corn maze and pumpkin patch

Today was the harvest festival, yay! I love this time of year, I do think that October is the best month! We had lots of fun, we can't wait for the haunted maze later this month! fun fun fun!

Primary Program

This year was Lukes first time to be in the Primary Program! We got his part about a month before and he had it down that day! It was 'Heavely Father has a plan for me!" I would ask him about a dozen times a day what his part was and he would spit it out like a pro :)

A couple weeks before the program he was picked to give a talk in primary and I was helping him and I couldn't get him to STOP saying his program part and just give his talk! It was cute.

The day before the program I got a little worried because they had a practice and he did NOT want to stay and practice, so I was afraid he wouldn't do it in sacrament meeting. But when the sacrament got over he marched up there like a big boy (i started to tear up a little) and he was the second one on the line up and he stood up and said his part like a Champion! I was so proud! I was a little more teary then, but my heart was so full! I really feel like that was a good part for him because with all that has happened in our lives lately just when I was at my breaking point he would tell me 'Heavely father has a plan for me huh mom" It was so sweet! I am so grateful for primary and for the AWESOME teacher he has in sunbeams, she is amazing and totally picks up the slack for me being such a slacker mom! He is such a sweet boy and I'm so lucky to have my Lukey! (you gotta love Rynos tie too right!)

See this little boy?

He really knows how to push the limit, but at the same time, he MELTS my heart!

Story behind this picture:

There is a sweet little 9 year old girl in our ward who is currently in Phx Childrens Hospitle with ovarian cancer. They removed a 12 pound tumor. We have been fasting, and praying and thinking an awful lot about this sweet girl and her sweet family.

Well last night I was at the store and ran into a friend and we started talking. Well Luke kept finding things to put in the cart that he thought we needed and I would tell him no and he would take them and put them back, until he came to me with this Sierra Mist. I told him we were not going to buy it but he wouldn't budge, I kept telling him to go put it back and he came up to me and told me,

"there is a girl in primary that is very sick and she needs this!"

I wasn't sure what kind of little care packages the primary has made but I know they have been making card and have started a quilt that everyone is signing but I wasn't sure what Sierra Mist had to do with this. So I told him we would talk to the primary president and see what they needed, and this little boy would NOT take no for an answer on this! He just hauled that soda all over the store because Halli needs it! I don't know if she dose or doesn't but maybe this is a lesson I needed to be taught. Maybe my sweet little boy is trying to learn service or is thinking of others. so we bought the soda if she ends up getting to come home this week like they plan on, then he can take her that soda and feel good because he wanted to help someone get better!

Camping (serious picture overload warning!)

Thursday morning Calebs boss told him they were slow on work so to finish up the morning and come back on monday, so we decided to go camping! We actually haven't been at all this year and didn't go last year either! I can't believe it! I think I had gotten burnt out because camping is usually when we are deer or elk hunting so its October-December camping and its COLD so its not really that much fun cause you wake up so freakin early its miserable! Anyway, the boys had alot of fun. Ryan couldn't have been happier than he was playing in the dirt (less ants and bees would have been nice) and we brought Lukes BB gun and his bow and he had a blast shooting the stump. It was fun to just get away for a couple of days with the boys.

It is so cute how many times I catch Luke trying to do exactly what Caleb is doing

Luke in his element

this cracked me up....

starting him out young

Ryan would not stay out of the fire pit while Caleb was getting it ready......

and kept wanting to climb in while a fire was there!
soooooo much help!

Couldn't wait to get inside!

our little campsite

Greed?!?

Ok so on Tuesday we got an offer for our house. It was a real crappy offer. It wasn't even going to pay off our mortgage, so we have to counter with $5,000 just to break even. Anyway, I just don't know what to do because this guy is a very well known member of the community and is paying cash! but that still doesn't change the fact that we have to be able to pay the house off and pay the realtors and closing costs.

So this is the delema. Caleb and I can not see eye to eye on this. We have been praying to sell our house. And now that we have the chance to (assuming he accepts the offer) Caleb is wanting to counter with 10,000 over what he offered us. To me, in this market and taking into account that we have NEVER recieved an offer and the year mark is coming up, I think we should feel lucky and like our prayers have been answered to break even on this deal! I am scared that if we come back with too high of a counter then he will walk because this is a serious buyers market if I have EVER seen one! I just don't want to offend God by saying 'thanks for answering our prayers but we want more money' I keep telling Caleb, 'we didn't pray to be rich! We just prayed to sell our house so that we can be together as a family and now we have been given that opportunity'!

Does anyone else agree with me? Or am I crazy?

random boy-ness at our house!

Ryan offically loves horses,
and hats, any hat will do

I think........

its going to.........

runin the family!

(don't you love calebs hat? its really lukes bob the builder hat. I guess daddy misses his orange hard hat from the papermill)

Luke learned how to ride with no training wheels! I can't believe it! 3 year olds shouldn't have training wheels taken off! But his cousins do and he had been trying to ride their bikes so we took him to the park and now, I can't ever find him!!

(unless the bike is tied to the tree...hee hee hee)

Ryan likes bikes too

and mud....100% boy, just like his brother

4th of July

We were convinced last year that Holbrook (yes holbrook, az) has the best fireworks! It is true, you have to go watch them some time!

Last year Ryan was a month old when we watched fireworks so he slept in the car but this year he was HILLARIOUS! Cute kid, he loved them!

With all the busy day, Luke got no nap and fell asleep on the way to Holbrook so this is how he watched the fireworks...and telling me he was cold and wanted to go home. Oh how different 2 boys can be :)