Pumpkin Patch

After Farmers Market on Saturday, we got the chance to go with my dad and sister and niece over to a huge pumpkin patch where the boys got to choose a pumpkin. Tayson kept looking and looking and we kept trying to show him perfectly shaped pumkins to choose from, but he finally found the pumkin he wanted and wouldn't change his mind. He found the biggest "best" shaped pumpkin as you can see in the picture above. When we got home we let him paint the pumkin (it looked to difficult to try to carve). He loves his pumpkin! Camden was happy with choosing a baby pumpkin in the end. It was a fun day overall, thanks Papa!

Farmers Market

Saturday was the last day of Farmers Market this Fall. We've been going every week to help my dad sell fruit. The kids love it and look forward to it each week. This last saturday was the first saturday of good weather in four weeks, so I was finally able to bring the camera and take pictures before it ended. My sister and niece Peyton came up as well for part of the afternoon. Tayson has been going to Farmers Market since he was Peyton's age and we used to put him in an apple box to play while we sold fruit, like we did with Peyton. Gosh the years have gone by so fast! I've grown up going to Farmers Market every year for as long as I can remember. I also have pictures of me about Camden's age selling fruit down in Blanding, Utah. Its so fun that I've been able to give my kids a chance to have some similar memories. It is weird to think that we may not be around this area next Fall, so this may be our last year of Farmers Market. I've already told Brady though that we have to come back to visit in the Fall each year if possible for Farmers Market. Though it is over for the year, we fortunately we have apple juice making to look forward to in a week or two, where we take all of the left over apples and make juice up on the farm with another family that has a juice press. It is a big event and a lot of fun and we are looking forward to it.

Moving day for Charli

Our friends Nic and Brittani moved last week. Tayson and Charli got in on the action of loading things into the truck. Talk about big helpers, they thought the were SO cool. Tayson misses Charli, but it adjusting much better than I thought he would so I am very grateful. Fortunately, a little boy name Jack who is a little younger than Tayson has moved in, so he does have a friend afterall. Tayson was excited when I told him that Charli didn't move too far away though so we can still see her sometimes.

A Day on the Farm

After Kangaroo Zoo, we spent the rest of the day on the farm with Papa. The boys got their first experience learning to pick raspberries with Papa. They loved it, though Camden ate everyone he picked. After a while he just started grabbing from mommy and Tayson's buckets because he couldn't pick them fast enough. We also got to spend time helping Papa sort apples. Tayson thought it was so cool watching papa load the apples into the cooler. The boys had a lot of fun and needless to say, they were quite dirty at the end of the day. Nothing like a day on the farm.

"Camera, picture", you say it and he's ready

Camden is far from camera shy. If he sees a camera, or hears the word "camera" or "picture" or anything along those lines, he says "Cheese". Unfortunately we don't get many kandid smiles from him anymore because he is saying "cheese" everytime and giving a fake smile. We'll take what we can get. There have been a couple of times that someone is talking about a picture or camera, even when one is not present, and Camden pauses whatever he is doing and turns around and says "cheese" looking for the camera. He's got a lot of great expressions lately that I hope to somehow catch on camera, but I'll haven't figured out yet how to

sneak up and take the picture before he sees the camera and says cheese.

Kangaroo Zoo

On my third day of vacation from work, Brady had to get back to work at the UofU, so the kids and I went down to Kangaroo Zoo with my sister and her daughter, Peyton. The boys had a blast jumping and sliding on the toys. Camden was very much against the idea of climbing up and sliding down the slides at first. He didn't want anything to do with the blow up playsets. He cried everytime we went anywhere near any of them. He wanted to just sit on a chair, but he didn't want mommy to go down the slides either. He thought mom was pretty mean because I made him go down the slides with me even when he was crying in order to get him adjusted and show him that it was fun. He finally adjusted to the place after at least an hour of crying and had a lot of fun.

Fall Break

Brady got a full week off of school this Fall for fall break. We decided to take advantage of the time and so I used three vacation days for work and we headed up to my parent's condo at Zermatt in Midway, UT. Our friends Jon and Katie came along with us along with their two little girls (Maile and Kaila). The kids had a blast swimming and riding the Carousel at the resort. The kids loved the Carousel (just look at Camden's expression in the picture of him, Tayson and Daddy). It was fun to get away and spend time with friends. Brady's brother and sister came up with their families the 2nd day and the guys went golfing while the girls hung out at the park and the condo visiting while the kids played. Tayson wanted to make a BIG pile of leaves at the park to jump in. We worked hard, and he was excited when he got the pile as BIG as it was in the picture above. He ran and jumped in. He loved it though the landing wasn't all that soft. He didn't mind.