How stinkin' cute are they???

Yesterday Leslie and I went down to one of the parks and took some Fall/Leaf pictures. I didn't get a lot but here are a few I did get. I know that these are the same pictures but I was playing with the different colors. After 300 pictures, these were the 3 (the only 3) that I loved. I actually don't love the one of them together but it was the best I got. Why can't I just get ONE that I like? I have to take Justin with me next time and hopefully he can get them to smile.

My boys...

Braxton... Taylor...

And of course I had to add in this cute little girl. Especially since her Uncle Daniel checks my blog for pictures of her cause her mommy is a bad blogger. These are for you Daniel :-) Ha ha

Lyla is so fun to photograph! Always full of smiles!

Pumkpins

On Monday night we carved our pumpkins that we picked from Grandma's house. The boys had a great time. They had to have their own pumpkins and spoons. They were so sad when we put them back outside.Before...The finished product...

We are no where near the greatest pumpkin carvers ever! We laughed at our sad attempt but we have ears more to practice.

Tagged

I thought this one was a fun tag! Go to your Pictures and in your 4th file, take you 4th picture and post it. I tag Mom, Em, Sar, Kim, Jalyane, and Julie (and everyone else that thinks it is fun).My little boys at 4 months old. This was before they could hit each other over the head with toys, cups, and anything they can find. They are best friends and best enemy's depending on the day!

Green Bluff

We finally went out to Green Bluff on Saturday after Justin's football games. It ended up being such a nice day and we had lots of fun. The boys loved picking up the pumpkins and throwing them. Then Justin taught them how to roll pumpkins down the hill. I never get great pictures of these two but at least they are both looking forward.Playing peak-a-boo with MaggiePicking up the pumpkins to throw them.I also got to take lots of pictures of this cute little one! I am editing them in PS now and I think her mommy is going to love them! Can't wait to show them to her!!

COOKIE CRAVING

Tonight Justin and I had the BEST cookies. My friend just started a cookie business and she gave us some cookie dough for taking pictures of her cute little boy last week. If anyone feels like being lazy and wants some yummies cookies or cookie dough, check out her blog and order some! They are SOOO GOOD!!! Her blog is cookiecraving.blogspot.com. Hopefully this will send a little business her way :-)

Random thoughts

#1: One my bad habits is shopping online. I don't buy anything I just like to look. It's kind of like window shopping right? Tonight I was on Amazon.com and listened to the Faith Hill Christmas CD and LOVED it! My mom told me it was a good one so I had to check it out. I want it and I want to start listening to it now! I LOVE Christmas music! It is so magical and makes me feel like a kid again. Justin told me I can't listen to it yet. We go over this every year and he tells me I can't listen to it until after Thanksgiving. I usually don't listen and start in November and just don't listen to it when he is around :-)

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#2: I need some fun ideas for a fun Thanksgiving table because this year we are staying in Spokane, sigh, and having Thanksgiving with friends. Airline tickets were just too much and we will be in IF for Christmas break 2.5 weeks later (FOR 3 WEEKS!!) It will be my first year not with family. It will be lots of fun (I have fun friends) but we are going to miss being with family. Anyone want to come here?? I am leaving the boys the day after and going out in all the craziness for the first time ever though and am excited about that. Where are the best places to go??

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#3: Justin is 1/4th of the way done with his FINAL year of school! YIPPIE!

Photo shoot- Sunday

Instead of doing one HUGE post of my trip to Portland, I did many posts of hte different days that we were there. We had a great time and can't wait to see everyone again in December. Thanks to all for the great trip! We love you all and can't wait to se eyour posts too! :-)

On Sunday we went down to the university and took some pictures of all the kids for Grandma. Sar got some great pictures of all the kids together and then I got some great ones of my boys. There are a lot more but I didn't want to overload on pictures. I haven't played withthem on Photoshop yet but can't wait to!



I love my cute boys!

Grandma's Halloween Party

What is a trip with a great party? Grandma thought it would fun to do a Halloween party while we were all there. We had chili and scones, a Merrill Halloween tradition that I LOVE! It was so yummie and I can't wait to do mine on Halloween. The boys loved the chili and didn't really know what to do with the scones. Maybe next time around they will get it. :-)


Grandma hid Halloween bags for the kids so we had to find them.
Taylor and Braxton found them pretty fast with daddy's help. He cheated and knew where they were.

Thanks Grandma! It was so fun!

Portland Zoo

Justin flew in on Friday afternoon then on Saturday we went to the Zoo. It was lots of fun. We have a zoo pass from the summer that got us all in for free which was great. Taylor and Braxton are more interested in all the animals now then they were when we went to the Hogle Zoo. They loved the fish just like their daddy. The boys borrowed Makinley's wagona dn loved it. Taylor only fell out once. :-) They like to stand and that's what got him. Taylee and Tydon guided us throughout the zoo. Thanks guys!

Friday

The best part of the trip for all of us was this...Have any of you ever seen the show on TLC, Little People, Big World? Well, their farm is close to Portland and we went!!! It was awesome to see cause we all love the show! When we got there Amy (the mom) was out taking pictures with people. We all got pictures with her. I will have to post it later because it was on my mom's camera. Taylor ran from the picture and Amy chased after him. It was great!This is a picture of the film crew filming while we were there. They told us to watch in March and that is when it will air. Who knows if we will even be on there but it was still fun!

We dressed the kids in their Halloween costumes to go to the farm and take pictures. They all looked so stinkin cute! We all decided they were going to be cowboys and cowgirls before we talked so it just happened to be the cutest set of cousins I have seen :-)
I have a ton of pictures but I didn't want to totally over load my readers. Do I still have any? :-)

Begining of a fabulous trip

We went to a huge pizza place for lunch one day and the kids had a great time. It was a big play place that you could set the kids free and let them run around because you had to have your hand stamped with matching numbers as your kids so no one could take them :-)

Braxton
Taylor
We climbed up the big slide and raced down. Taylor and Brax screamed the whole time we climbed but loved the slide.
Mom, Me, Em and Kyler, and Sar taking a break.

The next day we had to stop to find some cowboy boots and hats for the kids so Grandma gave the boys a dollar to spend in the store. Brax thought his was so fun and Tay stashed his away for safe keeping. They didn't get anything and I think I ended up with the 2 bucks! I better give it to them! Tay
Brax