getting muddy. (high heels completely sunk in the mud) Don't care not missing these colors.

These are my favorites, they both just started laughing. I think they realized how funny the situation really was.

And wonder of wonder I was able to get the shots with my fickle camera.

I printed both the above pics out to sit on my desk. They make me smile just looking at them.

How pretty is this sunset? This is looking out our front door. And we were sorta going with a yellow theme above so it fits :)

Tarzan

We have some wonderful friends that called us yesterday. They had two extra tickets to go to the sold out Tarzan production at the beautiful Tuacahn center in St. George.

We quickly decided Luke and I should make a night of it. A Mommy Luke night and Daddy Kolby night. The two of us got dressed up and jumped in the car. We had a very nice dinner at a favorite restaurant in St.George, then off to the play.

It was AMAZING!!!
Luke LOVED it. He sat of the edge of his seat the whole time. It really was a spectacular production, in a simply stunning outdoor setting.
Luke have fun with some photo props they had.

Doesn't he make a cute Turk?

Turk and the young Tarzan were Luke's favorite parts of the show.

I wish we would have had a chance to get more pics but it was dark when we left and my camera is not wanting to cooperate with me.

A wonderful night that I feel so lucky to have been able to share with Luke. I have always loved the song from Tarzan "You'll be in my heart". It means even more now hearing it live and sharing it with him.

Huge thanks to Todd and Robin.

Family Celebration!!

Big changes for me....... I am making the career move to a Mortgage loan officer.

To celebrate we had a fun family night last Fri. My three men took me out to a very nice dinner.

As a added surprise for the boys we went bowling. We have a Wii so the boy are familiar with the concept of bowling. They have been asking to go to a real bowling alley for awhile. Dewey and I had never actually been to the bowling alley in town. And neither of us have ever bowled enough to know how it works with littles. To our surprise they were very accommodating. They had little shoes and a ramp for the boys to use to roll the ball.

To say Luke loved it is an understatement
Both were very independent and told both Dew and I to "please stand back" when it was their turn. Kolby pulling a face.

With the bumpers up and the ramp it was a pretty close game.

I'm pretty sure nobody will be knocking on our door begging us to join a bowling league anytime soon, but we all had fun.

Kolby would jump up and down waiting for the ball to hit the pins, so cute.

Such a fun family celebration night.