We had a fun time this year carving our pumpkins. Haylee picked out a pattern of a with face and then the other half is to look like a half moon. She did a really good job and did most of it on her own. Luke and Seth did a bat theme and it turned out really good too. I love this time of year and cant wait to trick-or-treat tomorrow
I know that we are only in the first week of October but we had Peggy and Larry come to visit us and we thought it would be fun to go to the pumpkin patch. We saw this really fun one on our way up to Carlsbad about a month ago and have been waiting to go. It was so much fun and there was so much for the kids to do. They had a corn maze which took us forever to find our way out, a big jump thing, pumpkin slingshots, cute slides, some fun bike things to ride on, haystacks to climb, cute little bunny houses that had real bunnies hopping around, hayrides, and more. We spent about 4 hours there and didn't get to do it all. I love the holiday time and I am looking forward to carving a pumpkin soon
Luke just started playing t-ball and loves it. Seth got roped into being the coach because there weren't any other parents that were able to so it has been fun to see my boys play. Luke is doing really well and loves to hit the ball. He is getting better at catching but that is the boring part of course. He looks so handsome in his uniform and he has a really cute team with lots of friends from our ward. Keep up the good work Luke
The kids school was doing a hot air balloon launch from their playground field to kick of the the coming week of the Balloon Fiesta Celebration. We had to wake up pretty early to see them launch off 4 balloons from the field. What a fun experience! The balloons are huge and just so pretty. I got a little teary when I saw them up so close. The school was selling donuts and hot chocolate which made the experience even better! This is such a fun place to live and be right now with the perfect weather and the fun new things to see and do.
BOY!!!! We are super excited to announce that we will be having a baby boy coming in January. We cant wait and are hoping that everything will be smooth sailing from here. I am a little nervous to start all over again but cant wait to see the little face of this boy. If you have any cute name ideas I would love to hear them. So far Luke really wants us to name him Vader so clearly we need some help on the names. Wish us luck!
We were lucky enough to get a quick trip in this weekend before the kids start school on Wednesday. We got invited to go to Carlsbad with some friends from the ward to go see the caves and the bats!!! We decided to stay at a KOA campground in a cute little cabin Friday night which was also the night that we went to go see the bats. We got up to the caverns around 7:00pm to watch them come out of the cave. It really was so neat. They say that there are a couple hundred thousands of bats that fly out of the cave. I am sad that we couldn't take pictures but that would scare the bats and I wasn't willing to take the chance that they would fly at me and get me for taking a picture:) The next morning we woke up and checked out of the cabin and we were on our way up to explore the caves ourselves. Holy cow is all I have to say. I started to panic at first and my legs were shaking because I was sure that someone was going to fall over the sides. We walked 750ft down to the bottom of the cave and it was amazing. It took about 2hrs or so to walk through and thank goodness we got to take an elevator back up. The kids had so much fun and thought that we were in Batman's cave! They loved sleeping in a cabin but I am thinking that is because we brought stuff to make smores...... yummy! We are so glad that we got a chance to go with friends and see things that were just amazing and beautiful.
Seth has been doing some research on fun things that we could do on the weekends and he came up with the idea for us to take the a train ride to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The train ride was about an 1hr and 15min and it was a double decker train. The kids had alot of fun and thought it was so neat to go through tunnels and see the horses and cows in the fields. When we got there we went to a restaurant called "Flying Star" which was really yummy and it was actually the grand opening so they were sampling all of their desserts. After lunch we walked around for about 30mins and then we were back on the train. It was a super fun thing to do but I tell ya I would never want to live there. It seems to be a really hippy, earthy town that is way out of my liking:) I am definitely a city girl!!!! 
Seth has been asking for a few days if he could cut Lukes hair to be a Mohawk. I made him wait until after church today and told him that he will have to cut it off by Saturday so he will look like a nice boy for church next Sunday. Luke loves it! He thinks that it is so cool and I think he looks so cute:) I just might let him keep it for the summer!
That was all I could say when I saw the picture Haylee was drawing during sacrament meeting. She was looking at her hand trying to copy what her hand looked like. I took the note pad from her and asked her if she knew what it meant to have the middle finger sticking out and she had not idea. I tried to explain to her as quietly as I could that it is not a nice thing to stick your middle finger at anyone because it means bad things. She almost started crying because she had no idea she just was noticing that her middle finger was longer:) I just couldn't resist taking a picture because it was too funny. I am so glad that she didn't hold it up to show me otherwise the people behind us in sacrament could have gotten a litte offended!
Awhile back when I was lost trying to find the place to get Haylee her glasses I found a batting cage and have been wanting to take the kids ever since. Well today was such a nice day we had a little breeze and it was a high of 75 degrees so what better time to give it a try. We got about half way there and looked at the kids and they were both wearing flip flops so we had to turn around to get tennis shoes on and we were off again. I must say I was very nervous that Haylee was going to hurt herself somehow but she did great. Luke did really well too. He really is such a natural at doing most sports and he had so much fun. I actually got in there myself and it was super fun. I cant wait to go back. What a fun thing to do during the summer to keep busy. The guy working there was really nice because of course I still had flip flops on but he said I could go anyways. He must have seen my talent in my eyes! Seth unfortunately didn't get to take a turn because he threw out his back at work and could barley stand. Luke has been talking about it all day and I am so glad that they both had fun.
