October

I thought September went by fast, October and November went by before I could blink! It started with General Conference. Our friends the Shakespear's invited us up to their cabin in Oakley. We love these guys and loved being up in the mountains away from reality for a bit. We took family pics and were somewhat successful....

The boys...

and then the boys fighting over who got to hold Hazyn...

Dawson tried to make the situation better which lasted long enough for this quick snap...

Then I got some cute pics of our little spitfire... 

And then we tried a few family pics... but Dawson was never looking at the camera.. 

So we ended with an upset baby and trying to get pics of her...which ended with me and her. 

We played games, had lots of snacks, and the kids played and played and played. We went for a four wheeler ride around the entire village too. 

The boys got up extra early and went hunting both mornings. 

They saw some pretty cool things, but didn't actually shoot anything.

Thank you Cole and Courtney for an amazing weekend! 

Flag football continued into October for us and Carson came up to see a game of Dawson's.

Can you believe the Carson is that tall and only 11 months older than Dawson? Dawson is tall for his age, which makes Carson a giant! 

We went to Kanab for a weekend and took our sweet little puppy. The kids just want to sleep by her and cuddle with her. 

 She is the best puppy and Hazyn loves her!!

  Of course, Monty is always wanting to get in the picture or at least be there if Hazyn is there.... 

I loved watching my kids play in the warm weather outside. 

These are moments that I never want to forget. 

 J.D. and I got to go out for a late walk through the town and ended up at Houston's for some pie and ice cream! 

 We went to Layne's Homecoming football came for his senior year! He is soooo amazing and the best athlete ever! I'm a proud Aunt that's for sure! 

The bleachers weren't working for me, Hazyn, and Monty. So we went out to the grass and enjoyed the extra space while eating pizza. 

The kids were much happier!

We had a dinner at Clara and Bryant's one night and Hazyn ended up without clothes.. but she was so cute with the cowboy hat! J.D. was having a blast doing a photoshoot with her in this hat. 

We had a few other photo moments with Hazyn this month. We got the cutest pig tails with all that hair!

And then we tried a baseball cap for another day.

We started renovating the basement. I wanted to have it done by Christmas.. but you will eventually find out that we didn't make that deadline. 

Right before Halloween Dawson got braces! 

He was way excited to get braces, and they didn't even hurt. He had zero pain. However, on the night of Halloween he went to eat a sucker and one of the brackets came off. He had to learn the hard way what he could and couldn't eat. 

We pulled out the costumes early this year and Monty couldn't resist trying on everything every day.

The night of Halloween we went out trick or treating the old school way besides the trailer. 

 We ended at Grandma Marjorie's house! Monty was an elf, Dawson was a clown, and Hazyn was an owl. She was so done by the end of the night. Poor thing lasted hours without a nap. 

 I was a nurse... mainly because it was something I had in the closet for pj's and I wanted to be comfy. 

Happy Halloween and a happy 30th birthday to me!