October 2016

This blog isn't in exact order of events in October, but it's all here :) I remember in October really thinking that Ella was getting a little personality. She started inteacting with her toys more and was starting to turn into the baby the kids were looking forward to. Since she's my last baby I've really tried to soak up all her babyhood and she's sure letting me. She won't fall asleep unless you rock her and now we spend a lot of time in the rocking chair.

We did our annual trip to the pumpkin patch and had a little visitor with us this year. My niece Brelee came up to visit for Fall Break and we had a blast having her here.  Kyles sister Kellie and my brother Chris live pretty close to each other and since Kellie and her kids were coming up we talked Brelee into hitching a ride with them. Macy and Brelee played all day every day with very little interruptions.  When Kellie comes up Bentley & Lincoln and London & Ava play so well together and Macy doesn't have a friend her age. It was a nice switch-up for her to have a friend too. We did a lot of crafts and finished it up with the pumpkin patch and our typical Trappers dinner and pie. Yum!

 There was one day that Kyle wanted to go to the temple and we really wanted to be with him. Instead of doing a session we decided to take the family and do a little lesson about how important the temple is. We got some pretty cute pictures of the kiddos and then walked around and sang primary talks and talked. It was a fun family trip.

 The girls school does a cute program called I'm A Kind Kid and they focus on being Bucket Fillers instead of Bucket Emptiers (fill someone's bucket with kind words and deeds). London and Macy both have gotten Bucket Filler awards this year and it's always nice to hear when your kids are good while you're away from them.

Speaking of kind kid- London is such a little Mom. She loves to carry around Ella, play with her, read her stories, and just love on her. I makes me wish I would have spread the kids out a little bit so they could remember having a baby in the family but they'll jus thave to soak up Ella like I'm trying to do :) 

Halloween this year was super fun! The kids had their Halloween Parade and got to dress up in the costumes and walk around the park. Bentley was very excited to see all the costumes and kids. There were lots of super heros and princesses. The next night (I think) was the 31st! The town did their annual Halloween Party which was a lot less crowded than last year thank goodness. They added a spooky hayride that the kids loved. Somewhere in October the Shumways threw a Halloween Party and invited just about everyone. We had a fun scavenger hunt that I swear we should of won- we went so fast I'm not sure how the old people beat us :) Kyle was Jake from State Farm and I was a Petrified Forest Marathon Finisher. We had ran the water stations for the Marathon that day and it's all I had haha.

September

September! It seems so long ago. This is why I love blogging right when it happens, you remember so much more of the little day to day details that you take for grated. Our days mostly were spent getting the kids to school, Kyle to work, and little Ella sleeping and eating. I'll go over the highlights and then just add some cute pictures we got throughout the month.

We always go Labor Day camping in September but I was pretty nervous to take an infant in the cold. Instead, we opted to go up early one morning and just go home that night. The kids were a little confused about going camping but not taking the tent. We usually just hang out at camp but this year we decided to go check out the Ice Caves. We brought the baby carrier for Ella, strapped her to me and headed down into the cave. Getting into the cave was a little tricky but it was smooth sailing after that.

London was born on Labor Day and her birthday is always pretty close to it. We are going to have to do a birthday party at home pretty soon but this year we were able to do a party camping again. She got lots of shopkins and loved her chocolate cake.

Bentley, for some reason, was having a particularly hard day and didn't want to go to Primary. We ended up just taking him to Grandma's house and he hung out with Kyle's brother Brent and Marie. Brent came down for a couple months to get some medical help and then headed back to New York.

This years Homecoming Parade was much different this year- we just had Ella and Bentley and Kyle was actually able to watch it with us. It was low key but the kids got a ton of candy and had fun. We met up with the Larson's and Mollie and Bentley had a great time sitting next to each other.

Our friends, Steve and Beth Miller, were headed off to a mission to Madagascar (so cool!) and we decided we needed one last date night with them and the Reidheads before they left. We usually do dinner in Snowflake or Show Low but we decided to make a whole afternoon of it and go to Flagstaff. Kyle and I found a fun game on Pinterest about Uno Bowling and decided to try it out. First we stopped at Oregano's and introduce them to Pazookie (a pizza cookie)- which the loved. So yummy. Then we went bowling! It was so fun and I'm pretty sure the entire bowling alley wanted to join us. You bring a deck of cards and just draw from the top. Each number had a different way that you had to bowl (spin in a circle, hop on one leg, other players choose). We love our Miller/Reidhead dates and are really going to miss them! That wraps up September!