SNOW!

Can you believe we woke up to this the week of Halloween!?!










It was so crazy cold and the kids loved to be it in.....








for like 5 minutes, until he got cold!

Birthday

Every year Caleb makes me a birthday cake! This year it was chocolate with cherries and whipped cream between the layers....YUMMY!

Here is Ryan enjoing the pizza and rootbeer

Living the High Life!

We had the opportunity to go to flagstaff where caleb had been working and stay in a motel room....a first for my boys! Luke LOVED it! It was so fun to watch him in his excitement, he was so silly!

what a cute boy he found in the mirror!

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