Fall Family Fun

 

 

After many months of not blogging, I figured it was time to catch up. Our family loves fall! There are so many beautiful things to see, delicious things to smell and taste, and fun things to do.

 

 

Here is our little Katie-Bug at 10 months old. Oh, how we love this girl!

 

 

Kate loves to stand. She has loved to stand with help since we shot this picture in October. We thought she would walk early for sure, but it turns out she is not all that interested in walking when she can crawl as fast as she wants to get whatever she wants. :)

 

 

 

We love to visit Black Island Farms in Syracuse. They have corn mazes and a big courtyard full of giant slides made of hay and plastic, a huge potato sack tube slide, a tractor-pulled train, bounce house, hot chocolate, farmer's market and other fun family activities. It is SO much fun! Jacob especially loved riding the tractor-train.



 

 

 

We went to a family party with the Aston family (Brian's mom's side) in Orem this fall. It was fun to spend time with everyone.

 

Before the party, we went up American Fork canyon to take pictures. The colors were amazing! We hiked a little and enjoyed the beautiful fall air.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Sunday, Jacob decided he wanted to be a missionary at church. And so he was... :)

And Katelyn was just her cute, happy self...

 

 

WE LOVE HALLOWEEN! Here is my jack--lantern...

Here is Jacob's...

 

Just before Halloween, we got our first snowstorm. Boy, did we have fun making a snow-witch!

Our 2 little musicians had a jam session the day of the snow storm as well...

Katelyn found her new favorite toy this fall...the stairs. She would start climbing them as fast as she could get to them, giggle all the way up, and show off these triumphant grins when she got to the top...

This year Jacob wanted to be Wall-E. (He had been obsessed with Wall-E all month for some reason.) I'm not a sewer and I have no plans to improve upon that at this time in my life. Fortunately, a Wall-E is a giant cube! I can totally spray paint cardboard and use duck tape to come up with an inexpensive costume. So that's what I did, and it was really fun for all of us!

 

Since Jacob decided  to be Wall-E, I thought it would be fun for Kate to by EVE. Like I say, I am not a seamstress, even by the tiniest measure, so I went with what we had. A few homemade stickers on a white dress and black headband, a little imagination from the viewer's perspective, and TA-DA, and EVE costume. (It didn't matter what she wore anyway, she's so darn cute in anything!)

Jacob had a blast trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and then we visited my Grandma Joyce in Ogden, and partook of her delicious Halloween chili. MMM...

 

This is one of my favorite scenes from motherhood so far. Jacob and Kate love to eat breakfast (and sometimes lunch and dinner ;) facing out our kitchen window. This particular evening they were watching the snow fall.

 

We have the perfect size hill for a 2-3 year old to sled on right across the street. Jacob had so much fun riding around and playing in the snow.

 

Daddy and Kate had fun in the snow too...for a short time. Brr!

 

 Finally, I had to throw this picture in at the end of this post. This is another favorite mommy memory photo.

 

 

 

Whew! More posts to come about the holidays and the new year...Until then, we send our biggest hugs and loves to all our family and friends! We love you!